River Writes - A MediaWiki Blog

A CSS-only solution to the problem of having sticky headers in a table with horizontal scroll approaches!

A slightly awful way of doing things that’s more novelty than practical.

A slightly awful way of doing things that’s more novelty than practical.

Really this is just notes for myself, but maybe someone else finds it useful.

Really this is just notes for myself, but maybe someone else finds it useful.

Template and Preload are different, as are Widget, Module, and Gadget.

Template and Preload are different, as are Widget, Module, and Gadget.

What does #cargo_attach do?

What does #cargo_attach do?

Cargo will sometimes confusingly change your underscores to spaces if you use snake_case in your field names, so please don’t do that

Cargo will sometimes confusingly change your underscores to spaces if you use snake_case in your field names, so please don’t do that

How I glued Ravensburger’s 9000-piece Dragon Forest puzzle

How I glued Ravensburger’s 9000-piece Dragon Forest puzzle

Edge interferes with the Alt+Shift+S hotkey, here’s how to fix it

Edge interferes with the Alt+Shift+S hotkey, here’s how to fix it

A timelapse of solving Ravensburger Pink Water Lilies 4000 piece puzzle

A timelapse of solving Ravensburger Pink Water Lilies 4000 piece puzzle

My talk from MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 in Sandusky, Ohio

My talk from MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 in Sandusky, Ohio

How & why I use bookmark keywords and bookmarklets for searching in Firefox

How & why I use bookmark keywords and bookmarklets for searching in Firefox

When you edit a template, you will need to bypass cache somehow to see the effect of that edit on a content page

When you edit a template, you will need to bypass cache somehow to see the effect of that edit on a content page

Mini reviews of fiction published in 2024, part 2!

Mini reviews of fiction published in 2024, part 2!

Mini reviews of fiction published in 2024

Mini reviews of fiction published in 2024

Click here if you want to join the Wikipedia Discord server!

Click here if you want to join the Wikipedia Discord server!

A quick post about transclusion, partial transclusion, The Tag That Shall Not Be Named, and whitespace

A quick post about transclusion, partial transclusion, The Tag That Shall Not Be Named, and whitespace

I saw Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 live, and I have THOUGHTS (it was incredible!)

I saw Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 live, and I have THOUGHTS (it was incredible!)

I started 3D printing and I do not recommend it as a hobby

I started 3D printing and I do not recommend it as a hobby

Someone was wrong on the internet and I’ve taught basic coding to a lot of self-described non-developers

Someone was wrong on the internet and I’ve taught basic coding to a lot of self-described non-developers

Caching can be super complicated in MediaWiki because there are many different types of cache.

Caching can be super complicated in MediaWiki because there are many different types of cache.

mwclient 0.11 has released!

mwclient 0.11 has released!

A tutorial for Moorish 8-4, a chainmaille weave I designed in 2016

A tutorial for Moorish 8-4, a chainmaille weave I designed in 2016

The page MediaWiki:Sidebar is powered by other interface messages, use them!

The page MediaWiki:Sidebar is powered by other interface messages, use them!

Several examples of video game mechanics that could be represented as one-to-many relations and how to do table design & queries

Several examples of video game mechanics that could be represented as one-to-many relations and how to do table design & queries

Enjoy beautiful mspaint drawings and learn Cargo!

Enjoy beautiful mspaint drawings and learn Cargo!

John R.