Category: programming-featured
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09-Aug-2020 Open Graph Protocol Tools updated to version 1.91It’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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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21-Feb-2019 CALL CHAR100 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…
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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….
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16-Mar-2018 On The Radio.Yesterday I did something I’d planned to do for a long time, but never got around to: I posted a transcript of that time I got on the radio. It took me 15 years and is 9,050 words. I’ve had the recording since 2002. It was a fun moment. Before it happened, here’s what I…
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12-Mar-2018 Wow calligraphr.com!I found out about calligraphr.com in this article from freecodecamp.org. It was extraordinarily easy to use calligraphr.com’s template image, load it in Procreate on my iPad Pro, sketch out letters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, some punctuation, variant letters and ligatures, upload and there’s a font. Almost too easy! Want this quickie font? Here are two fonts, zipped…
