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…
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…
One thing I would definitely do is prioritise SQL from the start. SQL is an essential tool in any web developers toolkit and touches upon almost everything you do in this area. Thus far I have dodged the problem by…
It’s not going to deliver. The problem as I see is defined by the limitation inherent to all forms of mathematical modelling. Every mathematical system relies on things outside of itself in order to be a logically consistent system, and…
