Patching TERMINALFOUR Site Manager 8 Direct Edit
Why patch? Unlike WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla!, TERMINALFOUR is very particular about where content appears in a template. The concept of loops is still present, but handled in an unusual manner. You get one main loop, which pulls in all page content marked as the text/html format, and then a predefined set of additional loops […]
A Raspberry Pi clock for your kitchen, and nowhere else
My kitchen was missing something. I’d looked at clocks and artwork, but none of the options were simultaneously affordable and nerdy enough for my liking. What I needed was a way to incorporate my love of thrift store finds and coding into something functional, attractive, and unique that would cause my visitors to be delighted […]
Cross-client MailChimp merge tag anchor links
The organization I work for has always had a nagging problem with their email newsletters: The anchor links forming the table of contents did not actually move the user to their desired story in Gmail. For one newsletter with a comparatively small audience this wasn’t a world-ending issue–almost everyone who opened it was cursed with […]
Scraping Raw CSS and HTML with YQL
For a recent project I needed a way in JavaScript to pull the sources of a remote stylesheet and a remote webpage, each as plain strings. The immediate problems were with cross-origin resource sharing policies (i.e. you can’t simply load an html resource that’s not on your domain or that is not on a server […]