I’m trying to post smaller pieces of code as they come up to better document things for myself and maybe it’ll end up helpful for others. So these things aren’t terribly exciting and may, in fact, be boring. The Context I set up a custom post type named “Cards” and another custom post type named […]
Category: Examples
Stacking Images with CSS
![The word activate in large cartoon font with two circles behind it. They contain pictures of people but it doesn't really matter.](https://bionicteaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-16.32.44-1024x605.png)
I wanted to do a little example for a Gravity Forms workshop series I’m doing with Reclaim Hosting. The goal was to play off the Wonder Twins and their ability to change into various shapes. So I thought it’d be fun to propose a scenario and then have people propose different things for the Twins […]
Panopto API meets WordPress
Imagine you have some longer training videos but it’d be useful to provide discrete chunks. You might also want to provide some additional contextual information for particular video portions. Well, we wanted to be able to do that.1 This example uses the Panopto embed API and the Advanced Custom Fields repeater field to make this […]
Detox Site – Energy-conscious website breakdown
![Screenshot of the carbon rating saying "Uh oh! This web page is dirtier than 99% of web pages tested."](https://bionicteaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/99percent_4color.gif)
The following is what I wrote for this year’s DLINQ Digital Detox. It was strange writing without footnotes. It’s also a lot less of my normal writing voice. I was writing for a bunch of strangers rather than you, my dear readers.1 It’s easy to use the web without thinking about it much. Modern processors, […]
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CSV Bookmarklet
In the time of APIs, python scrapers and other cool things, bookmarklets have fallen from favor but they still have uses and I still like them. For small jobs that you want to make accessible to people they are still really handy. In this scenario Middlebury has lots of ways to get roster information about […]
Looking at a Domain of One’s Own
Middlebury has a Domain of One’s Own initiative. We only dabbled in it a bit at VCU with one of Andrew’s web design courses. I’ve seen bits and pieces and worked with people on various aspects of this over the years but I haven’t paid attention in the same way I do when I’m actually […]
VCU: The Long Goodbye (Biology)
I’m going to put biology, environmental sciences, and some other things associated with biology in my head in this post. This does not reflect the political realities of VCU where it’s a very big deal that these things are not in biology. I’m not going to get to nearly all of these and I don’t […]
Recent Work – July-ish Edition
Life is like a box of chaos and Forrest Gump was/is a descendent of Nathan Bedford Forrest and I’ve never read the Forrest Gump book. It’s always been difficult for me to keep track of what I did. I’m good about managing what’s in progress but once it’s done it fades from memory fairly quickly. […]
Recent Work – Start of June Edition
![View of the faculty page using the shortcode.](https://bionicteaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-11.45.53-AM-1024x725.png)
My date titles continue to get blurrier. The range of stuff covered gets wider. VCU is moving any course with over 50 students to the online format. We’re supporting that move in a variety of ways. Our little R&D group is trying to answer the non-standard problems, questions, media desires. To some degree we are […]
Recent Work from the Week of May 11
More random work. Much of this week was Protein Viewer for WordPress It has been interesting to look back over how this has evolved and the span of technologies involved. I’m still looking at the sheer number of options for molecule viewing. The plugin is on github but is still a first-draft. It does use […]