In exciting news, Deathbot4000 on Twitter (decomissioned because Twitter is a toxic place) is now also Deathbot4000 on BlueSky which is great for many reasons. Source code for him is here. I just hope it helps someone else build something useful, the list of features so far since I switched
Technical
Performance seems good. Plex transcode performance after sorting out QuickSync in my plex docker container is great, CPU usage went from around 55% with CPU-only transcode to around 20% with QuickSync enabled.
Do you need a bot that sits in your Discord server and pitches in if anyone ever says "Aliens"? Of course you do! Add Hudson Discord Bot | The #1 Discord Bot ListHudson from the movie, Aliens.The #1 Discord Bot List You're welcome. Hudson is open source, don't judge the
A friend of mine has finally written something cool - A tool that gives you a notification in Discord for your Dupicati backup jobs. It can be found here: https://duplicati-notifications.lloyd.ws And it looks like this. Build your webhook URL, add it to Duplicati, that's it. Easy!
Stand Up Paddleboarding
Paddling across the river to the Jolly Sailor for a swift one before heading back down-river.
Nerd
Ok. I had to tell the wife, this had gone on too long and I thought I'd best explain it before she found out. Deathbot 4000. Sounds incredibly morbid, but it's not as bad as it sounds, it's one of those things that evolved into itself. DeathBot 4000 is a
This is a list of not particularly mainstream movies I've watched and enjoyed up to a point. Primer Shame Solaris Enemy Moon Upstream Color
All the fun downhill bits of blue trail at QE. Shot and edited 01-08-2017.
Stand Up Paddleboarding
Continuing our camping and supping adventures we headed to Wareham, where we'd been before with our paddleboards and known to be a great site. We set up camp at Redcliffe Farm, which is a great campsite and has slipway access just outside it's entrance. There's a walking path to get
A while ago myself and the wife had a rainy week camping in the Tewkesbury region in a tent, but more importantly with our paddleboards. We stayed at a campsite to the side of the Lower Lode Inn which is great because of course it's a pub, but also because
Upgraded the raspberry pi to the new version 3, which is still a great value bit of kit for side projects. I updated my process for installing MJPEG Streamer as well compiling from latest decent source. #!/bin/bash # soup to nuts, mjpeg-streamer-experimental sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y sudo
Messing about with MJPG-streamer, a Raspberry Pi and a PS3 EyeToy C270 camera. See the live feed at darrenwatt.com/cam (if it's running). Things I've learnt from messing around with mjpeg-streamer#### mjpeg streaming is literally sending a bunch of jpeg images to the browser, which is good because it
After moving the blog to it's new home, I forgot about the essential game-play hours monitoring I'm testing to monitor my friend's Path of Exile addiction. Source is here. https://github.com/darrenwatt/steam_tracker Results are here. GHOST_URL/monitoring
Replicated from my old blog since it was so popular. Edits: 14/04/2011 – Updated with the suggestions from the comments 19/08/2012 – Updated step 2 with feedback 14/08/2016 - Removed dead links You got these things free with BT Vision boxes, and for ages I didn’
