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I apologize for the clickbait title, but that's just how the internet works these days since it was taken over by corporate interests. This little "trick" (a) is not actually limited to Path of Exile (PoE) from now on and (2) uses AutoHotkey (AHK) to help move some click actions from your mouse to your keyboard. Carpal tunnel ain't got shit on you now, baby!
Keep on readin' on Reduce clicking in Path of Exile by 50% with this one weird trick!⟶
There are two handy querySelector() methods in JS for digging elements out of the DOM for manipulation:
When you're under a turd avalanche there's hardly time to look at any particular turd, figure out what it means, and deal with it. This is the political strategy of "flooding the zone" that Republicans use to great effect whenever they gain sufficient power. This week's deluge of turds has been extra stupid, and now I must rant impotently for a moment.
As a terminally uncreative person, one who's basically never the Idea Guy but more the Idea Implementer Guy, I probably shouldn't be commenting on stuff like this, but here goes nothin'...
I'm not sure why ACF doesn't do this by default as it seems like something of a no-brainer. If a given theme has a color palette set, why wouldn't the user want that palette available in each color picker? Seems like an obvious and easy win to me.
Keep on readin' on Pulling your color palette from theme.json into ACF color pickers⟶
I use Edge periodically for random situations where Firefox, the extensions I use on it, and my personal styles and scripts get in the way of site functionality. For instance, when trying to pay my electric bill each month, the company's website embeds a form hosted by their payment processor. This process doesn't work in Firefox for me. I don't know why, nor do I care enough to try to figure it out, so I switch to Edge and do it there. It ain't worth the hassle for a two-minute task that only happens once a month, you know?
Keep on readin' on 1990 Honda Prelude on Coilovers by Copilot⟶
I previously posted about how to render patterns in your templates using their ID or slug. With WPML involved, things may get a little more complicated.
Keep on readin' on Including Gutenberg patterns with WPML involved⟶
I've been trying unsuccessfully to write this succinctly for a few months now, but each attempt ended up getting annoyingly long. In the interest of getting something out there, I'll have to fall on Wikipedia and AI to get most of the background info out of the way. Even now this post will be long, but imagine it with background details!
Keep on readin' on Do not buy a P320 or other Sig Sauer products⟶
It took me until this week to realize that emoji flags weren't showing up for me on Bluesky when viewed on my PC. You'd think I'd have noticed earlier given the Ukrainian flag in my display name, leaving a small-caps'd "UA" in place of the flag, but I guess I'm just that inattentive.
Keep on readin' on Adding emoji flags to sites where they're in common use⟶
It seems my crappy little unadvertised blog here has finally garnered enough attention from bots to start getting hit with spam. My first step toward world domination has been taken.
Patterns are pretty nice when building a site for a client since they can be reused and inserted easily. If they're not the synced sort, ones that are updated everywhere at once, they can even be inserted and then edited for the needs of a given page or post.
Keep on readin' on Include Gutenberg patterns in your theme templates⟶
RSS ain't dead yet, and some of us weirdos use it to keep track of our favorite YouTube channels. Unfortunately, the default RSS feed is full of junk: littered with Shorts and livestreams (active or past), making it quite annoying to sift through to find the proper videos for which we wanted to "subscribe" in the first place.
This has been possible for years, but it's hard to know everything, you know? That's especially true when the thing you want to use isn't even documented and it's up to your fellow nerds to figure it out.
It's wild that it's taken this long, and it still requires some fussing around by the user to enable the feature (for now), but at least it's here. And with it we can make the smoothest Google declutterer of all! Previous iterations here:
Keep on readin' on Firefox finally supports custom search engines⟶