Corrections, typos, grammar flubs and errors

Yep, worked!
Thanks
Edit:

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in blog view this post leaves an open italic tag at the beginning of the Dante quote.

caught a small one

should be “defies” rather than “defines.”

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Perhaps somewhat off-topic, but I’m going to go there anyway…

Can one of you web-savvy people explain to me, in way that I can reproduce, how Discourse does that spoiler-blurring thing? I tried to look at the css and it makes my eyes bleed.

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use the spoiler tag

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surround the text with spoiler tags

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No, no. I know how to use it. I meant the web programming techniques behind it. I found a jquery plugin, but I don’t understand how it works either.

oh, sorry (∘=̴⃙̀˘︷˘=̴⃙́∘)

this is Rob’s thread, you should probably summon @sam , i think he wrote that bit.

there used to be a design thread for this question, but it got locked.

It looks like it’s adding a really diffused text-shadow, and then hiding the actual text so that all you see is the (blurry) shadow.

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all the code is here: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-spoiler-alert I did not write it though, it was mostly @eviltrout and @zogstrip

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The core of the blurring is indeed in the spoiler.js file.

There are 3 types of blur

  • For text, we change both background-color and color to a transparent value and then use text-shadow to blur the text.
  • For links, we use the CSS blur filter since text-shadow doesn’t work that well for links.
  • For images, we wrap them with a SVG that is using the feGaussianBlur because it uses the GPU and is the most efficient across all browsers and platforms.
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should read “smartwatch” not phone.

also, lol:

Discourse confirms my gadfly status.

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@beschizza Ohhh, that Kobe Byrant?

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@frauenfelder

One afternoon in 1954 Ann Hodges of Alabama was napping on her
couch when a meteorite the size of a software came through the ceiling

“meteorite the size of a software”

I’m certain you meant “softball.”

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still just me using this thread? OK!

no BBS page for this post

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Wonder if this has something to do with confusion between @frauenfelder and @markfrauenfelder?

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same error again, but this time for @AndreaJames ’ post. No BBS page loads for me. The link to comments has no number tally, clicking the link reloads the permalink boingboing.net page.

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Thanks. Now I can stop flagging posts when I see this (which always feels awkward to me). I didn’t even realize this thread existed.

ETA Also shouldn’t this be in #boing?

ETA 2 Also any way to sticky this post so it’s easier to find?

The Amazon link from Mark Frauenfelder’s 2016 Boing Boing Gift Guide: Gadgets entry for Clear plastic lock-picking tools leads to a 404 error.

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