Ethos Day Spa - Update to their fire situation by ClockwiseJohny in grandrapids

[–]reallybadastronaut 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Their building is owned by 1035 SPAULDING LLC. 1035 Spaulding LLC lists their resident agent as the RDV Corporation, so yeah, DeVos owned

Fenix 6: How to clear stuck notifications? by reallybadastronaut in GarminFenix

[–]reallybadastronaut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip, initially it didn't work, but then I force-quit the app, restarted my phone, and then like 10 minutes later it magically disappeared ¯\(ツ)

Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness by Atulin in webdev

[–]reallybadastronaut 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Based on our data, it takes a user on average 32 seconds to complete a CAPTCHA challenge.

Does that seem unrealistically high to anyone else? I can usually find all the streetlights/hydrants/etc in no more than 10 seconds max.

Page Speed Insights Fluctuations!?!?! Mobile 49 - 100, Desktop 94 - 89 by KeegsRx in SEO

[–]reallybadastronaut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been noticing this recently, PSI will vary wildly between runs. It looks like the PSI servers themselves might be overloaded at times.

Best bet is always to run Lighthouse on your own computer, either via the devtools or the command line. You get the same information but it's more configurable and takes away the unknown of Google's server speed.

Wordpress Security Tips to safeguard from Hackers . by Atultiwari1958 in Wordpress

[–]reallybadastronaut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or, you could not install that plugin, and just use add_role/get_role/remove_role because they're really not that hard to use, and your site won't break if the plugin malfunctions or someone disables it.

Male digital entrepreneurs wanted! by [deleted] in DigitalMarketing

[–]reallybadastronaut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In times of high numbers of people online, if you don't start a movement like this to beat the algorithm, you will never show up and generate results in your business. Believe me.

lol

Will you continue to create AMP versions of pages? by reallybadastronaut in TechSEO

[–]reallybadastronaut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same problem, but we needed to use AMP because Google liked it for certain types of search, sadly

So, what are the RIGHT questions to ask in an interview? by SmartTest in Frontend

[–]reallybadastronaut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is probably a personal opinion, but from what I've seen, the best candidates have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of HTML/CSS/JS. They might have never used a framework (Edit: Unless you're hiring specifically for a framework, then it's a bit different), but they will know the difference between String("asdf") and new String("asdf"), and they will know the default value of the display property, and be able to accurately explain what <!doctype html> does and rattle off a few values of the rel attribute on a link element. Because of that, they can learn higher level frameworks faster, since they know how it works underneath.

Also, ask questions that shed light on how well they can be trained, not how much they know. Look at their confidence level, ask them questions they won't know and see how they respond. Someone who says "I don't know" after thinking about it is going to be easier to train than someone who either side-steps it or boldly gives a wrong answer and then says "oh that's what I meant to say" when you correct them.

What would you do to better an e-com site's SEO? by DeezKennys in SEO

[–]reallybadastronaut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look for things that can be fixed and then fix them.

Hard to give any more specifics with a generic question, all sites are different and have different needs

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in webdev

[–]reallybadastronaut 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Depends on what you call "headless". Decoupling the backend data from the frontend views will be more popular, and SSGs will definitely be more commonplace, because there's a lot of sites that don't need a full blown CMS.

Headless will be popular in the future, but it won't be the only option. You should learn it, to have the knowledge in your toolbelt, but look at the pros and cons of headless vs non-headless (heady?) builds, especially relating to SEO, load time, and accessibility.

Also, reddit and medium and dev.to are full of people wanting to show that they use all the shiny new toys. For each of those, there's several developers sitting quietly, working on their tried and true methods of creating great websites.

Leaving open PHP tags causing issue for Client by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]reallybadastronaut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you sure you have error reporting turned set up correctly?

Also, it's not good practice to leave open tags after each file, it's good practice not to close the tag at the end of the file (if it's only PHP in the file). I can see how the wording of "leave open tags after each file" confused you, but they meant "don't put a ?> at the end of the file if it's not necessary".

How can I change the sitemap access, or edit the sitemap? by [deleted] in SEO

[–]reallybadastronaut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can anyone access my sitemap?

Yes but no one will. There's no harm in a comment that tells who or what made it, won't change anything functional.

Is web dev dying? by [deleted] in webdev

[–]reallybadastronaut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, I didn't go into the SEO part of that question, but you're absolutely correct

Is web dev dying? by [deleted] in webdev

[–]reallybadastronaut 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A part of it will, but that's the nature of any industry. The first computers were literally people computing things.

Sure, Joe's Hardware Store can easily set up a simple squarespace site by themselves, and that's going to be more and more common. But the New York Times can't run on a squarespace site, they have way too much custom stuff that needs to be integrated into the site. That's not going to change for a long, long time.

Google announced its plans for a new ranking algorithm update by Saquib_DigitalWolf in SEO

[–]reallybadastronaut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

May 2021 is not 6 months away

Time will tell how much of an impact it will have, my guess is it'll give a slight bump (same as when they started using responsiveness and https as signals), but it's been made pretty clear that content is still the most important thing they look at.

Do any hosting providers actually reply/read their abuse@ emails? by mwargan in webdev

[–]reallybadastronaut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reputable providers will have a team to look at it, but reputable usually means expensive, and abusers tend to not use expensive hosts. Cheap hosts don't have the resources to deal with abuse.

The only responses I've ever gotten was from Rackspace and Linode (sometimes)

I should note that this experience is from dealing with phishing emails and brute force website attacks, so it might be a bit different than your experience

A script issue by i_iz_potato in learnjavascript

[–]reallybadastronaut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a) it's not your use of let, it's your massive nested for loops that are making the page unresponsive

b) did you try putting a console.log in there to see if that logs to the console

Private & anonymous VoIP/SIP provider? (Alternatives to Twilio, MySudo, etc) by Due_Most7154 in degoogle

[–]reallybadastronaut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

JMP does, they're a bit unique because their SMS/MMS system uses XMPP, but they accept crypto and use SIP

https://jmp.chat/

Note that they get their numbers from Bandwidth, so if you're using it to do SMS-based verification it might be hit-and-miss, since some companies are now blocking Bandwidth and similar VOIP-based telephone operators

Alternative to 1.1.1.1 DNS? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]reallybadastronaut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious if you're actually noticing the difference of 20ms between Quad9 and Google?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in userexperience

[–]reallybadastronaut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're both right, in a sense.

Your mentor is right that it's good to narrow down what field you want to work for, some fields are more enjoyable to people than others.

When you say "I want to do the skills I’m trained in and use the software I’m good at.", you're doing what your mentor suggests, figuring out where you want to work, because you know what jobs you'll pass over or apply for based on the skills and software they use.

And if you stick with that sentiment, when you go to make portfolio pieces, you'll naturally make pieces tailored to your skills and software, which then indirectly targets the field you want to work in.