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embedding javascript in wordpress posts
One thing I recently heard for the first time (because I’m not really all that immersed in the current world of WordPress development) is that the Gutenberg block system that new versions of WordPress use is implemented in JavaScript. And it would appear that all the client-side work on WordPress is in JavaScript where possible.…
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What is json, we begin
In the first epoch of my professional life, we scraped along without JSON files. So, while I knew that package.json was a file that kept cropping up in node.js, I wasn’t really clear on “what is JSON?” thing was all about, or even what the acronym stood for. So, OK, it stands for JavaScript Object…
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A play.js detour
Even in this age of contagion, I had a situation where it really made sense to fly out on a morning and back that evening. I decided to take the iPad instead of the notebook, and while I was at it, I decided to take a look at what the possibilities for coding on iPad…
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An early agenda
The past two years I’ve operated from the web site over at EmergingTechInsight.com. That was the web domain I hastily grabbed as I was exiting an editorial job I’d for a few years. Basically I needed a work address for future email to go to. When I worked with clients (which was what I proceeded…
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Hello, world!
What a brilliant thing it was to come up with “hello, world!”, which I think can be attributed to Brian Kernighan. He used the phrase in an example program internal to his lab in 1974, then he and Ritchie put it on the world map in 1978 with their introduction to the C computer language.…
