Whether you are an experienced programmer, or you have never programmed before, chances are you have never heard of Processing. Processing is an extremely well-known tool in the field of creative computing and visual arts, but it results in being quite niche everywhere else. Processing is (and I quote from the official website):

a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.

In the above quote, Processing is mentioned as both a sketchbook and a language because originally (back in 2001) Processing shipped solely with a custom/simplified version of the…

I recently had to solve an automation issue, where the client’s desire was to automatically generate hundreds of videos putting side by side a “base video” with a video picked from a list of hundreds. Whilst this could have easily been done by hand with one big effort, the project was an ongoing one, and the number of videos to generate was growing daily. For this reason, I decided to write a small script using Python and ffmpeg that would automatically generate and upload these videos to the client’s Vimeo channel.

This short article is meant to focus on some…

Admittedly a few years late (3 to be precise), I decided to give Medium Series a try. Considering that I grew up with Snapchat and Instagram Stories, I am pretty familiar with the concept and I was excited for it to be ported on a content-focused platform like Medium. So I took advantage of a short laptop-less holiday to whip out my phone and put together my first Series.

Unfortunately, this experience led me to believe that Medium Series is a dead feature, and if not entirely dead, is being slowly sunset by Medium itself. …

I remember back in 2008, when my family bought our first mac (a base model iMac), how having the dock full of icons was a must. I remember showcasing the entire Adobe Suite (even though I could barely use only a couple of their apps) together with any imaginable browser, the full iWork suite and so on. I wish I had a screengrab of my desktop at the time.

Fast forward 12 years, I have grown out of my 16-year old self and I am rocking a 2015 MacBook Pro. The difference between these two machines? Well, specs aside, I…

If you disagree with the title, then you should definitely read this.

I am not a developer.

There, I said it! I am not a developer and I am writing an article on the importance of shipping documentation with your projects. Why is a non-developer writing about developer-like things, you might ask. Well, it turns out that even though I don’t consider myself a developer, I have been coding for almost 8 years now and due to the “creative coding” environment I have been in, I have had loads of encounters with different programming languages.

As you may have read…

During this pandemic, we all had to adapt to an online work environment. Some people had to transition entirely to a “smart working” situation, others were brought to adapt and embrace hybrid solutions. As I previously explained in my “Remote Teaching: Do’s and Don’ts” article published a few months ago here on Medium, I had to convert the entirety of my Computer Programming class to remote delivery. Luckily (or unfortunately), this was not the only thing I had to convert.

Since 2018, a colleague of mine and I have been prepping for hosting a big conference in the field of…

Machine learning has been a hot topic for quite some time, with words like “artificial intelligence”, “neural networks” and “deep learning” getting used everywhere to describe the cutting-edge nature of projects and the so-called intelligence of the systems. The misuse of these words doesn’t take away from the fact that machine learning can be a really interesting and powerful tool to implement in our systems. In this article, I’m going to outline how machine learning classification algorithms can be used in the Max environment via the ml.lib package. I’m going to use the step-by-step nature of this article to describe…

I’m pretty sure that if your podcast is a well-established one, you won’t need any advice on how to make sure that the home setting won’t degrade the quality of your episodes. But what if your podcast relies entirely on interviewing people in loco? What if your co-host can’t come to the studio anymore? And last but not least, what if you haven’t started recording your podcast yet and you’re taking advantage of this quarantine to give this side project of yours a kick? …