Week 5.2: 09/22/20

Here are more types of “blocks” you can add to posts:

This is a “paragraph.” It’s the default block type for posts.

This is a “quote”:

The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

This is a “heading.”

You can change the size of the heading by clicking on the block. This is “H3.” Above is “H2.”

• This is a “list.”
• This is a very useful block for journals; this way you can run through all the tasks you’ve completed while visually separating them.
• This is also very helpful if you are listing items you need in the future (like a “shopping list”).

This is a “Media & Text” block:

You can share bits of code by using the “code” block:

import processing.serial.*;

Serial myPort;  // Create object from Serial class
String val;     // Data received from the serial port

void setup()
{
  // I know that the first port in the serial list on my mac
  // is Serial.list()[0].
  // On Windows machines, this generally opens COM1.
  // Open whatever port is the one you're using.
  String portName = Serial.list()[5]; //change the 0 to a 1 or 2 etc. to match your port
  myPort = new Serial(this, portName, 9600);
}

void draw()
{
  if ( myPort.available() > 0) 
  {  // If data is available,
  val = myPort.readStringUntil('\n');         // read it and store it in val
  } 
println(val); //print it out in the console
}

The “preformatted” block is great for screenplays or scripts:

INT. WORKSHOP - NIGHT
Annie is at work. Behind her, the door opens and Steve enters. He approaches to see...

Annie is working on a new piece: a NEW MINIATURE of the HIGHWAY of Charlie’s accident, including the TELEPHONE POLE that took her head. This also features a tiny figurine of Charlie’s decapitated head and a figurine of Peter in the family car.

STEVE
Oh Jesus... Are you planning on letting him see that?

“Pullquotes” give greater emphasis to a citation or quote than the “quote block”:

Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured,
And still more often the condemned is the burden bearer for the guiltless and unblamed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

This is a “table” block:

Shopping list:
Rope
Knives
Duct tape

“Verse” is kind of like “preformatted,” but works well so that you can copy and paste poetry and keep the formatting:

TRASPIÉ ENTRE DOS ESTRELLAS
Cesar Valléjo

¡Hay gentes tan desgraciadas que ni siquiera
tienen cuerpo; cuantitativo el pelo,
baja, en pulgadas, la genial pesadumbre;
el modo, arriba;
no me busques, la muela del olvido,a
parecen salir del aire, sumar suspiros mentalmente, oír
claros azotes en sus paladares!

You can choose “gallery” to share a bunch of photos with short captions:

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You can add “audio”:

You can insert a “video” from YouTube, our upload your own:

You can embed Imgur, Instagram, Facebook posts…

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFQ77YdDuZf/

You can embed Spotify and Soundcloud, too…

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7x9JmXQKz2yka4tMq7EJ9v?si=bvmMC4JaRUm2Dau_TDTCTw