The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard – Mondo 2000 One of the more bizarre HyperCard Links I’ve collected. HyperCard was a precurser to the first web browser, except chained to a hard drive before the worldwide web. Six years later Mosaic was introduced, influenced by some of the ideas in HyperCard, and indirectly by an inspiring […]
Bookmarked https://maggieappleton.com/programming-portals. Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes Had me at HyperCard The remarkable thing about HyperCard is it gave users an enourmous range of control and flexibility. It came with a high-level, built-in programming language called Hypertalk that let users any edit any element […]
Yesterday I was posting a note about a book and though of a slight visual joke. I needed a bit of css animation added and it seems a bit too much to either have it in the customiser or my child theme. It turns out there is a block for that: Blocks CSS: CSS Editor […]
Listened to & enjoyed Alan’s 2015 talk. He compares WordPress and its approachability, flexibility and extendability with HyperCard. As always interesting & provocative (in the best way). Also HyperCard!
I’ve just read “On Reshaping: Tooling WordPress with nothing other than it’s URLs” by @cogdog. This has given me some thoughts…
Ever since I updated my home Mac to Monterey, OneDrive has been a bit flaky. I updated the app and it has been syncing. But I could not open the app itself or click on it in the menu bar. Attempting to do so grave me a beach ball of doom. Restarting, etc had no […]
I prefer keynote’s simpler interface, but this is a great description of using open ended software in the classroom.
Yesterday I read Alan’s post Right? or Choice? To Repair (or Joy Thereof) #DLINQDigDetox – CogDogBlog. One thing in particular caught my eye: And yes extend broken devices to broken technology. Can’t play old flash content? Try Ruffle. I’d not heard of Ruffle, but I though it was worth a quick try. I searched my […]
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