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• 21-Oct-2024
  CSS Battle for October 21, 2024 on Video I recorded myself doing the today’s CSS Battle for the day. I used OBS which was pretty straightforward to set up. And I’ve uploaded it to YouTube. My CSS Battle Plugins on GitHub

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• 28-Sep-2024

  
  My CSS Battle Plugins I put up the CSS Battle Plugins I use on GitHub: artlung-cssbattle-plugins. I try to play daily. It’s a bit harder on the road, when I only have an iPad but I’ve managed to make it work. I started playing in November last year. As of right this minute I’m ranked number 41 of all...

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• 29-May-2024

  
  The Web Is Better. When we old heads talk about how the web is much better, I wonder sometimes how it lands on the ears of younger people. The cliché of a parent saying “I had to walk to school, both ways, in the snow.” Here’s a datapoint. Here’s a chunk of code: It’s not great code. I can...

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• 27-May-2024

  
  Bits and Pieces Programming The Photos page was an instance of Gallery I originally installed 20 years ago. I was never quite happy with the way it was presented. The last update I made was maybe 10 years ago, moving it out of Gallery and using the database tables to drive something hand-rolled. Yesterday I was able to remove...

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• 22-May-2024

  
  Joe Project Updates It’s fun to see the last 30 days and the last 23 years side by side. See #3 below: GitHub.com/artlung was updated to include a README file. I updated by Tilde Club site: tilde.club/~artlung/ The landing page of the site is no longer the blog. Instead, it’s an overview with various pages and projects. See:...

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• 08-May-2024
  Comment like you’re going to read it in 5 years. April Wensel wrote, in her latest newsletter from Compassionate Coding: Before you add an obscure cultural reference or quirky inside joke to code, though, I implore you to think of the poor developer who may be wading through your code a decade (or a few months) later. I’m a fan of April‘s work. Her newsletter...

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• 08-Mar-2024

  
  During my sabbatical I’ve learned a lot. One of the things I’ve done is made it easier to create new pages on my website at artlung dot com. I use #WordPress with a theme and plugins I wrote myself. I’ve got 20 years of posts and photos and it’s easy for it to get lost. So yesterday I made a page that I can update periodically, and as I add new cosplays, for example with a hashtag of #qcosplay it will show up on this page. My intent is to show off more of my PHP development, comics, drawings, and toy robots this way. As much as I appreciate Instagram, I wish it were easier to do this kind of thing for my posts on IG, but a website YOU control is the only way to control the way you present yourself and whether you can reach people you’d like to reach.

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• 01-Mar-2024

  
  Autocomplete Results for Search A site with a lot of content: photos and text, needs good search. To that end I spent the day adding autocomplete to the site for all the places search exists. I was unaware that the jQuery UI suite was included and could be queued in WordPress. Or maybe I had forgotten. wp_enqueue_script('jquery-ui-autocomplete', '', array('jquery-ui-core',...

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• 29-Feb-2024

  
  Have I ever posted on Leap Day? I genuinely don’t know. There have been 5 since I started the site. 2004. 2008. 2012. 2016. 2020. And today is Leap Day and I already posted today. Have I ever posted on Leap Day? Let’s write a WordPress shortcode and find out! add_shortcode('on_this_day', /** * Expect [on_this_day month="February" day="29"] * Both month and day...

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• 26-Feb-2024

  
  Extracting CSS Colors from Screenshots of Web Pages I’ve talked a lot about the headers on this site over the years. It’s one of my favorite long-term projects. One thing that I’ve considered over the years is making associated styling for the footer of the site or other parts based on colors in them. Try 1: parse HTML for colors The first thing...

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