A year with Facebook by Nitin Khanna (nitinkhanna.com) All this stopped on August 1st. The declaration came in the form of a blog post by Facebook on their developer portal on April 24th. It was hidden between a bunch of other deprecated APIs, which I’m sure broke a lot of other things for other people. Most of my traffic in the past has come from Facebook. Back before Facebook deprecated the API, my photography posts would be automatically cross-posted to…
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Some thoughts on WordPress 5 and Gutenberg by Nitin Khanna (Nitin Khanna) edit: Gutenberg is NOT a happy camper on the Mac. I can move the central edit column horizontally in a not-so-good way. Separately, the dropcap paragraph, when it moves into edit mode, removes the dropcap in a very ugly way. That's bad news. But .. maybe not. I dislike Gutenberg. NOTE: Another webmention sent via the IndieWeb Webmention plugin. Did it work?…
Some thoughts on WordPress 5 and Gutenberg by Nitin Khanna (Nitin Khanna) I really like Unsplash for pictures now. It’s not always on point, but there are some gorgeous pics out there! The Instant Images plugin is also nice – it doesn’t play with Gutenberg, but it sits outside and so it’s easy to add an image and then come to Gutenberg on an already open post and just click on the image block to pull the latest images. That…
The Original iPad mini and Apple’s fluid vision by Nitin Khanna (Nitin Khanna) It seems like Steve Jobs and Apple understood that you can’t place things too close inside the screen, but forgot that you can’t place the screen and the edge too close either, because it’ll cause hours of headaches by unwanted swipes, taps, and hard pressed. The Apple of today thinks bezels are bad and it is wrong. Steve Jobs might have said the above, but he’s also…
Thoughts on Simpleism by Nitin Khanna Is simpleism compatible at a societal level? Based on the definition my answer would be no. Europe only barely managed to survive the simpleism (ignorance is blessed) period of history called the Dark Ages. Rome had fallen and so had European intelligence. Ignorance and authoritarianism prospered. Europe only came out of that awful period and entered a period of enlightenment after Muslims (Moors) had established a colony in Iberia (Spain/Portugal) and brought with them…
