It can be fun to define new words we’ve all heard here and there, so here’s mine: Slop (noun) Media produced to exploit the content recommendations algorithms of social media websites. Usually pejorative. Slop content is not intrinsically different to…
Astronomia is a Javascript Library used for calculating various astronomical phenomena, such as the positions of the planets. It achieves this by implementing the celestial mechanics algorithms of the Belgian astronomer Jean Meeus as they are described in his great…
The main competitors to WordPress are Wix, Squarespace and Webflow, which despite their greater expense on a monthly basis do indeed offer a rich and useful product to the general user. They have to, after all. Unfortunately these companies, despite…
The “Dead Internet” theory suggests that much of the internet, especially content generated after 2016-2017, is not created by humans but by bots, AI, and other automated systems. It claims that most online interactions, social media posts, and even comments…
In the era of content-heavy websites and digital platforms, image optimisation has become a cornerstone of web performance. One new innovation in this area is the WebP format, which offers better compression while maintaining image quality. To this end I…
