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Building a WordPress Weather Widget Plugin with OpenWeatherMap API 4

Jan

7

2025

Today, I’ll break down a WordPress plugin that I created (with a little help from Claude.ai), this is a simple yet attractive weather widget using the OpenWeatherMap API and animated weather icons Meteocons . This plugin allows WordPress site owners to display current weather conditions for any location with a clean, modern display, just enough ...

What if we randomly picked qualified citizens to govern us? called Sortition aka. “Lottocracy”

Jan

3

2025

Imagine a political system where your neighbor could become a legislator overnight, not through campaign donations or party connections, but through a process as impartial as drawing a name from a hat. This system exists, and it’s called sortition – the selection of political officials through random lottery from the citizenry. Ancient Roots, Modern Relevance ...

Questions / Problems AI LLM’s like chatGPT routinely get wrong

Nov

24

2024

Despite their impressive capabilities in areas like writing, coding, and analysis, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude often struggle with seemingly straightforward logic puzzles and mathematical reasoning. Let’s dive into why these sophisticated AI systems sometimes fail at tasks that many humans can solve with relative ease. Ask it who <insert name here> ...

Mediterranean Cruise 2024

Nov

1

2024

The magic of Venice in autumn is something that never gets old. As our Mediterranean adventure began in mid October 2024, we treated ourselves to two days in this floating city before our 9-day cruise. The morning mist rolling off the canals, the echo of footsteps through ancient alleyways, and the aroma of fresh espresso ...

London 2024 1

Mar

17

2024

Cheerio from London! We just returned from an amazing 5 day trip to one of my favorite cities in the world – London. There’s just something magical about the energy, history, and traditions of England’s capital that keep me coming back time and time again. Our trip was jam packed starting with stops at some ...

Fetch your Reddit posts,comments to a file using Go 3

Jan

19

2024

I have posted lots of content on Reddit and I would like to make a copy of of these locally, just to have a local record and make it easier to search my posts. There’s a couple of ways to do this, one method is simply Ask Reddit [email protected]., they provide an official Data Request ...

Microchip magic, the amazing science behind ASML EUV lithography machine

Dec

29

2023

Came across a series of videos explaining the intracacies of modern silicon chip fabricaion (Fab) , and was fascinated by the sheer complexity of making tiny transistors and circuits. In the heart of the silicon revolution, where chips smaller than snowflakes power our world, lies a Dutch titan: ASML. Their claim to fame? Lithography machines, ...

Create longer music tracks by appending same track with crossfade

Dec

12

2023

A common thing I usually do with my video files is background music, sometimes I find a track that I like but its too short usually under two minutes, so what I wind up having to do is exented the track by composiiting the track onto itself but doing in such a was as to ...

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