How to create an unbreakable block in Minecraft using a data pack
Makin' Blocks
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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.
How to #BikeNite
How the sausage is made.
Using photo masking in Gimp to make your Stable Diffusion image generation workflow easier
Put a mask on
Creating the flag of Cascadia for real.
The Doug flag, also referred to as the Cascadian flag
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.
The Wilhelm scream
Always listen for the Wilhelm Scream in movies from now on.
Update the Ivory Bridge
Updates to the site
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
Futurama characters in real life?
"Dramatic pause." ―Calculon
Christmas Dogs code and art released
Just a fun app to post a dog to Mastodon daily till Christmas 2022
Convert a date time object to a day/month/year string in Python
working with time in Python
How to use InvokeAI in developer mode to read in a list of prompts from a text file.
Updating my workflow
My 2022 Reading List
a reading rainbow for 2022
Inkpunk Dogs
The magic of experimenting
Fear Inoculum - Song lyrics by Tool, images by MidJourney AI
Exhale, expel
The 12 Dogs of Christmas, by ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion
Happy Holidays from funinternetthings.com
An ode to the corndog, by ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion
mmmm corndogs
Fun with Thin Plate Spline Motion Model
Bringing Thor images to life.
Adding comments to your Ghost blog with Mastodon
Making an Ivory Bridge
Testing Comments from Mastodon
test bridging things
Sync your Ghost blog with Twitter and Mastodon
Things getting updated up in here.
Trying the different samplers available in Stable Diffusion InvokeAI
A reference post
MidJourney Diffusion and PublicPrompts.art
Testing new models for fun and no profit.
How to train a Stable Diffusion model using Google Collab and NFT art.
Let's Doodle
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
How to use publicprompts.art dreambooth models with InvokeAI
Extending the dream
Fun internet things according to Stable Diffusion
Just playing around
A reference for different samplers using Stable Diffusion
testing each sampler
A classic full body workout
Work on the body, and the mind will flourish.
Cyberpunk Cities
Cyberpunk Edgerunners would be proud?
Animating static AI Art using Thin-Plate Spline Motion Model
Warning this is crazy cool!
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
From a sketch to digital art with Stable Diffusion
started as a sketch in my notebook
Mystical Wolf Mage
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. -Neil Gaiman
Local Fun with Stable Diffusion ---Revisited
Give local installs a chance.
How it started...how it's going
Learning to draw?
My last image on Midjourney until I subscribe.
The last dog for now
Working with Craiyon to generate more art.
Try on Craiyons
Local Fun with Stable Diffusion
Local Art Creation by AI
Best image yet from Midjourney
A new profile pic?
Playing with Midjourney AI Art prompting
Computers take'er jobs
Creating 3D objects for the Metaverse
Building things in the metaverse
Create a Circular Text Animation in Blender
Looks like a glass donut.
Messing around with HEIC files in Python
What the heck are HEIC files?
How to renew your Ghost blog's Let's Encrypt SSL certificate
Keeping your self hosted Ghost blog online by updating your SSL certificate
Animated gifs from the command line in MacOS
quick little command line for MP4 to GIF
A new gallery page for my Blender renders
Now in 3D!!
Sci-Fi Animation in Blender
Relaxing Sci-Fi Animation for the world.
Blender Defender
A recreation of classic Atari 2600 game
Rocket Emoji Rendered
Fly me to the moon.
Making Ice Cubes
ice ice baby.
I finished a donut
Finishing off the starter donut tutorial.
I made a donut
Learning and working in Blender 3.0
2021 reading list
All the books I've read this year
The Futurama Quote Machine is back online
We're back baby!
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.
Building a basic blog with Django in Python
As I learn Django, the more I like Django.
Install psycop2 on an M1 Macbook
Working with PostgreSQL and Python on a M1 MacBook
Jump Game
Sometimes you just gotta jump jump
[DevLog][09] goBerzerk - Alpha release
Destroy all robots!
[Python Patterns] Flask boilerplate app - UPDATED
API updates and more.
[DevLog][08] goBerzerk - More Levels
Some major bug fixes and more levels
[DevLog][07] goBerzerk - Welcome Evil Otto!
Bringing the bad guy to life
[DevLog][06] goBerzerk - Glitch Robots
Glitchy Chirpy Robots oh my.
[DevLog][05] goBerzerk - A complete rewrite
Sometimes you have to start over.
[DevLog][04] goBerzerk - Player one has entered the game
Sprites found!
[DevLog][03] goBerzerk - Robot updates and more
A lot of updates today to the game.
[DevLog][02] goBerzerk - Adding robot animations
Robot animations and sounds
[DevLog][01] goBerzerk - Starting point.
Welcome to devlog 01 of my new game goBerzerk.
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.
Django version of the Futurama Quote Machine
I wanted to learn Django and Django REST Framework.
The Futurama Quote Machine
A Flask App that returns Futurama quotes
[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.
AI creating imaginary toon faces from imaginary people
ToonTown?
[DEVLOG][11] Penguin Platformer Update
I made some great progress today with Tux.
[DEVLOG][10] Penguin Platformer Update
Major push towards finishing the game
[DEVLOG][09] Penguin Platformer Gameplay
Added a HUD and some backend improvements
[DEVLOG][08] Penguin Platformer Gameplay
Fun with Tilemaps
[DEVLOG][07] Penguin Platformer Gameplay
A lot more work on the game today
[Python Patterns] Working with DNA
Python and random DNA strings, oh my!
[Python Patterns] A very simple web scraper
Using BeautifulSoup4 to pull Hacker News.
[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][release] SG1K
The release of Space Guardian 1000
[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] SOKO
A new game released today.
[DEVLOG][release 0.0.2] Ether Dasher
Updated the game with a power up and exports for MacOS are now working
[DEVLOG][release] Ether Dasher
Posting today to provide links to the project on Itch.io
[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
[DEVLOG][03] Ether Dasher
The game really came together tonight. I think I will release it soon.
[DEVLOG][02] Ether Dasher
Getting an obstacle on the screen
[DEVLOG][01] Ether Dasher
Getting the project setup and a character on the screen
[DEVLOG][00] Ether Dasher
Welcome to the first devlog for my game Ether Dasher
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.
[Python Patterns] Get Slack users from a channel
Fun times working with the Slack API
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] Verify a list of IPv4 IP addresses
I like this one because of the obnoxious regex.
[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.
GameGuy March 2019 release
We made excellent progress on updating GameGuy.
Check it out!
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
[Learning] Godot 3 2D Platformer 07
Loads of updates to the game this weekend.
[Learning] Godot 3 2D Platformer 06
It has been a fun weekend
[Learning] Godot 3 2D Platformer 05
Just a quick update on progress.
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.
Setup opsdroid as a user service on a Raspberry Pi 3
SETUP OPSDROID LIKE NORMAL
How to install Python 3.7+ on your Raspberry Pi 3
How to install Python 3.7+ on your Raspberry Pi 3
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.
First Game Ever
Just a screenshot of my first game
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.