A salvage of residual value might still be possible, and a rescue or turnaround remains conceivable even now, but I would not be surprised if by this time next year there is no “Ordinary Times.”
Developing Ordinary Times
Scrap It and Start Over
A failure presents a limited range of options: scrap, salvage, or repair. Though it feels like we’ve done this before, let’s try “repair” one more time. Why? The site makes no sense as an enterprise – decreasingly as any kind…
Posted in Developing Ordinary Times, Internet
Ordinary Fonts (Updated)
These are all free fonts, mostly from Google Fonts (hardly the only foundry, but free and highly functional, and easy to use). I’ve also thrown in a few “web safe fonts” – fonts everyone has and a lot of people still use – so don’t be embarrassed if you find yourself liking the most generic font there is, the one you just got through saying you never wanted to see again.
How to Make a (Basic) Ground Lizard Chili (Blogs in the Social Media Epoch)
Posted in Developing Ordinary Times, Meta, Ordinary Times Tagged with: Blogging, Buzzfeed, clickbait, Social Media
Open Thread (Testing New New Comments New Since Last Visit Reloaded, Reloaded, Augmented)
Everything you know is wrong, and everything you like is evil and harmful. Did you see that thing? What a thing that thing is! America is pretty great. America is pretty bad. [ ] are pathetic, but you – you’re pretty darn terrific. Commenting on blogs is a complete waste of time. Everyone should support web developers financially to the very limit of ability to pay. RTod was right about something. This thing is/isn’t working.
Posted in Developing Ordinary Times, Ordinary Times, WordPress Plug-Ins Tagged with: Comments New Since Last Visit, Wordpress
The Snake Is Implemented
Comment Snaking? The Unbounded Snake? WordPress Comments Ouroborosified? Still haven’t hit upon the just-right name, but she is here – the comment thread version of Santanico Pandemonium.
WordPress Comment Nesting Unbound
Posted in Developing Ordinary Times, Ordinary Times, WordPress Plug-Ins Tagged with: Wordpress Plugins
Comments Since Last Visit, Reloaded, Augmented, Installed, In Two Steps
Comments Since Last Visit Highlighting (Thread-Specific) – Preserve As-New Formatting for Limited Time – Show Number of New Comments – Go To New Comments – Scroll Through New Comments – Show New Comments Only – Sort Ascending/Descending – Mark All Read (Start New Session)