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21Nov 2022 by Admin No Comments

Machines we need to tackle climate change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHs-eWHb16g We know we’re currently pumping too much carbon dioxide into the air. But wouldn’t it be amazing if we could find a way to suck it all up and send it back deep underground?Effectively it’s a solution that works. I think, things are moving much more quickly than people expected. Climate scientists are now saying that without such technology, we won’t hit our climate targets. Can this actually work? And why is the money for this coming from the most unlikely source - big oil companies? So where did this crazy idea come from? Turns out, this seemingly cutting edge idea to capture carbon is actually decades old! The US Navy used capture as a way to clear the air inside submarines and space shuttles, that filled up with…

12Nov 2022 by Admin No Comments

Load testing to find out the PHP memory issues | K6.io

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Intended for: Developers There's a very nice tool to find out whether your website will work for high traffic and if your memory is sufficient to process that. It's called K6.io The PHP errors can be detected by PHPCS, Github Bots, in-built code editors, but the memory issues can only be detected by doing load testing and simulating live environment and user interactions with backend. Hence the K6.io load testing. :) I found it very useful while testing the user requests, load testing and stress testing. Normally if you have a good code and less memory consuming codes it won't let the site go down. However, if there is a PHP process that is going to take time to execute and consumes all the memory allotted, there will be chances…

06Nov 2022 by Admin No Comments

Should you try the New macOS Ventura on M1 Pro?

Apple Macbook

I tested the new macOS Ventura on MacBook M1 Pro (14 Inch 2021) laptop. The result was bad, so the short answer is "Not yet". So many good features mentioned here, I wanted to try out on my M1 Pro, but it just gave me headache. :( Although my M1 Pro was listed as compatible with Ventura. The update was not of use all. These are the problems I faced: Frequent App Crashes such as Chrome, Opera. (Atleast the apps opened for few minutes though) The menu icons were not showing up on the top right corner, which it used to on macOS Monterey. The App Store, never opened for me. These issues were enough for me to revert back to previous macOS Monterey, but there was no easy way.…

26Aug 2022 by Admin 1 Comment

GA4 setup for non-technical WordPress users

Analytics

A lot of things to get embedded or added to website needs a code snippet to be added in the website code files. That includes analytics, GTM, ads, etc. However, there is one easy way to setup Google Analytics 4 on WordPress. Here is how you can do it without any coding efforts, just by doing few clicks. Enter, the Site Kit Plugin by Google. The best way to add Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to the WordPress site, Google's SiteKit Plugin After installing and activating this plugin, you will see a good wizard. The installation documentation is very well presented here - https://sitekit.withgoogle.com/documentation/getting-started/install/ The most amazing thing is that this plugin has login with Google option, that lets you create and configure Google analytics account right from the plugin backend,…

16Aug 2022 by Admin No Comments

Google Search Results displays Words Coach for more fun and engagement

Google Search

Google Search is becoming more fun for basic users and english learners. The people who are often trying to search for the meaning of words, may see the Words Coach game, which will in turn improve the vocabulary and glossary of people. This is very useful for people who want to improve improve english language. Yesterday I found this while searching meaning "Tableau" word and this is what came up in the Google search results. The small mobile external link icon displayed on the bottom left corner of this word coach game will allow users to add Word Coach to their home screen. Words Coach is a fun game for all users, it also shows graphics in the quiz to help users play it visually, and give more clarity. This…

13Aug 2022 by Admin No Comments

Laptops: No creativity in designs after Steve Jobs?

Laptops

Today we see a lot of laptops coming out in market. As of today we have these laptops looking exactly like the Apple's Macbook air. For example, Samsung Galaxy Book2. Samsung Galaxy Book2 Intel 12th Gen core i7 39.6cm (15.6") FHD LED Thin & Light Laptop (16 GB/512 GB SSD/Windows 11) The only difference we see is that it uses Window's logo. Feeling like the creativity in designs left after Steve Jobs. The one who looked specifically for internal designs also. Apple Macbook Pro Internal DesignLooking stunning as usual even from inside. We are pretty sure they must have copied Apple's internal design as well. After Steve Jobs, at-least Apple is trying to come up with new chip's technology claiming faster than ever with solid marketing speeches and all.. Wondering…

26Jun 2022 by Admin No Comments

Elon Musk’s Boring Company

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One guy and multiple technology innovations and ideas. Its quite fascinating that a man's curiosity and ideas become successful, while normal people have no idea what to do. 😀 Talking about Elon Musk. He has many ideas and businesses, that he executes and runs. So much belief in his own ideas that he owns big things (like Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX). He was once the richest guy on earth. 🫡 While we are busy and struggling with the daily routine work, the scientists such as Elon Musk are coming with new unthinkable technologies and making that a reality. Let's take a look at his boring company project. #The Boring Company The idea of a boring company came into existence when Elon Musk was irritated by the traffic one fine day. He…

04Jun 2022 by Admin No Comments

Analysing Website for Optimization

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So you have a bad site, not performing well on the Pagespeed Insights, don't worry. It's time to go back to basics, where we used to work only on HTML, CSS. No matter how much browser evolves, we will still have to first think of writing browser compatible code. Other libraries or polyfills can simplify browsers middleware code but still there is some efforts or compilation of code. Before optimizing anything we need to analyze what our website already has. Like a doctor would see first the blood report and see what is low and what is high in blood. So analysing and finding out what all things our website has is the first thing to know. Following is the way to find out simply in the dev tools. You…

31May 2022 by Admin No Comments

[beta] Core Web Vitals: Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Core Web Vitals

You must have seen There is a new core web vitals (CWV) metric called INP introduced in the Page Speed Insights report. However, this is in beta stage, meaning experimental metric. At a first glance, it seems like unnecessary metric to use as we already have hard time fixing other metric issues like CLS, LCP, FCP, TTBT, FID. However, the Google's tool was calculating all of things until page load event happens. There was no accounting for interactions of the real world users. Apparently the interactions that happen are around 90% after page load event, which Google PageSpeed Insights was not able to calculate. So there was a loop hole to trick Google pagespeed scores and get good ranking. This is mainly because Google checks the browsers main thread status…

12May 2022 by Admin 8 Comments

Google Analytics 4 Support for AMP pages

Analytics, Google AMP

After going through a lot of blog posts and discussions on the internet. I found a working solution with a magic code snippet. As you know the new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) will be the only analytics processing the data and working from July 1, 2023. Read more here. Also read: GA4 Setup for non-technical The universal analytics is shutting down processing of the data. Also we can not migrate the data from Universal Analytics (GA3) to GA4, that's sad. Whilst we have these problems, many sites which are using AMP and put a lot of efforts and time on building AMP pages, did not have direct solutions to get GA4 working on AMP pages. No solution on topics here also. Google Analytics 4 + Google AMP There are two…

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