How to judge if a payment provider is right for your business.
1 Mar 2021
The landscape of security is changing quite a bit. We’ve gone from basic username and password to 2FA, facial recognition, fingerprint recognition, and so on. Hell, my Mac unlocks simply when I have my Apple Watch near by. In the end, I probably use the Mac fingerprint key the most. One functionality that still requires manually typing a password is…
27 Feb 2021
This week was entirely consumed by the fact that I opened an online store to sell generative “art” prints. Art is in quotations here because I have a deeply unhealthy relationship with calling anything I do art, or myself an artist, but we don’t have time to for a therapy session right now. It went really great. I sold out…
26 Feb 2021
The internet was set on fire (pun intended) this week, by what I'm calling 'fox gate', and chances are you might have seen a meme or two about the Firefox logo. Many people were pulling up for a battle royale because they thought we had scrubbed fox imagery from our browser. We can confirm, that this is definitely not happening.…
How SaaS leaders use payments to drive revenue in international markets
Which countries are leading the way in open banking development?
Where does income from discontinued operations go on financial statements?
Find out whether online invoices could save you time and money.
25 Feb 2021
Learn about the benefits of open banking; from security to cost savings.
Find out how the payback period can help you pick the best investments
What is an accountant and what do they do? Find out more about accounting.
Learn how to record a bad debt expense with our handy guide.
Find out what the VAT Flat Rate Scheme is and how it can impact your business.
Get the inside track on start-up employee equity pools, right here.
Find out more about how statutory redundancy pay works for employees.
MapTiler Team has been working with swisstopo, the Swiss Federal Office of Topography, to develop a new vector map for the modern user.
24 Feb 2021
SoundCloud’s iOS codebase faced a radical change a couple of years ago. The team had decided to modularize the codebase into frameworks…
23 Feb 2021
Looking into the near distance, we can see the end of February loitering on the horizon, threatening to give way to March at any moment. To keep you engaged until then, we’d like to introduce you to Firefox 86. The post A Fabulous February Firefox — 86! appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
So, you think you already know the good, the bad, and the ugly about cybersecurity threats, such as malware and phishing, that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are facing? You may be surprised. People often make a number of assumptions that can easily miss the mark. There is a tendency to fall into the trap […] The post Which cyber…
State Partitioning is the technical term for a new privacy feature in Firefox called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86. This article shows how State Partitioning works inside of Firefox and explains what developers of third-party integrations can do to stay compatible with the latest changes. The post Introducing State Partitioning appeared…
22 Feb 2021
Solving performance problems when moving an application to Kubernetes
Learn about using cascade layers to control the CSS cascade for more targetted styles.
19 Feb 2021
We have removed local AWS profile access from the Serverless Components service completely
18 Feb 2021
Are you considering going cashless? Find the best cashless payment system.
Make your accounting easier with our tax filing tips for small business owners.
Find out how long it takes to recover cash outflows with the payback period.
Compare the different methods of calculating the value of tangible assets.
I recently noticed the following message in Sentry’s pip installation step: Upon some investigation, I noticed that the package was not being installed. After making , I can now guarantee that our development environment installs it by default and it’s given us about 40–50% speed gain.wheelsome changes The screenshot above shows the steps from two different Github workflows; it installs…
About roles and organization in the render modules.
We are happy to announce that the February 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This release includes TensorBoard integration, and improvements on docstring readability and code navigation with Pylance. Keep reading to learn more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – February 2021 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Geocaching is a world-wide game where people search for hidden treasures. MapTiler provides the official website data for the background map that shows where all these boxes are hidden.
Serverless Framework Components now features more secure credential handling and 80% faster deployments
17 Feb 2021
Here we go again! Fellow BASIC enthusiast Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood, of Stack Overflow and Discourse fame, has started a project to translate the programs in the 1978 classic BASIC Computer Games into more modern languages. I never had a … Continue reading →
16 Feb 2021
How the Trussell Trust is transforming its payment operations to support repeat donations
GoCardlessThe best insights from our regular ‘Speaker Series’ events.
With the success of the Blender Development Fund and industry support, it’s important to make sure that the blender.org project organization remains future proof.
Have you ever thought about what role search engine optimization (SEO) might play in a cyber attack? Generally, it is used to tune the search results of websites on any search engine. The more the optimization, the better the chances of getting the webpage in the search results. There has been a particular kind of […] The post Cyber attackers…
In this blogpost we showcase a Node.js webapp that does real-time synchronization on multiple machines, which we implemented using Socket.io. The post Building a Real-Time Webapp with Node.js and Socket.io appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
We’re ironically searching for counterexamples to the Riemann Hypothesis. Setting up Pytest Adding a Database Search Strategies Unbounded integers Deploying with Docker Performance Profiling Last time we made the audacious choice to remove primary keys from the RiemannDivisorSums table for performance reasons. To help with that, we will do two things in this post Reduce the storage footprint of the…
It took me some time to get the color blending just right. Because of so many colors, it was impossible to plot these. In the end I did five very tall prints. Be sure to check out the last photo to see all prints in one place. Created: February 2021 Size: 85x20cm each Paper: Farbiano Cotton Paper 300gsm Pens:
15 Feb 2021
Make business decisions data-driven by using data analysis methods.
Marketing automation platforms can make communication more efficient.
Learn how to keep track of customer payments with our accounting tips.
Are your tools ready to handle your business growth?
Learn how Cryptoassets can change the future of financial investment
Discover the differences between recourse loans vs non-recourse loans.
I’ve run across a fun little trick to simulate latency in your development environments when testing some SQL queries. Possible use-cases including to validate that backend latency won’t bring down your frontend, or that your UX is still bearable, etc. The solution is PostgreSQL and Hibernate specific, though to doesn’t have to be. Besides, it … Continue reading Simulating Latency…
Explore Fully Persistent Arrays - Understand how to implement arrays that preserve all previous versions, enabling auditing and historical access.
I got deep into geocaching, friends. I found 3 caches in Arizona! I didn’t sign any of them because I kept forgetting to bring a pen, so now nobody will know I was there. Geocaching is mad in the US. We drove back from Arizona (flying? in this economy??), and there were HUNDREDS along the highway. First, who are these…
12 Feb 2021
Building a chat system in Unity, without dealing with Unity networking, a Photon server, or other modules from the Unity asset store.
Learn what to look for when buying a POS system for small businesses.
Get to learn about customer deposit and the accounting application
Learn the differences between proof of funds and proof of deposit
Discover MQTT examples that efficiently connects low-power IoT devices across various apps, from agriculture to transportation
In my journey to work more quickly with a project containing loads of dependencies, I’ve come across a few techniques I’ve not needed to use before. I previously wrote about How to Push to a Git Remote Branch of a Different Name — this time we’ll talk about installing a module from another repository instead of a published version. To…
11 Feb 2021
In our previous post, An update on MDN Web Docs’ localization strategy, we explained our broad strategy for moving forward with allowing translation edits on MDN again. The MDN localization communities are waiting for news of our progress on unfreezing the top-tier locales, and here we are. In this post we’ll look at where we’ve got to so far in…
How and why we chose to host our first virtual Sales Kick-off
10 Feb 2021
Borrow for less by improving your business credit score. Let us show you how!
Find out if a cash advance is a form of borrowing that would meet your needs
Discover the advantages of perpetual inventory systems.
What you need to know about horizontal equity, vertical equity and taxation.
In the past years, we’ve invested a lot of effort into improving our procedural language capabilities in jOOQ. What started with a simple internal API to support the emulations of DDL clauses like these: … evolved into a full fledged API for all sorts of procedural logic executed in your database server. Anonymous blocks The … Continue reading Translating Stored…
Engineering spotlight: Maël Nison, maintainer of Yarn
9 Feb 2021
What regular work activity has the highest impact on the organization in the least amount of time and effort? I haven’t done any science on this, but anecdotally it sure feels like recruiting, interviewing and mentoring are all huge impact-per-time … Continue reading →
Mozilla has been fuzzing Firefox and its underlying components for a while. It has proven itself to be one of the most efficient ways to identify quality and security issues. In general, we apply fuzzing on different levels: there is fuzzing the browser as a whole but a significant amount of time is also spent on fuzzing isolated code (e.g.…
Can we all agree the shift has happened – the workforce isn’t just working from a coffee shop on occasion? The events of 2020 accelerated a growing trend of work from anywhere, any device, any time, while expecting a seamless experience. That’s not a tall order. That’s a grande order – with a double-shot of […] The post Expanding SASE…
Git is one of those tools that I’ve always known just enough about to be dangerous, and usually tend to learn new skills when I’m in a position to truly need them. Shockingly enough it has taken me roughly 15 years of using git for me to encounter the need to push to a remote branch name whose name is…
How do bridging loans affect your finances and keep your cash flow moving
8 Feb 2021
So, @rotnroll666 nerd sniped me again. Apparently, the Neo4j Cypher query language supports arbitrary reductions, just like any functional collection API, oh say, the JDK Stream API: SQL doesn’t have this, yet it would be very useful to be able to occasionally do that. An arbitrary reduction can be implemented “easily” in SQL. Let’s look … Continue reading Implementing a…
After 15+ years in the web development industry, and seeing the landscape of tooling change, I’ve really lost patience with tooling errors. Like…Old Man Walsh just wants yarn install to work so he can get on with his work day. One recent error I ran into was from a dependency of a dependency: (/Users/myuser/Projects/metamask-extension/node_modules/node-sass/lib/index.js:14:35) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loade
I skipped week 5 because all I did in the panna cotta was watch 3 seasons of “how to get away with murder”. It’s a terrible show and I’m not ashamed of it. What is up with that star codex thing? I can’t believe there was a cult of assholes in tech I didn’t know about. I’m obviously not surprised…
7 Feb 2021
See how easy it is to adhere to GDPR legislation with these top 5 best practices
How to appeal to the tax tribunal if you disagree with a decision made by HMRC
Learn more about how variables relate to one another with positive correlation
Learn what falls under the category of a fixed cost in business expenses
What does an investment banker do? Find out how investment banking works
Explore persistent data structures - access historical versions, understand partial, full, and confluent persistence, and see real-world applications.
5 Feb 2021
Presentation with an overview of the geometry nodes project process so far.
Insights from the GoCardless CPO's appearance on the IBS Intelligence podcast.
4 Feb 2021
Find out what goes into the variable cost formula, with examples
Make valuable new connections with business networking events
Make sure your business thrives this year with our small business survival tips
No one likes chasing down a missed payment
Develop an effective procurement strategy that aligns with your business goals
Explore our cash flow solutions for small businesses, right here
Sustainability has become a fundamental part of what makes a successful business
Find out how an employee database management system could be a gamechanger
In the fourth installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage, we’ll explore the artistic pipeline at GitHub to explain story, character and color, and to show how we collaborate across teams to tackle site design. How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe How we made the page fast and…
Over the past 13 years, jOOQ has accrued quite some internal features, which you, the user, are not exposed to. One very interesting feature is the capability for any arbitrary jOOQ expression tree element to push a SQL fragment up to a higher level. How does it work? The jOOQ expression tree model When you … Continue reading jOOQ Internals:…
3 Feb 2021
Soon after Big Sur came out, I received my new work laptop. I decided to upgrade to it. Unfortunately, I quickly discovered that the Python set up needed for required some changes. Since it took me a bit of time to figure it out I decided to document it for anyone trying to solve the same problem.Sentry If you are…
Why count stock manually when a perpetual system can do it for you?
Could the cost recovery method help you with unreliable payments?
Should you be taking extra steps to make a multi-step income statement?
A company must be financially solvent if it hopes to survive
2 Feb 2021
Learn how to put a price tag on your company with a business valuation.
Find out how to track your company’s assets with an asset management system
Learn how to reduce your credit card interest rates, right here.