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Scripting News: Friday, April 18, 2025

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Friday, April 18, 2025 Today's song: Pump It Up . # I'm working on a baseline theme for WordLand-authored sites. I want to show people how to get a good result with WordLand, even if they have plenty of experience with WordPress, but especially if they don't. I want people to look at a user's site and think "Hey I want one of those!" Not too fancy, just get out of the way and let the writer's writing stand out and look great. This is a replay of the work we did on Manila and then Radio . I hope we're able to start a designer community as vibrant and productive as the one we had a few years ago. # Everyone has to communicate in plain language, directly to the people. The courts, universities, every institution that the president is defaming. Go direct, go around the media. Start communicating in the language we communicate in these days. Use the tools. The campaign never stops. Then we'll know what we have to do to protect the r...

Scripting News: Thursday, April 17, 2025

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Thursday, April 17, 2025 Watching debates on CNN it's amazing how many arguments would be settled by saying "It's nice you feel that way, but that's not what the Constitution says." # I like that Powell is telling Trump he won't go. I wish Obama had had the guts to say that to McConnell when he wouldn't hold hearings on Garland. "Well if you won't take a vote, we'll take that as consent," says the President. "And you can quote me on that." In a televised event Obama himself would walk Garland over to his office at the Supreme Court and administer the oath and let him take his seat. I don't know about you but I would have felt great about America then. We're finished being such pussycats. # This piece echoes what I've been saying. Twitter was a fine start, in 2006, but today it's clear a lot of its rules and limits were mistakes. 19 years later it's ridiculous that Bluesky and Mastodon repe...

Scripting News: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 WordLand is starting to flow really nicely, and I'm doing more writing there. I have to do this if it's going to be as good a product as it possibly can. The Timeline seems really solid btw, thinking about next steps. Lots of fun products coming soon! # Join a Parade Today . When people talk about What You Can Do on podcasts or on TV, they say lame things that don't work that well. One thing for sure is that when Bernie and Alexandria do a rally in your area, you can go and enjoy the energy. This is a good thing because it gives the TV cameras something to focus on. But here's what I think the best thing to do is. Don't start something, join something. Because two is way more powerful than one, and three is way more powerful than two. When people work together on something good, more people doing it is usually even better. # I want to develop a WordPress theme by iterating as you would when developing an app. I outline...

🔥 (#213) Recursive slots, lonely children, and extracting conditional patterns

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Read this on my blog Hey! This week you can get the Vue Tips Collection hardcover for only $47. That includes free shipping to the US, Canada, and the EU. It's 220 pages, full color, with 118 tips across 7 themed chapters. Syntax, reactivity, patterns, everything you could want. Go here to grab your copy. Of course, I've always got tips for you (and more!) in this email. Have a great week! — Michael 🔥 Recursive slots I decided to see if I could make a v-for component using only the template. Along the way, I discovered how to use slots recursively, too. This is what the component looks like: < !-- VFor.vue --> < template > < div > < !-- Render the first item --> < !-- If we have more items, continue! But leave off the item we just rendered --> < v-for v-if = "list.length > 1" :list = "list.slice(1)" /> ...

Scripting News: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 WordLand 0.5.4 . New feature, the Timeline. "I can imagine there will be a Timeline for news about WordLand, or a Timeline that contains Scripting News posts. A Timeline for all the people you work with, the people you play chess with. Basically it will be possible to have Timelines that correspond to anything that can be represented in RSS. It's possible to imagine a product where the Timeline is the main display and the editor is the one that pops up." # Quick demo of the Timeline in v0.5.4. # Looking for help from people who know how to create WordPress themes. The goal is to create a default theme that works well for WordLand -authored sites. It was suggested I try the Retrospect theme , and it does look quite nice when I switched over the daveverse site to use it. Is it possible to fork a WordPress theme? If so, here's a list of changes I'd like in a new theme. # A few days ago I wrote : ChatGPT is to Google w...

Vue Tips Collection hardcover is just $47 this week!

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Hey, Vue Tips Collection is a set of 118 bite-sized insights for Vue developers, designed to give you practical wins without the fluff. For the next week only (until April 24), I'm offering the hardcover edition for just $47 . It includes free shipping to the US, Canada, and the EU. I've got 58 copies left, and I'm looking to clear out the rest of my inventory. Once these are gone, that's it. I'm not planning to reprint them. This isn't your typical tech book. It's full colour. Beautifully typeset. Printed locally in small batches. 220 pages covering everything from forgotten Vue features to advanced slots, reactivity quirks, patterns, and more. It's something you'll want to keep on your desk or bookshelf. ​ Get the hardcover now. ​ No digital noise. No fluff. Just solid Vue tips you'll actually use. Once they're gone, they're gone. — Michael ​ Unsubscribe | Update your profile | 8 Queen St N, Kitchener, ON ...