JavaScript Visualized – Promise Execution Models All The Way Down 3D DOM viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM topographically.A really different way of looking at the DOM h/t D’Arcy Stanford Prison Experiment: why famous psychology studies are now being torn apart – VoxMany of the classic show-stopping experiments in psychology have […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-03-17
Pressure grows to ditch controversial forced swim test in rodent studies of depression | Science | AAAS—Nemo missed a great advertising tie in . . . just keep swimming, just keep swimming For the past few decades, scientists studying candidate antidepressant drugs have had a convenient animal test: how long a rodent dropped in water […]
Add media storage amount to wpms sites view
For one of our multisites, I wanted an easy way to see show people the media storage usage per site. I did a bit of Googling and got a couple functions to get the size of a directory using PHP.1 Then I just appended it to the column I’d already customized to show the posts […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-03-10
How (and Why) the University of Michigan Built Its Own Closed Generative AI Tools | EDUCAUSE Reviewh/t D’Arcy Action Scheduler – Background Processing Job Queue for WordPress | Action Scheduler – Job Queue for WordPressA scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large queues of tasks in WordPress. Designed for distribution in WordPress plugins – […]
Sending Reminder Emails
So what I’m doing here is sending an email the day before an event someone registered for via a Gravity Forms process I set up. This is kind of an interesting pattern because it moves back and forth from the Gravity Forms API and uses a mix of Events Calendar functions, in addition to basic […]
List all my WP multisite blogs shortcode
Just a little function with a shortcode to list all your sites in a WP Multisite scenario. It gives you a link to the front end and the dashboard. Simple and easy to tweak. This function uses three WP functions. You can check out the links for more details.<footnote>This is actually kind of a neat […]
Categorizing institutional AI use
I feel like we’re in a weird place with AI. I imagine most institutions are. We’ve had AI in various products for quite some time and haven’t really thought too much about it. If we’re going to think about AI across the institution, it’s important that we include the older stuff, the stuff that might […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-03-03
Open source no-code business automation · Zapier open source alternative · Activepieces Explore – Fra MauroNice explorable historic world map ambient.gardenh/t Grant Potter […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-02-25
How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | History | Smithsonian MagazineThe breakthrough came when Koroma recognized a word from the song as a Mende dialect from southern Sierra Leone. In 1990, the researchers traveled around the country’s Pujehun District, playing the song for villagers in hopes […]
Roughing out some AI thoughts
I’m starting to rough out some things we’ll need to try to get right about AI . . . Obviously these are just notes and aren’t meant to be anything other than stuff I’m trying to shape into coherent thoughts. I do intend to get the AI initiatives by various edu institutions into something more […]