Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/27
A while ago [Archive.is] Adam Jacob on Twitter: “Let’s say nice things about technology today. I’ll start. If it wasn’t for @lkanies and @puppetize, there is no way we would have been able to adapt as an industry to the rise of the cloud. Quote tweet me with your own.” sparked some interesting threads.
First posts are below; click on them to see the full threads.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/14
[Wayback] How to view the html page source of a website in Safari – Macintosh How To
You can enable the extra menu in Safari by selecting ‘Preferences’ under Safari in the OS X menu bar and then under the ‘Advanced’ pane select the checkbox that says ‘Show Develop menu in menu bar.’
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This is the option you need:
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MacOS – Safari – Show Develop menu in menu bar
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/05
I’ve written about link rot quite a few times (it even has a category on my blog).
Preventing it is important, as it improves user experience.
For most users this is an unconscious thing when it works and becomes consciously annoying when it fails.
Some user groups are vocal enough to force you to fix link rot after the fact, causing brand reputation damage.
One good example was last year: [Wayback] Users condemn Microsoft for removing KB IDs from some bug documentation | Computerworld.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/01
Every site should present this as a captcha today.
Via [WayBack] Mumen Rusto on Twitter: “Ceci n’est pas une Captcha.… “
The captcha is by [WayBack] Senior Oops Engineer on Twitter: “Captcha: select all squares that contain a pipe Magritte: 😓”.
He posted it about 2 years ago as [WayBack] Senior Oops Engineer on Twitter: “oh fuck oh no… “.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/29
A while ago, WordPress.com heavily started to de-emphasise the Classic Editor in order to boost the Gutenberg editor which is bloaty (in both browser DOM usage heavily slowing down editing), content (lots of meta tags that are added to blog source) and missing features (especially nesting of blocks often breaks things).
With 7000+ blog posts in the Classic Editor format (a few in still supported markdown format: that experiment failed horribly!) that still require editing (especially because of link rot)
So here is the Bookmarklet code to switch back an editing URL that you can use for as long as the Classic Editor is there:
javascript:location.href=document.location.href+'&classic-editor';
Yup, it is that simple: it appends &classic-editor to the URL.
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