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Wordpress
October 24, 2025 dradma

WordPress – Extending widget class (adding a widget)

Gemini’s response when prompted about extending Wordpress’ widget class

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August 25, 2025 dradma

jQuery – test jQuery is running

Testing if jQuery is loaded and running…

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General
August 6, 2025 dradma

Chronological Development of Social Media Platforms (by CoPilot)

Chronological Development of Social Media Platforms (by CoPilot) based on the query: “Can you give me a brief description of chronological developments in social media platforms?”

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July 3, 2025 dradma

Innovator’s Playbook by Nathan Baird

Not finished reading yet…

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GeneralPhilosophyPolitics
March 19, 2025 dradma

Changes in societal information flow

Unsurprisingly, there has been notable changes in how information flows through society in the past 50 years. Here I describe some of the issues that have arisen with the age of the internet

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March 4, 2025 dradma

Softening the path towards rationality

Here I argue that we need to make dumping irrational beliefs more palatable to those who hold them.

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February 25, 2025 dradma

Letter to Pat – 21.02.2025

My letter to Pat Conroy, representative for Shortland today, outlining my concern about the impact of social media and biased conservative news sources on democracy.

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PowerShellProgramming
February 13, 2025 dradma

Powershell – Bulk check of image files

A powershell script to check all images within a specified folder. Results are shown in the console and in a log file.

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ProgrammingR for Statistics
November 19, 2024 dradma

R – Import historic ASX data for selected companies

General steps for importing Australian Stock Market (ASX) Data for selected companies from Yahoo finance using yfR

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ProgrammingR for Statistics
November 18, 2024 dradma

R – Import data from HTML web site

A quick overview of using rvest from R for data science

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