3 posts tagged ‘Code’
MDN’s rogue definitions of <b> and <i>
From 1993 through roughly 2008, the <b> and <i> tags in HTML meant “bold” and “italic,” respectively. Using those tags will still, in 2023, cause most (all?) browsers to render text with either a bold font weight or an italic font style, but the tags no longer “mean” that. It’s now more correct to consider […]
How to get Jetpack’s “Writing Prompts” in WordPress
The WordPress Jetpack plugin recently (and experimentally) added “Writing Prompts” like those seen on WordPress.com-hosted sites since…I wanna say 2020? I’ve been thinking about getting more into “Personal Blogging” elsewhere, and I figured these would be useful in getting words out. In order to get these prompts on a self-hosted WordPress site, you need to […]
Generating editor snippets from SassDoc
I’ve always loved SassDoc, and I’ve always loved editor snippets, but as a Vim and Neosnippets user, (a) other people’s (VSCode) snippets weren’t useful to me, and (b) my (Neosnippet) snippets weren’t useful to anybody else. At some point it would be great to build a tool that can convert snippets of one format to […]