Short status updates that may end up elsewhere, too.
Jan Boddez
Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/should-users-be-able-to-select-more-than-one-block-style.
How about a Tailwind-like set of utility classes that can be stacked on top of each other, without having to actually code? Either that, or, you know, use … CSS.
“Should Users Be Able To Select More Than One Block Style?”
Bookmarked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24274919.
This. I’m not a software engineer, either. (Well, I’m not active in IndieWeb spaces, like, at all, but I have implemented and am greatly enjoying some of the typical “IndieWeb” building bricks. They’re open protocols, after all.)
I am fairly active in IndieWeb spaces and I disagree with others in these spaces all the time.
Bookmarked https://css-tricks.com/social-image-generator-jetpack/.
Which is why I used—wait for it—Dompdf.
My dream for this thing is, eventually, we could start building social media images via regular WordPress PHP templates. The trick is that you need something to screenshot them, like Puppeteer[.] An average WordPress install doesn’t have that available[.]
There’s a fun story going around that WalMart will accept Litecoin payments. It’s completely untrue, is perpetuated by scammers, and illustrates neatly how easily anyone can release a press release and have real news organizations (Reuters!) pick it up.
So, I, uh, did revive my Mastodon-to-WordPress sync thingy, I mean, plugin. It’s very basic, which is good. (More advanced features, like improved reply contexts, should probably be the subject of an add-on plugin. Like, eventually.) https://github.com/janboddez/import-from-mastodon
Bookmarked https://github.com/neild3r/vscode-php-docblocker.
Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/ask-the-bartender-how-to-find-project-partners.
You hire a freelancer (or start experimenting yourself).
[W]here should I go if I want to find a developer to work with on an idea?
Funny thing. Since I’ve switched to SimplePie, I see a lot more “image previews,” thanks the enclosure tag. Now, if only I could get it to parse media:content …
Switching between the Parsedown Extra and Markdown Extra libraries for PHP. One doesn’t convert > to blockquote inside <div markdown="1"></div> and the other doesn’t support ~~ for strikethrough text.
Recently watched the Fear Street trilogy, Turbo Kid, and La Gomera (The Whistlers), and now I’m wondering if I should revisit, or clarify, my “rating system,” which goes up to four stars. One star would be “interesting,” two stars “entertaining,” three stars very good and four almost impossibly awesome. As for the films above, I’d probably give them one or two stars each, like so: ★★☆☆. (Should probably drop that fourth star, too, and not be such an a—hole.)
Bookmarked https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/28/talking-hard-work-blues/#hostage-takers.
There’s no technical reason you couldn’t stay in touch with Facebook friends without being [a] Facebook user. You can switch phone companies or email providers without walking away from the family, community and customers you’re connected to.
Bookmarked https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/instagrams-algorithmic-idiocy.
[B]eing banned for something as dumb as this would make a good story.
Because Zeldman had made the switch.
Why did you start using WordPress?
I’ve modified my feed reader to accept figure and figcaption—I mean, why not?—but because of how microformats feeds are parsed, images themselves are stripped from photo posts, to be shown underneath, leaving the caption rather lonely. One way to deal with this is interpret photo posts’ content as (mostly) plain text, I guess.