Quite some time has passed since I last worked with Google APIs but now I had a project to use them. I needed a solution that involved choosing a folder inside Google Drive and listing the contents inside it. Simple enough, but when I looked at the reference implementations I felt like going back a few years.

When I was working on a video course I needed a way to turn a series of slides into a video, preferably with a nice transition in between. I had the slides in PNG format, and I also had the timing information, i.e. when the transition to the next slide should happen. Then I started looking for a solution to turn those images into a video and that turned out to be more involved than I initially thought.

How to save development time with event-driven live reloading

When building a NodeJS app there are a lot of tools available to help with the development process. A single line can restart the code when anything is changed, files created by the app are easy to inspect, and there is a full-blown debugger baked into Chrome that can be attached to a running instance. With just a minimal amount of setup when I add a console.log I see the result in a few seconds, or add a breakpoint and observe the internal state.