The Massively Friendly World of Competitive Giant Pumpkin Growing – Atlas Obscura “We’re to the point where we pass out seeds, hand out information, invite everybody to come to our meetings and tell them everything we know,” Jutras says. “If people want to do the work, I hope they do and grow a personal best […]
Month: October 2017
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-10-15
Suspect In Would-Be Airport Bombing Nabbed With Help From REI : The Two-Way : NPR There was no video footage this time. And again, the man paid cash. But, Anderson writes, “the individual … used an REI membership number when paying.” An REI membership entitles a customer to 10 percent back on purchases every year. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-10-08
youtube-dl/README.md at master · rg3/youtube-dl download youtube videos with many options from terminal h/t Wes Bos Typography in ten minutes | Butterick’s Practical Typography : if you learn and follow these five typography rules, you will be a better typographer than 95% of professional writers and 70% of professional designers. (The rest of this book […]
Remove H1 Option from WordPress TinyMCE Editor
In terms of basic accessibility guidelines each page should have only one H1 element. In WordPress that’s usually built into the template and is usually the title of the post or page. I was thinking about that last night and wondered if we should just remove it as an option from the TinyMCE editor in […]
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Conditional Content Display in Gravity Forms Templates
I don’t know when the conditional shortcode was added or if it has always existed and I was just unaware . . . but the ability to use a shortcode wrapper to show/not show portions of content in blog posts created via Gravity Forms is all kinds of handy. As a quick example, the following […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-10-01
This band used Facebook Live’s lag to loop their song / Boing Boing We rearranged each instrument on “Bear Claws” to fit Facebook Live’s delay, with each loop getting more complex, adding instruments, rhythms, and melodies. Additionally, by projecting the video live from a soundstage we created an infinite tunnel consisting of all the previously […]
WordPress Plugin Health Dashboard (Early POC)
In trying to get a better handle on how we’re going to manage our plugins in the future, I found the API for the WordPress.org plugins data. Not like they were hiding it but I’d not seen it before.Consider me Columbus– absent the genocide, slavery, and other terrible things. Replacing *slug* in the following URL […]
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Javascript for Added Accessibility
Imagine you’ve got a legacy WordPress site built using one of those drag/drop themes. Now complicate it by having a chunk of content created by a non-standard javascript-based slider plugin. Continue to imagine you have a very, very short window of time to bring it up to WCAG2.0 accessibility standards.1 Child themes aren’t a viable […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-09-24
BBC – Future – The deadly germ warfare island abandoned by the Soviets A year later, the corpses of two missing fishermen were found nearby, drifting in their boat. It’s thought that they had caught the plague. Not long afterwards, locals started landing whole nets of dead fish. No one knows why. Then in May […]