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Build consistent UTM-tagged URLs with source, medium, campaign, term, and content parameters that remain useful in analytics.

Todo.txt is a small, portable task format built from plain text, priorities, projects, and contexts.

Serve WOFF2 fonts from your own site with a focused @font-face rule, sensible fallbacks, and the right licence and caching checks.

A practical introduction to TypeScript types, narrowing, functions, API boundaries, and a small project setup.

Use CSS invert(), combine filters in a predictable order, and move to SVG filters only when the simple option is not enough.

Understand CSS stacking contexts, positioned elements, and the reason z-index: 999999 sometimes changes nothing.

A practical guide to common HTTP response codes, redirects, client and server errors, and the headers that explain them.

Use Schema.org vocabulary and JSON-LD to describe articles, products, and organisations, then validate the markup without expecting guaranteed rich results.

Use robots.txt to manage crawler access, publish a sitemap, and avoid the common mistake of treating Disallow as noindex or authentication.

Install FFmpeg and use a small set of practical commands for conversion, trimming, audio extraction, filters, and batch processing.

A plain-English explanation of large language models, what they can do, and why fluent output should not be confused with truth.

A practical first look at installing Ollama, running a local language model, and creating a custom Modelfile.

Use the CSS aspect-ratio property to size images, videos, cards, and responsive layouts without the old padding hack.

Use CSS text-wrap to balance headings, improve paragraph wrapping, or deliberately keep text on one line.

A practical way to use AI for blog ideas, outlines, research leads, and editing without losing your own voice.

Write clearer AI prompts by defining the task, context, constraints, output format, and examples.

CSS margin-inline sets margins along the inline axis, making spacing work across writing modes and text directions.

Tell the browser which color schemes your page supports and let native controls match light or dark mode.

Cloudflare Fonts can serve Google Fonts from your own domain.

Block selected AI crawlers with robots.txt or Cloudflare, and understand why meta tags and old IP lists are weaker options.

Artificial general intelligence describes a hypothetical system able to handle a broad range of cognitive tasks, but the definition remains disputed.

A practical 2024 comparison of Figma and Sketch, focused on collaboration, platforms, offline work, and handoff.

Improve Facebook ads with a clear objective, useful creative, controlled tests, reliable measurement, and budget decisions based on outcomes.

Use campaign data to find useful audience segments, test ads, and spend the advertising budget where it has a better chance of working.

A straightforward list of the default apps and services I use for mail, notes, photos, work, and everything in between.

Use native CSS nesting to keep related selectors and media queries together without turning the stylesheet into a maze.

Use CSS clamp() to create fluid type and spacing with sensible minimum and maximum values.

Use CSS subgrid when items inside a nested grid need to align with tracks from the parent grid.

Delay video downloads with preload settings or Intersection Observer, depending on whether the video waits for a click or plays automatically.

Use CSS clip-path to reveal circles, polygons, insets, and other shapes without editing the original image.

A practical look at service workers, web app manifests, installation, and the cases where a Progressive Web App is worth building.

A practical Vim cheat sheet for movement, editing, visual selections, search, files, splits, and the commands that are easiest to forget.

Use CSS :has() and checkboxes to build a small content filter without JavaScript.

Use Attention, Branding, Connection, and Direction as a practical review framework for YouTube ad creative.

Create an SSH key on Ubuntu 20.04, copy the public key to a server, test the login, and only then consider disabling passwords.

Install Node.js on Ubuntu 20.04 with NodeSource or use nvm when a development machine needs several Node versions.

GA4 uses an event-based model, so its users, sessions, conversions, and engagement metrics should not be compared directly with Universal Analytics.

Compare Jekyll and Hugo by build speed, templates, plugins, built-in features, and GitHub Pages support.

Write useful SEO content by matching search intent, structuring the answer clearly, and removing the habits that make pages sound written for algorithms.

Compare Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Ads by audience intent, reach, creative formats, cost, and the work each platform requires.

Use JSON-LD structured data to describe products, articles, events, and other page content to search engines.

Google Search Console shows how Google crawls, indexes, and presents your site, along with the queries and pages producing search traffic.

Mastodon is a network of independently run social servers.

Improve Core Web Vitals by fixing slow main content, delayed interactions, and unexpected layout shifts with field data as the guide.

Compare Figma and Sketch by platform support, collaboration, files, prototyping, plugins, and the workflow your team already uses.

Eleventy and Hugo both build good static sites, but their languages, templates, and built-in features suit different workflows.

A static site generator combines content and templates before deployment, producing HTML files that a web server can deliver directly.

A canonical URL tells search engines which version of a page you prefer when the same or very similar content has several URLs.

Serverless functions run code in response to events while a provider handles servers, scaling, and much of the deployment infrastructure.

Find and shorten redirect chains so browsers and crawlers reach the final URL with fewer requests and less room for failure.