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This page answers questions you might have about Pippim. The 5 W's are addressed; "Who", "What", "Where", "When" and "Why" of Pippim. Here you will discover:
- Who is Pippim?
- What is Pippim?
- Where is Pippim?
- When was Pippim created? (The easiest question to answer!)
- Why was Pippim created?
- How was Pippim created? OK that doesn't begin with a "W". Plus that makes number 6 not 5.
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Pippim is a one-man-show that has been answering questions since 2016 on AskUbuntu.com under the user name "WinEunuuchs2Unix". When you look at WinEnuuchs2Unix's profile 🔗 in Ask Ubuntu you will see the image on the right.
The philosophy is free open source software.
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Pippim is a website with free and open source software.
The software is primarily for use on Linux. There are also free on-line apps you can use in your browser.
Pippim website features:
- Tim-ta project timer
- HRB website links
- Fast search engine
- Day and night themes
- Scrape Stack Exchange
- No ads or cookies
Tim-ta project timer sounds an alarm at each step of your project. It runs in your browser.
HRB (Hyperlink Recipe Baker) also runs in your browser. Use it to quickly create hyperlinks for the documentation you write.
The Pippim website is designed for you to copy it (fork on GitHub Pages) and create your own website. To speed up the process, variables such as the name "Pippim" only needs to be changed in one place. Then hundreds or thousands of pages are automatically updated.
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Figuratively speaking, Pippim is located in "the cloud" on GitHub 🔗 (https://github.com/pippim/pippim.github.io) where all the source code is kept. The website you are viewing now is found on GitHub Pages 🔗 (https://pippim.github.io).
As you may have deduced by the little yellow dot in this image though, Pippim is physically located in Edmonton, Canada. For a better view, right-click on the picture, select Open in new tab, and then zoom in with your browser. On January 26, 2022, after long bouts of cold weather, it is surprisingly warm in Edmonton.
- The Pippim posts in Ask Ubuntu started in 2016.
- Pippim major software development in Linux started in 2019.
- The pippim.com Domain Name was created on October 16, 2021.
- The pippim.com Website was created over 2022.
This website was created to document the free software that Pippim created on the websites Ask Ubuntu 🔗 and GitHub 🔗.
Thousands of Pippim Posts, under the pen-name WinEunuchs2Unix, on Ask Ubuntu are about 95% Answers and 5% Questions. There have been over {{ site.views_human }} views, as of {{ site.refreshed | date: "%B %e, %Y" }}, to the questions that Pippim has answered.
The best answers that Pippim posted in Ask Ubuntu are downloaded and inserted into the Pippim website.
"How" doesn't begin with a "W", which seems to contradict the "5 W's" but, as the saying goes:
Who, What, Where, When, Why and sometimes How
So how as Pippim created? Well the first step was to find a domain name (website name) that:
- Was easy to remember
- Was six characters or less
- Was two syllables or less
- Could be typed with the right hand only
- Did not contain special characters like "-" or digits like "9", "0", etc.
- Ended with the extension ".com" instead of ".net" or ".org", etc.
- Wasn't a name already reserved and being sold for thousands of dollars
- Could be purchased from Google Domains which offers good security, performance and reliability
After finding out the name "pippim.com" was available, a few more weeks of contemplation went by, before "pulling the trigger", and buying the name for $17 CAD per year.
Then this Pippim website was created using GitHub Pages for free. More details about how the website was created can be found on in the middle of the Home Page.
- Graduated with Honours, NAIT Computer Systems Technology - IBM S/390 and CDC Cyber 720 Mainframes
- Education in three Accounting Levels, Business, Statistics, COBOL, Assembly Language, RPG, Mark IV, Fortran and BASIC
- President of the Edmonton IBM System/36 Users Group for one year
- Information Systems Professional (I.S.P.) designation from Canadian Information Processing Society (C.I.P.S.)
- Decades of Software Development Experience
- Self-learner utilizing on-line resources from Vendors, GitHub, Stack Exchange, Open Source Software Code e.g. Linux
- Fast learner with strong problem solving skills
- Passionate hard worker motivated to do a good job
- Doesn't give up where others throw in the towel and quit
- Balance performance tuning and perfection with realistic timelines
- Ability to prioritize / cost benefit analysis
- Excellent documentation and people skills
- Extensive business and financial systems experience
- Volunteer helping others to learn, fix and use Linux and Ubuntu
- In 2018, Ranked #1 🔗{:target="_blank"} in the world, with 29,278 points in Ask Ubuntu
- Modify Enhanced I/O (written in C), kernel block device giving Intel Window's Rapid Storage Technology to Linux
- Conky System Monitor, Network Bandwidth monitoring, System Monitor Indicator scripts
- Developed Multi-Timer, Eyesome, Iconic, cdd and cpuf BASH scripts utilizing YAD and Zenity GUI for console
- Developed mserve (Music Server) with many innovative features
- SQLite3, beautiful soup, tkinter (TCL), x-lib, GNOME, FTP, SSH and many other Python packages
gmail.comprogramming for automated daily backups via email and Backup Rotation- Pippim Website with Javascript on-line apps. Export, email and import web browser local storage files
- Stack Overflow SQL database query of 1500 posts converted to Pippim website Answers webpage
- Internet of Things - network control of electrical outlets, computers and Smart TVs (Sony REST API and Android Debugging Bridge)
- GitHub, Stack Exchange, pyCharm, HTML, CSS, SCSS, SASS, Markdown, Kramdown, Rouge and Jekyll
- Strong problem solving and documentation skills
- Quick learner of complex technologies
- Seeking rewarding and challenging software development projects
Image credit: Jekyll Octocat Mascot GitHub 🔗