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So mostly posting to say I'm still alive, relatively well, and haven't completely forgotten I have an account here. The more immediate reason is I'm still plugging away at my little website and just decided to start adding some Mesoamerican cultures to my timeline. I know we got the ultra condensed summary in school but there is something about adding in the Maya bar from 1000 BCE to 1521 CE and literally seeing how it dwarfs so many cultures I know more about. Debating whether to follow the rabbit hole and try to actually learn more about the Maya now even though my brain is heat fried or save the links I've found for a future date and get more cultures like the Inca in while I have the patience to wrestle the table into submission.
Yes I am aware there is undoubtedly a way actual programmers would make a table or an unholy abuse of a gannt chart that is less slogging than html tables, but this one I can work on in the notes app on my phone then paste in later if need be or any other device that has an internet connection. Besides last few ways I looked into either involved feeding all your info to a black box which wouldn't actually teach me anything &/or using google sheets; I'm feeling downright grumpy towards google atm. This hand typed nonsense also keeps me from getting too caught up in the presentation which is something I need all the help I can get on when this is 90% stubs by volume.
Tl;dr: Hey did you all know the Maya were around a really long time for any culture and that it's a gosh darn shame we were barely taught about them in school?
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neat new toy for making embeds for my site
So I was getting some pictures for my site when I saw the line IIIF Manifest, and fell down a rabbit hole.
( in which I babble about how neat IIIF is )
( in which I babble about how neat IIIF is )
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Timelines on my website
So I am making a series of timelines on my website in order to get some kind of grasp on history. This damn thing has scope creeped into being 90% of the time I spend working on the site for ages now, so its really not surprising when I realized that I'll at minimum need another page with a whole different kind of timeline, this led to me needing to rant. Nay not just rant but have a series of rant tangents that I am trying to sort out here bc my brain started whistling like a teapot.
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So I googled making timeline sites and thats where the rants started building up. Lets start with Timeline JS being recommended by every 3rd listicle:
( rant about Timeline JS )
The other recs at least tend to be actual code snippets where you can see what they're doing but half of what they are doing is (at best) gilding the lily: overloading it with bells & whistles and only considering what you'd think would be obvious functionality questions like "can you put pictures in it? hows about video?" as an afterthought.
( Put down the javascript! )
I should really not be surprised that after all that I ended up with the WC3 schools template which appears to use divs in ways that go against semantic HTML but looks it won't break if I put in a Youtube embed which, you know was the entire thing I needed it for in the first place. All that nonsense in the other ones, this is two kinds of divs (right, left), a bit of style so it looks good and if the screen is small they flop over to be on the same side of the actual line of the timeline. Only fun bit is going to be figuring out how to handle linking each event to the main timeline page with all the spans. On the plus side feeling validated in my decision to just do it in tables in the first place, seeing as most of the options barely work for showing time spans like the length of an empire and are only really for individual events. Oh and this will buy me some time before I decide if I need to break this timeline into at least 3 because its getting so thick.
( background )
So I googled making timeline sites and thats where the rants started building up. Lets start with Timeline JS being recommended by every 3rd listicle:
( rant about Timeline JS )
The other recs at least tend to be actual code snippets where you can see what they're doing but half of what they are doing is (at best) gilding the lily: overloading it with bells & whistles and only considering what you'd think would be obvious functionality questions like "can you put pictures in it? hows about video?" as an afterthought.
( Put down the javascript! )
I should really not be surprised that after all that I ended up with the WC3 schools template which appears to use divs in ways that go against semantic HTML but looks it won't break if I put in a Youtube embed which, you know was the entire thing I needed it for in the first place. All that nonsense in the other ones, this is two kinds of divs (right, left), a bit of style so it looks good and if the screen is small they flop over to be on the same side of the actual line of the timeline. Only fun bit is going to be figuring out how to handle linking each event to the main timeline page with all the spans. On the plus side feeling validated in my decision to just do it in tables in the first place, seeing as most of the options barely work for showing time spans like the length of an empire and are only really for individual events. Oh and this will buy me some time before I decide if I need to break this timeline into at least 3 because its getting so thick.
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Signal Boost: Site wide block!!!
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shy_magpie posted: Site wide block!!!All you need to do is add a couple lines of CSS under customize journal and click where it says "reload page in style: mine".
In light of certain parties using the post calling them out to find new people to pester, I wanted to remind people that in addition to blocking users from making comments on your journal you can use CSS to hide their posts so you don't have to see their nonsense. Just remember to view comments in your style to make them disappear!
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Signal Boost: Signal Boost bookmarklet with user name tags for more sites
melannen posted: Signal Boost: Signal Boost bookmarklet with user name tags for more sitesSoWoo hoo! The little bookmarklet that could keeps improving!
So now it
a) preserves html in the copied text (astolat);
b) works for some people it had been broken for before (me);
c)strips out multiple signal boost: prefixes in titles (me, sorry);
d) fails better with non-DW websites (me);
e) actually works well with a list of non-DW websites that are compatible with DW (lj-writes)
f) has slightly more best-practices formatting (lj-writes)
....at some point we're going to have to stop calling it a "tiny" bookmarklet. :D
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Signal Boost: Boost: How to make your journal not suck for people who don't like your style
aka_vamp posted: Boost: How to make your journal not suck for people who don't like your style
An introductory guide to using HTML and CSS in an accessible way, or:
how to make your journal not suck for people who don't like your style
I especially appreciated the reminder to change styles in the custom CSS section not at the post level. More than one person on my reading page has been using dark grey text which is unreadable on my background meaning I have to stop and decide every time whether its worth opening in their journal with their style. After a while I get a Pavlovian association between seeing their name and my eyes hurting. Considering how often they do it, it would also be more efficient for them to use a class rather than writing out the post style each time.
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Signal Boost: Signal Boost: SignalBoost bookmarklet update! Now boosts HTML
potofsoup posted: Signal Boost: SignalBoost bookmarklet update! Now boosts HTML
I've now updated the bookmarklet so that it preserves the HTML encoding in the selected text, so for instance if you select a chunk of text that includes an image or links to an AO3 story or to another DW post, the links will be preserved.
sweet! this was about my only quibble with the previous version!
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Signal Boost: Reblog: HTML expand with the and tags
potofsoup posted: Reblog: HTML expand with the <details> and <summary> tags
I learned a new thing today:
Clicky
Ooh look, it's a pure HTML drop down thingy, for spoilers or whisperspace or cut thingies or read more...!
Well this looks handy, gonna take a while to get used to the idea the summary goes inside the details tag.
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Signal Boost: Generating thumbnails with imgur
potofsoup posted: Generating thumbnails with imgur
So, you go to imgur, you upload an image... you can also click on different thumbnail sizes and types, and the links automatically update to be the image that you want (even though the image preview doesn't).
This is a really simple and useful how to on using imgur as your image host and how to create thumbnails to promote reblogging. It nicely combines DW's current preferred citation format (so and so posted x: blockquote) with the thumbnail-as-link convention see around the net.
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Signal Boost: Signal Boost: SignalBoost✔ bookmarklet
melannen posted: Signal Boost: SignalBoost✔ bookmarklet
[personal profile] astolat shared a javascript bookmarklet that automates the (existing custom of) DW-style signalboost/linksharing!...
And the first comment on it was somebody hoping people would check for access lock when using it,...[personal profile] astolat gave permission to modify, so here's a modified version that automatically warns you if you're about to link to a locked DW post.
Wow this makes things simpler! If it worked on phones and automatically added ...when you leave out a chunk I would think I was dreaming. I used it to make this post! It cites the author and links to the post, and tosses whatever you have highlighted into a blockquote. The hardest part was figuring out how to edit the URL in a bookmark to set it up. GO! Do the thing! Reblog to your hearts content!
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Signal Boost: Signal Boost: SignalBoost✔ bookmarklet
melannen posted: Signal Boost: SignalBoost✔ bookmarklet
the first comment on it was somebody hoping people would check for access lock when using it, and, well, my coding fingers were itchy (they get itchy about every six months, which is not actually often enough to build skill, sadly), and [personal profile] astolat gave permission to modify, so here's a modified version that automatically warns you if you're about to link to a locked DW post.
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Testing emailing a tumblr post to DW
edited to add: Wow not only did it not work the only attempt at sharing images was to upload 3 versions of tumblr's logo to my DW account. so while I will leave this BS code under the cut as a reminder not to do this again, I will be deleting the logos.( Read more... )
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Testing: Trying out Tumblr's embed/sharing tool
its tumblr so I'll be amazed if it works out of the box but I wanna know:
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Sorry But I Have Hit Tilt
Edited to add: I am 80% back to normal. You all have been so wonderful, and I even got some help from one of the critics and an apology from another. I will leave this public in case someone comes here wondering why I am spamming everyone talking about my old reblog method but not directly addressing people in comments.
I think I mentioned I have ADHD and depression in my intro post, both of these mean I need to beware of reacting with disproportionate emotion to normal interactions, especially criticism. An idea I had posted and clearly marked as "testing an idea" got more attention than I expected. A lot of people were really sweet to me and some suggested it to others. I am being vague here because I do not want them to feel blamed for my emotional tenderness. As the idea took off some valid points were raised. I accordingly have written a new version of the post that originated the discussion and linked to it everywhere I could find the idea posted.
I am however having a real hard time dealing with the tone used and not taking it as a personal attack especially as they knew I am very new to DW and have no way of being up to date on all the norms. I am not going to be leaving for Pillowfort, or taking my ball and going home; but I will also not be responding to any comment regarding "reblogs", "blockquotes", "HTML", or whether former tumblr users should be on dreamwidth until I can do so calmly.
I want to be clear that I do not blame anyone, especially those who were just trying to say they liked something I said, for my emotional reaction. I am working on taming my brain weasels but part of that is knowing when I need to back away before I respond. I am sorry if I failed in that and replied harshly to anyone who tried to help me before I spread a bad idea all over dreamwidth.
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Reblogs on Dreamwidth Using Blockquote
Sorry if this is long, it takes a lot more time to be concise and I want this up ASAP. Also sorry for not using the cite attribute, I can't find info on what browsers do with it or best practice related to it.
( intro and background )( the how to )
( Under the line is an example with a textarea showing exactly how I marked it up. )
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Reblogging a post on reblogging, how meta
edited 1/8/19: while most of the post and response are correct, I should have been using blockquote for the tags.
potofsoup said:- You can comment on a post and then post a link to that comment thread.
- You can quote/link to the original post on your blog, and then write your response in the post.
I think I prefer linking to a comment thread if I want to be part of the same conversation. But if it's something that is a few steps removed from the original post, and also something that I want to start my own conversation on my own blog, I'd use the latter.
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Hotlinking images/Posting images on Dreamwidth
After my post on being petty enough to use Tumblr as my image host I was asked if I could clarify what I was talking about.
Before you read on you should know that hotlinking is considered very impolite at best. It uses the host site's bandwidth which can cost them money and tax its servers. Seriously if you google the word the entire first page is about how to stop people from doing it. I am not trying to order you not to do it, I just don't want you to feel bad later if you started doing it everywhere and later someone told you to stop. If you want more info about it, here is the simplest article I found on the subject.* Now on with the show: I will post how to do this without HTML under the cut, and with in a reply to this post so I don't spam the reading page.(do you guys say flist here? fuck I'm old)
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*gah I feel like I am back on LJ when all fanworks were posted with a paragraph telling people not to sue or flame they knew that Buffy the Vampire Slayer belonged to someone else.
Before you read on you should know that hotlinking is considered very impolite at best. It uses the host site's bandwidth which can cost them money and tax its servers. Seriously if you google the word the entire first page is about how to stop people from doing it. I am not trying to order you not to do it, I just don't want you to feel bad later if you started doing it everywhere and later someone told you to stop. If you want more info about it, here is the simplest article I found on the subject.* Now on with the show: I will post how to do this without HTML under the cut, and with in a reply to this post so I don't spam the reading page.(do you guys say flist here? fuck I'm old)
( without HTML )
*gah I feel like I am back on LJ when all fanworks were posted with a paragraph telling people not to sue or flame they knew that Buffy the Vampire Slayer belonged to someone else.
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testing an idea for reblogging in Dreamwidth
Edit added 1/8/19: please see this post for a better idea (hopefully)
potofsoup:bluewinged_songbird made a post with some helpful html for fancy image alignment! :Dshy_magpie:
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Site wide block!!!
Sorry to post again so soon but have you heard the good news of custom css kill code? You can make jerks disappear! (Or at least never see them again in DW)
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