dalibali on Twitter: “Robot enforcing Shanghai lockdown. https://t.co/VvAOcI8h5q” / Twitter For your next dystopian novel/film John Reed Stark on Twitter: “A glorified append-only spreadsheet is not the panacea for economic inequality, financial empowerment, social justice and any other current or future societal ill.” / Twitter A glorified append-only spreadsheet is not the panacea for economic […]
Gravity Forms, Open Street Map API, and Leaflet JS
I’m sketching this one out because it’s a fun mix of things. I’m going to use Gravity Forms to accept submissions, the Open Street Map API will convert the address into latitude/longitude, and then we’ll display the data on a Leaflet JS map. I could have done it all in Google but I was irritated […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-03-20
How to Decide What to Work On – Scott H Young But both halves of the problem interact. We often fail to stick to our plans because we’re not confident in our chosen path. And we fail to find paths forward because we don’t try enough things to find our footing. Decision and action are […]
Get your Jamboard text
We’re doing some strategic planning in Google’s Jamboard. I find it good for the live/interactive aspects of the conversation but when I was looking back over it, it was hard for me to read and organize in my head. I decided I wanted the text from the various sticky notes in a spreadsheet so that […]
JSON and the WP REST API
This post is supporting a bunch of tweets going out for pressedconf22 on March 24. Why? The basic idea is that WordPress is good for taking care of the mechanics of writing on the Internet. It deals with users, logins, uploading media, writing to the database, etc. On the other hand, WordPress themes can feel […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-03-13
How to use undocumented web APIs IBM’s $300 Open Source Lego Microscope WP REST API vs admin-ajax.php vs Must-Use Plugin: Handling AJAX Requests in WordPress Markup from hell – HTMHell To Hell with bad CSS! | CSS Hell Who is the Theranos of Education? | EdSurge News “And what did Ventilla learn as he stepped […]
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 […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-03-06
GradGuard | College Life Protected Hope for the Future And like Cassandra, it’s exhausting to keep repeating “don’t do it,” and to have folks go right on ahead and do it anyway. I’ve been writing about ed-tech for over a decade now, cautioning people about the repercussions of handing over data, infrastructure, ideology, investment to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-02-27
93 Beautiful CSS box-shadow examples – CSS Scan Karl T. Muth ???? on Twitter: “@Noahpinion Bit of a tire expert here. Those aren’t Soviet-era heavy truck radials. Chinese military tires, and I believe specifically the Yellow Sea YS20. This is a tire I first encountered in Somalia and Sudan; i Sudden Shutdown of QWriting Platform […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2022-02-20
MoviePass Will Track Your Eye Movements to Ensure Ads Are Watched MoviePass, a service formerly known for offering moviegoers unlimited movie tickets for ten dollars a month, is returning from bankruptcy with a new business model: trading ad views for “credits” used to redeem tickets. In an industry first, the platform will require users to […]