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Hosting change

Just a quick meta note: I’ve moved this site to a new hosting situation, but there shouldn’t be any disruption to its availability. I’ll probably also be looking into different CMS options while I’m here at Recurse Center.

Posted byParker Higgins28 July, 2017Posted inUncategorizedTags: metaLeave a comment on Hosting change

New plugin: WP Emphasis

Advanced users of the New York Times may know about the “two-shift click” trick on that website: hit the shift button twice on any article page, and you then have the option to link to specific paragraphs or even highlight arbitrary sentences throughout the article, in a way that’s stored in the URL so you […]

Posted byParker Higgins25 November, 2012Posted inUncategorizedTags: javascript, meta, new york timesLeave a comment on New plugin: WP Emphasis

Site redesign

If you fall into the intersection of people who have looked at this website before yesterday and people who are looking at it after today, you may notice that I’ve given it a bit of a spitshine. It’s still on WordPress, but in place of the venerable DePo Skinny theme, it’s now using a custom […]

Posted byParker Higgins6 May, 20126 May, 2012Posted inUncategorizedTags: design, meta1 Comment on Site redesign

about me

Parker Higgins is an artist and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. He writes about computers, creativity, and the law, and works as the Director of Special Projects at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Previously, he was the Director of Copyright Activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. more ยป

top posts

  • Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode
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recent posts

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