Creative Productions, Arrangements and Operations • Art, Technology and Amusements. Software Engineer and certified FileMaker Pro developer and full-stack web developer by day, https//www.kupietz.com
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to understand why your wordpress site’s freaking menus display fine when you’re logged in as administrator but are completely broken…
Looking around the site, you might get the hint that I’m a big fan of <details class=”detailsClassName”><summary>blah blah blah</summary> even more blah blah blah</details> disclosure elements. For those unfamiliar, that’s…
Strung across this page are pure CSS interactive Christmas lights. You can slowly move your mouse across them to jostle them and they’re move, all without any javascript. The twisty…
I suffer from that paradoxical form of laziness peculiar to computer geeks where I will save myself save myself 15 minutes of work on something by spending 4 hours creating…
On this site’s Music Reviews page (itself built on-the-fly by a shortcode that sorts and displays posts from a “Music Review” custom post type), most of the reviews are accompanied…
Back in the bad old days, there was an HTML tag called <blink>. It did this, which everybody hated, because it was annoying, and everybody’s web pages looked like this:…
Hot off the presses. Direct from my Github, a MacOS BASH script to allow customized per-mailbox notifications in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Following is the README containing full information…
One of my favorite bits of code I’ve ever done is on the front page of my jiggy, ancient, perpetually-under-construction, virtually-never-viewed old personal website, Life In A Mikeycosm. Eager to…
For a few years I was in cryptocurrency trading. Eventually, this led me to the wild west of decentralized finance tokens (“DeFi”), an exciting area that I feel has strong…
On my IT consulting business site, I’m using a php script I’ve written to generate on-the-fly random email addresses specific to the browsing session looking at the site. So, I…
Here’s a fairly old repost from my consulting site, where it got no traction whatsoever. The Bad Statements Detector is a specialized search tool designed to aid in online research…
On this site, any post without a featured image specifically set (such as this one) displays the default floral ‘K’ insignia anywhere on the site where a thumbnail is displayed.…
Add tagCLass parameter to all necessary downstream functions from get_site_changes_log_shortcode to add .blacktext to category links in site change log so proper link hover styles are observed
Set so site title is H1 on front page, h2 on all other pages so article titles are main h1
2025jan9
Change sinatra_entry_meta_category so doesn’t display span.heroclassicon at all if $showicon is off. Before was just omitting $iconclass string.
update default K thumbnail to red
2025jan7
update mk caching functions to use wp_cache_set and wp_cache_get instead of transients and remove $is_running transient performance kludges from mk sinatra additions since its now faster
2025jan1
Update caching to store last updated date and data in one transient instead of making two calls
2024dec26
testing
Updated mk dev log not to use admin_init, just ajax, to prevent dupe entries
Make fromblog shortcode links nofollow
Mike Kupietz, your humble proprietor, serving these electrons to you steaming hot from a server in the heart of San Francisco, right where the American dream rises out of the Pacific as a moist, gray fog and ascends to Heaven in a cacophony of poetry, acid rock and sarcasm.
This site brought to you by four months flat on my back in summer 2023 due to long covid, plus a whole lot of additional lovin' sweat & frustration since then. Per aspera, ad astra.
