Disabling external Emojis in the WordPress Admin GUI

29. Juli 2025 in Technology.

In a previous article i mentioned that the “Disable Emojis” plugin removes requests to external servers for downloading Emoji graphics on a WordPress site. This works in the frontend (the part the user/customer visits). In the backend (the part the admin visits) there are hardcoded references to external emoji graphics., for example here: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/3d3e104908f875a0df3d5f7692feeb8874780b2a/wp-admin/about.php#L146 There […]

New Music Archive

18. Juli 2025 in Multimedia, Programming.

Since i sporadically make electronic compositions and master them to “tracks” in MP3 format, over the years a bunch of such files have accumulated. Until recently i was using a software i had named MyPlayer, based on mediaelement.js (“mejs”) with a 3rd-party playlist plugin and some extension for parsing an M3U playlist. As it goes, […]

 Summer House

20. Juli 2025 in Music.

I got a French digisynth, and out came this: https://tk-sls.de/musik/mp3/Summer%20House.mp3