The challenge of advertising
How can I advertise what I offer whilst still abstaining from social media? That’s the challenge I ponder in my latest blog post!
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AI Slop vs the Human Connection
After a hard day of work or study, some people enjoy a mindless scroll through social media. It’s an opportunity to turn one’s mind off for a few minutes of harmless dopamine, right? Oh dear. Given my job and search history, the social media algorithms think I must really want to see some AI slop about physics education! Read about it in my latest blog post!
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The Quest for a Five-star Trustpilot Score
I would love to get a five-star Trustpilot score. In this blog post I explore how Trustpilot calculates their “TrustScore”, by including non-existent reviews!
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Old Educational VHS Cassettes
My Physics department at school has a collection of old VHS cassettes, some dating back to the 1980s. I don’t want them to be lost forever, so I’ve started the process of digitising them. I found an old VCR in a cupboard in the geography/geology department, got a SCART to HDMI adapter and a video…
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“Physics is JUST applied mathematics”
“Physics is just applied mathematics”: a statement often given by non-physicists in an attempt to assuage their own feelings of inadequacy. In this blog post, I explore the assertion that mathematics was invented by physicists.
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Achievable Scientific New Year’s Resolutions for 2025
Here are six scientific new year’s resolutions for 2025! See how many you can do! See the blog post.
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My Nostalgic Mobile Phone Journey
Read my life story as told through the medium of mobile phone handsets. See this blog post!
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Resurrecting an old end-of-life Chromebook using Linux
Does anyone know the name of this fractal? See blog post
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Visualising relativistic length contraction in 2D
I made a two-dimensional simulation of relativistic length contraction using QBASIC.
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32-bit windows programs running on a Chromebook!
Here I am running a 32-bit version of Crocodile Clips using Wine and Box86 in Crostini on the Chromebook. It took hours of fiddling, but it works! In the end, I installed Box86 and Wine via Pi-Apps, which took care of all the dependencies for me. Huzzah! No more running Windows 3.11 in Dosbox and being limited to 16-bit programs!
