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Carry Me Home is the first song I’m posting to my blog (I’ve mostly been writing about tech stuff), and I’m super excited to share it with you. Kristofferson is a friend of mine that I’ve been working with for the past few years. He Read More …
Tracking heatmaps help you understand how your visitors navigate your website, and it is crucial for a solid web design and user experience. You can easily do all of this with Hotjar. Pair this up with Google Analytics, and you’ve got yourself some gold. Let Read More …
When you search for something on Google, you are going to click on the result that will give you the results you want. Schema markup gives websites more options for clarification, using microdata, to organize your content and draw in more organic search visitors. Is Read More …
Chunking – breaking up information for better comprehension and readability. Unfortunately for me, only about 20% of the text in this article will be read; visitors will skim the rest. Let me tell you why chunking makes a difference, and how to use it effectively. Read More …
In my networking class last semester, we covered a section about the basics of WiFi and how it works. We went over the disadvantages, standards, some relevant terms, authentication, encryption, access points, filtering… the whole enchilada. In short, today’s WiFi-enabled devices must follow the IEEE Read More …
Hopefully you’ve heard of this already, but Equifax was recently severely compromised in a “cybersecurity incident”. “cybersecurity incident” is code for “colossal fuck-up of epic proportions” — saddest server (@sadserver) September 7, 2017 Criminals now have access to over 143 million sets of full names, Read More …
Where did WannaCry go after its original execution? I’m not sure, but it had to have ran somewhere ransomware! In all seriousness, I’ve buried myself deep in WannaCry research for the past couple of weeks. The entire story is very interesting. I wanted to know who Read More …
Big O notation is mainly used to classify algorithms based on variables such as their running time and space-requirements-to-input-size ratio. It characterizes functions according to their growth rates in relation to the size of the data. Efficiency is definitely a top priority in the world of computer science. Read More …
Before we begin our CSS grids tutorial, here is my finished demo, and here is my tutorial in pdf. Huge thanks to @edgedestroys for letting me use his awesome photography as demo content! Now, let’s get started. What are CSS Grids? CSS Grids are a 2D grid-based powerful layout system with track-sizing, order placement, alignment control, Read More …
The first assignment of my IT4300 (Database Design & Management) class was to interview a database administrator of a company. I reached out to Jeff Beckstrand of OC Tanner over e-mail with a few questions about his views of working with databases. Though short and to the point, Read More …