When you publish a post on your blog, one of the first things you want to do is share it with the world, and Twitter/X is one of the most popular platforms for that. However, if you’re using Google’s Blogspot (also known as Blogger), your blog posts won’t automatically display...
Read more →Despite the rise of privacy advocates discouraging use of email, it remains a valuable communication tool with numerous benefits. Here’s why you should continue to embrace email in your digital communication strategy. The nostalgic value of written communication When did you last see someone post a letter in an inland...
Read more →There are a plethora of keyword research tools available in the market such as SEMRush, ahrefs, KWFinder, etc. and while a subscription to them makes sense if you are a small company or startup, it definitely doesn’t for small bloggers who work with a limited budget. But even if you...
Read more →The methods and examples given in this article are based on flask framework but they should apply to django or something similar too with a little tweak. Few weeks ago, I had landed myself on a project of similar nature and though I found several helpful articles and blog posts...
Read more →One might wonder why an entire blog post is needed for a simple matter of clearing cookies on a web browser in the 21st century. But believe it or not, such are the state of things when it comes to android browsing! Firefox is a great browser to have on...
Read more →The Content vs. SEO Debate In the content publishing world, there has been a constant battle between the “Content is King” camp and the “SEO” camp! The first camp insists that it’s good content that essentially drives traffic to your blog or website. The second camp insists that it’s good...
Read more →The popular wisdom when it comes to implement routing in your client side apps or single page apps (SPA) as they are called these days, is to just grab an “off-the-shelf” framework like angular or vue and start using it. Well, that’s the easy way out but you will never...
Read more →More than two years have passed since I shared my perspective on Microsoft’s Github acquisition in this blog post earlier, and the point still stands today. Why did Microsoft decide to acquire a startup company much smaller in size which had no viable and long term revenue/profit generation model? If...
Read more →Message flashing is a very handy technique you must be aware of if you are a Flask developer. A common recurring pattern in web development is to send messages across web requests, especially in case of redirects when the route or controller that redirected wants to display some basic text...
Read more →Having switched from linux to windows recently, I was looking for an rsync alternative. rsync is a popular tool in the linux world used for taking routine backups and also general file transfer. But since I use it mostly for backups and I’m mostly a command line dude, I was...
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