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Outcoded by Our Kids: It Took Us 20 Years, They Used 20 Prompts!
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…
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SoundFonts: The Unsung Heroes of Virtual Instruments
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,…
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From Hitster to Hipster: Building a Music Game with Agentic AI in Just 2 Evenings
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…
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Typix: Personality Assessments Meet Vibe Coding
“It was a public holiday (Ascension Day), and instead of doing absolutely nothing, I decided to build something… just for the fun of it.” Meet Typix — a playful yet functional experiment in building a free personality assessment tool, powered by AI-driven development, curiosity, and a healthy disregard for overpriced quiz platforms. I’ve always been…
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TDD is Dead. Long Live the Test.
Why classic test-driven development doesn’t fit AI-powered coding There was a time when Test-Driven Development (TDD) was treated as a foundational discipline in software engineering. Writing the failing test first, then the minimal implementation, and finally refactoring became the mantra for clean code — a ritual popularized by Uncle Bob and widely practiced in craftsmanship…
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MusicAgent v1.5.0 – Creative Mode Is Here!
The latest MusicAgent release is here — version 1.5.0 introduces Creative Mode: a new visual way to compose music with Sonic Pi, while chatting live with your AI music assistant. If you prefer composing with visuals instead of just code — or simply like seeing your song’s structure take shape in real time — this…
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Music Agent v1.4.0 – Smarter, Faster, and Ready to Groove!
Hold onto your MIDI cables, because Music Agent v1.4.0 is here, and it’s bringing the rhythm! This release isn’t just an update—it’s a full-blown remix. We’ve revamped the frontend, supercharged playback, and fine-tuned agent interactions so that composing with AI feels smoother than ever. Let’s dive into the beats and bytes of what’s new. The…
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Local Embedding: The Secret Sauce for Smarter AI in MusicAgent!
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…
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AI Grooves: Finding the Funk with SentenceTransformers
Finding the right sample for a track used to feel like digging through a crate of vinyl in the dark. With AI token limits, I couldn’t just throw every sample at my agents and hope for the best—I needed a way to serve up only the most relevant sounds. That’s where SentenceTransformers came in, using…
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LoveFlix: Where Every Movie Finds Its Heart
Ah, Valentine’s Day! The season of love, candlelit dinners, and… action-packed romance? Because even horror movies get a happily ever after… and everything is better with a romantic twist! This year, forget the predictable rom-coms. Instead, let’s turn the most unexpected blockbusters into heartwarming love stories! That’s exactly what LoveFlix is all about—a project I…