What took us two decades — learning frameworks, debugging builds, arguing about folder structure — took our kids… 20 prompts. That line pretty much says it all.At Devoxx Belgium 2025, Bart and I shared a story that’s equal parts humbling, hilarious, and thought-provoking: how our 11- and 12-year-old sons built fully-playable games with no coding…

When you work with MIDI, you’re essentially dealing with a digital score — notes, timing, velocity — but no sound. That’s where SoundFonts (usually .sf2 files) come in. A SoundFont is like a virtual instrument library: a collection of samples (recorded or synthesized sounds) mapped across the keys of a keyboard, with envelopes, velocity layers,…

At some point, we all hit that wall with a board game we love. For me, that was Hitster—a brilliant concept of guessing and ordering songs by release year. But after a few rounds, we ran out of cards… and noticed the playlist leaned heavily towards Dutch (from the Netherlands) songs. As a Belgian (and…

Making AI Understand Music Like a Pro What is Embedding? Embeddings are a way of representing words, sentences, or even musical metadata as numerical vectors in a multi-dimensional space. This helps AI understand relationships between different elements based on their context and similarity. For example, words like “piano” and “synthesizer” would be closer together in…