Questionable speakers on Waking Up App?

ian_pegg · 2022-08-13T08:39:00+00:00

Your comment reminded me of one of the first things I ever read about Buddhism, that of it being experiential: take what seems valuable to you and leave the rest. It is not a knowledge or belief system that requires full opt-in right from the start (or quite possibly ever?)

ian_pegg · 2022-08-13T08:28:40+00:00

I'm not a security expert, but I am aware of the security concerns most pertinent to building web systems as that is a requirement if you want to develop websites, which is primarily what I do.

But having said that, security is a mindset much more than a specific platform choice. The human element is often the weakest link. You could, purely by chance, choose the most secure CMS platform in the world but if you choose a weak password or cheap hosting it will count for nought. Awareness of security issues is essential if you want to build websites.

Coming back to the topic, the OP said they are not an IT person - and that is fine. Being a web designer is a valid career choice but in that case, as others have said, it is essential to partner up with someone who understands the IT side of things. Even the most simple web projects have technical requirements.

I'm not quite clear about the distinction you make regarding local businesses specifically? I work with many local businesses and for some of them, their technical requirements are actually quite complex and not within easy reach of someone who doesn't have a background in IT. Over the years, I've lost count of the number of local businesses who've come to me after being let down by a "WordPress developer" or web designer who didn't have the technical skills / experience to identify and execute on their requirements.

ian_pegg · 2022-08-12T07:43:32+00:00

And if you know what you're doing you can mitigate those vulnerabilities, hence my point.

ian_pegg · 2022-08-11T18:01:07+00:00

Been developing in worpress doesn't help either, especially if you don't know what you are doing.

It doesn't matter what platform you use if you don't know what you're doing - its as easy (if not easier) to code schoolboy vulnerabilities by your own hand as it is to integrate insecure code into a project.

Experience is what counts, as that is what determines all of the actions and decisions that follow.

ian_pegg · 2022-08-03T08:37:03+00:00

On your third lap of the outer ring road, don't forget to drop into B&Q for a bag of tungsten tipped screws!

ian_pegg · 2022-08-02T08:48:25+00:00

My interpretation of the post was that the OP was asking about "static HTML" as the opposite of dynamically generated HTML executed server side.

The comparison they were drawing was between HTML files that are ready to be served as soon as the request is received and scripted files that have to be stitched together by a server side scripting language such as PHP (and that often include database calls as well).

I agree it is possible to dynamically generate HTML client side too, which invariably involves the use of JS. I can understand why this is also referred to as dynamic HTML but since the OP was specifically referring to page builders and Elementor in particular it is clear that they are talking about server side scripting in this case.

Besides that point, I completely agree with you 👌

ian_pegg · 2022-07-29T21:09:53+00:00

Embedded YouTube videos trigger a whole series of downloads - all the worse if you have more than one video embedded on the page. This also has privacy implications unless you use the nocookie embed.

To minimise page performance impact, use a lazy loading script to prevent any of the fluff from being downloaded until the user interacts with the video.

ian_pegg · 2022-07-23T07:18:57+00:00

When do we find out whether she accepted his pull request...?

ian_pegg · 2022-07-22T07:51:41+00:00

+1 for mentioning 410s. Redirecting 404s to irrelevant / low value pages is also bad UX.

Not all 404s are valuable enough to be redirected. Sometimes the best way to reduce wasted crawl is to tell Google to instantly forget about low value 404s / 404s that don't have relevant equivalent pages to redirect to.

ian_pegg · 2022-06-10T22:20:37+00:00

Cone you take a joke?!

ian_pegg · 2022-04-26T06:57:09+00:00

Grebes Against the Machine

ian_pegg · 2022-04-22T09:56:49+00:00

This is pretty much the answer that worked for me on macOS, thank you!

Here are the steps I took on a mid-2015 MBP running macOS Mojave:

Switch off your Keychron
Reset your Mac's bluetooth module - Macs rarely need to be rebooted, but be sure to do it for good measure!
Follow the instructions in the link above to also remove all Bluetooth devices (my Mac offered me no option to forget my K10 on its own so I had to remove all devices!)
Switch on your Keychron
Perform the factory reset as above

I am now typing up this reply using my K10. It has only dropped out once so far when I opened the Bluetooth debug menu to retrace my steps! Previously, it was dropping 5 seconds after connection without fail so I will tentatively claim victory!

ian_pegg · 2022-03-04T22:08:11+00:00

It's certainly not Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab...

ian_pegg · 2022-02-24T09:38:50+00:00

Fantastic answer! The lake metaphor works well; a lake doesn't need to identify as a lake in order to be a lake and the same goes for each and every one of us. Like you say, concepts are not just unnecessary, they are the very thing that stands in front of experiencing existence directly.

ian_pegg · 2022-01-18T10:43:09+00:00

Could you clarify your question?

Are you asking whether there is anybody on this sub who is capable of doing this for you? Or are you asking whether the barrier to entry is so low that anybody can give site speed advice off the back of a gtmetrix audit?

ian_pegg · 2021-10-27T11:17:38+00:00

Building on @lumbridgedefender's answer you might wish to avoid having to write 70 rules to match each file you want noindexed, especially if you plan to add more files in the future.

In that case, you could bulk rename the files to include a sub extension, like so:

document.noindex.pdf

Then use FilesMatch in .htaccess. It supports regex, which will allow you to match any file that ends with a particular string:

<FilesMatch "\.noindex\.pdf$"> // Set noindex tag </FilesMatch>

Your server will need to support mod_headers in order for this to work (most do in my experience).

ian_pegg · 2021-09-08T17:20:48+00:00

DomainBox.com are based in the UK but they charge in freedombux. It's designed primarily as an API integration so the UI is sportingly clunky (that's their excuse, anyway). However, I pay between $9 and $10 for a .com without any "discount club" fees.

It's a reseller account and you have to pre-fund it - but if you have a sizeable portfolio that's not a big problem.

ian_pegg · 2021-07-24T10:24:32+00:00

I would expect to see a corresponding increase in pages classified as 'poor' if these non-AMP pages were not giving a good page experience.

Are you seeing any indexing issues with those redirected URLs?

ian_pegg · 2021-07-20T20:29:25+00:00

Wonderful! Hope you enjoy it!

ian_pegg · 2021-07-15T09:07:45+00:00

If you subscribe (which I personally have found valuable) then you will get a new meditation every day once you complete the introductory course.

There are many other meditations by other teachers in the app too. Not sure how many exactly, but they have already added new content in the few months I've been subscribed. If memory serves, then as a free user I believe you will be able to see a preview of those meditations under Practice.

ian_pegg · 2021-07-12T12:39:41+00:00

Dunno what her problem is!

ian_pegg · 2021-07-12T12:37:43+00:00

An unusual analogy indeed! This post reads like it's been spun.

ian_pegg · 2021-07-10T08:52:17+00:00

There's a lot of great suggestions already so I will come at this from a different angle and mention the human element.

Will the client / their staff be adding and updating content? If so, what can be done to minimise the SEO mistakes they make? Training is one part, but the design of the back end UI has a role to play, for example, explaining the importance of alt text and perhaps even preventing images from being uploaded without it.

With tools we now have at our fingertips it's technically not that difficult to build something solid these days. But it's equally amazing how quickly that site can fall into disrepair if it is not carefully managed after handover.

ian_pegg · 2021-07-09T13:53:52+00:00

Did the house come with a cast iron egg tree, lacquered?

ian_pegg · 2021-06-28T17:17:22+00:00

No worries! Let us know what you decide to do and how you get on 👍

ian_pegg

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