On Re-Assembly bCourses, UC Berkeley’s CMS, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-01-24 Tu
Once I run into programs that get in my approach relative to programs that I keep in mind having many years in the past…
What I need the webpage to appear to be:
With a view to get this up onto Berkeley’s bCourses web site—which I’m returning to after a fall sabbatical semester—I would like to make use of John Gruber’s great Markdown <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>, and kind:
However I can’t. So I sort into bCourses’s WYSIWYG editor and punch some formatting buttons. bCourses produces an underlying html layer.
What I’d take into account “acceptable” html:
However that is the underlying html code that Berkeley’s CMS needs to provide me:
WHY, within the Holy Title of THE ONE WHO IS, WHY?
Sure, I perceive that you’re actually not supposed to take a look at the html in a CMS. Sure. Nonetheless: BUT WHY!?
I simply need plain-vanilla textual content, daring, italic, and <links> that behave in a default approach. I’ve no want for issues to be of the `inline_disabled` class; for `goal` tags in order that some hyperlinks to open within the present and a few hyperlinks to open in a brand new tab/window—both one could be advantageous, if it had been constant—for a distinction between hyperlinks that go into and hyperlinks that go outdoors the CMS; for `data-api-endpoint`, `data-api-returntype`, and `data-id`s, all of that are implicit within the goal url; for pointless `<em></em>` and different null tags left within the html stream; and for pointless `<span>…</span>` tags. (I can approve of `rel=”noopener”`; and I perceive, and might forgive, the social-engineering nudges concerned within the accessibility-score dial.)
It’s greater than purely æsthetic.
At the very least as soon as a day, when enhancing one thing in bCourses’s WYSIWYG editor, one thing goes incorrect and I do must drop into html to see (most lately, why shift-return has not generated a easy `<br />` however as an alternative one thing actually bizarre). I then must undertake a five-minute de-crufting course of earlier than I can see what’s going on. And so I’m knocked out of my move.
“John Henry and the steamhammer!” you say? No! I like steamhammers! However the steamhammer must be a well-designed steamhammer, with correct affordances. It must be one thing like Markdown! It’s Markdown! However should you search bCourses assist for “markdown”:
Sure, I ought to spring and pay $15 for Typora <https://typora.io> or some such, and write-and-paste.
Perhaps this previous week of semester-start and renewed contact with bCourses will induce me to take action…
And, in the meantime, elsewhere in infotech gone incorrect: Chat-GPT tells me that proper now I’m finest generally known as the writer of Slouching In the direction of Utopia: The Financial Historical past of the Twentieth Century and of The First of Contrition: A Historical past of the Public Debt of america.
Wow:
Mack DeGeurin: Elon Musk Tells Jury That 420 Has Nothing to Do With Weed: ‘The Tesla CEO dismissed associations between a $420 share value and marijuana and accused the top of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund of “ass protecting”…
The Ford F-150 since 1960.
Ford makes what sells…
<https://overcast.fm/+oiPVDTr-A>
Ezra Klein: ‘Quite a bit is occurring in China proper now…. Yuen Yuen Ang is a professor of political economic system, a China scholar at Johns Hopkins College and the writer of “China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption.” Her primary argument is… it’s essential first perceive China’s distinctive, typically misunderstood political system… “autocracy with democratic traits.” As a result of we within the West are so fixated on how China selects its leaders, she argues, we’ve neglected a extra delicate however way more consequential revolution in how China is ruled. That transformation of the Chinese language political system is the deeper story behind each the nation’s financial success — in addition to its present troubles. And it offers an illuminating lens via which to view American politics as nicely…
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Noah Smith: Fiscal arsonists: ‘We didn’t go very far down the slippery slope to this form of catastrophe in 2011…. However that doesn’t imply that what the Tea Social gathering Congress did was OK. It took us one step down the slippery slope towards disaster, and that’s one step too many. Individuals weren’t completely satisfied…. The GOP’s debt ceiling brinksmanship may need been a think about Mitt Romney’s defeat in 2012…
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Tara Palmieri: Feeling the Vern: ‘Vern Buchanan exploded after shedding Methods & Means to a McCarthy ally, fueling nervousness that he may retire out of pique—and that McCarthy’s favor buying and selling has eroded his slender margin of help…
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Jason Smith: Genuine “Longtermism”: ‘A real longtermist wouldn’t be racist. Genotype variety is species survival, not particular preferences for particular phenotypes… social welfare insurance policies so that each human can stay and help a household… redistribute the wealth of billionaires… mainly be a social democrat…
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Eric Hoel: Why I am not an effective altruist: ‘The origins of the efficient altruist motion in utilitarianism implies that as definitions get extra particular it turns into clear that inside lurks a poison, and the selection of all efficient altruists is both to dilute that poison, and due to this fact dilute their philosophy, or swallow the poison entire. This poison… shouldn’t be a quirk, or a bug, however moderately a characteristic of utilitarian philosophy, and could be present in even the smallest drop…
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Robert B. Hubbell: A press release beneath the dignity of the Court: ‘‘The one factor that the press launch doesn’t say is that the Marshal interviewed the justices as a part of the investigation. As a substitute, we’re advised that the Marshal “spoke” to the justices as a part of an “iterative course of” by which they “requested and answered questions”…
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Paul Krugman: ‘Many people think inflation is still running wild; the massive deceleration within the 2nd half of 2022 hasn’t damaged via to public consciousness…. Conventional core inflation nonetheless reflecting lease will increase from a 12 months in the past. And uneven reporting: breathless protection of rising inflation, disinflation not a lot…
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Typora: A new way to read & write Markdown…
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Paul Fussell (1983): Class : a guide through the American status system…
Martin Wolf: In defence of democratic capitalism: ‘The wedding of liberal economics and democracy has introduced immense advantages to the world, however faces its hardest check in many years. What must be achieved? The vitality behind populism can’t be ignored, not to mention suppressed. It must be harnessed, as an alternative. Politicians dedicated to liberal democracy should reply to the widespread mistrust of elites not by surrendering to them, however by making themselves reliable, as soon as once more. That is what Franklin Delano Roosevelt achieved within the Nineteen Thirties, by combining the modern concepts and competence of individuals resembling Frances Perkins, the labour secretary who laid the muse of the US social safety system, with barnstorming rhetoric in opposition to what he known as “authorities by organised cash”. Profitable renewal is feasible now, too…. It’s inconceivable to maintain a common suffrage democracy with a market economic system if the previous doesn’t seem open to the affect — and the latter doesn’t serve the pursuits—of the individuals at giant. This, in flip, calls for a political response rooted not within the harmful politics of identification, however of welfare for all residents—that’s, a dedication to financial alternative and primary safety for all. Constructing on FDR himself, home coverage targets must be rising, broadly shared and sustainable requirements of residing, good jobs for individuals who can work, equality of alternative, safety for individuals who want it and ending “particular privileges” for the few…
Can Duruk: Google vs. ChatGPT told by aglio e olio: ‘The actual motive Google is in danger that due to their monopoly place, the parents over at Mountain View have left their once-incredible search expertise degenerate right into a spam-ridden, SEO-fueled hellscape…. The truth that many individuals are evaluating OpenAI’s tech demo to Google’s flagship product must be inflicting alarm bells to go off. For a very long time, Google’s declare to fame was to getting the customers the solutions they need sooner than the competitors. That does not maintain true for a lot of forms of queries anymore. Greater than half the time, I’ve so as to add `web site:reddit.com` to get something that’s not search engine optimization spam…
