Did you know you could directly access all the media files in your WordPress library via the API?1 All I had to do was look and here’s the documentation on all sorts of nice options. You can also restrict the query by file type with a URL like this option to get 10 most recent […]
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This is a tiny example of how the little things you learn along the way change how you think about options. Back around 2022, I’d used a little PHP function to scan a directory and build an index to the files there using scandir. At some point later, I used that to create an […]
You got a problem? I got a problem solver.1 The problem was that we had videos that had transcript text already written in the video. Then, for some reason, Panopto insisted on displaying the captions no matter what the iframe parameters said. That resulted in captions over captions in a way that made everything hard […]
When we re-did our DLINQ site, I set up a custom reservation system mixing Events Calendar Pro and Gravity Forms. One piece was sending out confirmation emails that include a URL that would enable people who registered to cancel their reservations. It was just a URL in the email with a URL parameter that acts […]
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Someone in our group mentioned a possible need for a user controlled checkoff list. I made this a few years back to use Google Sheets as the source for the list but it broke when Google broke that. I think it was for a photography scavenger hunt but time dulls my memory and it was […]
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We’ve got a meditation course where the faculty member wanted to have a guided meditation track and an optional musical background track with independently controlled volume. Initially, the audio was hosted on Panopto and the background tracks were from a SoundCloud playlist. The SoundCloud embed doesn’t have an independent volume control. I started with a […]
I know. More AI stuff. I am sorry. The goal is to be able to create scenarios in a target language that are in a particular environment, associated with a particular task/goal, and focused on particular vocabulary. Right now, the goal is just the opportunity to practice writing the target language with some degree of […]
We had a request from a faculty member for the purchase of Transcribus to transcribe older handwritten Spanish and French source material. We’d done some experimenting with transcribing text using various generic AI tools previously. As a result, I decided to take an example page in French and test it across a bunch of tools. […]
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My dad has Parkinson’s disease and he recently had the unfortunate addition of a brain bleed and some glaucoma. That’s resulted in some fine motor skills issues and trouble seeing- a bad combination for using many apps. He’s always loved music but has been struggling to use his phone or iPad. When I was trying […]
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I’m building little chatbots for a German class at Middlebury. It’s a pretty solid example of a number of complications. They work (technically) and I didn’t use AI to do the programming but there are some other pieces that pop up that I think are worth documenting. Goal The goal is to have the chatbot […]
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