A popular Bill Gates quotation reads, “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” That’s often invoked to suggest new technologies don’t change things as quickly as expected but will have a longer-term impact. Such is the case with voice and virtual assistants. A…
DetailsAfter a few months of testing it now appears Google has started rolling out the new search bar with icons. Instead of just using text to show the various search categories or verticals for news, video, images, maps, shopping and so on – Google is showing icons that represent those categories as well. Screen shot.…
DetailsOne of the many bits of news from Google I/O 2019 was that Google would soon start displaying podcasts in search results. “Soon” turned out to be very soon, as we’re already seeing these results surface. Here’s one from a search for our own podcast, MozPod: While the feature itself is interesting, and the fact…
DetailsLast month, I published two articles that talked about using cURL to handle redirects that may inevitably happen when working with certain URLs. Specifically, I’m talking about: Finding the Destination of a Redirect with PHP Using cURL to Determine If the Specified URL Is a Valid Page And though the second one is more of…
DetailsYuta Takahashi shared an incredible graphic design and editorial design project on his Behance profile titled Erkenntnisweg und Heiliger Geist. As he mentions in the description, this book, which combines modernity and minimalism, ancient knowledge and philosophical thought, has a completely new, unique design. You can definitely see that right away with the cover that is simple but…
DetailsAffinity Designer is here with a big 2019 update that comes optimised for the iPad, Mac and Windows. The latest update to Affinity Designer is here and it’s the biggest one yet. Announced today by UK software giant Serif, the latest incarnation of the vector graphics editor sees both its desktop and iPad versions pimped out…
DetailsAbout The Author Be Birchall is a software developer at Peloton who likes writing code and about the ideas behind it. She has a math/philosophy background and holds a PhD from … More about Be… How do browsers and HTML support screen readers today? In this article, Be Birchall explains why it’s so important to…
Detailsupdate 05-06-19: Digital Ocean has posted their postmortem on this situation as mentioned by their CTO Barry Cooks in the comments. Last Friday May 31, Nicolas Beauvais, CTO and only tech person of small startup raisup.com, took to Twitter with a cry for help. Their cloud hosting company Digital Ocean had just locked their account…
DetailsGoogle announced on the Search Liaison Twitter account just now that it has updated its search results to show a more diverse set of search results. That means Google will aim to show no more than two results from the same domain for a particular query in the top results. More diverse Google results. Searchers,…
DetailsIt takes thoughtful work to scale an e-commerce store. I’m sure you’ve had a few growing pains of your own getting to the point where you are today. However, you’re reading this because you may not be content with where your conversions are at this precise moment. You may not even know if your conversion…
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