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Tick season comes earlier to the Okanagan than we think
At a recent art night with friends in early March, we were adjourning and preparing…
When you realize what abuse is, you see it everywhere
There are moments in my life where things change and there becomes a “before time”…
Adding Bluesky social icons to headers and footers
Many of our clients are moving to Bluesky and quitting Twitter/X. If they are in…
Maureen Vo chats about her winding career route and why she has become passionate about freediving
What led you to the field of marine biology? I’ve always been interested in nature…
Security is a process: new adopters of passcode keepers make us happy
A lost phone leads Jacqueline McAllister to new awareness about cybersecurity and we learn why…
Karissa Finnigan on emotional intelligence in university, sports, and launching a career
Karissa Finnigan has graduated from Concordia College with an interest in genetic counselling. She is…
On Twitter, hiding replies is as important as blocking. To protect yourself, block; to protect others, hide replies (and block).
In the past I’ve experimented with archiving old WordPress sites by converting them to HTML files and hosting them at archival URLs. The plugin I…
These tools come in free and premium versions, and are in use currently at CFUV. https://userway.org/
Painting is less linear than writing and reading. More synchronous.
I haven’t seen these yet, but they come recommended by Project Respect. Open Space hosted this project in the spring. “These videos were made in…
Hosted by Oumar Salifou and Hannan Mohamud. Is This For Real? Edmonton is home to a large and established Black community. Black people have been…
These NPR style guides and learning tools are excellent. NPR Style guide A guide to style guides NPR Training https://nprillustration.tumblr.com/ NPR Curios https://socialmediadesk.tumblr.com/
This looks handy.
We use a code snippet to add Featured Images into our RSS feeds, but we wanted to see if that was still the best way…
These videos by Valentina Vee area amazing.
How imbedded is racism in visual & written language? Where do the past & present “touch” when it comes to conceptions of blackness? Cannot wait…
In the end we found a pretty simple solution to our problem: how to keep notifications from going out to subscribers using Jetpack in Gutenberg….
This is a nice summary. Lot’s of nice introductory design videos by Dr. Radzikowska and Dr. Ruecker on their Vimeo channel. Everything from historical overviews,…
It is unfortunately seeming that in the Gutenberg editor there is not yet a way to keep subscribers from seeing specific posts using a code…
Who are these nerds! https://colour-index.com/