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• Sander June 24, 2024 at 1:50 pm

  Found an interesting article with a positive take on useful features that modern blogs should have. The Hacker News comment thread shows that whether a feature is considered useful is very subjective.

  I'd like to go further and state that most of the usability and user experience enhancements should be implemented as browser add-ons, so that they can be installed if the user sees it as a positive enhancement to their reading experience.

  The old-school view is that the reading experience is the domain and the responsibility of the browser, and we have collectively gone way beyond what a website should offer in terms of behaviour. #technology

• Navigate Xbox Series console using LG remote

  Sander February 21, 2024 at 11:07 am

  To navigate an XBOX series games console using an LG Magic Remote, first disable the Automatic Configuration option in the Connection settings under HDMI Configuration in the TV's settings. Reconnect the XBOX's HDMI cable going into the TV. Then on the input switcher, edit the Xbox setting, mark it as a Blu-ray player manufactured by Microsoft, and follow the wizard. #technology

• Sander February 12, 2024 at 10:38 am

  Looking at my browser tabs, I can't believe that we collectively have still not standardized on page title vs site title formats in 2024. I've seen SITE - PAGE, PAGE / SITE, PAGE | SITE, SITE: PAGE, PAGE etc. I'd prefer it if we had a sitetitle tag in head and let the browser figure it out. #technology #html

• Sander January 31, 2024 at 2:30 pm

  Content vs crap. #technology

• Sander January 31, 2024 at 11:57 am

  Use an expression to select an array value in PHP. It's handy for quick output logic. Update: it's a bit too clever, perhaps, versus using the tenary operator.

  $classes .= [ ' sort-default', ' sort-custom' ][ has_custom_sort( $post ) ];
  

  #php #technology #til

• Sander January 23, 2024 at 11:21 am

  Why do web-browsers not have a dedicated "Back to top" button? #technology

• Sander January 16, 2024 at 4:33 pm

  Finally updated my #WordPress Blocks In Plain English page with the WordPress 6.3 change in naming from Reusable Blocks to Synced Patterns. #technology

• Sander January 3, 2024 at 2:07 pm

  What would it take to make writing vanilla JavaScript more pleasant? After reviewing the code for my blogging engine Lamb I concluded:

  Most of the code adding interactivity to personal websites comes down to running code after the page has loaded; niceties to query the DOM and hook into events. There's probably more but this is a start. The result is shorthand.js. Hint: it's not dissimilar to jQuery, but you can fully learn it in 5 minutes.

  Which simplifies code to:

  onLoaded(() => {
      const forms = $$('form.form-delete')
      forms?.forEach($form => $form.on('submit', ev => {
          cancel(ev)
          let confirmed = confirm(`Really delete status ${ev.target.dataset.id}?`)
          if (!confirmed) return
          ev.target.submit()
      }))
  })
  

  This is just a prototype and will evolve.

  #technology #projects #lamb

• Sander January 2, 2024 at 4:37 pm

  If you're using the Anytype (current version at the time of writing: 0.37.3) AppImage and made a .desktop file to launch it, here are a few tweaks that integrate it into your system better.

  You may want to use a program like Desktopius to edit the .desktop file.

  

  Prevent two dock icons

  If you see one item for the AppImage and one for the application window in the Dock, add StartupWMClass=anytype and these will be combined. This value is the result of running xprop WM_CLASS and clicking on the Anytype main window.

  Fix the icon

  If you see the generic icon, extract the icon to a path and update Icon=/path/to/anytype.png (replacing the path to the directory where you will extract the icon).

  To extract the icon from the AppImage do the following:

  $ cd /tmp
  $ mkdir anytype && cd anytype
  $ /path/to/Anytype.AppImage --appimage-extract
  ....
  $ cp squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/anytype.png /path/to/anytype.png
  

  #technology #anytype

• Sander December 11, 2023 at 8:51 am

  I experimented with _hyperscript to replace the little JS enhancements on the Lamb microblog over the weekend. After a day I had all the scripts replaced with clearer code in about half the lines of the previous JavaScript. It sounds like a success, however I rolled it all back. This is because _hyperscript requires a 100KB library, whereas the 3KB JavaScript it replaces does not. As Lamb is a minimal blogging system, that's the vast majority of the pagesize. #technology