Category: Events

TwitchCon 2026 – Where can you find me

TwitchCon San Diego is upon us once more!

TwitchCon Logo

TwitchCon NA 2026 is once more returning to San Diego and is just around the corner.

So nows the time to organise sitting down and talking to streamers about how I can help you and your streams, or for Game Devs and industry at large how I can help support you getting your games to streamers or building interactive or enhancing experiences for your games on Twitch for streamers, or beyond Twitch!

I wear a lot of hats,

I cover a lot of the streaming space from a developer/tools standpoint including but not limited to,

  • Twitch
  • YouTube
  • IGDB
  • Twitter/X
  • Bluesky
  • Streamplace
  • Kick

And I’m always looking for new projects and challenges, and gluing together different API’s.

CohhCarnage Infrastructure

I do a hell of a lot of things for CohhCarnage it is my main day to day, and over the years we have built a lot of different products and tools and integrations to enhance and improve the Streaming experience for Cohh, the moderators and Viewers alike.

Between the Chatbot working across the main and 24/7 channels as well as YouTube, to syncing various elements across multiple outputs, and dynamic control of OBS itself. Thats barely scraping the surface of what we’ve done.

We output to various places

  • Twitch Chat
  • Custom Overlays per game streamed
  • YouTube Chat
  • Twitch Extensions
  • Mobile App
  • Various external websites
    • VodChat (which itself has a lot of features)
    • The Hugeaway
    • CohhVatars

And more that I’m probably forgetting.

Twitch Extensions and Tools

Check out the full list of the things I’ve built Extension wise over here on the information site.

But the notable Twitch Extensions, a quick list of the highlights!

And more!

Public Tool wise check out:

  • BlueSky Live automate showing live on Bluesky based on your Twitch Status
  • Discord Gaming Events powered by IGDB, auto create/manage events on your Discord based on IGDB created upcoming Events.
  • The Chat Bot itself which current Speaks Twitch and YouTube (currently invite only drop me a line for access)
  • Not forgetting Tip Plaform

And Now TwitchCon

What panels am I on, well this year I’m speaking on four panels for Creator Camp, all times are Pacific time, and to my knowledge none of these will be streamed.

Networking Strategies for Success

November 13th 2pm – 3pm in Creator Camp Roundtables

Your next big opportunity starts with a conversation! Networking is vital to having a successful career in any field. Explore effective networking strategies, where to find like-minded peers, and how to build authentic connections.

Interactive Experiences with TwitchDev Tech

November 13th 6pm – 6:45pm in Creator Camp Tools

Join Twitch Staff and community members to discuss the latest features available for building tools that supercharge the live streaming experience. All levels of technical experience are welcome to listen and participate in the conversation.

Meet an Ambassador: Mentor Coaching

November 14th 2:30pm – 3:30pm in Creator Camp Roundtables

Sit down with Twitch Ambassadors for an exclusive Mentorship workshop. Learn about everything from community growth and building a brand, to fundraising and collaboration. Rotate tables to hear unique perspectives and ask questions, so you leave with insights tailored to where you are right now.

Analyzing Your Analytics: What Data Matters

November 15th 11am – 12pm in Creator Camp Panels

Transform numbers into knowledge! Uncover what matters the most for your streaming style, turn analytics into action, and learn how to leverage data to level up.

The Full Schedule

Heres the full TwitchCon Schedule and my specific panels.

Don’t forget to download the TwitchCon mobile App (apple / android) to build your schedule!

In Summary

So if you want to talk, no matter the size of your channel,

  • Chat Bots
  • Extensions
  • Overlays
  • Merch (Fourthwall specifically)
  • Help with OBS, tooling, control, setup and more,
  • Third party tooling in general, such as websites or other ways to reach your audience online or offline
  • Subathon tools
  • Charity tools (Twitch’s own or Tiltify)
  • Mobile applications
  • Moderation tooling to support your moderators
  • IGDB.com and game records
  • 24/7 Streaming
  • Twitch in general
  • OR MORE, the list is endless and only limited by our imaginations!

Please drop me a line! Either:

My Leeds Hack 2 Project

Thought I would write a blog post about what I built in 24 hours for Leeds Hack 2 last weekend. I kinda got distracted last week and not had the time to write this post.

You can look at all the projects that people finished over on the Leeds Hack Website.

So what did I write

I decided to write something that I had been pondering about for a while. It’s called Spotify Roulette and revolves around the idea of crowd sourcing a new artist or area of music to listen to.

Originally it started off with me posting on Twitter quite a while back asking for something new to listen to, to which @Stanton responded with Hybrid. (I can’t find the original tweet on twitter but it’s here on Spotwitfy) Which are actually quite nice to listen to and I have a nice Spotify playlist to listen to.

I was wondering if there was a way to automate this.

So thru the combination of the Twitter and Spotify Meta Data API’s, means I can post out to Twitter, await a response, parse out the Artist and then pop open Spotify with a random track by that Artist and if the requester wants a playlist can be generated, and thru a limitation in Spotify, drag and dropped into Spotify to listen further to the Artist.

In short

In short its pretty straight forward.
Just a handful of calls to a couple of different API end points to get an Artist ID from the name, then their albums and the tracks on these albums. Chuck in a little GeoIP to hopefully check the tracks are available in the requesters’ region.
Grab the first track, pop open Spotify and grab another 10 tracks to make a playlist.

Finally I used Nerf Guns to help demo! Russian Roulette stylee.

Responses

People on Twitter can either response with text, an artist which we parse out the @user and the hashtag word. Then look that up on Spotify.
Or a response can be either an HTTP open Spotify link or a Spotify protocol link. Either to the artist page, track or album.
if it’s the Artist, I can parse out the artist ID and look for albums and tracks.
Currently not playlist urls, but that’s easy to implement.

Technology

So we used,

  • Twitter API, using @Abraham Twitter oAuth Library
  • Spotify Meta Data API
  • MaxMind GeoIP
  • jQuery and jQuery UI
  • Rick Astley
  • Nerf Guns

Give it a Go

Give it a go and offer me some feedback.
Watch out for Rick Astley tho. He likes to crop up every now and again….

It’s still a little rough round the edges in terms of theme/layout.

Spotify Roulette (http://spotifyroulette.com/)

Future

Hopefully if people like it and use it I can expand further.

Perhaps use Facebook to share playlists, or another way to crowd source a new artist. And if Spotify release a HTTP API for generating and saving playlists then incorporate that too.

Summer

So that middle part of Summer has been a bit sucky. So we shall skip all that, don’t really want to go into it….

Now things are better!

I lost my mac for a week and a half, hard drive failed, followed by back for two hours, followed by hard drive fail.
In the end Clockwork (Leeds Apple Care), replaced the drive and the drive’s cable, and shes all good now!

I’m off to Moor Fest next week, I’m doing the lighting for the Green Room, with Chamsys and whatever fixtures I get given, learnt some useful things from their Chamsys Guide for that matter, (and I fixed up the tab box on the home page for them!) Nice bit of jQuery!

Made a shoutbox for Halo3Wheelmen its hosted on 360gaming.net so had to do a lot of fudging and built a mini phpBB api to get user/ban data out of the forum, its all built in jQuery and PHP, jQuery makes ajax stuff, and append/prepend so much easier than pure javascript.

Job wise I am still waiting to hear back from Firebox.com, but it looks like I shall be staying in Leeds for another year at least, being a Venue Tech, which should, with the new boss, hopefully lead to more external work, but I shall still be working as a freelance web developer. Tho there have been some interesting local jobs come up on the GeekUp jobs Board. (I need to start going to GeekUp again….)

In that vein I currently have a bit of work on building a Asset/Event Manager for LUU Events, details on that to follow, but as a project it keeps me out of trouble, since Google fell thru.

Hopefully I should be getting back into modding phpBB which is even easier now since they now use GitHub to host their repository, so I’m gonna have to get to grips with forks, and loading parent data into the child repo…. (If that makes sense).

So essentially things are busy, not perfect but good. Could be better could be worse…

Hopefully at some point I will get around to doing a Carlyon CMS release candidate, tho I am thinking I need to rip out my CSS boilerplate and thus the relevant core html template files, we shall see.

In other news, I now have completely new graphics for 360gaming [dot] net, I was approached and offered the services of O Sheep Dip, and now I have graphics! Woot!
360gaming.net now has a HogBall league tracker on top of the 1v1 challenger system, tho no one has tested it yet, and I only have the one team, people don’t seem interested…

Tho there is a BTBhub on the way, it was suggested to me that building a BTB league is the way to go, and now I have the core Bungie Code checker, and with the advent of Reach, its data API (POTATO!) and of course, its massive ForgeWorld, the future is bright for Halo and 360gaming.net, now all I need is to find more games with similar developer offerings, and getting myself access to the true Xbox API……

So that summarizes the later part of summer… O and Katie is now home.

Also checkout my tumbleblog

Catch you after Moor Fest, (which will be my first ever festival, I’ve never been to one, and now the first one I am going to is also going to be my first external lighting job….)

Off to watch Sherlock on BBC1

And Happy Birthday to Kayleigh (The GirlFriend) 🙂

Whats Going On?

Just a quick post to say Hi and mention whats going on at the moment!

At the moment I am,

  • Contracted to Google to work on WordPress, I’m building a BugTracker called BugPress (details: http://gsoc2010.wordpress.com/author/barrycarlyon/ Feedback always welcome)
  • Going on a Holiday Next week
  • Writing a Events Equipment Management Database for LUU, details to follow
  • Will be running tech support for a conference at the end of June
  • Finding a Job or lots of Freelance work
  • Supposed to be building or updating about 3 or 4 different websites
  • Assessing the future….
  • Battling with SVN, its a bitch since I am a GIT user myself… it just screwed me over, and trashed my work….. fun times….
  • Missing the girlfriend who is away in Crete…. alright for some….

Fun times….

Anywho I’m working tonight down at Top Gun, which should be good.

Now to send some emails……

Back soon 🙂

Live at Leeds 2010

Live at Leeds, is an event celebrating Music, that comes from or is based in Leeds, so as many bands and Leeds venues as possible get involved, from The Met to the Elbow Rooms, and the Cockpit to the Nation of Shopkeepers.

Live at Leeds has a diverse range of bands which often finds people travelling from one side of leeds to another to see specific bands or is some cases, picking a handful of venues and seeing most of the bands, (Leeds Uni is obviously easy since three venues in a small area, with the met just down the road too).

And this year Leeds Uni is offering up its three venues, Mine, Stylus and the Refectory, to the Bands of Leeds.

I’m currently sat in Stylus with Holy State on stage, having just had a break post doing the lighting for Lightspeed Champion. Quite good fun! Will be lighting Loops Haunt next, which from the technical specs sounds like an interesting Synth based DJ, since he brings his own laptop and just needs a pair of stereo audio channels from us.

Stylus is also hosting the Aftershow party which is good for the Union, and hopefully good for Live at Leeds too this year!

Time to go… 🙂