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Coarse Programmers guide to faking new Wagtail rich text entities

How do you create new inline entities in Wagtail's rich text editor if you don't want to learn React?

A passing problem

"Pass! Pass! Pass!" scream parents on the sideline, and so the children do, a frantic toe nudge into the shins of an opposing player. Soccer players learn from a young age that passing is a virtue like "please" …

More punching, less shouting during Mexico's Independence "Grito"

News and social media painted a dismal picture of Mexico's normally ebullient Independence Day celebrations last night. According to sources, turnout was poor in Mexico City's main plaza, where the President Peña Nieto performed the traditional midnight "Shout" of independence. …

Journalist's panic button slowly summons paperwork and bureaucracy

Everyone knows Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world for a reporter. But Flor Goche, at least, must have felt a little safer than her colleagues. For the last year she has been part of a …

Old train wagon among Mexico State's top performing classrooms

Twenty-eight students in the community of San Bartolo, Mexico State, go to school in an old train wagon. Four grades are taught together in the Adolfo Lopez Mateos school, where the washrooms are makeshift, and there is not enough running …

Discomfort zone

Last week I was talking to Edith Peredo, a young reporter at radio station Radio Teocelo near the city of Xalapa, Veracruz. Someone had just killed the photojournalist Ruben Espinosa who had worked for many years in Xalapa. …