River Writes - A MediaWiki Blog

Mouse Gestures (the useful ones)

📅 Oct 12, 2021 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River

#firefox

A spiritual follow-up to my "MediaWiki hotkeys (the useful ones)" post, this time I go over my Firefox Gesturefy bindings and what I use them for when working with MediaWiki.

Book review - Free to All

📅 Oct 12, 2021 · ☕ 11 min read · ✍️ River

#books

A review and chapter summaries of "Free to All: Carnegie Libraries & American Culture, 1890-1920"

I stored a boolean instead of a timestamp

📅 Oct 5, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River

#cargo · #best_practices

A Cargo field I was going to store as a timestamp but decided to store as a boolean instead

Book review - Celebration, U.S.A.

📅 Oct 5, 2021 · ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River

#books

A review of "Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town"

Book review - Library as Place

📅 Sep 22, 2021 · ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River

#books

A review of "The Library as Place: History, Community, and Culture"

MediaWiki hotkeys (the useful ones)

📅 Sep 14, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki

A list of just the useful hotkeys/access keys in MediaWiki

Book review & notes - Looking for Information

📅 Sep 7, 2021 · ☕ 17 min read · ✍️ River

#books

A review of, including chapter-by-chapter notes on, "Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior"

Book review - Strategic Writing for UX

📅 Aug 31, 2021 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River

#books

A review of "Strategic Writing for UX"

Gadget - Copy search results

📅 Aug 26, 2021 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River

#gadget_tools

Similar to the copy category members gadget, but for search results - and more!

Book review - Writing and Designing Manuals and Warnings

📅 Aug 17, 2021 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River

#books

A review of "Writing and Designing Manuals and Warnings, Fifth Edition"

Bracket zoom bug

📅 Aug 15, 2021 · ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River

#css

A quick CSS bugfix that was particularly satisfying - and interesting!

Windows update made my mouse stop working

📅 Aug 14, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River

#windows

Windows update made my mouse stop working. It turned out to be a problem with my USB ports.

Gadget - Copy category members

📅 Aug 10, 2021 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River

#gadget_tools · #javascript

A gadget to copy all members of a category