Tone.jsTone.js is a framework for creating interactive music in the browser. It provides advanced scheduling capabilities, synths and effects, and intuitive musical abstractions built on top of the Web Audio API. How to Create an Online Classroom | Stanford Online High SchoolStanford Online High School has been successfully educating students online through an innovative virtual […]
SVG ANIMATIONS Mapping coronavirus, responsiblyThe map is using totals (absolute values) as its raw data. There are very very few golden rules in cartography but this is one of them: you cannot map totals using a choropleth thematic mapping technique. Oregon Engineer Makes History With New Traffic Light Timing Formula – Institute for JusticeMats’s work […]
I made a little plugin that let me copy users from one blog to another in WordPress multisite.1 I thought I’d have to use switch_to or something but I didn’t. It’d be easy to expand this to do more tricks for you and have more shortcode parameters but I don’t need them so it is […]
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Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web ApplicationsIn this paper, we present spreadsheet-driven customization, a technique that enables end users to customize software without doing any traditional programming. The idea is to augment an application’s UI with a spreadsheet that is synchronized with the application’s data. When the user manipulates the spreadsheet, the underlying data is modified […]
This little plugin is meant for WordPress multisite. When network activated, it closes all the default dashboard widgets and adds your own. It populates your widget with the title and excerpt of any posts on your root blog that are in the category ‘support.’ It’s meant to make it easy for you to add tutorial […]
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I have someone who gathered a bunch of tweets for their research using Martin’s TAGS aggregator. She wanted to show all the avatars. Once I published the spreadsheet, here’s all the javascript needed to make that happen. It’s lightly annotated for your reading pleasure and the functioning codepen example is included below. See the Pen […]
Well not really but I’ll explain it anyway. Gravity to Google There are a number of plugins that tie Gravity Forms to Google Sheets but most (all?) of them rely on the ability to create an application to get authentication tokens. Many institutional accounts turn off that capability. VCU has turned that off. As a […]
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We’re getting a new supervisor in the near future so we were asked to write up a success/challenges<footnote>See how I made them opportunities? ABC baby. ABC. Or ABC if you’d prefer. I’m good with either.</footnote> sheet to give them an idea of what’s working for our various groups and what’s giving us problems. I thought […]
A decade of failures in Science Communication. | Southern Fried ScienceLots of parallels with lots of things. […]
Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram’s tracking algorithm – CNETEach time she refreshed the Explore tab, it was a completely different topic, none of which she was interested in. That’s because Mosley wasn’t the only person using this account — it belonged to a group of her friends, at least five of […]