Archive

All my posts
2024

Recommendation rabbit holes

Battling the YouTube sidebar


Microclimate change

A CO2 detective story in my flat


Rising tides

The future if ice caps melt


Creative Muse

Keeping "The Artist's Way" alive with GPT4


2023

Let's make rainbows 🌈

Creating digital rainbows with GPT4


Constrained particles

My first physics collaboration with GPT4


Backup Gitlab issues

My first GPT 💡 moment


Taste of Tech

Is a tech career right for you?


Rubbish reality

Unmasking our landfill legacy


2022

Back in stock

Building a stock checker and notifier 🔔


Slidee

A presentation tool powered by Reveal.js


Grow your own food?

Unearthing the truth with guesstimation


Pickle power

Unblocking guesstimation gridlock with the geometric mean


2021

Staggering scales

Guesstimating the number of atoms on earth


Guesstimating the earth

A journey to the center of our planet


What is guesstimation?

The process of solving "impossible" problems


Swipee

The no-list reading list app


Squidler

Reflections on my first attempt at making a tech business


Peer to peer video calling

It's built into your browser already 😮


WhatsApp migration

How to extract links from your chats


2020

Flashee

The free and simple flash card app


Particle in a box 📦

How do quantum particles move


Two state quantum systems

A model for solid state nuclear reactions


Nuclear resonance energy transfer

A Marie Curie fellowship proposal


Deuterium cold fusion experiments

Prosasic explanation of my 'success'


Gentle nuclear

Engineering the nucleus


Stern-Gerlach experiment

A classical view


What is cold fusion?

Past, present, future


Plotting Palladium

Using Observable notebooks to aid research


Deuterium drama

Unforeseen chemistry challenges in cold fusion


2019

The road to deuterium

Next steps in my cold fusion experiments


My first cold fusion experiment

It's been a long time coming


Coconut conundrum

Pivoting my cold fusion experiments


2018

Walking droplets

Quantum behaviour from a classical system?


2017

Becoming an experimentalist

My foray into cold fusion experiments


Research rabbit hole

Delving deeper into cold fusion (LENR)


Rvu

A decentralised peer-reviewed publication platform


Cold fusion

A very brief history


2014

Plasma art

Sparking curiosity in science


Instabilities in fusion plasmas

A summary of my academic research


Fusor: Star mode

Understanding if enhanced electrostatic fusion is possible


Play with particles

An experiment in cross platform physics apps


BOT

Bump-on-Tail simulation tool