How to open Tumblr links in their app

Do you have Tumblr’s Android app? Are you annoyed that links to Tumblr posts nevertheless open in a browser, whereupon they nag you to use their app? UPDATE: Some time in March(?) 2016, the Tumblr app itself started offering to handle URLs of Tumblr posts. Unfortunately it seems to only open the relevant blog showing most recent posts, not the post that was linked to. The same problem now manifests when I open a post via my redirector.

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Hello, MetaWatch!

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

(Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

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My IPv6 setup

For my latest ugly hack, I wanted to give any/every machine in the house a globally-routable IPv6 address, and I didn’t want to have to babysit the setup every time the router’s IPv4 address changed.

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Android keymaps

I recently bought a Bluetooth keyboard to use on Android; unfortunately some keys weren’t recognised at all and others weren’t quite mapped as I’d like. This is fairly easy to fix as an end user, as long as you have a rooted device (adb remount must succeed). Update: this is less likely now than in 2010. Here’s a quick howto anyway, since I couldn’t find one.

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