joe crawford. san diego. california. code. occasional comics. toy robots. bodysurfing.

since 1998

Category: programming-featured

• 18-Aug-2021

  
  Small shoutout; Perl and 1994 Yahoo! Earlier this year I did a bit of research that contributed to this article about how the very first versions of Yahoo! were built: 1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo on the excellent webdevelopmenthistory.com
• 16-Aug-2020

  
  Instalooter to WordPress I’ve been importing my Instagram posts for my @artlung account using IFTTT for 7 years with good results. But there was a set of several hundred posts from 2011 and 2012 that I never bothered with. To be honest looking back at the posts, and thinking of that time, those were the two years after...
• 09-Aug-2020

  
  Open Graph Protocol Tools updated to version 1.91 It’s been 10 years since I first wrote the Open Graph Protocol Tools WordPress plugin. It was first published to the WordPress Plugin repository on April 28, 2010. It’s a tool that embeds metadata into your WordPress blog so posts and pages that can be parsed by social media. It’s not a particular popular plugin,...
• 01-Sep-2019

  
  Make XML Sitemaps Easily with PHP! I am a huge fan of simple solutions for the web. So many solutions require tons of tooling or a giant content management system and those things are brittle over the long haul of time. XML Sitemaps help search engines, notably Google but other search engines too. In October 2009 I created this code to...
• 15-Mar-2019

  
  Do you know what Lynx is? Lynx is a text-based web browser, first released in 1992! In my mind there is no better window to what search engines see of your websites than running them in Lynx. Now the web is full of images and video and stunning in-page interactivity, but it’s really a text delivery system. On the left of...
• 07-Mar-2019

  
  Digitized my @ux_speakeasy AI future skills worksheet using @Procreate. I can see blue areas where I can grow in UX skill, the yellow where I may be overqualified, and the green I’m prepared for. Great little seminar. #ux #SanDiego

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• 02-Mar-2019

  
  Adding tags to blog posts retroactively. I’ve been reflecting my instagram posts back to this blog for a while now. One of the conventions there is mentioning people with the @mention and hashtagging posts with #hashtags. It has bothered me for a while that I didn’t ingest those tags and mentions in some manner. I left this lay for a long...
• 24-Feb-2019

  
  Website Design on These Days on KPBS. February 26, 2003. When a person wanted to go into business back in the old days they'd find a spot on Main Street and hang out a shingle. These days you need your shingle in cyberspace. Modern customers expect to find credible companies and organizations on the Web.
• 21-Feb-2019

  
  CALL CHAR 100 CALL CLEAR 110 CALL CHAR(96, "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF") 120 CALL CHAR(42, "0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F") 130 CALL HCHAR(12,17,42) 140 CALL VCHAR(14,17,96) 150 FOR DELAY=1 TO 500 160 NEXT DELAY The first time I ever programmed it was from this page. And I made graphics in 8 by 8 squares on graph paper for months after that. Then I’d painstakingly...
• 23-Apr-2018

  
  SmugMug and Flickr: Best wishes, we’re in this together! Got this email the other day: We’re excited to announce that Flickr has agreed to be acquired by SmugMug, the photography platform dedicated to visual storytellers. SmugMug has a long history of empowering people who love photography and who want to improve their craft, making them a perfect fit for Flickr and our creative community....