str_contains()

Published January 16th, 2022 under Misc

A simple shim function to make the super useful str_contains() function from PHP 8 work in older versions of PHP.

Miraculix psilocybin test kit

Published August 21st, 2021 under Food

I bought the first home test kit for the measurement of the concentration of psilocybin cost effectively at home. Here is my review of it.

Legal LSD

Published July 16th, 2021 under Misc

There has been a recent trend to buy “Legal LSD”. Many assume they are buying actual real LSD, but they are not.

COVID-19 herd immunity in Stockholm County

Published September 17th, 2020 under Editorial

I don’t understand why people don’t believe in herd immunity, particularly with COVID-19. Perhaps Stockholm County has already reached it?

COVID-19: CFR vs IFR

Published September 13th, 2020 under Editorial

I had seen grossly inflated death rate numbers during the 2009 pandemic, and so knew to be very cautious of them. CFR is not IFR.

Disease

Published March 21st, 2020 under Editorial

I had falsely assumed society would take a broad view of the situation. Life is about living, not about dying.

Gutenberg junk revisited

Published February 13th, 2020 under Misc

Almost two years ago, I wrote a post called Disable Gutenberg junk about how to remove extraneous junk CSS added via the Gutenberg plugin.

RIP John McCain

Published August 26th, 2018 under Editorial

Many years ago I was hired to help out with building parts of USA senator John McCain’s presidential website. We disagreed wildly on many political issues, but it was exciting working on his website. Since he never became president, his presidential website never saw the […]

Dynamically controlling CMB2 metaboxes

Published August 11th, 2018 under General

Demo code for how to implement dynamic metaboxes based on previous metabox values within the superuseful CMB2 metabox tool for WordPress.

Creating fake WordPress pages

Published August 2nd, 2018 under Misc

Sometimes you may need to create a fake page within WordPress, which doesn’t actually exist. You could make a real page, then add a shortcode into it for addition of dynamic content. But this could confuse the site owners, and it’s just generally a bit […]