Fixing missing anchor links in Canvas ePub Export

I’m using a free tool called Sigil1 to fix missing anchor link attributes in an ePub export from Canvas. This issue is probably because the course was created with CidiLabs Design Tools and the export just isn’t made to handle the complexity of an external tool like this. https://youtu.be/jhcVRrvL7gM 1 If I was stuck doing […]

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Google Sheets JSON the Long Way

Ever since Google turned off direct access to the JSON data from Google Sheets, I’ve used a couple of App Script workarounds. They were a bit clumsy for what I was doing but better than re-writing the entire page. I find going through the whole oAuth and Google project process to be more hassle than […]

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WordPress CSV import to custom post type and taxonomies

Ever since Google Sheets killed the native JSON feeds, a number of projects of mine have broken and been left adrift. One of those projects was my activities list for conferences and various things like that. On Tuesday, we were asked to revisit our work profiles. One of the requested items was “Relevant publications, presentations, […]

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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 […]

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Download Panopto Playlist Videos Bookmarklet

I always thought bookmarklets were cool. I still think they are cool. I like the idea of little tiny tools that live in a place reserved for something else entirely. Alan has 89 posts mentioning bookmarklets. That’s also a clue that they’re interesting. What drove this was that Panopto removing the RSS feed option in […]

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