David Shanske

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My day job is in training for an airline. I also develop Indieweb WordPress plugins so that others can take control of their online identity.

Played Ticket to Ride USA – Mega
This is an unprecedented win. I had to check the manual to see what happens. Both yellow and black tied. Which according to the rules, the person who has the most completed tickets wins…which was once again a tie. Which means the longest route wins…which was black.
It is Pi Day again, March 14th or 03-14. While arbitrary, I’d like to take a moment to appreciate the Raspberry Pi, the small single board computer that launched a lot of great hobbyist projects. While it running off a microSD is incredibly frustrating at times, it is really easy way to play with small dedicated computing.

Post Kinds for WordPress 3.5 Released

Post Kinds for WordPress version 3.5.0 has been released…though I had to quickly go back because I forgot to add a PR that was sent in.

There are no fancy features in this version. It is a major version shift because it removes and rewrites several features. Specifically

  • Removes the Kind On This Day Widget, which is now in the new Tempus Fugit plugin.
  • Rewrites the rewrites…all the Kind rewrites are done much much effectively. This includes things like /kind/checking/2020, for example.
  • The media fragment script, which adds the timestamp to the URL when playing a video or audio file, is not enqueued on AMP loads, per a PR received.
  • Uses new features introduced in 5.5 and for which I added compatibility functionality in this plugin to improve the archive page descriptions. I also rewrite and improved what they say for multi-kind archives… /kind/eat, drink or such.

In the previous version, I had added automatic rewrites for /kind/food, which displays both eat and drink, /media for the watch, listen, play, and read posts, and /reaction for bookmark, repost, like, and favorite, allowing you to archive by topic.

I have more tweaks coming in future, but always moving forward.

Tempus Fugit Version 1.0 for WordPress Released

Tempus Fugit, my latest plugin, has been released. It is a split of several time based WordPress enhancements from other projects, something I intend to continue to iterate on.

  • The On This Day Archive pages, available at /onthisday and /onthisday/03/09
  • The On This Day Widget
  • All Date Based Archives now display in order from oldest to newest instead of vice-versa. If you are revisiting a day, it makes sense to do it in order.
  • Ordinal Days or Day of the Year functionality. Not only will /2021/03/09 work, but 2021/068 . You can also make this your permalink if you want.
  • It also adds the top level archives of:
    • /updated to show posts in order of last modified
    • /oldest to show posts in the order from old to new
    • /random to show posts in a random order.

All of these functions use functionality built into WordPress that isn’t normally public. I look forward to adding additional ways to enhance experiencing your website in different ways….because what your website always needs, as the tagline said, is more time.