rob g.

@[email protected]
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Computers, cats, books, bicycles. Sci-Fi, science, math. Music and photography. Travel.

Traveling light, long, backpacking or camping to know the land and culture. History, Architecture, foods.

Europe Fan. Culture is center. In Pols, left.

Coffee, Black with a bit of sugar. Espresso, yes please, unless late in the day.

Wine, Red of course. If hot weather, then Beer.

#TechnoMancer and #FediReporter , #Writer and voracious #Reader #nobot

Languages : English. Español. Português.

Tech Blog :https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/
Mastodon :https://qoto.org/@design_RG
Glitch-Social :https://muensterland.social/@rgx
Pleroma :https://fedi.absturztau.be/yann
rob g.Jan 3, 2021

Creating a site specific Search box in a Write.Freely blog - possible, with DuckDuckGo

Please see my post at the Write.as Discourse forum for details -- I managed to create a custom search box for my Write.freely blog using DDG.

Cannot be done with Google's Custom Search as it requires JavaScript -- disabled on WF for security reasons.

BUT DDG can do, and it uses an iFrame. Tested and working.

https://discuss.write.as/t/creating-a-site-specific-search-box-in-a-write-freely-blog-possible-with-duckduckgo/2271

Screenshots show Forum post and a Custom search page for TeDomum.net blog.

Creating a site specific Search box in a Write.Freely blog - possible, with DuckDuckGo

Hello! I found out a way to create a Site specific search which can be used in our Write.freely blogs. (had posted a topic here a month ago, about using Google’s Custom Search Engine – which cannot work for us as it requires JavaScript, not supported in standard WF instances). DuckDuckGo has this - and it is all inside an iFrame block, which does work from a normal WF page. I have tested it and it’s even better than the Google one as we are not logging into their voracious indexing of everyone...

rob g.Dec 24, 2020

** On MarkDown Learning, Tutorial, and Editors **

@joaopinheiro And I came back, on a quiet moment to read your new blog page. Very nice - I really enjoyed it, and think it can be useful to other people as well.

Same as you, I first learned about MarkDown upon getting started with blogging - using the Write.Freely software, which is the free open source version of the Write.as blog.

This is just the Beginning of today's Blog post...

https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/on-markdown-learning-tutorial-and-editors

On MarkDown Learning, Tutorial, and Editors

----- This started as a reply in my Fediverse account: @[email protected] And I came back, on a quiet moment to read your new ...

rob g.Dec 16, 2020

New Blog page -- fully created with my new MarkText markdown editor. A really nice and free tool (see earlier post here in the timeline for details).

Today's Blog post at TeDomum.net :

"Why choose a Glitch-Social instance for my main account?"

https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/why-choose-glitch-social-for-a-main-account

Original announce post :

https://muensterland.social/@rgx/105392126993411453

Why choose Glitch-Social for a main account?

----- ## That is a Good Question. Here's why. A collage of recent posts on important issues we face in the Fediverse. And which w...

Show threadrob g.Dec 16, 2020

See also a Nicer MarkDown formatted Announcement post.

The Way it Was Intended to Be.

https://muensterland.social/@rgx/105391326543260839

Rob G. (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image ## MarkText editor - nice free, open source tool ***New find, a lovely MarkDown text editor*** This morning I stumbled across [an interesting blog - The Plain Text Project](https://plaintextproject.online/index.html), and in it, a reference to [a good markdown text editor](https://plaintextproject.online/articles/2020/12/08/marktext.html). Have tried others before, and not for long; I am familiar with the MD tags, and work well with the [EditPad Lite text editor](https://www.editpadlite.com/convenience.html), or from inside the nice Dark Themed Write.freely blog editor, if I am composing a new blog page. ## The review is really well done, ...got my attention - and I made [a post on Twitter about it](https://twitter.com/design_RG/status/1339210481756741632) soon after. Painful, with Twitter's crippling small limit for posts, broken up in many parts, which makes it more difficult to create a coherent presentation. However - writing it was the push to [download and install MarkText](https://github.com/marktext/marktext/releases) - and to collate some of the thoughts in the Tweets into a longer, Fediverse intended post. This one, being written inside MarkText itself, my first trial. And it looks and feels wonderful already. See my [***Blog post for Today about it Here***](https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/marktext-editor-nice-free-open-source-tool). #FediReporter new Tools of the Trade report... Recommended. #rgxJournal #MarkDown #WriteFreely #MarkText is a great find! ###### This Blog Page announce was entirely produced with ***MarkText editor***.

muensterland.social
rob g.Dec 16, 2020

MarkText editor – nice free, open source tool

New find, a lovely MarkDown text editor. So good that I will be switching to it from my beloved #Writefreely blog editor.

#Zonelets new blog post. #free #tools #opensource

https://yann2.neocities.org/YannZone/posts/2020-12-16-MarkText-editor-a-nice-free,-open-source-tool.html

Also on WriteFreely :

https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/marktext-editor-nice-free-open-source-tool

@matt - there's lovely Themes here, we could use some of the Dark Theme ideas for WF too. TY...

Blog Post

rob g.Dec 10, 2020

A nice feeling - Upgrade Blog Instance version

And success. Thank you to @matt and the @write_as team - all went perfectly.

https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/releases/tag/v0.12.0

Windows 10 install, one year anniversary now. And I sweated it out fearing a database crash, never happened.

* Made full .rar archive of existing install.
* unzip new version, new folder.
* copied over config.ini
* copied over keys folder files.

And voilá -- WF is up.

#WriteFreely is wonderful - a #tool for #Writers
#FediReporter recommended.

Release v0.12.0 · writeas/writefreely

v0.12 Major Features ActivityPub Mentions (T627) Enable more interaction with your posts by mentioning users on Mastodon, Pleroma, and other ActivityPub platforms! Users on instances with federatio...

rob g.Nov 30, 2020
Yann2Nov 30, 2020

Long Distance relationship, 13 hours TZ away

Interesting comment found. It's about Slowly, but not on the regular #Slowly Reddit place, but a comment in another.

Lovely story - lightly edited and presented as polished Blog version. #xp #love #friendship

https://wordsmith.social/friends-near-and-afar-letters-we-share/long-distance-relationship-13-hours-tz-away

Long Distance relationship, 13 hours TZ away

----- A new relationship blooms ...from 13 hours in Time zones away ? An interesting comment I just found. It's about Slowly, bu...

rob g.Jun 30, 2020
Show thread【 ♡ 】【 🌙 miraculous witch 】Jun 30, 2020

@rgx unfortunately, i suffer this month to month which can make life really difficult. i want to start my career in various industries and it's really hard to do it when i have to constantly take breaks to "take care of it". and thank you! i've always liked flower names!

i'm really sorry to hear that. seasonal depression is awful but that's really good spring is coming! even more reasons to look forward to tomorrow!

rob g.Jun 30, 2020
Yann2Jun 30, 2020

Getting Good Penpals, a Slowly Users Guide

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This has been posted and recognized as a valuable resource at Reddit for maybe almost two months now.

After sitting in my Blog editor for almost 30 days, I decided to publish it -- in Two pages, with a final Part 3 coming soon dealing with the loaded question of "Adding friends via Slowly IDs".

Hope you enjoy reading this, a more detailed, illustrated and carefully written version of my original Reddit forum post.

#Slowly #penpals #friendship

Getting Good Penpals, a Slowly Users Guide

------ Selecting the people we will correspond with ... is one of the best ways to start on the path of exploring the world of Pen pal...

rob g.Jun 11, 2020

MarkDown Interactive Tutorial - in English too!

🇬🇧 MarkDown language is a simplified form of creating a variety of text styles. Bold, Italicized, Underline, Header (text) sizes, all in much shorter and easier commands than classic HTML Markup language.

Note the name, a play on the HTML variant.

The Interactive MarkDown tutorial is also available in ENGLISH for those who are more comfortable in that language.

See it here: https://www.markdowntutorial.com/

Markdown Tutorial