A decade of failures in Science Communication. | Southern Fried ScienceLots of parallels with lots of things. […]
Year: 2020
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-02-02
Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram’s tracking algorithm – CNETEach time she refreshed the Explore tab, it was a completely different topic, none of which she was interested in. That’s because Mosley wasn’t the only person using this account — it belonged to a group of her friends, at least five of […]
Considering Our WordPress Development Patterns
I believe we’ve developed a pretty solid pattern for making WordPress do what faculty want and making that happen pretty quickly. We have high goals in terms of taking on additional challenging work while also supporting a lot of things and a lot of people so we’ve had to be fairly pragmatic in terms of […]
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Photography #176
Photography lately has been focused on our ongoing exploration of the Chickahominy River and basketball. I didn’t realize how active certain snakes could be in the cold. I just assumed they all hibernated. They found this tiny one in the leaves after it made some noise. We think this is a dog or coyote skull […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-01-26
Teenage sleep and technology engagement across the week [PeerJ]Results derived from the use of transparent Specification Curve Analysis methods show that the negative associations in evidence are mainly driven by retrospective technology use measures and measures of total time spent on digital devices during the day. The effects are overall very small: for example, an […]
Voting in Gravity Forms
This is one of those unique needs but with base elements that are likely to be useful in other scenarios. It looks at the logical operators in Gravity Forms which require no programming knowledge, looks at using cookies to discourage more than one entry, and finally moves to using the API to display data. That’s […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-01-19
Activist Graduate School – Online University for Protesters, Movement Creators & Changemakersfound via this thread https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1219519602079617029/photo/1 Grimes Debuts WarNymph Social Media Accounts for Her Unborn Baby | Consequence of SoundIn one, the 3D baby speaks directly into the camera about, you guessed it, the impending apocalypse! “This is the end of the world. The world […]
Zombie Posts/Pages Shortcode
Origin Story This is an odd one but has a number of uses outside this weird scenario. In this case authors have access to Site B but want the content they write to show up on Site A on the appropriate pages/posts. Given this is a multisite I could tie the sites together and do […]
Two Display Posts Tricks
I’ve been a fan of Display Posts since the days of straight Non-Programistan. Despite the fact that I can write my own stuff from scratch, Display Posts still comes in handy all the time. The following are just two little tricks used in a recent course site. I’m just skimming the surface of the capabilities […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-01-12
Michael Pederson on Instagram: “Empty space #streetart #miguelmarquezoutside”Worth clicking through to see. Harry Harris: Mustache of US ambassador sparks uproar – CNN“I didn’t grow a mustache because of my Japanese heritage, because of the independence movement of Korea or even because of my dad. I grew it because I could and I thought I would […]