Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
11/01/2019
My Raspberry Pi Python Twitter bot stopped posting last night. After I had strong words with it, and told it to pick up its game I deleted the cache database file and let it rebuild the history. This is something that I really need to fix, as my PiHole shows that my bot has made approx 191,383 calls to the twitter api in the last 24 hours… touch wood I’m…
10/17/2019
… or partial ones at least 🙂 Firebase Auto ML I’ve managed to create a simple Android app using Firebase Auto ML, that now detects Paw Patrol pups with a decent success rate. This success would have blown me away a year ago, sad now given exposure to Auto ML and Google’s sophisticated tools I just think this is ok… but I do have a couple of hypotheses to test…
10/11/2019
After our trip back to the UK and finding Amazon Echo’s and Google Home devices ubiquitous my wife felt a need to have one, and darling that I am I bought her an Amazon Echo for her birthday… it has been bugging me ever since. I’ve set up a Pi-Hole on our home network to prevent most adverts being shown… but I still know it’s listening :p So I was…
09/08/2019
Not sure why it has taken me quite this long, think it as I use a VPN on my Linux box, but I’ve finally been motivated by a twitter post to drop Pi-Hole onto a Raspberry Pi 🙂 I'm glad I was told about @The_Pi_Hole this week. Very easy to setup to cleanup the traffic on the whole local network. My #raspberrypi loves it 🙂 pic.twitter.com/EgX6pr5SrM — Luc Juggery (@lucjuggery)…
05/24/2019
So something rather strange, although positive, has occurred this week; my Raspberry Pi hosted Python scripts are still sending out around 550 tweets each day, but the tweets are now receiving twice the number of twitter impressions 🙂 As you can see from the chart, impressions have approximately doubled, from ~100 to ~200 thousand each day. This increases the last 28 days to 2.5 million organic impressions! I work with…
05/07/2019
Tweets from my Twitter account @GamerGeekNews have earned more than 2 Million impressions in the last 28 days 🙂 Not bad for a few Python scripts hosted on a Raspberry Pi.
01/11/2019
In my quest to get sonic-pi to run on Linux, and also free up a port on my router, I’ve been trying to login to view Raspberry Pi Desktop from Ubuntu… as usual with any Linux endeavor, with limited success; but think that’s the attraction: a puzzle to solve, with a solution out there… I’ve just gotta find it 🙂 I had installed tightvncserver on the Raspberry Pi, and remmina…
12/11/2018
Thanks to Tim Holt (aka @Kiwi_Mariner) for passing on a link showing that my Twitter account had made a cameo appearance and #TC18, the international Tableau Conference. I’ve a Python bot sat on a Raspberry Pi tweeting and re-tweeting about topics I’m interested in, Tableau being one of them. Check out the feed @GamerGeekNews
notepad plus plus for Linux I use notepad++ at work on a windows machine, I find it great for taking notes, and editing SQL scripts on the go. For a long time Geany has been my goto Linux file editor, but it might now get more limited use in the future now that notepad++ is available in Linux, via snap 🙂 Crazy too, that I think this is my first…
07/15/2017
An intro to crontab with some interesting examples: blog.davidsingleton.org