https://river.me/2021/ RheingoldRiver's blog - MediaWiki development, Leaguepedia stories, and productivity hacks Hugo -- gohugo.io en ©2020-2026, All Rights Reserved Wed, 29 Dec 2021 08:20:41 +0000 https://river.me/blog/book-review-foundations-lis/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 08:20:41 +0000 Wed, 29 Dec 2021 08:20:41 +0000 https://river.me/blog/book-review-foundations-lis/ A review of “Foundations of Library and Information Science” river books https://river.me/blog/find-namespace-number/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:28:29 +0000 Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:28:29 +0000 https://river.me/blog/find-namespace-number/ Here’s how you can find the number of a particular namespace river mediawiki https://river.me/blog/lot-of-sandbox-pages/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:41:34 +0000 Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:41:34 +0000 https://river.me/blog/lot-of-sandbox-pages/ Instead of putting all of your code experiments on a single page, make lots of little sandbox pages! river best_practices mediawiki https://river.me/blog/how-to-readthedocs/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:54:37 +0000 Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:54:37 +0000 https://river.me/blog/how-to-readthedocs/ A tutorial for configuring Sphinx for Read the Docs for your Python projects river python sphinx https://river.me/blog/mwcleric/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 06:21:26 +0000 Wed, 24 Nov 2021 06:21:26 +0000 https://river.me/blog/mwcleric/ An overview of mwcleric river news python https://river.me/blog/book-review-elements-user-experience/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:17:38 +0000 Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:17:38 +0000 https://river.me/blog/book-review-elements-user-experience/ A review of “The Elements of User Experience” river books https://river.me/blog/mouse-gestures/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 05:06:54 +0000 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 05:06:54 +0000 https://river.me/blog/mouse-gestures/ My Gesturefy bindings in Firefox and how I use them when working with MediaWiki river firefox https://river.me/blog/book-review-free-to-all/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:26:12 +0000 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 04:26:12 +0000 https://river.me/blog/book-review-free-to-all/ A review and chapter summaries of “Free to All: Carnegie Libraries & American Culture, 1890-1920” river books https://river.me/blog/boolean-instead-of-timestamp/ Tue, 05 Oct 2021 01:16:32 +0000 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 01:16:32 +0000 https://river.me/blog/boolean-instead-of-timestamp/ A Cargo field I was going to store as a timestamp but decided to store as a boolean instead river cargo best_practices https://river.me/blog/book-review-celebration-usa/ Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:49:11 +0000 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:49:11 +0000 https://river.me/blog/book-review-celebration-usa/ A review of “Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney’s Brave New Town” river books https://river.me/blog/book-review-library-as-place/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:07:18 +0000 Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:07:18 +0000 https://river.me/blog/book-review-library-as-place/ A review of “The Library as Place: History, Community, and Culture” river books https://river.me/blog/mediawiki-hotkeys-useful/ Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:15:21 +0000 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:15:21 +0000 https://river.me/blog/mediawiki-hotkeys-useful/ A list of just the useful hotkeys/access keys in MediaWiki river mediawiki https://river.me/blog/book-review-looking-for-information/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 20:33:43 +0000 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 20:33:43 +0000 https://river.me/blog/book-review-looking-for-information/ A review of, including chapter-by-chapter notes on, “Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior” river books https://river.me/blog/book-review-strategic-writing-ux/ Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:50:07 +0000 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:50:07 +0000 https://river.me/blog/book-review-strategic-writing-ux/ A review of “Strategic Writing for UX” river books https://river.me/blog/copy-search/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:33:46 +0000 Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:33:46 +0000 https://river.me/blog/copy-search/ Similar to the copy category members gadget, but for search results - and more! river gadget_tools https://river.me/blog/book-review-writing-designing-manuals-warnings/ Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:44:26 +0000 Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:44:26 +0000 https://river.me/blog/book-review-writing-designing-manuals-warnings/ A review of “Writing and Designing Manuals and Warnings, Fifth Edition” river books https://river.me/blog/bracket-zoom-bug/ Sun, 15 Aug 2021 21:16:24 +0000 Sun, 15 Aug 2021 21:16:24 +0000 https://river.me/blog/bracket-zoom-bug/ A quick CSS bugfix that was particularly satisfying - and interesting! river css https://river.me/blog/copy-category-members/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:13:09 +0000 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:13:09 +0000 https://river.me/blog/copy-category-members/ A gadget to copy all members of a category river gadget_tools javascript https://river.me/blog/frame-wtf/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:46:02 +0000 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:46:02 +0000 https://river.me/blog/frame-wtf/ Frame objects in Scribunto can be confusing, and they do a lot of work. 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As usual, it was a pretty arduous process, so let’s document what I did to make it suck less next time! river windows vscode https://river.me/blog/customlogs-use-cases/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:33:50 +0000 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:33:50 +0000 https://river.me/blog/customlogs-use-cases/ Use cases for my extension CustomLogs river caching javascript leaguepedia python mediawiki_extensions https://river.me/blog/escape-item-id/ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:59:37 +0000 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:59:37 +0000 https://river.me/blog/escape-item-id/ A funny commit I made today river cargo leaguepedia python https://river.me/blog/listgrouprights-css/ Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:43:00 +0000 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:43:00 +0000 https://river.me/blog/listgrouprights-css/ A couple lines of CSS to improve the user experience of Special:ListGroupRights river gadget_tools css firefox https://river.me/blog/books-in-2019/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:59:57 +0000 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 05:59:57 +0000 https://river.me/blog/books-in-2019/ A list of books I read in 2019 river books https://river.me/blog/books-in-2020/ Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:18:30 +0000 Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:18:30 +0000 https://river.me/blog/books-in-2020/ A list of books I read in 2020 river books https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 07:08:07 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 07:08:07 +0000 https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/ Firefox is considering removing bookmark keywords. 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