One thing I don't need first thing in the morning or last thing at night is to be visually accosted by emails that include absurdly-colored elements. A couple of the newsletters I subscribe to use ridiculous shades of red-orange, and with my gaming PC and its contrasty gaming monitor and some slightly boosted digital vibrance to make colors pop a bit, scrolling through these newsletters can physically hurt.
Author: chairmanbrando
Reduce clicking in Path of Exile by 50% with this one weird trick!
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!
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querySelector() gotchas
There are two handy querySelector() methods in JS for digging elements out of the DOM for manipulation:
Are we great again yet?
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.
When redoing a song goes wrong
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'...
Pulling your color palette from theme.json into ACF color pickers
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.
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1990 Honda Prelude on Coilovers by Copilot
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?
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Including Gutenberg patterns with WPML involved
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.
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Do not buy a P320 or other Sig Sauer products
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!
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Adding emoji flags to sites where they're in common use
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.
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