WWW FAQs: What is the maximum length of a URL? Firefox (Browser) After 65,536 characters, the location bar no longer displays the URL in Windows Firefox 1.5.x. However, longer URLs will work. I stopped testing after 100,000 characters. Directus: Open-Source Headless CMS and API might be fun to try out at some point South Carolina […]
Year: 2017
SPLOT-light?
So the other day I posted about how to make silent Google Form submissions. Then this morning I was looking around at headless CMS options1 and saw this one being advertised as being driven by Google Drive/Spreadsheets. Those two things came together as I mowed my lawn and I wondered if I couldn’t make a […]
Photography #157
I’m not dead yet . . . Google Scripts to Check on a Bunch of WP Sites
John Stewart is going to write up something more systematic and structured as he’s taken these rough ideas up a notch but I figured I’d throw this functional Google Script code in here before I lost it. I believe I got up to five positive statements on blogging more in-process stuff so I’m taking that […]
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Silent Submission of Google Forms
If you tuned in about half an hour ago, you’d have seen how we’re triggering channel creation in Slack based on a custom post type getting published. One of the other tricks we wanted to happen as a result of that was the creation of a Google Folder. There are a variety of ways to […]
Auto-Creating Slack Channels from WordPress
Image from page 279 of “The Ladies’ home journal” (1889) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) In working through the project page a bit more, it seemed like it’d be more pleasant to start in WordPress and have our events echo outward in other services. One of […]
List Public Slack Channels via API
Image from page 249 of “The development of the chick; an introduction to embryology” (1919) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) I ended up doing this while pursuing some of the API integration stuff for our projects page. It doesn’t list the private pages and might be […]
Weekly Post Generator
Image from page 191 of “Hardware merchandising August-October 1912” (1912) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) Given there’s been some recent interest in using WordPress as destination for content created on other services, I thought it might be helpful to see how I set up my weekly […]
WP API Feed Reader POC
Image from page 96 of “St. Nicholas [serial]” (1873) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) I’ve talked to a number of people a number of times about seeing faculty using Feed WordPress to syndicate content to a motherblog when they’d really be better served by using a […]
Rethinking Our Project Page (and other stuff)
Image from page 211 of “Bulletin” (1961-1962) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) I’ve been lucky enough to hire two awesome people who have started over the last month or so.1 We’re also going to get a new supervisor on July 3rd. That’s led me to have […]
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