Protip: Don’t dd Your Root Partition
In which our hero makes the titular mistake. I was in the process of creating a new DomU, a virtual machine guest under Xen, and… Read More »Protip: Don’t dd Your Root Partition
Rob
Glasgow University graduate. I have wide-ranging interests - please see my about page either here or at roberthallam.com.
Renumbering Ordered Videos in a YouTube Playlist with Python
Doing exactly what it says on the tin I’ve been playing Hunt: Showdown with friends recently. With these kids of things I like to stream… Read More »Renumbering Ordered Videos in a YouTube Playlist with Python
Take 2 Claims ‘WZLJHRS’
Jack Howitzer as Jack Howitzer in ‘Jack Howitzer’ I played some GTA V: Online the other night — my three word review: ‘fun but clunky’… Read More »Take 2 Claims ‘WZLJHRS’
Improving Generated JSON Template for YouTube Uploads
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
Matrix bot: Maubot on Docker
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
A Sunlit Kelpie
Cold but bright It may have been down at around -2°C that morning, but the walk in Falkirk was great. The Kepies are really impressive!
Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 10: Reflection, Lessons Learned, and Improvements
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
Using Discourse Dev with Traefik (without ‘Bad Gateway’ + ‘blocked host’)
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’)
[solved] ‘Connection closed’ in Discourse Dev Install
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
Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 9: Bringing it All Together
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