Making millions overnight in an in-game currency with a simple Python script - playing a game using Computer Vision.
Paul Onteri
Welcome to Paul Onteri's corner of the internet!
Paul (he/him) is a modern magician, a Software Engineer, who loves speaking the language of robots, building software and solving exciting problems.
Head over to the now page to see what he's up to at the moment.
Some of the main goals of this site are to provide a place for him to share his thoughts and experiences with others and help combat gatekeeping in the tech industry.
Dreaming up ideas and making them come true is where his passion lies. You can find the full projects list here.
Featured Articles
Learn about the basics of Serverless, Docker and deploying a Django (Python) application to Cloud Run, a serverless offering by Google Cloud Platform.
Send and receive emails from a custom domain in Gmail for free (without having to pay for G Suite / Google Workspace).
When building new projects, it’s usually annoying to repeatedly set up stuff like web servers, databases, etc. It’s often expensive or tedious to set up and manage. That’s where open-source PAASs came in. They are free and often have an easy-to-use app/database deployment & web server manager.
The need for some kind of a design system appears when we start to get overwhelmed by the count of components in a project. Atomic design is well suited for this.
Featured Projects
django-serverless-cron 🦡
django-serverless-cron 🦡 is a Django app (library/package) with a simpler approach running cron jobs (mostly in a serverless environment) through HTTP requests with an integration with the Django admin. This allows you to run any task without having to manage always-on infrastructure.
There is also an option to run jobs via management commands and the Django admin.
Remote Code Execution System 👨💻
A web application that is used to write and run code from any browser. It currently supports Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, Go, Rust, e.t.c.
Designed and built over a weekend it for my friends (or anyone) who don’t have their computers close by often (or at all). They now have a place to code - any browser!
The system had over 400+ visitors and ran code 1200+ times in the first five days of launching it. At the same time, the open-source repository on GitHub also got 62 Stars and 200+ visitors. It was also hacked! - I was able to secure it better after that.
Gaming using Computer Vision #1
A Python bot used to play the game 'City Island' using computer vision and image processing techniques. The bot is able to play the game without any human intervention.
It managed to make me a millionaire in the game overnight, making €6,147,455 in 12 hours!
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