BBFWLLT is a family joke/story. When my Mom asked what I wanted for a gift (singular), my little kid brain produced a clever strategy to get more out of the deal. I would ask for a “Big Box Full of a Whole Lotta Little Toys.” This feels like the perfect metaphor for the latest version […]
Widgets and little add ons are great for your web site. But know that when they depend on connecting to an outside server, and no one answers… well your site might be toast. Being an organization that sets up online events for people around the world, for Virtually Connecting, a key aid is setting up […]
The Form/Sheet architecture is more dynamic than you may think, once you crack open the lid on Google Scripts. I’ve long seen the creative things Martin Hawksey and Tom Woodward (and plenty of others) have done with Google Scripts. It’s been on a list of “one day I will learn some of this” for, well […]
Building collections of resources is among the oldest things to build on the web (and definitely before that). Heck, I made a “Bag of URLs” for this that ran for like 10 years. My first week on the job in 1992 as a green horned instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges I heard first […]
A classy and inspiring example how to be someone of high reputation yet very down to earth in social media… It might be 10 years ago that I was fortunate to take a photography workshop co-lead by famous professional photographer Bill Frakes. Much came of the experience- I got back into using my DSLR after […]
Never think you are sooooo on top of your code game… Within hours of posting of the features in the updated DS106 Bank theme, including using WordPress accounts for organizing content and sharing the link to a demo site, BAM! SPAM! Not so shiny. So in the theme options allowing WordPress accounts to be used, […]
I’ve been deep in the code tunnels rebuilding and adding to maybe my most complex WordPress theme, the one that let’s anyone build something like the original DS106 Assignment Bank. My blog machine spits out a long list of posts on this effort, and indicates it goes back to August 2013, so while it pre-dates […]
I have a button in my truck that no longer works. I have the full knowledge of how to use it, have done so often, but really have no clue what really goes on under the hood when I click it. That goes for interface buttons too. And that’s design, no matter how complex things […]
But then again, no one else remembered… does that make it right? I had a good enough clue this week when Tom Woodward tweeted: That ancient tweet? Well something pivotal for me happened October 28, 2014: Five years later, I am playing with the hated acronym. If you want the scoop, see the quasi-official origin […]
While the tech choruses croon on about scale and AI and datadatadata, I prefer the long tail. Looking in the corners of digital stuff I marvel when you find small signs of quirky human presence. Like web messages you only see when you View Source. Or when you google recursion; and this new surprise search […]
