iPadOS text selection keyboard shortcuts

iPadOS and MacOS provide all sorts of keyboard shortcuts for text selection. Here’s a list of the built-in ones, all in one place.

How to use Jekyll Picture Tag or any Jekyll plugin with GitHub Pages

Host your website with GitHub Pages. Use whatever Jekyll plugins you like — even fancy ones that Pages doesn’t support. The secret: build and deploy your Jekyll website with GitHub Actions. Here’s how.

Who are we building for anyway?

Chelsea Troy has brilliant advice for product development teams. Serving folks at the margins tends to produce something that’s better for everybody — and it can lead to breakthroughs.

Jonathan Albright investigates the pandemic app ecosystem

He finds data collection and Google frameworks in many iOS COVID-19 apps.

Drupal Multisite Without Code

Just because you can create customize functionality in your Drupal site, that doesn’t mean you need to. Come see how SGIA.org transformed their web presence by coloring within the lines. Not only did they build three websites on one installation and incorporate commerce functionality, they also created an online experience dedicated to ensuring their audience can find the rich and useful content they offer.

Drupal is Legos for Websites

Maybe we’ve recommended building your website with Drupal, the content management system (CMS). Perhaps you’ve heard how the White House and Congress and Sony Music (and many, many others) use Drupal for their public websites.

What I learned from ripping 16,000 articles from PDF into Drupal

First off, Drupal is made for lots of content – 16,000 articles is no problem. Taxonomy, views, search – so much of what you need for handling big content is baked into the Drupal platform. Add Apache Solr for faceted search, and you have a scalable, flexible web publishing platform.

How to Include FriendFeed Comments via Javascript

FriendFeed provides a super API for getting access to posts and doing things like creating likes or comments. Those that don’t require a login, search or display of posts, can be done in JavaScript.