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2009 | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. Trying out pygame, pretty cool. December 31, 2009 » Geek. Introducing pyTower, a python based Sim Tower. Clone This is a new project I started, after finding the existing clones lacking. So far it’s in a really useless stage of development, but I wanted to show if what I had done so far. I’m building it on the pygame library. Which is a low level wrapper around SDL. Anyway, the dev work is at github. The main menu, Qt4 pygame. 8211; Every Time I Die,.
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2014 | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. Updating S3 CORS With Boto. November 17, 2014 » Geek. Sometimes you don’t have access to the S3 console, but you do have keys for a bucket. If you need to change CORS for that bucket, it turns out you can. Boto has API methods for this. Automatic MySQL Slow Query Log Emails. October 10, 2014 » Geek. Something we try to do regularly at Pack. Is to check for slow queries. To make this a more regular occurrence, I decided to automate it. Bin/bash MYSQL SL...
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Manage Unblock-Us on OS X | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Manage Unblock-Us on OS X. September 2, 2014. Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. Sometimes you need to pretend to be in another country. VPN’s are great for this, but one novel approach is Unblock-Us. I use this when I need to access video that is region limited. However, changing your DNS servers through the Mac settings app is a pain when you have to do it over and over again. On Windows they have an app to download which can manage the change for you. And one to un-set it. Your email...
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2011 | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. Thursday Quote: Edsger W. Dijkstra. December 29, 2011 » Geek. 8220;The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.”. 8211; Edsger W. Dijkstra. Thursday Quote: Richard Stallman. December 22, 2011 » Geek. 8211; Richard Stallman. Thursday Quote: William Gibson. December 15, 2011 » Life.
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2010 | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. Thursday Quote: Rand Fishkin. December 30, 2010 » Geek. 8220;The trend of design toward simplicity and accessibility in software happened for a reason simple sells, simple’s usable and simple scales.”. 8211; Rand Fishkin. What I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Company. December 28, 2010 » Geek. Grab a copy here: https:/ github.com/jmhobbs/Flip. It works for me in Firefox and Chrome. December 27, 2010 » Geek. As posted on Hacker News. I want it to be an...
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Password Generator Alfred Workflow | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Password Generator Alfred Workflow. October 9, 2014. Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. I love pwgen for passwords. They are simple and strong, but it can be a pain to kick over to the terminal whenever I need one. So, I made a super simple Alfred Workflow for this. Basically, you type in “pw”, “pwgen” or “password” and it will generate and copy a 40 character password into your clipboard/open app. Download it here: pwgen.alfredworkflow. Manage Unblock-Us on OS X. ಠ ಠ Keyboard Button.
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2008 | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. Gmail Attachment Gets Stuck Scanning For Virus. December 26, 2008 » Geek. I’ve been having trouble with Gmail for my domain getting stuck scanning for viruses on my attachments, which means I can’t download them, which is annoying. I got fed up with waiting for Gmail, so I just got them through the old fashioned means. Here’s how…. Attachment is stuck…. View the original message…. What that looks like (click image for bigger view). I have been having a...
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2013 | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. November 12, 2013 » Consume. I forked an existing mini-campfire chrome extension and added some tweaks of my own. That is what I use now. You can get it here; github.com/jmhobbs/mini-campfire-chrome. You can add this to your bookmarks bar by dragging this link to the bar: ThinFire. Building the Chicken Cam. October 8, 2013 » Geek. Yesterday I published a Chicken Cam. For Buttercup farm, basically just a webcam for the 21 chicks we got a few weeks ago.
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About | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. My name is John Hobbs, and I do computer stuff. I have a Bachelors in MIS from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I make fancy websites with What Cheer. But primarily I’m working on Pack.
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2012 | John Hobbs on coding, Omaha, and life in general
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Freelance software developer and poultry enthusiast. December 15, 2012 » Life. This Thursday was the first Mastercraft Chili Cook Off put together by the crew at Big Ink. I made a chili on behalf of the What Cheer team, and Becca made corn bread. We didn’t win (Big Ink’s delicious chili did) but we were the best vegetarian chili! Also the only one. I based my recipe off of the Ultimate Vegan Chili. From Vegetarian Times, but made a few tweaks. Here is my rendition. 2 tsp smoked paprika. 1 tsp chili powder.
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