Meet the first-ever accessibility engineer at The Washington Post | Nieman Journalism Lab I’ve often found myself wishing conversations in this area were more inclusive of people with a diversity of backgrounds and identities. It’s essential to think about accessibility not just in the context of disability but also in the context of other inequities […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-01-22
Automatisch – Open Source Zapier Alternativeopen source ifttt/zapier h/t grant potter Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowHere is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-01-15
Eduardi Tsokolakyan (@eduwoes) • Instagram photos and videosa really crazy variety of art techniques and examples of non-standard creation Michael Tsai – Blog – Reading Twitter and Mastodon in NetNewsWireI’m also using NetNewsWire for Mastodon. As with Twitter, what I like compared with a lot of the clients is that it works well for reading […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-01-08
How E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military | DazedKnown in esoteric meme circles as the psy-op girl, Haylujan, also known simply as Lujan, is a self-described “psychological operations specialist” for the US Army, whose online presence has led to countless memes speculating that she is a post-ironic psy-op meant to […]
Gravity Form Field to Custom Post Type
This is a minor tweak if you’re using Gravity Forms with the Advanced Post Creation Plugin. Not much of a post but it never hurts to have more documentation out there. If you’re not using the Advanced Post Creation plugin, then this snippet works perfectly. If you are using it, the dropdown will be right […]
Customizing RSS Feed Links in WordPress
We’re doing the Digital Detox again this year. Like last year, I built a little headless html/js page for the content. We have something set to syndicate our posts into Slack. Jeni noted that those URLs lead to the main blog rather than the headless site. I don’t think there are many people reading our […]
Photography – December-ish
A mix of photos from Cape Cod and the Outer Banks. A bit of motion blur from the intentionally slow shutter speed. Not terrible for no tripod. I bought a tripod with Christmas money so we’ll see what options that opens up in the future. f22 for aperture, shooting into the sun for some odd […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-25
The FCC can finally hammer predatory prison phone call companies, thanks to just-passed bill | TechCrunchA brand-new law (awaiting only the president’s signature) will let the Federal Communications Commission directly regulate rates in the notoriously predatory prison calling industry. Under the threat of having to provide a solid product for a reasonable price, companies may […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-18
Why the super rich are inevitableThis is the crux of the Yard-sale model. In a free market, one person ends up with all of the wealth – completely by chance. This is completely counterintuitive. If everyone wins half their games, everyone should end up approximately where they started, around $1,000. But it all starts to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-12-11
Nutshell: make expandable, embeddable explanationsA variation on the secret crush website I loved from many years ago. Convert curl commands to codeConvert curl commands to Python, JavaScript, PHP, R, Go, C#, Ruby, Rust, Elixir, Java, MATLAB, Dart, CFML, Ansible URI or JSON John O’Nolan ???? on Twitter: “However, directly loading scripts from our CDN on […]