I wanted to set a class on a WordPress block so that any nested link would extend to the entire block. There are many examples of stretching a link to its parent container using CSS, but I had complicated <DIV> with many nested elements. I could easily apply a hover and class to the block […]
Author: john
Adventures in ChatGPT 4 – creating images
I wanted a good cross-section of a mycelium network. This view has often been compared to the known universe zoomed out, and pictures of neurons in our brain. Surely I could get ChatGPT4 to create something like that, right? You can find the chat prompts and the images that were created below, or view them […]
Heat Accumulation on Earth
How Much Heat Has Earth Accumulated Each Year on Average from 2005 to 2015? To calculate the heat accumulation on Earth, we can use information from the study by von Schuckmann et al., which estimated that the Earth has been gaining heat at a rate of approximately 0.87 watts per square meter from 2005 to […]
Install Windows 11 on M1 Mac
This was fun. I tried various and VM Player but I guess the M1 chip is an issue. I finally found a good set of instructions which mostly worked. However, Windows 11 requires you to have a network connection during setup, so I got stuck on a screen that would not let me proceed. Fortunately […]
WordPress Upload File Size Limit
It always happens on a new site, I try to upload a file, and wordpress tells me it is too big. Here is how you fix that. Assuming you have full access to your server, you can fix it by editing your php.ini file. First, you need to find which php.ini file is loaded by […]
Red Letter Poem #137
Steven Ratiner, Arlington’s poet laureate, describes CD Collins as “A masterful storyteller, [who] understands how the specificity of sense-impressions are capable of situating a reader in a new circumstance so they might vicariously take part in the moment unfolding.” I could not agree more, or have said it better. I am so happy her poem […]
mount osx high sierra share on ubuntu 18.04
Credit goes to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68079/mount-cifs-network-drive-write-permissions-and-chown. After you share a folder on your mac, you can run this command from a terminal on your ubuntu box. Make sure to run apt-get install cifs-utils first. The UID and GID parameters set permissions on the folder in ubuntu so you can access the files. I did this because I […]
OSX Spotlight Repeatedly Crashing on High Sierra
I happened to look at my system log on may mac. To do this, open a terminal and type the following: tail /var/log/system.log There I noticed lines like this, repeating 10 times per second: com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.00000000-0300-0000-0000-000000000000[6763]): Service exited due to SIGKILL | sent by mds[141] mds is the osx spotlight indexer. Lots of people complain […]
Web Design
This is a collection of resources related to web design. I started my journey watching Chris Nodder courses on LinkedIn Learning. You can also find courses on edX. There is so much to learn. Spending time taking courses is worth the effort. There are many resources on the web if you want to jump in and get started.