Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
May 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…
May 7, 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.
January 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…
December 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…
July 15, 2017
An intro to crontab with some interesting examples: blog.davidsingleton.org
July 13, 2017
I downloaded Sleeping Dogs for the PS4, 10 bucks for an awesome GotY title. Think I actually prefer the shooting / combat mechanics to GTAV Still haven’t given The Z a test drive I’ve been playing with one of my Raspberry Pi’s; have an headless installation of Raspian running: Jessie Lite. Currently setup a twitter feed (GamerGeekNews) from some of my favourite sites and am looking for other ideas. Here’re…
October 18, 2016
I received my EFF member tshirt, together with membership card and bumper sticker 🙂 I’ve got back into GTAV, just before the announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2! Been playing a little of one of the free games for October on PSN network Transformers: Devastation, although was very tempted to pick up the original Resident Evil HD remake. I’ve been working on Machine Learning models in R and Python, playing…
September 17, 2016
In a moment of weakness I ordered a Raspberry Pi 3 last week, on the basis that my current original Raspberry Pi is a little too slow. I pretty much stopped playing with it after the USB stick / drive I was using bricked, so this weekend I’ve powered it up again and I’m quite impressed. I’ve overclocked the Raspberry Pi to Pi2 settings, although not sure what this means…
January 12, 2016
Easy to follow guide from www.modmypi.com Tutorial – How to give your Raspberry Pi a Static IP Address