Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Rodrigo Ghedin ☛ ClassicPress is still going strong…
ClassicPress is still going strong. After a new fork from WordPress, the project has now taken its own path, and it’s starting to pay off.
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ClassicPress ☛ Dragging, Dropping, and Sorting
In a previous post, I talked about how recent versions of ClassicPress have removed from core and deprecated the thickbox library, and I also explained how developers can follow suit in their themes and plugins. In this post, I am going to tell a similar story about the jQuery UI library, which ClassicPress has now also removed from core and deprecated.
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[Old] ClassicPress ☛ Replacing Thickbox
A theme of development since version 2.0 of ClassicPress was released has been the replacement of obsolete JavaScript libraries. In version 2.1, for example, the thickbox library was removed from core. The point of thickbox is to enable the use of modals, but there is a much better alternative available these days.
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Andrew Hutchings ☛ Issues I found during WordPress.com to .org migration
Whilst migrating from wordpress.com to an installation of the open source WordPress, I hit some gotchas that I couldn’t easily find information about elsewhere. So, I figured I’d document my findings in case anyone else has issues.
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Lou Plummer ☛ A Fun Day on the Internet
Today, Adam, the guy who runs OMG.LOL, updated the software that runs the Mastodon instance we belong to. One of the new features is an author card, which is just a fancy way of linking back to your Mastodon profile when you post something you've written on your blog. I first saw it when one of the resident geniuses of the community, Robb Knight, posted a card with a blog post he'd written, referencing a couple of other folks. Before too long, there was a thread going under Robb's original post as people wanted to know how they could get some of that good Internet magic for themselves. You could see that folks were excited. I know I was.
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Jason Becker ☛ If HTML and CSS are so simple, why haven't static sites reigned supreme?
Modern static site generators have learned a lot of lessons from the past. They serve as powerful systems that have changed the way it makes sense to build blogs. They have roared back to relevance, even as backend platforms for application/engine-like experiences. But we have not reached the stage where someone with no interest in the technical elements of the web can easily build a place that matches their potential for expression out into the world on the backs of basic HTML and CSS. I understand why, and I think that’s fine.
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Jim Nielsen ☛ Grateful: Colors in console.log()
Then I go click around in the UI and observe the bug. The problem is, when I look at the console to see if what the UI is doing matches what the code is doing, it’s impossible to tell. The values are indiscernible because I can’t read HSL.
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Darren Goossens ☛ DOSBox-X — build on Debian – DSPACE
[...] and off it went. Here’s a screen grab of Gopherus running in DOSBox-X. Gopherus is a top program. It also compiles natively on Linux, but I used it to check DOSBox-X networking.