The True Size Of … Jeremy Renner shuts down his bizarre app claiming trolls took it over by impersonating him | Fox NewsIn addition, the app implemented a system of “stars” that cost its users money to gain attention. Rather than “liking” a post, as one does on Instagram or Facebook, fans could post an unlimited number […]
Christian VizlSome really impressive black and white nature photography What’s the Hardest Part of Practicing Emergency Medicine?The hardest part of my job is the guilt that I never, ever, do everything I should. Never well enough, never fast enough, and never perfect. xkcd: Nice To E-Meet YouEvery time I write an email to someone I […]
Origin Story I got a fairly dense Word document that needed to go online in way that people could more easily navigate. After checking it out, it appeared we had a large number of sections but we were lucky in that they were designated by H tags of various levels. Now I could have gone […]
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In javascript, figuring things out is not to bad. For almost everything, I can just use console.log(whatever) and spit out the data I’m trying to figure out right there in the browser. With PHP is more difficult. You can var_dump() many things. You can improve on that using print_r to make those gnarly1 objects and […]
Origin Story We’re doing the Photography is Magic course again this semester. One thing we do the first week is go around and the room and students say a word that has something to do with their major, life etc. We also name some cliche image types from Instagram. We end up with a large […]
Meagan Day on Twitter: “I cited this poster from the New America Movement (1970s ancestor of DSA) in my piece about the implications of a Green New Deal for eliminating chronic unemployment. https://t.co/IgihpHkt9F Such a great poster. I think about it alA post I need to print out. ‘I’m not even 30, and I’m flying […]
Origin Story I had a number of emails from people trying to restrict content in various ways. One person wanted to restrict access because they were editing previously published content. Another person wanted more of a traditional membership-style option with the ability to restrict certain content based on user roles. I looked at some of […]
What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? – Robin Sloan Bechtel – MediumA DIGITAL POSTCARD—This was one of the first applications where one could send a graphic via email, which programmers told us was technically impossible. Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis — CARTO BlogAfter creating this as a new table we can see that […]
Origin Story There once was a group who really liked Google Plus. With the demise of the service, they were unhappy. With this request, I wondered if we might just build a very similar experience in WordPress. I think I ended up getting pretty close. The Look The theme is built using our normal pattern […]