This video really made me laugh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovrM0LdrZ0

#movies 🎬 #trailer #mashup #JurassicPark #humor

Raptorize It: 15 Years Later, Now With Blocks

Fifteen years ago, I released a WordPress plugin that answered a question nobody asked: “What if your website needed more velociraptors?” The Raptorize It plugin took the brilliant jQuery work from Zurb and made it dead simple to unleash Jurassic proportions on any WordPress site.

The motivation back then was simple: you’re deep in a coding session, fueled by questionable snacks, and you realize your project is missing something critical. Not another feature request. Not better documentation. A velociraptor.

What Was Old Is New Again

Fast forward to 2025, and the web has changed significantly. WordPress has evolved from the simple days of jQuery-powered effects to a modern block editor powered by React. The old Raptorize It plugin still worked, but it was time for an update.

I recently modernized the entire plugin to work seamlessly with current WordPress versions (5.0+) and PHP 8.0+. But more importantly, I brought it into the Gutenberg era with two new ways to raptorize your content.

New Gutenberg Blocks

1. Invisible Raptor Block

The Invisible Raptor block lets you add raptor functionality anywhere on your page with a visual editor interface. In the block settings panel, you can:

• Enable Konami Code: Trigger the raptor with the classic ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A sequence
• Enable Timer: Automatically trigger the raptor after page load
• Adjust Timer Delay: Control exactly how long visitors have before the inevitable

The block is invisible on the frontend (hence the name), but shows you which triggers are active right in the editor.

2. Raptorize Button Variation

For a more direct approach, there’s now a Button block variation that adds a “Raptorize Button” style option to the core WordPress button block. Visitors click the button, raptor appears. Simple. Elegant. Prehistoric.

What’s Under The Hood

For the developers curious about what changed:

• Utilized better internal WordPress APIs for script enqueuing.
• Updated jQuery from .bind()/.unbind() to .on()/.off()
• Added comprehensive PHP CodeSniffer configuration (WordPress-Core, WordPress-Docs, PHPCompatibilityWP)
• Built block development workflow with @wordpress/scripts
• Set up automated WordPress.org deployment via GitHub Actions
• Added wp-env configuration for local testing

The entire codebase now follows modern WordPress coding standards and passes all linting checks.

Try It Yourself

The updated Raptorize It plugin is now available for download at the WordPress Plugin Directory.

You can also explore the complete codebase and contribute to future developments on GitHub.

Why Though?

Look, I could tell you it’s about maintaining legacy code or demonstrating modern WordPress development practices. And sure, those are valid reasons.

But really, it’s 2025 and the world still needs more velociraptors on websites. Some traditions are worth preserving.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a Konami code to input.

#jurassicPark #velociraptor

Raptorize It

An awesome jQuery plugin that unleahes a Raptor of Jurassic proportions… Well, technically it’s Cretaceous proportions, but we’ll let that slide for now.

We’ve all been here before…

You’re sitting at your desk, coding up a 500 page site, knee-deep in Extreme Cheddar Doritos sipping on a liter of Code Red Mountain Dew when you realize…this page would be som much more awesome with a VELOCIRAPTOR. You immediately scramble home to grab your Jurassic Park DVDs so can screencap a Velociraptor attack, but then you realize how hard it would be to make an awesome raptor run across the site you were coding. Plus, how are you going to get that trademark velociraptor screech? How about we let you in on a little secret?

We already did it.

Well, the guys at Zurb.com did it. And I made it into a WordPress plugin.

The Options

What’s that? You want to be able to control the entrance handler? You can! Raptorize can be activated on a click event (that is the default and what we have hooked up above), a timer which just fires after the page is loaded, or the legendary Konami-Code. Our personal favorite is the Konami-Code (but it only works once per page load).

Go ahead, try the Konami Code (↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A)

Works when you give a class of button to anything that can be clicked. i.e. <a href=”#” class=”button”>Button</a>

Download here

#jurassicPark #plugin #velociraptor

First time watching this, I enjoyed it

First time watching this, I enjoyed it

#letterboxd #film #Jurassicpark #movie #dvd

In the movies and other spin offs of the original Jurassic Park, climate change and environmental destruction are always the foremost allegorical themes. But now, they realized those were just the symptoms of a far worse disease. The newest Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park Rebirth) aims its allegories squarely at capitalism, offering open source as the antidote. So it has taken 32 years to find the root cause of climate change and environmental destruction in main stream cinematography and story telling, and honestly I wasn't too much quicker than that. I remember thinking there were ways that capitalism could solve climate change and fix our environmental problems. Despite scant evidence in support of such a solution, the propaganda and indoctrination were strong!

#capitalism
#environmentalism
#ClimateChange
#ecocide
#LateStageCapitalism
#JurassicPark
#OpenSource
#FOSS

Raise your hand if you read the novel #JurassicPark?

#books #reading #movies #entertainment

8 Reasons It's Tough to Watch #JurassicPark Today

https://www.cbr.com/reasons-jurassic-park-didnt-age-well-list/