Niklas Saers
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Spec-Driven AI Development

You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.

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May 15, 2009 • General

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Dreamzone Gold B20 140x200cm Box- & overmadrass fra Jysk i Esbjerg.
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April 22, 2009 • Technology

Well Tempered price rise

As announced in the end of january, the price for Well Tempered has increased, and will continue to do so for the next couple of months. If you want it at a reduced price, be sure to get it now before the next price increase.

March 23, 2009 • Technology

Well Tempered Status

I'm working on a couple of updates for Well Tempered, both for adding more temperaments and for refining the UI after a couple of users have been so kind as to provide useful suggestions. That's great, I love that kind of feedback! :-) What's not so good is that Well Tempered is now being distributed outside the AppStore, without my consent. I'd love some feedback on how to handle such trials. I really hope people getting it through those channels consider upgrading to the retail version as there have been some important improvements since the initial release.

February 14, 2009 • Technology

Clang for iPhone

Jeff wrote a nice Clang introduction on Clang that I ran on my Well Tempered code to check out what bugs I could find. I had some convention breaches and a couple of minor leaks that would turn up when the program was closed and its state was saved, so while not beating me up, it was great to get the feedback on what parts I had been ignoring so far. I hope to bring these advices into my code from now on, and I'm sure I'll be running Clang frequently to get this great feedback :-)

February 1, 2009 • Technology

synthPond

While checking out other OSC applications than pOSCa and OSCar in the AppStore I came across Synthpond lite that looks really cool. Just thought I'd let you know

January 31, 2009 • Technology

lasttweet.py

I thought I'd share this little piece of code. Nothing revolutionary, but all right for Twitter maintenance. I didn't want to be following lots of people that don't post, so I wrote this little utillity that lists when people posted last time. It requires [python-twitter][1]. To get a nice list of who hasn't posted in 2009, do
python lasttweet.py | grep -v 2009
Likewise, if you want to see everyone that last posted in January and have it sorted by what day in January, do:
python lasttweet.py |grep Jan|cut -d ' ' -f 3-9|sort -n
Here follows the code:
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api = twitter.Api(username='username', password='somepassword')
page = 1
users = api.GetFriends(page=1)
friends = []
friends = friends + users
while(len(users) == 100):
  page = page + 1
  users = api.GetFriends(page=page)
  friends = friends + users

January 26, 2009 • Technology

Three little iPhone apps

Good fun: today I submitted three little iPhone apps for review, hopefully they'll be up in the AppStore within long. The first is Well Tempered, my tuning application, that'll be for sale. It's for tuning early music instruments such as harpsichords and organs and will have many early music temperaments. Do see the product page. Then there are pOSCa and OSCar, free OSC controllers that'll get electronic musicians up from their chairs and performing. Can't wait to have them online and I wonder what people will think of them. I like them very much. :-) Updates will of course be provided as necessary.

January 25, 2009 • Photography

Great Canon 5D MkII Review

This review is a really nice and thorough reveiew

January 19, 2009 • Technology

Supercollider and bubble game

Here is a nice link to Patrick using the bubble game to create OSC signals that will generate sound in SuperCollider. Soon, he can use pOSCa and OSCar as well :-)