Programming
17. February 2023 / 29. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
The smaller the screen, the greater the risk that long words destroy the reading image. Without hyphenation, it becomes choppy or fizzy on smartphones. If a bootScore-based site — according to Responsive Design — wants to maintain readability by rearranging the text elements, then it cannot do that without automated hyphenation.
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Deeper nested menus are displayed depending on the size of the device. Stacked submenus on larger screens are unfriendly for the reader. People stumble over what’s underneath. So let us soften the stacking a bit.
16. February 2023 / 29. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Exactly. After I crawled into the topic, I decided against it. Following Adenauer’s aphorism, What do I care about my gossip of yesterday!
Programming Tooling
14. February 2023 / 10. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
In my ‘previous’ WordPlus life, I was rather sloppy with my menus. Let’s first agree on what we are talking about: WordPress knows keywords and categories. Now we also need a name for the entries in nested menus, which themselves still have sub-entries. They can be regarded as categories, too — because of their grouping […]
11. February 2023 / 29. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Like Bootstrap, BootScore only knows menus with a depth of 2. Bootstrap because it wants to in principle. BootScore because it follows its base as strictly as possible. Level 0 entries are listed horizontally in the header, and the corresponding level 1 entries are listed vertically below. Thus, the top-level entries group the entries below […]
9. February 2023 / 9. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Maintaining a WordPress-based site often means working with two instances — one for development and one for production. Both have their own domain, a specific URL, used to link one site element to another. Manually or automatically. This implies that a woman has to replace this URL prefix with the other one in all places […]
Compliance
7. February 2023 / 18. April 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
In the European legal area, exploitation rights inherently belong to the author of a work. She does not have to do anything else. In the American legal area, things are different. There, every work falls into the ‘public domain’ by default. Only when the author actively claims her ‘copyright’, the work belongs to her.
Tooling
6. February 2023 / 10. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Yesterday I was asked to document the transition from the pure, simple bootScore site to a fancy one. The latest version alone would not visualize its predecessors. True! To solve that issue, I should integrate a slider showing them as a series of images. And indeed, doing so would also be an opportunity to evaluate […]
5. February 2023 / 29. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
I had set up my old site, fodina.de bilingual. With the help of WP-Globus. As nice as this worked for years, at last WP-Globus got lost. Thoroughly! When I edited the German text, it made the English disappear. And vice versa. Something like that shall not happen to me again. The restoration was complex and […]
4. February 2023 / 10. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
A footer is an area for more off-beat references. They are more offside insofar as our readers expect to get access to what they came for — directly after a page is loaded, directly on top of it. At the bottom — where they first have to scroll — they are looking for minor aspects. […]
Compliance Programming Tooling
4. February 2023 / 29. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
What is important is in the eye of the beholder. A lawyer would perhaps include the imprint, the image credits, or the data protection concept. And not to forget: the open source compliance artifacts. The reader, on the other hand, would see it differently! She wants content. Entertainment. Real ‘content’. Not this legal gobbledygook.
30. January 2023 / 10. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Search engines don’t like gossipy key wording, but they love well-filled sitemaps. But they detest broken links.
29. January 2023 / 23. April 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Somewhat frustrated , I have to add that embedding ‘own’ HTML code into a WordPress/Gutenberg block via ‘Edit as HTML’ occasionally destroys the type and content of the block : If the code is suspect to the Gutenberg editor, it replaces the work already done with an empty HTML block . Annoying if you just […]
29. January 2023 / 10. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
SEO encompasses a lot. One means of Search Engine Optimization is the semantic tagging of sections, which became possible with HTML5. bootScore is very well positioned here.
28. January 2023 / 10. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
The form of my scope list convinced me to talk about Font Awesome Icons and custom CSS classes in bootScore, first. A pure HTML list is ugly, in my case: downright unreadable. No amount of rewording or restructuring helped. Shortening it was not an option either. It should continue to function as a complete scope […]
25. January 2023 / 28. April 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
That I would have to give up YAML-CSS had quickly become clear to me at the beginning of the year. What I should replace it with, not. I wanted to stay with WordPress. And to recycle my old content. So, all I had to do was to replace the theme. Theoretically!
25. January 2023 / 15. May 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Recently I wrote about the ‘expiring’ editor Atom. Now I’ve stumbled upon another dead horse in my stable: YAML CSS. That has nothing to do with YAML ain’t Markup Language. It’s a modular CSS framework for truly responsive websites. For years, it served me faithfully, first in Typo3, then on WordPress. And now?
12. December 2022 / 15. May 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
The Atom page says: “Atom and all repositories under Atom will be archived on December 15, 2022″. The “hackable text editor for the 21st Century”, developed by GitHub — “[…] had not had significant feature development for the past several years” and that GitHub has therefore “[…] decided to retire Atom” in favor for “Microsoft […]
11. July 2022 / 15. May 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
For 6 years, the Bitkom Open Source Guide 2.0 was a tutorial for the appropriate use of open-source software. It was a benchmark for German companies. But it has aged over time, naturally. Good that Bitkom and its ‘Open Source’ working group have taken up the topic again: In June 2022, there was officially released […]
11. July 2022 / 25. January 2023 by Karsten Reincke | 8 Comments on Frescobaldi on Ubuntu 22.04: with pip or apt
Under Ubuntu 22.04, Frescobaldi starts with an error: The area for displaying the music sheets says that Frescobaldi unexpectedly passes an argument of the type float to a function in qpageview /highlight.py respectively qpageview/shadow.py. Now, the user can ‘google’ for the cause — or read the following lines
6. July 2022 / 25. January 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
After having updated to Ubuntu 22.04, I recently wanted to reactivate my music work environment. But when I installed Musescore‑3 and let it play my music score, I got an ugly mess of background noises. And I could not add any soundfont. Obviously, I faced two obstacles that I had to overcome
24. April 2022 / 26. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Musicologists have a hard time — namely if they want to enrich their LaTeX-texts by score examples and harmony analyses. Up to now, there did not exist any study of whether and how that could be realized with free software. This article summarizes a paper — written in German — concerning the topic LaTeX and […]
26. February 2022 / 25. January 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
A presentation without images sucks. Therefore, we are sometimes tempted to take some from the Internet for beautifying our work. There are so many excellent pictures on the World Wide Web. But to legally inserting a foreign picture in one’s own presentation is not that easy. Unfortunately, a new type of troll has emerged recently, […]
Compliance Tooling
28. November 2020 / 25. January 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
By releasing the Open Source License Compendium and the Open Source Compliance Advisor, Deutsche Telekom has already supported the task to deal with Open Source Compliance. But DT offers so many and complex Open Source based products that it is too expensive to create the necessary Open Source compliance artifacts manually. Thus, DT needs a […]
