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March 30th, 2024


TAILWINDCSS

I started poking around the Scribbles page source on my site, and I've
discovered Vincent is using the TailwindCSS framework. I've heard it mentioned a
time or two in the past, but never looked at it.

I just did, and dang... I'm blown away by the possibilities. Another shiny
object added to the list of things to learn.

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March 30th, 2024


DIGITAL SPRING CLEANING

I've spent the last few days cleaning up all the cruft on my MacBook Air M1 in
anticipation of my new fully spec'd M3 model arriving so I can take a full
backup to be sure I don't lose anything important.

I was surprised to see how much junk I let accumulate in folders buried deep in
places I'd forgotten about over the last few years. It netted me more than 5GB
of disk space recovered.

I like to start fresh with a new machine, installing apps and files that I need
at the moment, pulled from a backup, rather than moving everything from the old
machine to the new. It may take a little extra time up front, but it's worth it
in the long run.

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March 27th, 2024


THE ODIN PROJECT

I found what looks to be a decent free Ruby on Rails and JavaScript full stack
learning course with the Odin Project. I think this is a good place to start
right now.

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March 25th, 2024


A NEW CHALLENGE

I think I'm up for a new challenge, so the plan is to dip my toes into the Ruby
on Rails pool. I messed around with it once 15 (or more) years ago, but never
gave it a lot of effort.

Any good resources shared are greatly appreciated.

Wish me luck.

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March 12th, 2024


BASIC COPYRIGHT WORDPRESS PLUGIN

My Basic Copyright WordPress plugin was approved today. I'll be committing it to
the repository this evening or tomorrow. It's nothing special, though I do have
plans to grow it over time.

The gist of what the plugin does is it inserts a copyright notice via short code
where ever you want to place it. If you have posts that span many years, it'll
insert something like:


© 2000 - 2024 Your Blog Title

If your posts are all in the current year, it just displays the current year,
something like:

© 2024 Your Blog Title

I'll grow its features over time, but this is something I've wanted to get out
there for a really long time.

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March 7th, 2024


THAT WASN'T SO HARD...

Well... It took all of 30 minutes to enable the option to not track WordPress
admin Tinylytics hits if they're logged into their site. Easy-peasy when I got
down to it.

Next up is the custom public stats label. I've also completed the custom public
stats label work. I expect to release an update by the weekend, if not sooner.

Thanks go to Vincent for sharing his prior experience and knowledge on the
topic. 🎉

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March 7th, 2024


NEXT TINYLYTICS FOR WORDPRESS FEATURES

I'm thinking on the next Tinylytics for WordPress features I'd like to add to
the plugin. Here's what I have so far...



 1. Allowing site admin to set a custom text value for the public stats link.
    Currently it defaults to "My Stats" when show public stats are enabled in
    the plugin. I'd like people to be able to set what they prefer as link text.
    This would be added to the Micro.blog plugin as well. Effort: easy
 2. Adding an option to let users decide if their own hits when they are logged
    in as an admin for their WordPress site -- basically session tracking. This
    would save having to manually set the local storage "ti=true" parameter
    value to stop tracking. Effort: moderate

What other features would be nice to have?

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March 5th, 2024


TINYLYTICS FOR WORDPRESS

Tinylytics for WordPress continues to slowly gain users. Anywhere from 2 to 5
people download it each day, which is encouraging. Still no donations or reviews
yet though. 😞



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January 21st, 2024


NEXT WORDPRESS PLUGIN

I have an idea for another WordPress plugin now that I've wrapped up work on my
first. This one will be a shortcode to easily add dynamic copyright info in the
footer of a page, based on code I already use in my own WordPress site's
functions.php file.

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January 10th, 2024


INITIAL THOUGHTS

Giving Scribbles a try… this could be a great place for random thoughts or
musings I don’t want too put on my Micro.blog timeline.

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Um... Always check the spelling of the domain you're buying, because, well,
yeah... Let's just say I've bought two domains today. 🤣

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