Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-02-06

Responsive Sketchpad jack wagner on Twitter: “idk much about crypto security but this person shouldn’t have been able to steal 4.5 billion dollars of it https://t.co/i86nu7naKK” / Twitter so many things that should give us pause Analyzing the Very Bizarre Sale of Melania Trump’s $170,000 NFT The $170,000 purchase of an NFT collection auctioned by […]

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Send Email to Different Addresses Based on Form Responses in Google Script

That title’s SEO gold, Jerry! I’ve used this pattern several times recently so I figured I’d write it up and break up the endless stream of “Weekly Web Harvest” posts. Google Forms are great but the options for doing more with emails are limited. Often people want to be alerted to a submission or to […]

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Send an Email on ACF Form Submission

The following code emails a particular person whenever an ACF Form is submitted. It’s a slight modification of the example at the bottom of this page. Since I’m dealing with three forms with different fields, I do some if statements to gather and append various fields if they exist. In this particular workflow, all these […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-01-30

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds — Smashing Magazine Alabama officials receive complaints about Black History Month as state debates CRT legislation – al.com “I had two calls in the last week that they’re having a Black History Month program and they consider having a Black history program CRT,” Mackey said. “Having […]

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Graph Page Transition via Illustrator

I’m working with Greg Pask to make a lab website. When I asked him for some visual inspiration he sent me two comic book covers by David Aja. That was a first! It’s driving me to do some interesting things in Illustrator for the first time. I’ve long promised myself I’d learn vector drawing but […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-01-16

The Einstellung Effect – Futility Closet Psychologist Abraham S. Luchins discovered a discouraging phenomenon in 1942: When people find a problem-solving strategy that works successfully in multiple trials, they’ll tend to adopt the same strategy even in situations when more efficient solutions are available. –explains a lot about issues we have with technology analytics.usa.gov | […]

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Detox Site – Energy-conscious website breakdown

Screenshot of the carbon rating saying "Uh oh! This web page is dirtier than 99% of web pages tested."

The following is what I wrote for this year’s DLINQ Digital Detox. It was strange writing without footnotes. It’s also a lot less of my normal writing voice. I was writing for a bunch of strangers rather than you, my dear readers.1 It’s easy to use the web without thinking about it much. Modern processors, […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-01-02

Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens The new company plans to let everyday Americans bet on civil lawsuits by buying and trading associated crypto tokens in “initial litigation offerings.” The Website Obesity Crisis “This poignant story of two foods touching on a hospital plate could almost have been written by Marcel […]

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