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Bob Jonkman’s Microblog

• Favorite 23 April 2018
  bobjonkman favorited something by ajroach42: My nephew has an ipad. He asked his dad how to write games. His dad didn't know. His dad asked me how to write games on an iPad. I told him not to bother. My nephew asked me how to learn to write games. I gave him a raspberry pi […]
• New note by bobjonkman 23 April 2018
  For Wikipedia I just create another search entry with keyword "w", so I can just type "w foo" to search Wikipedia...
• New note by bobjonkman 22 April 2018
  Doesn't need an extension to search with a keyword (or a keyletter). In the settings for #Chromium or #Chrome open "Manage search engines", DuckDuckGo should already be in there, then change the keyword from "duckduckgo.com" to "!". Now you can search ddg by typing "! thing-to-search-for" (yes, you do need a space). For !Firefox and […]
• New note by bobjonkman 22 April 2018
  I was at a political event yesterday, where it was mentioned that government provides funding to the important academic curricula like software coding in kindergarten and subsidies for business programs. But I noticed that the event's headline performers weren't coders and business folk, but poets and musicians...
• New note by bobjonkman 22 April 2018
  Struck a chord: "We assume that humanities faculty Do not concern themselves with Grossly material things Like health and money and the houses they live in Because they get to read books all day, And that’s hardly a job at all!"
• Favorite 22 April 2018
  bobjonkman favorited something by grmpyoldman: Risotto? Again? Why not!
• New note by bobjonkman 22 April 2018
  Give me proper s2s !XMPP or find yourself in another abandoned silo 3 years from now... #GoogleFree
• New note by bobjonkman 22 April 2018
  Done, finally: https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether/issues/80
• Favorite 22 April 2018
  bobjonkman favorited something by musicman: Let's do a little experiment. It's obviously biased by my relative participation in each, but I'm comparing the reach of twitter, facebook, Diaspora, pump, G+, and GNU Social (plus anything that can talk directly to it...that is not via NavierStokes). Please like this if you see it. Obviously, if you […]
• Favorite 22 April 2018
  bobjonkman favorited something by lnxw48a1: As is my normal practice, I trimmed off the tracking garbage at the end of the link, replacing it with the somewhat #TMI "utm_underpants=teletubbies". If you want to collect info on me, I prefer to choose what info you get.