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As you may remember, I’ve been running a little AdSense experiment on this site. Here’s a brief summary for new readers:
The core motivation for the experiment was to test the prevalent assumption that people coming from search engines are the ones most likely to click on ads. To this […] Continue Reading…

micro-tweet is an ultra-minimalist Twitter client that fits in a tweet. It can only do two things – display your friends tweets (one at a time) and post new tweets. It’s written in Python and works entirely from the command line.

Source Code

The source code of micro-tweet is exactly 137 […] Continue Reading…

When it comes to creating and updating database tables, WordPress has what appears to be a very handy utility function – dbDelta. In theory, this function can take one or more CREATE TABLE queries, compare them to the tables already in the database and automatically figure out how to […] Continue Reading…

There’s a wicked thunderstorm coming this way, so I’ll keep this short.

The next major release of the Broken Link Checker plugin is nearing completion. Some of the highest voted ideas have been implemented, the user interface has been re-worked and many bugs have been fixed. Interested? Play with the […] Continue Reading…

A recent pop-sci piece Think You’re Operating on Free Will? Think Again caught my eye. The article is well-written, but it focuses mostly on examples of priming and doesn’t even come close to debunking free will. However, it inspired me to write up my own thoughts on the topic. […] Continue Reading…