Tuesday 21 October 2014

Minecraft Yogscast Complete Pack - How to make BRONZE!

Annoying as buggery.
Want to play with BEES!
But you need bronze.
And wouldn't you know it if you pop 3 copper ingots around a tin ingot in a crafting bench as described in the wiki it does nothing.
Nada.
Nil.
Zip.
I thought it might be that the ingots were Mekanism, but I tried others.

So here's the trick.

1) Get a stack of ingots and go to your crusher.
2) Crush them to dust.
3) Go to your metallurgic infuser.
4) Pop the dust in the left hand "power" bar (purple box).
(If you have redstone or coal in it, click the 'dump' button')
5) Pop your stack of copper ingots in the input (red box).
6) Out come bronze ingots.


Thursday 16 October 2014

MicroServices explained in a visual medium: MineCraft!

I got sick of the endless power point and slide share presentations of what MicroServices are so I created a MineCraft version:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN2jfHfKDn4eQ1B1O_gazraS53i77puGn


Monday 6 October 2014

Just published my first book!

Well well well.

Many people have asked me to curate all the humorous posts I've done over the years and publish them.

So I did.

244 pages of them.

From 2005 to today. Ok I lost a few due to hardware failure, but I made up for it by adding some humorous photos and of course: Kittens!

To whet your appetite here is a sample of the contents:


  • Blackpool. Gack...
  • Superman and other heroes...
  • Marcel, Speed Cameras and Rat Throwing as a Sport
  • Greek Gods, Washed Hedgehogs and Bluetooth
  • Dead Flies and Calculations
  • 12 steps for vampires
  • Obesity is the key to the survival of man!
  • When Sticking a Screw Driver in your Face is Preferable to Going to the Dentist and More Movie Reviews
  • Cthulhu Eggs and What's really funny
  • I am not “The Internet with Boobs”
  • Monastic Speeders, Pants around Ankles and Bikes
  • Rawhead Rex, Maniac Nurses and a Steam Powered Cat Cannon
  • Is everything shit or is it just me? Oh and H.P.Lovecraft
  • Rats, an old house and worlds craziest chases
  • Deep Fried Squirrel with Garlic Mayonnaise!
  • Mansquito (TV 2005) O.M.G. Bad Sci-Fi Reaches new Lows
  • There's a dead cockroach next to my ashtray
  • Portal for Programmers - Still Have a Job
  • Mambo Number 5 for Programmers - Rebuild Number 5
  • This is an ex-iPhone...

So go to https://leanpub.com/randomactsofsentience and support your local nutter! That's me if you haven't figured it out.

I'll be starting my next book shortly.