Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: Demon-Haunted World In 2015, HP pushed a fake security update to millions of Officejet owners, which showed up as a routine, ‘‘You must update your software’’ notification on their printers’ screens. Running that update installed a new, secret feature in your printer, with a long fuse. After six months’ […]
Year: 2017
The Events Calendar Venue Issue
I’m a big fan of Events Calendar Pro. It makes all sorts of date related things in WordPress very pleasant. The free plugin also does a great job. I did run into a bit of an issue this afternoon as I tried to take events I created in one site and get them into another. […]
Troubleshooting WordPress
This is an attempt to explain a pattern of troubleshooting WordPress through a specific event and perhaps reinforce the need for me to be humble in all interactions with people. So even if you never have this problem this might be useful. Symptoms An admin for one of our sites using FeedWordPress and suddenly can’t […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-08-27
Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation — Krebs on Security A huge collection of botted accounts — the vast majority of which should be easily detectable as such — may be able to abuse Twitter’s anti-abuse tools to temporarily shutter the accounts of real people suspected of being bots! Dominikus Baur – Data Visualization: Data […]
echo wp_oembed_get fix
Pure click-bait gold, baby!1 You know I’m focused on those high-traffic titles. And now on to the show . . . I’m doing a site for the esteemed Jon Becker’s school law class. The goal is to take tweets that exemplify really bad legal choices by public school administrators. They even have a hashtag – […]
Web Development Podcasts
My podcast listening ebbs and flows. I am currently in the flow state.1 Anyway, I like these three podcasts that are all web development related.2 Shop Talk Show – gets a bit deeper than I need at times but very solid SynTax with Wes Bos of Javascript30 and Scott Bolinski. I really like the Web […]
KSES Allow Twitter Widget Embed
The two little lines above keep the Twitter tag search widget embed code (below) from getting cleansed in the WordPress Editor. Keeping a chunk of these extra-curricular allowed elements in a plugin allows us to activate them on a per trusted user basis. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-08-20
Death of an earl – Thomas Morris Then Doctor West came, who advised a frying pan made red hot to be applied to the head… A ‘glyster’ is an enema. Tobacco enemas were widely used at this date in resuscitation – the standard treatment in cases of drowning. So although blowing tobacco smoke up a […]
Vive Video Tip
We’ve been dabbling in the VR world with Vive and video captured via the Ricoh Theta S. The Ricoh video resolution isn’t great but for loaning out to faculty it’s simple and won’t end the world if it’s blown over by the wind on a moor in Ireland.1 Step one got us the example above […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-08-13
Huge Blobs of Fat and Trash Are Filling the World’s Sewers In China, fat from sewers and traps is illicitly scooped, cleaned up—though not well—and sold on the black market as “gutter oil.” In cheap restaurants and street stalls, your dinner might even be cooked in gutter oil. 3DHOP – Home 3DHOP (3D Heritage Online […]