Andrew Fowler on Twitter: “ME: I will now give my Moby Dick presentation as a rap TEACHER: I specifically told you not to dā ME: His palms are sweaty, Queequeg’s harpoon heavy, there’s something on his sweater already, spermaceti” / Twitter […]
Month: May 2022
Is it the right RSS feed?
RSS lives and the topic has come up a few times recently. It got me thinking and reading stuff I haven’t looked at in a long time. Alan’s Feed WordPress 101 is still gold and reminded me of all kinds of things I had forgotten. Back in the glory days of RSS and the Mother […]
Omeka REST API Experiment
In the Domain of One’s Own workshop yesterday, Ed Beck‘s work around integrating Omeka and WordPress came up. It led me to check out the Omeka S API. I made a functional example in CodePen and a couple of things came up that might be of interest. First, why do something like this? You have […]
Filtering CSV in PHP
I got an email from a KQED reporter asking about this old post on importing CSVs into Google Sheets. The source data was big though and hosted on GitHub and they only wanted the California data. I thought that anything we did in Google Script was likely to time out so I built a little […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-05-15
‘How a $10k poker win changed how I think’ – BBC Future To build a strategy to beat Dan Bilzerian, once again I needed to ask questions: how is my range plotted against his? What are the strongest hands I have and what are the strongest hands he could have? For whom is this board […]
Context Dependent WordPress Banner
Note: I will be conducting a sexy SEO title writing workshop in the near future. Goal We’re moving our documentation.1 We want to warn people of that fact just in case they’ve done something odd like bookmark a particular page, are referring to a link from an old email, etc. etc. The main DLINQ site […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-05-08
Magical SVG Techniques ā Smashing Magazine "O Uommibatto": How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat ā The Public Domain Review Oh! How the family affections combat Within this heart; and each hour flings a bomb at My burning soul; neither from owl nor from bat Can peace be gained, until I clasp my wombat! […]
Stacking Images with CSS
I wanted to do a little example for a Gravity Forms workshop series I’m doing with Reclaim Hosting. The goal was to play off the Wonder Twins and their ability to change into various shapes. So I thought it’d be fun to propose a scenario and then have people propose different things for the Twins […]
Getting Relevanssi Search Working in WordPress Multisite
We shifted the DLINQ site to multisite a while back. It’s no obvious change for anyone viewing but it enables us to spin up different sites without the hassle of jumping between sites or installing the same plugins/themes in so many places. Clearly not rocket science but little things like that build up over time, […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-05-01
On Shifting Toward Agility With Learning Technologies – D’Arcy Norman The Taylor Institute acts as a testbed for new technologies that will be evaluated by the campus community, and the community will also help to decide which technologies should be implemented across the university (and which should be discontinued, and which should be left as […]