Updating the Ivory Bridge with the ability to post and attach featured images to Mastodon An update to the IvoryBridge
Beatnik Vibes: Unleashing Your Inner Coder with Poetry and Sonic Pi Beats Discover the fusion of code and poetry in our latest Beatnik-inspired creation! Dive into the rhythmic world of programming languages, and learn how to make your own Sonic Pi beats that groove with a Beatnik vibe.
Create Stunning Slideshows with the Ken Burns Effect Using Python Discover how to create captivating video slideshows from your images and music using Python and the Ken Burns effect. Enhance your storytelling and bring your memories to life!
Building a Futurama Quotes App with Django and CRUD Operations Learn to build a Futurama Quotes App with Django and CRUD operations. Master web development essentials while creating an engaging app inspired by the beloved animated series. Boost your Django skills with this fun project.
Using photo masking in Gimp to make your Stable Diffusion image generation workflow easier Put a mask on
From Words to Wacky: How ChatGPT, ElevenLabs, and D-ID.com Can Help You Create Hilarious Stories! In this blog post, we'll explore how ChatGPT, ElevenLabs, and D-ID.com can help you generate and bring to life engaging and entertaining stories, including a hilarious example that we've created using these tools.
Creating a bike part with a 3D printer for temporary purposes Sometimes you just need a shim to get by.
My current weekly Workout schedule “Success isn’t always about ‘greatness.’ It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.” —Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
Update to generating Futurama characters as "real" with the Protogen model v3.4 “Finally, a uniform I’d be happy to be caught dead in!” –Amy
Christmas Dogs code and art released Just a fun app to post a dog to Mastodon daily till Christmas 2022
How to use InvokeAI in developer mode to read in a list of prompts from a text file. Updating my workflow
How to use Stable Diffusion without a high end GPU or M1/M2 Macbook via Google Collab Using Jupyter noteboks to create art
PublicPrompts with the new Stable Diffusion checkpoint v1.5 testing differences between v1.4 and v1.5
Use Chainner to upscale your AI generated art with your AMD card on Debian Linux A tool to upscale images
How to install InvokeAI Stable Diffusion on a MacBook Updating my Stable Diffusion local setup with InvokeAI
How to post images from Stable Diffusion to Discord Adding a post to Discord function to my Stable Diffusion install
Mystical Wolf Mage The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. -Neil Gaiman
How to renew your Ghost blog's Let's Encrypt SSL certificate Keeping your self hosted Ghost blog online by updating your SSL certificate
Sync your Ghost blog with Twitter and Linkedin [aka build your own Zapier] Zapier is great, I just wanted to see if I can build something myself and self host it.
How to setup New Relic monitoring for your Ghost blog Adding some sort of monitoring to your website is a good thing, New Relic has a pretty decent offering on their platform. In this post I will walk through how I setup New Relic to monitor this site.
How to automatically run a Python script on your server using Cron Every now and again you may need a script to run daily or hourly on your server. I use this at work and home to automate some functions in life.
[Python Patterns] Flask boilerplate app A simple boilerplate for my apps to deploy web ideas quickly.
Re-uploading game releases to Itch.io In honor of Godot finally releasing version 3.3, I recently went through the process of re-uploading my games to Itch.io.
Mr. Pinner's Pinning Lab This little web app is for uploading and pinning images in IPFS.It uses Blockfrost.io in the backend for all IPFS operations.
Blockfrost.io Python Script Example [ipfs_utils.py] A script with basic functionality for IPFS AKA How to use Blockfrost.io to upload and pin images in the IPFS world
Flask JWT Example Here is just a quick post today. I needed a quick and dirty example for a proof of concept I was thinking about and figured I may as well post about it.
[Python Patterns] Working with the SolarWinds Orion SDK to get VLAN info from a Cisco device. If you use SolarWinds, this script is for you.
[Python Patterns] Using Argparse This is just a simple pattern I use when I need a quick and dirty script.
[Python Patterns] Working with Microsoft Active Directory Using your Python super powers to work with Microsoft's Active Directory.
[DEVLOG][Alpha] SG1K This will be an alpha release of the new game I built this week called SG1K, AKA: Space Guardian 1000.
[DEVLOG][release 0.0.2] Ether Dasher Updated the game with a power up and exports for MacOS are now working
[DEVLOG][04] Ether Dasher Wow! This looks good, there are so many things to do with the game, but think I will release on Itch.io for now as a v0.0.1
Why I removed Google from my life. For the last few years I have been on a search or a quest to remove Google services from my life. This year I really put in the effort and have been able to minimize my Google exposure.
Install for Pixelfed on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Over the last few weeks I have been researching the fediverse and all that it has to offer. One of the projects that caught my eye was Pixefed.
[Python Patterns] Fun with Asyncio in Python 3.8 Here are some examples of using the Asyncio module in Python 3.8
[Python Patterns] Get time in an orderly way Using a module called Arrow to export time in a dictionary. I love the simplicity of Arrow and use it whenever I can.
[Python Patterns] Just a Ping session This one Pings a host IP and brings back some DNS using the local ping command. Should work on OSX, Linux, and Windows.
[Python Patterns] See if your hostname is really an IP address I liked this one due to the simple regex. It is rather dumb out of context though.
[Python Patterns] Get stock info from alphavantage.co Get stock quotes in your terminal from Alpha Advantage. You will need to sign up for a free API key, then export it as an environment variable.
Get your website statistics from your hosts web logs Sometimes you just want to know how your site is doing.
Setup Opsdroid as a service on Ubuntu 18.04 with systemd I wrote previously on how to setup a Raspberry Pi 3 with Opsdroid a while back and needed to update the process for my web host just a bit.
[Python Patterns] A Flask API Example I have been working on a side project that needed a well developed API. While I have written API's at work in the past, I wanted to get something built up that was a bit more manageable and had proper testing.
Some Darn Good Python Books One of the things I get asked periodically is to name off a few good Python books. Personally, I love these books in my library. I find that i am always returning to them in some sort of manner.
[Python Patterns] Logging your errors Let's face it, we make mistakes. Sometimes more than others, but in general most of us are not perfect. The code we write will also not be perfect, and will probably break at some point.
[Python Patterns] Adding a nice progress bar to your command line scripts Every now and then I write a dumb little script that takes some time to complete. The progress bar module adds a little flair to the output of the script.
Simple Python Version Management: pyenv Pyenv makes using different versions of Python just a bit easier.
Deploying ERC-1155 tokens with Enjin Coin via GraphiQL or Unity 3D. [From the Archives] I finally was able to get some test Ether and test ENJ on the Kovan network last night, so today I was able to work on figuring out how to deploy some ERC-1155 tokens to my dev wallet.
What is your 70 / 20 / 10 ? I heard a nifty thing the other day and wanted to share. The idea is that you spend some certain amount of your time on things you are passionate about. This sort of takes the The Pareto Principle (80-20 Rule) and modifies it a bit.
3D Printing Game Assets After watching a KidsCanCode YouTube video, and the release of Godot Engine 3.1, I started learning to make the jump from building 2D platformers to 3D platformers.
[Learning] Godot 3 2D Platformer FINAL After about a month of on and off development I am proud to say that GameGuy is good enough to release
Continuing to learn Godot 3 It has been a fun learning experience so far to design a game for my kiddos.
I can now turn around! After learning a bit more about the Godot engine and watching a few videos over and over
[Learning] Godot 3 2D Platformer Godot 3 has been on my radar for a bit and I've been itching to try it out.
Fun with Flask I am learning Flask and creating some nice REST API's at home and work. Here is one I recently built for fun.
How to create a bio for your online persona Often times I am stumped on creating an online personal bio for various sites and need a little help in getting started.