Peter Forretbecause eloquence is, like, whatever
In the preparation of my PromptParlour meetings, I wanted to get an idea of who in Belgian government is responsible for understanding and forecasting the (exponential) progress of Artificial Intelligence, and its impact on Belgian business, innovation and society. Who do Belgian/Flemish ministers call when they want an expert opinion on legislation or government intervention?
I was driving home after work and I had a vague idea: what if I could represent a video with an image where the X axis was ‘time’ and the Y-axis was something that represented the images (it was this vague in my mind: “something with the colors”) in that video? Three hours of work later, spread out over the same evening, I got it working, assisted by A.I. every step of the way.
TL;DR: I compared three AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI) for transcoding an existing audio-processing C program to Golang. The clear winner in this case was OpenAI’s Codex. See the results on github.com/pforret/leqm-nrt.
TL;DR: I created a Jetbrains plugin in Kotlin, a language I don’t master, with Jetbrains’ own Junie AI Agent. It went quite easy, and now I have my first published plugin in the Jetbrains marketplace. Source code: toolstud-io/LlmBrains
TL;DR: I have started using mkdox (which uses mkdocs, material and Docker) to create a static documentation site for every repository/project I’m working on. It’s easy, light and fast. It also invites me to document everything in Markdown, which is great for coding agents.
TL;DR: I am starting a community with in-person events for discussing A.I. First one will happen in Oct/Nov 2025. Join the mailing list at Prompt Parlour if you are interested.
Thi Saturday morning, I was browsing through my SimpleAnalytics stats and saw one sorry number for a side-project I had forgotten about: launch.nuuz.io. All of zero visits in the last month. This was a one-page website of mine that listed a number of launch sites for new projects (e.g. ProductHunt, HackerNews, Reddit etc.), and what the public consensus was on the best day-of-the-week and/or time-of-day for posting a new project. It also showed a countdown for that ideal submission moment.
Decades ago, back when I organised the first Belgian Barcamp events in Brussels (2006), I had a created a presentation of my own: I was scraping the ‘playing now’ feeds of several Belgian radio stations, using that data to detect ‘trending music’, new songs that started being played a lot on radio. I remember that one of the songs that came out of the algorithm was ‘Crazy’ by Gnarls Barkley, and since it was first time I heard that name, I wasn’t even sure how to pronounce it.
This is a personal project of mine: I’ve recently recorded 2 hours of interview with my parents. The purpose is to have a record of their life stories, their memories, their anecdotes, told by them. The idea came to me when I heard some friends talk about their parents, who had passed away, and how they wished they had recorded their voices, their stories, their laughter.
As I’ve mentioned before, I am doing a lot of research into using A.I. to facilitate cinema advertising operations. Let me tell you about a recent experiment I did with a movie news analysis tool.
