Ben🇬🇧💤 @ben0_o@mastodon.social

It's a little harder for it to get noticed now but for any new folks looking for something going on around Mastodon (or at least mastodon.social), I've written a bot that collects #hashtag s and forms #trends when one appears.

It comes in two flavours:
@hashtagbot
@hashtagbot_mastodon_social

The 1st one is a 'quiet' #bot meaning you have to follow it before you see it's hourly reports. The other one spams local, but is hosted on a different instance.

Locked in a plastic box (well, caravan) in 31C heat with 2 hot and bothered children. Today has been a bit testing.

We've still had fun though, we made sandcastles on the beach for much of the evening and it tired out the kids enough for them to sleep instantly in their new surroundings.

I made an armchair out of sand. Castles without lower lumber support are for chumps

Morning folks o/
We're off to Wales for both a long weekend and to attend my brother's wedding.
There will be sun, sand and s'ceremony :)

@viTekiM I'm loving R-Coil! I might be slowly taking over the score board..

Evening folks.. it's a tad warm, eh?

OK, we might be 4-5 days into 'a tad warm' but I've not been around to comment. Continue about your business.

Rather than run a VPS and do it myself I'm trying to run one of those dedicated game hosting services for Empyrion (which is a notorious pain in the ass to keep stable).
Base package has only 3 or 4GB RAM (they were not more specific than that).. yeah, that'd host one of us standing still.. not 6 idiots running around creating crazy shit and blowing things up.

Oh, but I have the option to pay through the nose for additional RAM! I ..erm.. no.

Merry fecking Wednesday.

Dusting off some PlanetSide 2 tonight..it's been a while

incidentally, 5mm LEDs fit perfectly into old Technic Lego pieces..

#Pi zero rev counter for Project Cars (I'd have uploaded sooner but I've had some stuff going on). I've moved the pi off the top now to make it look better..it catches my eye when I race so I don't have to watch the tacho on screen

Morning folks o/
I am seemingly unstoppable this morning 💪 *stops for cup of tea*

I spent much of last night soldering and tweaking the rev counter I built for pcars. 9 LEDs, it counts across from about 70% of in-game revs up to 95% whereby it flashes indicating you need to shift.

Now that I've built it, fitted it and tested it... I feel like I should take it apart now and build something else. Turns out Raspi's are like Lego to me 😄

New project for today: I'm attempting to build a shift light or led rev counter for pcars. Am sitting here trying to decode the telemetry the game spews out during play in the form of UDP packets.. in python no less so I can hook it up to a pi.

Folks that have nothing on their timeline but boosts..why do you do it? My notifications just went nuts.

Here in the UK we mostly sit in silence unless one of our main conversational topics crop up: extreme (mild) weather events and the consumption of a particular caffeinated beverage.

It's a windy day today, but thankfully only on the outside of the house. The inside of my house features this cup of tea ☕

I've spent much of today making my own TrackIR hat.
The hat, along with freetrack does seem to work...but really not very well. Now I'm down one hat :+\

Got stuck doing awkward small talk over the fence with my noisy neighbour (my fault; I thought someone had opened our gate while we were out as it wasn't locked properly (thanks Wife 😡 )). I'm really not great at small talk and I could do without the probing questions under the guise of light conversation. Yes we leave the light on in the bathroom? Why? Because we fucking do. Does the reasoning why keep you awake at night? Does it really matter?

I hate people. Well, I don't, but I kinda do.

There is nothing fun about soldering a GPIO header.. I haven't soldered for a while but thankfully I didn't make too much of a mess of it.

Morning folks o/
I woke up practically every hour last night and I have no idea why.. the kids were quiet, it was cool in the room and I felt absolutely fine. Fate it seems needs me to be tired today...