I'm a web developer from Oulu, Finland.
Here's a collection of my wildest adventures involving computers, cats and dragons. 🐱🐉
New blog post every now and then!
When investigating a buggy and weird behavior of dropcap paragraphs
(implemented using the ::first-letter CSS pseudo-element)
in a customized TinyMCE editor
(which uses the contenteditable attribute),
I found that the root cause was a known but unfixed bug in Chrome.
When migrating content from another platform to Episerver,
I wanted to set a specific datetime for each content's Modified date (Saved property).
Sounds simple,
but it was possible only by using Episerver's internal, undocumented API.
Let me tell you how to do it
and how I found the solution.
(Tested only on EPiServer.CMS versions 11.14.0 and 11.19.0.)
Non-last default cases are confusing, but sometimes it makes sense to place them at the beginning or in the middle. Let's see how.
What was it again, [text](url) or (text)[url]?
Use this one weird trick to remember –
Markdown consultants HATE it!
Spoiler: it's the former since it looks like a function call.
Let's also take a look at alternative link syntaxes.
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