I’m doing a lot of work on the Parallel Practice site. We made some really significant changes to the form. Naturally, I did that on my development site. I had a vague premonition about getting those changes over to production but figured there’d be some way.1 Many things I did rely on the Gravity Form […]
Year: 2022
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-08-28
Tom Gara on Twitter: “Google Duo is being merged into Google Meet, formerly known as Hangouts Meet, which is not to be confused with Google Chat, which is a separate app previously known as Hangouts Chat, which replaced Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, and this makes me feel a bit better about problems in general Adstringosaccus […]
Google Sheet Web Scraping Example
The Context Middlebury has an interesting setup. They call them Go Links. It’s basically a version of tinyURL that anyone at Middlebury (students included) can use to make customized Middlebury links. If you’re on campus, you can use go/whatever and off-campus you have to use go.middlebury.edu/whatever.1 This replaced a giant redirect list. I’m not sure […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-08-21
Understood’s Commitment to Accessibility and Usability | Understood I like the position articulation An SVG filter to pixelate images | Stefan Judis Web Development an inline SVG/CSS filter […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-08-14
USS New York (BB-34): Outboard Profile ship blueprints Designing for Long-Form Articles | CSS-Tricks – CSS-Tricks a variety of good tips applicable to educational sites Workplace Productivity: Are You Being Tracked? – The New York Times an article on tracking that tracks you is worth linking to even with the paywall setup . . . […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-08-07
Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? – The Markup Does Your Car Need to Know Your Race and Heart Rate? – The Markup One company, called High Mobility, advertises on its website 57 categories of data, including “Heart Rate” and “Race.” High Mobility CEO Risto Vahtra told Jon and Alfred that not all the […]
Dynamically Add Custom Taxonomy as Check Box Options in Gravity Forms
One of the things that makes workflows work is the removal of manual work. In this case, we want to make a simple way to track software updates. We’re using Gravity Forms to do this and we wanted to categorize the update types in a way that would help us see what was addressed by […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-07-31
School districts facing ‘crisis’ teaching shortage – The Washington Post Turns out novelty pencils, some gift cards, and supportive social media posts don’t make up for all of the huge problems. xkcd: Deepfakes One Foot Tsunami: An Embarrassment of Riches The contract specifically reads: “Player shall not receive any credit for Independent Study with respect […]
Filtering Front-End Titles
As part of the ongoing saga of duplicating content, we need a way to see that a particular post is a duplicate and living in a particular module. The easiest way to do that is to add something in the title. Organically, the authors started adding it like Item Title (Module). Now we don’t want […]
Filtering the Post Link
There have been a number of occasions when I’ve wanted to write posts but have them link to another site rather than the post on the WordPress site. It happened most recently with media coverage for a research project. It didn’t seem worth building a whole custom post type for the media coverage. Instead I […]