A PHP app that generates Pokemon cards by using GPT and Stable Diffusion — Like almost every 90s kid, I loved (and still love) Pokémon, and like many developers, I’m curious about AI. Last week, I stumbled upon Jack’s GitHub repository A Python script that uses AI to generate new, random Pokemon cards. I got inspired and decided I wanted to take this to…

A PlayStation platinum trophy is the highest level of trophy that a player can earn in a Playstation video game. It is awarded for earning all of the other trophies within a game, including gold, silver, and bronze trophies. Platinum trophies are typically considered to be the ultimate goal for…

If your application relies on AMQP, you most likely are using multiple consumers and workers to process data and commands. Each of these consumers has to be restarted every time you deploy new code to any of your environments to make sure they are “working” with the latest version of…

I’m one of those weird people that aren’t happy with being able to solve a Rubik’s cube, no, I need to be able to solve it as fast as possible. The art of doing this is called “Speedcubing”. There’s even an official association that organizes competitions and keeps rankings. The…

A few weeks ago I bought myself a Rubik’s cube and I’ve been fascinated by it since then. Because of this, (and maybe because I’m a developer as well) I wanted to create a tool to render the magical Rubik’s cube as an SVG image 🤓. The idea is to navigate to https://puzzle-generator.robiningelbrecht.be/cube and provide query parameters to configure the desired cube:

A while back, I needed an AMQP (RabbitMQ) implementation for Drupal. As usual, I browsed for existing contrib modules and, sure enough, a few popped up: https://www.drupal.org/project/rabbitmq https://www.drupal.org/project/amqp_integration But after careful inspection, none of the above did what I wanted them to do 🤓. …

April 2022 marked the first Drupal Dev Days conference since the pandemic started. I was really excited to give a session about GitHub actions. Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of automating the integration of code changes from multiple contributors into a single software project. Allowing developers to frequently merge code changes into a central repository where builds and tests are run.

Recently stumbled upon custom web components. Although I’m a long time developer, I did not know of their existence 🙈. They basically allow you to create your own HTML tags. I was trying to recreate the PlayStation trophy cards, where I needed a flippable card. I know React is component-based, but I wanted to create my own component in plain JavaScript and HTML and quickly discovered that a custom web component was the way to go.

According to multiple sources, almost 55% of people use the same password across multiple online services. I used to be one of them. I was fairly confident my password was too complex to be hacked… Well, guess what, I was wrong. Fortunately my “No one can hack my password” mentality…