@dfox I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

@dfox CURLing works well, but like I said, I'm unsure how to CURL in such a way that the data is available for the javascript to display. I'd just do it all in PHP, but WP dashboard widgets seem to hate the idea, and it's nicer to use with javascript anyway.

If you look at this plugin, you'll see I used a totally hacky solution, but I wasn't able to get the AJAX calls to play nicely without a cross-site error in the browser. I have a CURL function that works, but I also failed to figure out how to use it to get JSON for the javascript. https://github.com/mmatthews1981/...

I just realized I'm stumped by a form. definitely time for rest.

go ahead, try that on a nerdwife and see what happens. I DARE YOU TO SUDO THE NERDWIFE

I did that interview this week! for 5 goddamn hours!

@dfox out of curiosity, what does the app ID signify?

@dfox sweet! thanks, I can work with this.

@sterex chicken!

@dfox lol, OK. have you got an API or an RSS feed or, yanno, something?

and a sidebar widget is fine, but wouldn't it be more in the spirit of things if it were a dashboard widget only accessible to admin users?

@sterex he's fit right in!

@sterex only if dfox stops by and enthuses 😀

@trogus yeah, that's what occurred to me. "shit, these are Java guys."

something something something Python?

... which looks like a really possessive and weird thing to say, if you didn't know I'm a JavaScript dev.

your wife == my girlfriend

cycle your plugins. the most recent version of tinymce is easily broken.

go look up Steve yegge's article on the subject

why?

ask him for specifics, in class, and see what happens.

quantum computing for dummies.

leave a book on functional programming lying around. they will LOVE it.

I can't even with this.

you guys probably think ternary operators are more readable, too.

I see what you did there

whoa, wait, did devrant just go IRL for a moment?

learn .NET, get a job in Buffalo, NY. this is a real thing.

commenting just so I get notifs on more comments

once it's up its great, but the hour of installing dependencies killed me, just to get WordPress running so I can write a short code that swears at people.