When working in Web Development with e.g. APIs of other services, you will often need to include Authentication to access those services. These can come in the form of e.g. passwords, API keys or secrets. …

With a bustling activity as a developer, when grinding projects feels like a morning jog, it is easy for something to go out of hand: dependencies. What are dependencies? When building python projects and with the rich ecosystem of modules and packages out there, you’ll want and use all that code. Dependencies are…

🔔 — Ebbinghaus wants to send you push notifications — 🔔 Everyone knows this existential angst when realizing that {xyz}, which we learned only {xyz} time units ago, is already blanked off our mind. How do some people just remember everything? Turns out that it’s just about consistent work (as…

Sublime Text’s rich package ecosystem makes it possible to fine-tune the text editor specifically to what you are using it for. Some of the packages are universally helpful, others, such as syntax checking, are specific to the programming language you are working with. Changing settings is easy and might also…

I thought that would be easy, but they are difficult to spot For the past days, I have been searching for Dictionary APIs that would provide definitions for a few different languages. With this text, I hope to make the task easier for others out there in the wild. Part 1: Where is Google Dictionary?

On a page called Translation Party you can enter a sentence and then watch how Machine Translation plays English-Japanese ping-pong. So I gave it a spin: After staggering through the hallway of the retirement home, Captain Morgan found solace in repeatedly putting his stub arm into peril and artistically avoiding…

What two Cleverbots can tell us about human conversation — Someone hooked up two Google Homes powered by Cleverbot’s API and made them ceaselessly talk to each other. Where? On twitch: The conversations that ensue are often entertaining, frequently somewhat absurd, veering into existential topics — and altogether surprisingly human! Cleverbot’s database Cleverbot’s database is constructed from humans conversing with humans…

I wrote a tiny search engine (it looks for search terms on pre-defined webpages), and a friend told me that What is this? I can’t show this to anyone. No one who doesn’t program will know what to do with that. Can’t you write a GUI for python? And he’s…

How we speak; so unique — How often do we write the same sentence multiple times? Inspired by Chomsky’s dismissal* of an approach another linguist to assess the probability of sentences to occur, I built a small project yesterday. The probability of a sentence would nearly always be close to zero, because most sentences get created…