This Optical Illusion Has a Revelation About Your Brain and Eyes (Published 2022)
Your pupils may be dilating when you see images like this one as your brain tries to anticipate the near future.
My 5 Favorite SEO Newsletters
Staying informed on the latest search engine optimization tactics doesn't have to take a lot of time. Here are five newsletters that will keep you updated quickly and succinctly.
10 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About HTTP | Web Dev Guild
HTTP is a staple of the web, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have some secrets.
How we improved our Rails app’s performance with Conditional Get Requests
HTTP provides a method of client-side caching known as Conditional Get Requests. This style of caching allows a client to cache the content…
Survival Analysis in R (in under 10-minutes)
Making a survival analysis can be a challenge even for experienced R users, but the good news is I’ll help you make beautiful, publication-quality survival plots in under 10-minutes. Here’s what WE are going to do: Make your first survival model an...
Size Optimization Tricks
U.S. Inflation in May: More Mixed News
Some charts on what's good and what's bad.
What Is Conjoint Analysis, and How Can It Be Used?
Conjoint analysis is a highly effective means of market research, capable of informing a company’s pricing strategy and product development.
9 Common Types of Conjoint Analysis and How To Use Them
Conjoint analysis is the optimal market research approach for measuring the value that consumers place on features of a product or service. Learn more!
Useful utilities and toys over DNS
Free and useful services over DNS accessible on command line
Introduction to Collections in Jekyll | DigitalOcean
A quick overview of using collections in Jekyll to create powerful taxonomies around your content.
gRPC vs. REST: Getting Started With the Best API Protocol | Toptal
Discover gRPC's fresh, new approach to web communication.
Collections in Jekyll
By Farrel Burns Brought to you by CloudCannon, the Git-based CMS for Jekyll. What you’ll...
Write HTML Right
Even with a lot of help from a good text editor, writing HTML can be a drag. Nice documents end up as tag-swamps with little bits of content perched atop hills of tabs. Editing them becomes a test of patience and we get sick at the thought of having to look at our once-loved…
Melody Angel is Big Mama Thornton-meets-Hendrix and Chicago’s next big blues star
The Greatest Privilege We Hardly Talk About: Beauty
The advantages of being attractive are exorbitant. Beauty might be the single greatest physical advantage you can have in life. And yet…
UkraineX: How Elon Musk’s space satellites changed the war on the ground
From artillery strikes to Zoom calls, the tech billionaire’s internet service has become a lifeline in the fight against Russia.
Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.
“No matter how it was collected, where it was collected, when it was collected, our language belongs to us," said Ray Taken Alive, a Lakota teacher.
Why your favourite colour is probably blue
From a young age we are primed to choose a favourite colour, but strangely as we grow up our preference often changes – and it's largely due to influences outside our control.
Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.
It's not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game. Here's how it will play out.
Raiders of the Looted Assets: Inside the High-Stakes Race to Recover Qaddaf
While spooks, treasure hunters, and lawyers search for cash, gold, and antiquities, Libya offers a lesson—and 1,001 cautionary tales—about how to recoup loot from kleptocrats.
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Episode #352 - Roles from Scratch
In this episode, we look at different authorization approaches from the most simple to more complex scenarios. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/roles-from-scratch This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger https://www.honeybadger.io/ ► Visit the Merchandise Store…
Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? | Aeon Essays
No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language
Add Feature Flags in Ruby on Rails with Flipper | AppSignal Blog
Find out how feature flags function in principle and get started with feature flags using the Flipper gem.
thoughtbot/hotwire-example-template: A collection of branches that transmit HTML over the wire.
A collection of branches that transmit HTML over the wire. - thoughtbot/hotwire-example-template
“I'm Still Alive but Sh*t Is Getting Wild”: Inside the Siege of the Amarula
When vast gas reserves were discovered off the idyllic coast of northern Mozambique, a crew of roughnecks flew in from around the world to make their fortunes. But in March 2021, Islamist rebels attacked, and the foreigners and thousands of Mozambicans were abandoned. Two…
How to Evaluate Survival Analysis Models
Introduction to the most popular performance evaluation metrics for survival analysis along with practical Python examples
Smart decisions
Learning to make smart decisions helps you get better results. This guide is packed with time-tested real world tools you can use today.
Counterintuitive Competitive Advantages
This is all that’s left of the Irish elk.
Leading Cross-Functional Teams
This is the legendary presentation about cross-functional teams from Ken Norton that made donuts and product management synonymous.
A Checklist of Copywriting Tactics
Free Online Guide - Which words will persuade? How to structure your syntax? Plus dozens of additional techniques.
Keyword Research 101: Everything You Need To Know
Keyword research is a critical part of any SEO strategy. If you get it right, then you’ll bring high volumes of relevant traffic to your site. In this article, we are going to look at what keywords are, and why you need to research them.
The Surprising Way to Be More Effective at Storytelling
To engage leaders, colleagues, and clients, use this simple technique
TrackChip.com
TrackChip.com is no longer for sale on BrandBucket.
The Future Of Algorithmic Personalization | TechCrunch
Personalization algorithms influence what you’ve chosen yesterday, what you choose today and what you’ll be choosing tomorrow. Simultaneously, there seems to be something wrong with personalization. We are continuously bumping into obtrusive, uninteresting ads. Our digital…
Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System
Money is made at chokepoints, and the most valuable chokepoints are operating systems; Amazon is building exactly that with Alexa.
The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions | Quanta Magazine
Irrationality may be a consequence of the brain’s ravenous energy needs.
Curation and Algorithms
More and more companies are announcing new products based on human curation, even as the most important content players — Google and Facebook — rely on algorithms. When does curation make sense, an…
Why there are so many online mattress-in-a-box companies
Some industry insiders estimate there are as many as 100 brands selling compressed foam mattresses online.
The Weird Science of Naming New Products (Published 2015)
To find the perfect brand, leave no word unturned.
The Engineering of the Chain Restaurant Menu
At IHOP and Applebee's, menus are sales documents. And navigational guides. And explainers.
Past Behavior Does Not Determine Future Purchases | TechCrunch
Ever wonder why after buying shoes online (or any other consumer goods), for the next few weeks or months, you can be sure to spot ads or promotions for those same shoes on nearly every website you visit? What’s more, you'll see which shoes your Facebook friends bought, which…
Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good (Published 2019)
Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol.
Design
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Using Buying Groups to Accelerate Your Sales Process
Are buying groups just another buzz word? Understand what buying groups are, how to measure them and how they can help drive more sales for your business.
How to harness employees’ emotional energy
Fuel success by linking a company’s strategic goals to the reasons people are proud to work there.
Setting UX Roles and Responsibilities in Product Development: The RACI Temp
Use a flexible responsibility-assignment matrix to clarify UX roles and responsibilities, anticipate team collaboration points, and maintain productivity in product development.
The LinkedIn Hack That Made Me $120,000
Here’s why a writer at TechCrunch called me the biggest hustler he has ever met.
Real-time SKU detection in the browser using TensorFlow.js
Realtime and offline SKU detection in the browser using Tensorflow.js