How to encode video files to ensure Direct Play from Plex running on pretty much anything, but in this example a Raspberry Pi 3B+.
This focuses on h264 and selecting the right Profile and Level both for your server and your playback device, but h265/HEVC works the same way.
I’m using Manjaro at the moment and after getting 4K monitors I learned that Spotify ignores UI scaling settings. You
can run Spotify with --force-device-scale-factor=x.x but I wanted my desktop shortcut to work properly too, so here’s
how I did that.
Now that I have an agent that I can move around the map, the next step is to get it moving between a resource point and a drop-off point. I can program that behaviour myself (I won’t comment on the quality of my solution but I know I can do it), but one of the reasons to use Unity is its plugin ecosystem so I wanted to see what options were available for creating a Finite State Machine.
Forest Stories will have agents moving between locations so I thought I’d learn more about Unity navigation. I’d used it with my previous project but only to move a selected agent to the tile I clicked on so which was pretty easy. For Forest Stories I wanted to learn how to have agents follow roads, so that’s what I did!
I’ve started working on a game in Unity. I want to learn more about Unity, and I don’t want to commit to a full game idea because it’ll inevitably get complicated while I’m still just learning how to do basic things. Like my last project, I want a simple idea that I can work on and not feel like a failure if I don’t complete it.
In August 2019 I started learning Unity by creating a small tactical turn-based combat game. Think an incredibly simplified XCOM. I would love to make an actual game that mimics XCOM’s combat but this project was only ever meant to be a prototype to teach me the basics of Unity and it accomplished that quite nicely. I got pretty far with the project and now that I’ve started a new one I’ve decided to write down the lessons I learned.
How to pull Docker images from a custom private Docker Registry.
Kubernetes allows you to pull docker images from a custom registry simply by providing the URL as part of the image name. Here is part of the container spec for my Telegram chatbot MAWBot:
How to use a Raspberry Pi Model B as a GitlabCI runner building docker images. Docker didn’t work for me until I rolled back to the previous version. Story at the bottom of the post.
How to ensure you are using Private Networking with your Kubernetes cluster on Digital Ocean.
While learning how to launch a Kubernetes cluster I read a blog post where as part of their instructions for setting up a Kubernetes cluster on Digital Ocean they enabled Private Networking on their droplets. They then did nothing to actually tell Kubernetes to use private networking. It then took me a bit of reading to figure out how to fix that, so hopefully this post makes that problem easier to search for.