ArtLung: tag: programming

13-Jan-2022

Spielberg’s Films by year of release vs year set The other day, over on twitter, Todd Vaziri sent a lazyweb request that piqued my interest: free cinema chart idea chart the films of steven spielberg and graph the release date minus the year the film takes place you know, for fun How does one do timelines these days anyway? I had a vague memory...

13-Jan-2022

Sparklines in Excel courtesy seminar by Jordan Goldmeier I attended Jordan Goldmeier’s (advancedxl.com) seminar on data visualization in Excel via one of Creative Morning‘s Field Trips. It is far easier to do cool stuff in Excel than I remember. Behold a sparkline bar graph of my ArtLung blog post counts by month since 2001.

10-Jan-2022

Finding earworms in last.fm data with PHP Over the weekend I was prompted to think about the idea of an “earworm” — a song or piece of music that gets stuck in your mind. Some people find such “earworms” to be highly irritating. The idiom implies an actual worm in your actual ear which sounds positively *horrifying* to me. For me, an...

23-Dec-2021

Resume View Tracker from 2010 Back in 2010 or so when I was looking for work. I wanted to track when recipients were looking at my portfolio, so I added some code to alert me whenever the page was loaded, by anyone. It seems more innocent than sinister to me now. Note how I had to alter it to filter...

22-Dec-2021

phpStorm: URI is not registered (Settings | Languages & Frameworks | Schemas and DTDs) So I was looking through ancient HTML files last night, as one does, and noted this peculiar error in phpStorm around the DTD of one of the files: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> phpStorm did not like this DOCTYPE. It reported to me: URI is not registered (Settings | Languages & Frameworks...

08-Dec-2021

Extract #Hashtags from Titles and Content for WordPress I’ve been using IFTTT since 2013 and use it to import posts from my Instagram account into artlung.com for safekeeping. One aspect of that is hashtags, which mostly I’ve imported manually and in batches over the years. Based on WordPress HashTags by Matthias Pfefferle I was able to build a small plugin to popular the...

18-Nov-2021

Migrating my old static pages into my WordPress theme For one, I updated the Colophon. For another, I updated a jillion pages under the “Words” section. These had been static pages for, uh, 20 years. And finally I’ve imported those pages into the blog. It was relatively painless to do the import, but the old static pages were pretty quixotic, so customizing their unique...

16-Nov-2021

It’s been a very long time since I was happy with how my website artlung.com presented me and my work and hobbies. Now I feel like it encompasses me better: my #programming, #comics, #toyrobot collection, #bodysurfing, #drawing and such. I’m a big believer in people owning their online space. I feel very skeptical that #twitter and #facebook/#instagram will be good stewards for people in the long haul. We don’t use MySpace usernames or AOL Keywords anymore but a domain name can—mostly—be maintained by a person. Anyway, I’m feeling good today. Onward!

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

07-Sep-2020

Image Maps like we did it in 1997! Behold! Image Maps that are server-side! Absolutely ridiculous and enabled by Apache. Check it out.

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