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Scripting News: Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Today Automattic announced that they're converting Tumblr , which they acquired in 2019 , to run on WordPress as its foundation. This could get a simple colorful user-friendly interface for WordPress, something it's needed for a long time. WordPress does everything in its UI, Tumblr has its UI better organized for writers and more casual users. If they can move in this direction, it seems that WordPress could be large part of the emerging social web . # An idea for the Harris campaign. Let me buy some swag and have it sent to 10 of my best friends, esp ones who live in swing states. Plus you get the names and contact info for people at least one of your supporters thought would be a potential Harris voter. I'd send something less presumptuous like When We Fight We Win stickers. Another related idea, let me buy a whole set of promotional materials, kind of like the gift baskets they sell at Zabar's . # Note to the Harris c

🔥 (#180) Self-healing URLs

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Hey all! I'm finally selling the hardcover of Vue Tips Collection 2 again! It's also a great price —  $77 with shipping included, until Friday . Get the hardcover of Vue Tips Collection 2 here We've also got a new podcast and tips. I've also got a short newsletter-only riff on self-healing URLs. Let me know if you're liking this new format! Have a great week, — Michael 📝 Self Healing URLs Recently, I've been thinking about self-healing URLs. It's a pretty cool concept, but I have yet to implement it in any project. A lot of the time we need to stick an id or some sort of unique hash into our URL. But this isn't exactly a great user experience — the hash isn't human readable or descriptive, and hashes don't exactly help your SEO. However, we need some sort of unique hash or id. If we just use the title of the blog post, for example, what happens when we update that title? /my-great-article/ -> /my-awesome-art