🆕 blog! “Book Review: The Internet Con - How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow”
★★★★⯪
This is beloved firebrand Cory doing what he does best. Rallying the rebellion with righteous indignation and a no-nonsense approach to fixing technology's ills. If you've read any of his fiction, or liste…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/book-review-the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation-by-cory-doctorow/
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#BookReview #CoryDoctorow #internet #politics
@5000b5fe@eab399bd again, plenty of plugins which obliterate them.
But, if the ad industry want to annoy their users, that's on them.
Nothing will change until Google is broken up. Simply untenable to have a User Agent which profits from anti-user activity.
@3a7ada3a@31d693fe
Yes, if Ivory asks for the activitypub+json version, that's what it'll get.
Not much I can do about it - so probably worth you pinging the app to let them know.
@46a29bc6 I'm using LSCache and APCu. But I've manually excluded a few paths from caching.
Specifically
/.well-known
/wp-json
/author/
/@blog (which is my username)
@8dbe0f1a Looks amazing!
It would be brilliant if the main image on the front page was animated - or a video. Would give it an immediate "wow" factor.
I'd also put V2 above V1 in the side panel. Makes it easier to see what's newest.
*sigh*
Is there a **SIMPLE** guide to building a #FSE theme for #WordPress?
I'm currently very happy with my plain-old theme. But I can see the writing's on the wall for that way of working.
I'll never move away from Markdown for writing posts. But looks like more and more features will only be available in blocks.
@3a7ada3a yikes!
If you're able, could you send me a screen recording of it happening?
I think it is a bug in Ivory rather than my site, but want to make sure.
🆕 blog! “This blog is now on the Fediverse!”
You can now have this post federated to your social media site by following @Terence Eden’s Blog If you're on Mastodon, it should look something like this: You should be able to follow it on Lemmy, kBin, PixelFed, and some cool social network I've never heard of. How This blog runs on WordPress. Thanks to the tireless […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/this-blog-is-now-on-the-fediverse/
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#ActivityPub #mastodon #wordpress
The #CSS spec has an example:
> setting alt to the empty string can avoid reading out the decorative element
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-content/#example-954890b1
The grammar is:
`[ <content-replacement> | <content-list> ] [/ [ <string> | <counter> ]+ ]?`
Which indicates to me that a `/ ""` is valid.
So is this a #Firefox and #Safari bug bug?
My thought is "yes". If they think the alt text is invalid, they shouldn't drop the content, they should display it without the alt.
Thoughts?
Here's an interesting #CSS question.
The `::before` selector allows authors to add a content element. For example:
`p::before{ content: "👉"; }`
You can add an image using:
`content: url("example.png")`
You can add alt text to the image:
`content: url("example.png") / "This is the alt text";`
But what happens if you use text *and* alt text?
``p::before{ content: "👉" / "Pointing Finger"; }`
Chrome displays the 👉
Firefox & Safari drop the element & don't display anything.
Which is correct?
The #CSS spec has an example:
> setting alt to the empty string can avoid reading out the decorative element
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-content/#example-954890b1
The grammar is:
`[ <content-replacement> | <content-list> ] [/ [ <string> | <counter> ]+ ]?`
Which indicates to me that a `/ ""` is valid.
So is this a #Firefox and #Safari bug bug?
My thought is "yes". If they think the alt text is invalid, they shouldn't drop the content, they should display it without the alt.
Thoughts?
@b0f85c33
Weird. If you scroll back through my posts, can you see my boost of the blog's post?
I'm wondering if your community doesn't support long posts or something similar.
🆕 blog! “Using Selenium & Chrome to automatically download Blob files”
The Selenium WebDriver is a brilliant way to programmatically interact with websites. You can write little Python scripts which can click around inside browser windows and do "stuff". I use it to download a file generated by a Javascript Blob and automatically save it to disk. Here's how. Se…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/using-selenium-chrome-to-automatically-download-blob-files/
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#HowTo #python
OK! Let's try that again.
Would you please try to follow @Terence Eden’s Blog
In about an hour, it should post its first message to the Fediverse.
Huge thanks to @0c3a0f82 for helping me out. The #WordPress + #ActivityPub future is going to be awesome 🙂
I go into this weekend with all invoices paid! What a lovely set of clients I have 🥰
Would you like to work with me?
Let me help you open up your organisation.
https://openideas.ltd.uk/
I'm based in the UK, but can happily accept £, €, ₹, and $ (US, CA, NZ AU).
#OpenSource #OpenStandards #OpenData #OpenAPI
Also, if you're a #freelancer - I can highly recommend Invoice Ninja.
https://www.invoiceninja.org/
It's a brilliant way to keep track of all your invoices. It's free *and* #OpenSource!
"Four years later, the BBC would broadcast Star Trek for the first time. It's hard to see how Doctor Who could have survived against the colour, drama, and professionalism of American sci-fi."
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/review-doctor-who-the-web-planet/
#DoctorWho
🆕 blog! “Getting WordPress / JetPack Subscriber Counts via the API... the hard way”
People can subscribe to receive my blog via email. This is managed by the JetPack plugin. I want to be able to display something like "Join 1,234 subscribers and receive updates via email". So, how do I get the subscriber count from the API? As documented in the JetPack H…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/getting-wordpress-jetpack-subscriber-counts-via-the-api/
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#api #jetpack #wordpress
@08563a95
I do not work for HMG, so I don't know their current opinion.
If you take a look at https://www.api.gov.uk/ you'll see what others are doing.
OK friends! Could you please follow @Terence Eden’s Blog and let me know if you see a new post from it at 12:34 BST today?
I've added the new #ActivityPub plugin to #WordPress and want to see if it has worked.
OK! Let's try that again.
Would you please try to follow @Terence Eden’s Blog
In about an hour, it should post its first message to the Fediverse.
Huge thanks to @0c3a0f82 for helping me out. The #WordPress + #ActivityPub future is going to be awesome 🙂
I go into this weekend with all invoices paid! What a lovely set of clients I have 🥰
Would you like to work with me?
Let me help you open up your organisation.
https://openideas.ltd.uk/
I'm based in the UK, but can happily accept £, €, ₹, and $ (US, CA, NZ AU).
#OpenSource #OpenStandards #OpenData #OpenAPI
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Here's an interesting #CSS question. The `::before` selector allows authors to add a content element. For example: `p::before{ content: "👉"; }` You can add an image using: `content: url("example.png")` You can add alt text to the image: `content: url("example.png") / "This is the alt text";` But what happens if you use text *and* alt text? ``p::before{ content: "👉" / "Pointing Finger"; }` Chrome displays the 👉 Firefox & Safari drop the element & don't display anything. Which is correct?