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Disease

Everyone seems to be looking at the current situation in a very black and white way, totally bypassing the various shades of grey, and problems created by solutions. I grossly misjudged how society...

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COVID-19: CFR vs IFR

A Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is defined as the proportion of deaths among confirmed cases of the disease … while an Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) is defined as the proportion of deaths relative to the...

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COVID-19 herd immunity in Stockholm County

The point of this post is to encourage people to look at COVID-19 herd immunity in a more analytical way. It worries me when I see so many people reacting to things based on emotion rather than...

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Legal LSD

Background: I currently work as a software developer, but my background is actually in chemistry, with some specific experience in pharmaceuticals including drug development, generation of drug...

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Miraculix psilocybin test kit

A small company called Miraculix in Jena Germany, have released a psilocybin test kit. As far as I know, this is the first cost-effective at home test kit for the measurement of the concentration of...

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str_contains()

PHP 8.0 brought the super useful str_contains() function for checking if strings contain a sub-string. This has always been possible in PHP, but it required a more convoluted approach. Unfortunately,...

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Potassium fortified Kikkoman soy sauce

For a long time I’ve had a slightly elevated blood pressure. This isn’t a big deal, but it makes me careful about consuming foods with very high levels of sodium. This has always caused me issues with...

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Disable Gutenberg junk in SVN trunk!

I have no idea why this was considered helpful, but WordPress core keeps adding more code junk into site pages, even when you aren’t using the WordPress block editor. I wrote a post about this in 2018,...

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More Gutenberg junk

It seems that every once in a while, I need to disable more Gutenberg rubbish messing with WordPress websites. WordPress core keeps adding more garbage which injects a lot of useless code bloat into...

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Simpler WordPress gallery

I’ve never been a big fan of the WordPress gallery code. The functionality is fine, but the code it spits out has always annoyed me as I’ve felt it’s a lot more complicated than what I usually need and...

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