How to use Dev Tools
· ☕ 17 min read · ✍️ River
Learn how to edit CSS interactively
Surfaces with pentominoes
· ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River
Embedding a grid on a surface doesn't really work, but we can approximate.
Serialization woes
· ☕ 26 min read · ✍️ River
My journey of encoding pentominoes on surfaces into permalinks
I don't like infoboxes - EMWCon 2023
· ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River
I attended EMWCon 2023 remotely again in 2023 and finally gave the presentation everyone has been waiting for: I don't like infoboxes.
List-type fields, for realsies
· ☕ 12 min read · ✍️ River
What are list-type fields? What *aren't* they? How do I query them?
Mediawiker 3.6.14
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
SublimeText extension Mediawiker 3.6.14 release update, plus some bonuses
Book review - Everybody Writes
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
"Everybody Writes" was deeply disappointing to me because it wasn't the book I wanted to read. That said, I think it can be a valuable resource for people who want an introductory and accessible writing book.
How I found four marketing books
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
Subtitle: I dropped my keys - no, I mean bouncy balls - no, I mean information - in the light and learned to stop looking for it in the dark: An information-seeking parable
Paste a transparent-background image with PIL
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
How to paste a transparent-background image file over another file using PIL, or WTF is a mask and how does it work?
Fandom update
· ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ River
An update on my time with Leaguepedia.
Book review - Recoding Gender
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
A review of the book "Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing"
Lua Branches
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River
Lua Branches is a prototype/proof-of-concept MediaWiki extension for making branches of Lua modules & their dependency chains.
Live I18n
· ☕ 7 min read · ✍️ River
I wrote my second-ever MediaWiki extension! Easily translate interface & navigational elements using a dedicated parser function, with native Lua support.