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Further automation automation On a few of my Europa Universalis series, I’ve used a quick little python script to do take care of some of… Read More »Improving Generated JSON Template for YouTube Uploads
Beep, boop, I’m a bot maubot is a bot system for Matrix, the decentralised messaging platform. The good folks in the room I hang out… Read More »Matrix bot: Maubot on Docker
Cold but bright It may have been down at around -2C that morning, but the walk in Falkirk was great. The Kepies are really impressive!
Every day is a school day We set out to use OCR to extract metadata from frames of the loading and ending screens of Deep… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 10: Reflection, Lessons Learned, and Improvements
tl;dr: Traefik grabs the first port it sees, which on the dev image is 1080- we want port 9292. Use –label=traefik.http.routers.discourse-dev.port=9292 You need to set… Read More »Using Discourse Dev with Traefik (without ‘Bad Gateway’ + ‘blocked host’)
tl;dr: this was a temporary issue solved by a later commit, if you checked out discourse after 28 Oct but before 4 Nov, git pull… Read More »[solved] ‘Connection closed’ in Discourse Dev Install
I love it when a plan comes together We’ve been finding a way to automate YouTube uploads using tesseract to OCR frames from Deep Rock… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 9: Bringing it All Together
Nearly a working tool! We’ve been using python and tesseract to OCR frames from a video footage of Deep Rock Galactic to extract metadata which… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 8: Output
I set up a Discourse server today. It was pleasantly straightforward. The official docs work well enough, though there are a few things I did:… Read More »Adding Discourse to a mix of nginx-hosted sites [How]
In which things aren’t quite as smooth as they seem We’ve been using OCR to extract metadata from Deep Rock Galactic loading and end screens,… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 7: Refinement