Tech

Beyond Ugliness: Reimagining QR Codes with AI

9 July 20239 July 2023
AI, Design, Graphic Design, Tech

QR codes have gone from ugly ducklings to beautiful swans, all thanks to the power of AI. Long criticised for their unappealing look, QR codes are now in the midst of a major comeback, invigorated by the creativity that AI allows. No longer do you need to be a tech whiz to customise your QR codes. With AI, you can easily merge images or even abstract ideas with your QR codes, offering a blend of functionality and aesthetics like never before. In this post, I share some QR codes I’ve jazzed up with AI and guide you through the process of creating your own.

Animating Superheroes with AI Deforum

8 July 20238 July 2023
AI, Comics, Dev, Tech

Animating with AI might sound like a walk in the park, but the reality is it takes a lot of trial and error to consistently get good results. Contrary to what many anti-AI folks think, there isn’t a single magic button that instantly produces amazing art. Deforum is a handy tool in Stable Diffusion that lets you set prompts at different points in the timeline and control a ‘camera’ in 2D or 3D space. The user interface for controlling these isn’t the most intuitive, but after some messing around, I reckon I’ve got the hang of it — and I did some experiments.

Building a banner ad with GPT-4

18 April 202318 April 2023
AI, Coding, Design, Dev, Tech

I’ve done a ton of banner ads in my career. I have been using chatGPT (and GPT-4) to play around with a few coding projects. So, I thought why not test if it can build an animated banner ad. How cool would that be?

Saradiel - a before and after picture. The original blurry old photo in the left, and the hyper realistic AI generation on the right

Reimagining With AI – Saradiel, The Robin Hood of Sri Lanka

2 April 20234 April 2023
AI, Dev, Tech

How I used AI to recreate a realistic photo of Saradiel, a folklore hero in Sri Lanka, using Stable Diffusion and the ControlNet extension. Although the results were not perfect, they are impressive considering the blurry nature of the original image.

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Automating Boring Time Sheets with Python

23 January 202323 January 2023
Coding, Dev, Tech

Time sheets. The bane of my life. It’s something I know I’ve got to do, and obviously something I just put away. Using Python I try to automate this monotonous task!

Oh My Zsh: Making my Mac Terminal look pretty

17 January 202317 January 2023
Tech, Tech Hacks

I have been getting back to writing code with Python and customizing my Mac’s terminal with Oh My Zsh to improve my experience.

I’m addicted to Midjourney AI

15 January 202315 January 2023
AI, Design, Graphic Design, Tech

AI art has become increasingly popular, with tools like Midjourney allowing users to create photorealistic images, graphic designs, and more. Despite some quirks, these AI-generated works can be a great source of inspiration for designers. Also, see some images I’ve generated!