David Shanske

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.