Auto-creating a Reveal JS slideshow from a folder of images

Late yesterday, I thought I was going to have to make an image slideshow for one of the kid’s sports. I didn’t want to make it in PPT or Keynote, but I also didn’t want to spend any significant time making it.1 Luckily, I’d previously looked into getting file names from directories with PHP (scandir) […]

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Surveillance Observatory Bookmarklet

This is a fun mix of Gravity Forms and a bit of javascript. We’ve got the Surveillance Observatory here and some ways to contribute stories. Participation there is sub-optimal. Lots of reasons for that and a chunk that I can’t solve but I can make submitting coverage easier. I wanted it to feel more like […]

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Blur WordPress User Information Plugin

After seeing Taylor go to the trouble of making a WordPress plugin and then getting annoyed with turning off/on my own Stylebot version, I made a slightly more sophisticated plugin. The video above shows how it works. It’s available on GitHub. It does illustrate a few things people may want to know about regarding WordPress […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-09-25

Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA) integrates information from across the federal government to help people consider their local exposure to climate-related hazards. People working in community organizations or for local, Tribal, state, or Federal governments can use the site to help them develop equitable climate resilience plans […]

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Handy CSS for WP Presentation Privacy

The WordPress users admin screen showing the blurring of all personal data.

Even in my WordPress development environment I have some real names and emails. That happens. Sites get imported. Users get made. That can create hassles if I want to create a tutorial video or do a live presentation without showing any names or emails. At best, I’m doing post-editing to blur out sections of the […]

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WordPress Data Attribute Pattern

Recently, I’ve had to push things back and forth between PHP and javascript but it seemed simpler at the time to use data attributes rather than doing it purely in javascript. It’s likely that I am wrong and stupid and I should have done it all in javascript but I’ll document it anyway. I never […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-09-11

2022 Russian businessmen mystery deaths – Wikipedia Rethinking Star Ratings For Readers — Smashing Magazine Imagine if we thought half this hard about A-F grading. Popular school messaging app hacked to send explicit image to parents “In the meantime, if you need to speak with your student’s teacher please send them an email,” Krisztina Szucs […]

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