In javascript, figuring things out is not to bad. For almost everything, I can just use console.log(whatever) and spit out the data I’m trying to figure out right there in the browser. With PHP is more difficult. You can var_dump() many things. You can improve on that using print_r to make those gnarly1 objects and […]
Year: 2019
Photography #169
Persistent Check Off List
Origin Story We’re doing the Photography is Magic course again this semester. One thing we do the first week is go around and the room and students say a word that has something to do with their major, life etc. We also name some cliche image types from Instagram. We end up with a large […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-08-18
Meagan Day on Twitter: “I cited this poster from the New America Movement (1970s ancestor of DSA) in my piece about the implications of a Green New Deal for eliminating chronic unemployment. https://t.co/IgihpHkt9F Such a great poster. I think about it alA post I need to print out. ‘I’m not even 30, and I’m flying […]
Simple Content Restrictor Plugin
Origin Story I had a number of emails from people trying to restrict content in various ways. One person wanted to restrict access because they were editing previously published content. Another person wanted more of a traditional membership-style option with the ability to restrict certain content based on user roles. I looked at some of […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-08-11
What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? – Robin Sloan Bechtel – MediumA DIGITAL POSTCARD—This was one of the first applications where one could send a graphic via email, which programmers told us was technically impossible. Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis — CARTO BlogAfter creating this as a new table we can see that […]
WPlus WordPress Theme
Origin Story There once was a group who really liked Google Plus. With the demise of the service, they were unhappy. With this request, I wondered if we might just build a very similar experience in WordPress. I think I ended up getting pretty close. The Look The theme is built using our normal pattern […]
Checkboxes exposing more content
The basic idea here is that if you check all the boxes, more stuff will be shown. Right now it’s set to need all 6 but it could be any number. Once again, it’s an ugly demo that we didn’t end up using but I can see this being useful in the future and it’s […]
YouTube Choose Your Own Adventure Interaction
This was a quick demo built to show how we could mix videos hosted on YouTube with viewer choices at the end of those videos that cause other videos to load. There’s a bit of work around what the visuals would be like for a user but nothing aggressive.1 If you play the first video […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-08-04
Ethan Mollick on Twitter: “Interesting paper on unexpected discrimination in online ads: women see less ads for STEM job openings because they click them (and other ads) more. That makes ads for women more expensive, so a gender-neutral ad bidding system NUKnightLab/sql-mysteries: Inspired by @veltman’s command-line mystery, use SQL to research clues and find out […]