Category: Development
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Automatically fixing links with the Wayback Machine
Read more…: Automatically fixing links with the Wayback MachineBroken links on the web are inevitable, but losing valuable context doesn’t have to be. I’ve been working on a plugin at work, in conjunction with the Internet Archive, to help combat link rot on WordPress sites. I consider this a “set it and forget it” plugin. One it is running, you don’t need to…
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2024 Redesign
Read more…: 2024 RedesignThis redesign started with a simple note in Obsidian: Simplify. Keep the orange, but have less of it. Too much in nav. Move most of the extra info into pages linked off the About page. I also wanted something with a sidebar again. I wanted to stick with the Site Editor, so I used a child-theme…
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Notes on making a Digital Garden with WordPress
Read more…: Notes on making a Digital Garden with WordPressAndy Sylvester wrote me asking about my digital garden: I followed links to your site from Dave Winer’s Scripting News site, your digital garden site is cool! I am interested in what theme you started with to create that site. Andrew Shell has developed some tools for creating feeds for Federated Wiki installations (https://feeds.fedwikiriver.com/). I am interested…
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Apple Shortcuts for posting to WordPress via the REST API and XML-RPC MetaWeblog API
Read more…: Apple Shortcuts for posting to WordPress via the REST API and XML-RPC MetaWeblog APIJim Willis asks, it seems that the iOS WordPress app’s “Post to WordPress” is no longer working, so I’d like to fallback to the rpc endpoint. Any chance you could share a link to your shortcut so I could take a look what you did here? Certainly! I’m replying as a post because I think…
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Setting up PagePark on a DigitalOcean Droplet
Read more…: Setting up PagePark on a DigitalOcean DropletA couple days ago I asked Dave Winer how he was able to point news.scripting.com to a FeedLand news product, because CNAME records have to point to a hostname and can’t include a path. I wanted to point a subdomain at one of my own news products on FeedLand and couldn’t figure it out. The…
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iOS Shortcut Actions for Micropub posting
Read more…: iOS Shortcut Actions for Micropub postingHow to use iOS Shortcuts for posting to blogs via micropub
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Apple Shortcut to upload photos to WordPress Media Library
Read more…: Apple Shortcut to upload photos to WordPress Media LibraryUPDATE 11 Feb 2023: Good news! I refactored this to work with the Share Sheet and to prompt you for credentials and a media endpoint on the initial setup. Here is the new link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/cf31d94107e24e5e947a801fb9d8132c Here is how easy it is to use on macOS. And here is how easy it is to use on…
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My Indie Likes Workflow
Read more…: My Indie Likes WorkflowHow I manage posting Indie likes from various devices and platforms to my website.
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Switching from Jekyll back to WordPress
Read more…: Switching from Jekyll back to WordPressThis blog started on WordPress in 2008 and moved to Jekyll in 2015. Now it is back on WordPress. Here is how I did the migration.
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Advent of Code, Day 12: Ember Simple Auth
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 12: Ember Simple AuthTried adding authentication with Ember Simple Auth and got stuck.
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Advent of Code, Day 11: Rendering Charts from Ember Data
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 11: Rendering Charts from Ember DataToday, with some guidance from Dave Wasmer, I got charts rendering with Ember Data stored in Firebase.
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Advent of Code, Day 10: Setting up Firebase
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 10: Setting up FirebaseToday I set up Firebase and saved and retrieved plant and garden data from it.
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Advent of Code, Day 9: More Ember Data
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 9: More Ember DataAnother short session of work on a plane before I go home and pack up my apartment. Today I finished separating different functional parts of my components into individual components and started integrating Ember data.
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Advent of Code, Day 8: Learning Ember Data
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 8: Learning Ember DataAnother short session of work on a plane before I go home and pack up my apartment. Today I finished separating different functional parts of my components into individual components and started integrating Ember data.
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Advent of Code, Day 7: Figure out routes
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 7: Figure out routesToday I’m traveling, but I got some work done on the plane: I figured out my routes and started breaking apart components to their individual functions.
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Advent of Code, Day 6: Plant Addition Flow
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 6: Plant Addition FlowToday I handled the plant addition flow more gracefully.
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Advent of Code, Day 5: Form Components
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 5: Form ComponentsToday I built reusable form components and updated the chart with form submission data.
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Advent of Code, Day 4: Responsive D3 Chart in an Ember Component
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 4: Responsive D3 Chart in an Ember ComponentToday I sorted my data, made the scale relative, and made my Ember component D3 chart responsive.
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Advent of Code, Day 3: D3 chart basics
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 3: D3 chart basicsToday I went back into Ember land, set up pods, configured Tailwind, successfully rendered yesterday’s D3 mock inside a component, and got feedback from my first user.
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Advent of Code, Day 2: D3 chart basics
Read more…: Advent of Code, Day 2: D3 chart basicsToday in Plant Gantt I figured out the basics of implementing the D3 gantt-style chart.