In my current position at Middlebury, I’m more involved in software purchasing and worrying about how things play out across the institution than I have been in a number of years. Back in my HCPS days, I did a lot of this. At VCU, not so much. Turns out things haven’t changed a ton. Naturally, […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
the male hysteric ????? on Twitter: “People don’t understand that the biggest problem with AI art is that it proposes to be a direct replacement for the thing it is using as raw materials and has no stake in making sure those high-quality raw Supporting Accessible Data Visualization Through Audio Data Narratives – CHI ’22 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF: OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted. Michael Tsai – Blog – Terminal and Full Disk Access What you may not realize is that if you grant Full Disk […]
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 […]