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A spammer recently bumped this thread and I started typing out a reply before I realized that it was someone who just copied/pasted an earlier post (which I'm going to delete just as soon as I finish typing this). I already had stuff typed out, so for anyone who still …
My husband has been with Apple ever since college. Over the years, he's developed a little bit of seniority when it comes to personal time. For example, his manager understood when I first got sick and he basically needed to work from home fulltime in order to take care of …
What software engineering "best practice" doesn't scale nearly as well as people claim? Have any of you worked at both a start-up as well as a big corporation? What are the major differences in terms of getting products from conception to release? What about maintaining them *after* release?
What tech habits consume the most amount of your time? Are you fine with that, or trying to cut back? Doom scrolling, anyone? I've personally been spending a lot of time on Reddit and HealthUnlocked lately.
For those of you who have had long careers in tech, what has surprised you the most about it? Going further, what's something you'd do differently if you started again? (I think I might have asked the second part of this question months ago, but the brain fog is unreal, …
Hello, As a public service announcement, test your home for radon. Radon enters through the ground and is radioactive and high levels of radon are the leading cause of non-smoking lung cancer. Unfortunately, not many people know they need to get their home tested. (We didn't!) We recently found that …
Hi Ryan! Welcome to DaniWeb. :) Why don't you tell us a little about yourself?
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> Do you usually prioritize technical SEO first, or on-page SEO? Technical SEO *is* on-page SEO.
As publishers, we are *required* to share our content with Google AI if we want to be included in Google search results, and it would be an utter death sentence to not be in Google. We might as well figure out a way to get some traffic out of it. …
AI is just in its infancy, and right now everyone and their mother is using it to quickly get access to information online more efficiently than a Google search, and generate articles and content for the web. A lot of companies are also switching to AI agents to power customer …
> >I’ve been using it, but I always ensure it's perfect or not. > > Well, it's definitely going to be one or the other. When I give an answer I always try to ensure that it is correct or not. I think you are misunderstanding bijutoha. They are not …
How on earth do you effectively program from your phone?!
It has to do with the type of website that is trying to gain traffic. However, for the most part, content sites are pretty frustrated that AI bots are scraping all of their content and then using it to directly answer a searcher's question, without the searcher ever having to …
> Let's see what happens with the August update; we might all need help to get more traffic. Which August update are you referring to? The last core update was in June.
Hi everyone! Long time, no chat. I know I've been gone from here for a long time now. My health has been pretty poor. I've been very, very drowsy and it's been difficult to sit in front of the computer screen. However, I've been in a lot less pain (aka …
Just as the topic title suggests, any jQuery 4 beta users out there who could let me know what it's like? The wait for v4 gold release is killing me. Also, please don't make fun of me for being a jQuery user. DaniWeb has been built on jQuery for decades. …
I assume that if you have a paid post that is not performing as well as you expected it to, giving it a little extra oomph, even if it costs you a few bucks, gives the brand a bit wider reach, and ultimately perhaps a higher ROI, and might make …
Im going to have to go against popular opinion and say that it's not always the case that practice makes perfect. I tend to only use half my brain. I'm not very artistic or musical. When I was in elementary school, I practiced the violin for hours and hours every …
> YEARWEEK(NOW(), 1) returns a number of the current week. It looks like they're trying to see if the week of $givenDate is the same as the current week of the year.
Do you have a specific, niche audience in mind that your content is targeting? What do you envision that audience doing with their free time? Are they students who are going to be in school from 9 am to 4 pm? Are they parents of young kids who are going …
I think you're referring to physical memory (hard drive space) and not random access memory (RAM). Using up all your hdd space can make your phone go slower. RAM is transient and is just the memory the apps you currently have open at the time are using. The amount of …
I don't protect my online presence at all. My email is listed on DaniWeb's contact page, and I have never taken effort to use javascript to obfuscate it. I guess I just assume it's already been out there for so long, and I've always included it in media kits, biz …
Don't forget that if you are not going with an out-of-the-box solution, such as Mailchimp, Sendgrid, etc., that you will need to clean the list on your own! That means purging bounced addresses, purging addresses that don't interact with your emails, etc.
> hello Welcome to DaniWeb. Do you have something to contribute here?
Read articles. Read forums. You'll learn the same way you learned SEO.
Use a CDN like Cloudflare. Don't use too many third-party plug-ins. They always slow down a site and create bloat. Use Google PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest.org, and GTMetrix.
QuickBooks is the best, and arguably most popular, accounting software for small businesses. It’s available in 150 countries so far.
> All tips marked 1. ? Weird. That is built into the Markdown language. Part of the Markdown standard is that, regardless of what number you write (e.g. for convenience, you can write `1. ` in front of every single line of a very long list, numbered lists are automagically …
Of course. AS @HamzaDXS says, it's all about quantity over quality.
If *you* were in charge of DaniWeb, what would you change? (I promise to not get defensive.)
Unfortunately, Yahoo Mail doesn't have an export feature. By any chance are you already using an email client such as Microsoft Outlook to access your email? You can download your email into a third-party email client such as Outlook (Server: export.imap.mail.yahoo.com; Port: 933; Requres SSL: Yes) and then you'll have …
I think that before something like this would be useful, what the world *really* needs is an accurate way of detecting AI-generated content that doesn't have an overwhelming amount of false positives or false negatives. For now, I wouldn't really mind uploading to a content AI detector, as long as …
Would you trade privacy for convenience if it meant living in a fully automated smart home with a self-driving car, etc. etc. etc.? I would trade pretty much *anything* for my privacy. (I guess I don't value my privacy very much, at least at this point in my life.) Heck, …
It's funny that DaniWeb is the fourth in the list, but we have always been nofollow.
Hello everyone. Sorry I haven't been around lately. I've had a crazy amount of brain fog lately and I've had a hard time concentrating everytime I look at the screen.
From a fellow PHP dev, welcome to DaniWeb!! What sorts of projects do you work on? Do you freelance?
Currently the thing I hate most about TV shows is how much time elapses between seasons. I feel like I've been waiting for season 2 of Severance on AppleTV for *forever*! (It's been over 2 years already since season 1 debuted.) Speaking of that, is there ever going to be …
What's the most annoying hardware failure you've ever had and what did it teach you? I'll go first. Check your RAM and make backups of backups.
I've noticed that really strong articles with an overly simplistic UI tend to be linked to the most, and as a result, carry the most authority.
I know that Nvidia cards are pushing the envelope these days with AI, but are we hitting diminishing returns with consumer hardware performance? On one hand, I'm not hearing the Intel vs. AMD competition trying to outdo each other in gigahertz that was the big thing in the 90s, but …
How do you think the hardware that you use today shapes the kind of person you become in the future? I was never someone glued to my phone until a few years ago. Today I am, for sure. I'm most likely much less present because of it.
Either SproutGigs or Fiverr. I think we can help you more if you give more insight into who your demographic is. Different platforms work differently for different audiences.
For me, it was Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. OMG, how I *lived* in that in middle school! And, of course, I probably would have lost patience for coding a very long time ago if I wasn't as quick a touch typist as I am. The very first piece of software …
It has to be Screaming Frog for me. What tools can't *you* live without?
Platforms that allow social media marketing managers and copywriters to automate copy across social accounts has existed for decades (Buffer, etc.) They've all long since built AI into their platforms. This is nothing new.
A mobile app is actually in the works. While there are no plans to develop anything in-house, a friend of mine runs a private consulting firm that specializes in mobile apps, and they're excited about using our new API to develop something for us. However, I couldn't give you any …
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