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Adding Tweets in Wordpress

I've become pretty accustomed to taking screenshots anytime I wanted to talk about something someone posted on Twitter. Of course there's Storify which is cool in its own right, but I can't say that creating a new "story" and searching for tweets,

Touch of Evil: Cinematic Villains

Alex Prager has a series of video portraits on the New York Times that is absolutely haunting and excellent. I love the idea of using a minute or so of film to capture an idea, a portrait, with stunning visuals. It adds a layer of cinematography to a portrait that

Choosing a Text Editor

One of the things I love so far about the P2PU course I'm taking is that it starts at the very basics and forces me to address things that I skipped over when I was self-learning HTML and CSS years ago. One of those tasks was finding the

Writing HTML by Hand

This was the next assignment in the P2PU Webcraft course. I can honestly say I didn't have to much of a struggle with this one. Obviously writing with a pen is difficult. Which slash is correct, forward or back? I only know where the key is on the

Embarking on the P2PU School of Webcraft

I was inspired by Alan Liddell's latest post where he has started working on the P2PU course "School of Webcraft" and thought "Why the hell not?!" You see my experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, etc all stems from a DIY attitude of learning

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