Moving a Theme Between Theme Roots
WordPress allows you to have multiple theme directories, but moving themes from one to another may result in a fatal error. It's possible to fix that by updating a few options and clearing a transient.
Inspiration
"Even though we might have some very, very strong disagreements as we develop this thing called WordPress, at the end of the day, I think we all agree that when it impacts people's lives positively like that, it's really really special."
Stop Breaking the Web
Reading Stop Breaking the Web by Nicolás Bevacqua's feels like a breath of fresh air.
He writes about how several common practices in the JavaScript community have led to poor user experiences, and violated some of the fundamental principles that made the Web what is today...
Dropping QuickTime Recording from Stereo to Mono
If QuickTime exports a stereo recording with an empty right channel, you can use ffmpeg to easily copy the left channel to the right one, for a proper mono recording.
List of Ideographic Countries
I needed a list of countries where ideographic languages are common, but couldn't find a pre-made one. I was able to build one myself, though, which will hopefully save others from having to do the same.
Recording Skype and a Mic on Separate Tracks in GarageBand
I wanted to figure out how to record both a Skype conversation and my mic in GarageBand, but keep them on separate tracks. None of the tutorials worked for me, so I'm posting the settings that did.
Exposing Custom Post Type Meta for Only a Single API Endpoint
I ran into an undocumented and unexpected problem when registering custom post type meta fields for the REST API.
register_meta() exposes meta fields in all REST API endpoints, which can lead to privacy leaks. To avoid that, it can be called conditionally.