I recently had to resize an awful lot of images for a client’s site in order to improve their load time. The site is very image heavy, but some of these images were over 6mb, which has serious ramifications for SEO and general user experience, especially on mobile. In today’s post, I’m going to take you through the solution I came up with, using R to resize the images to … Read More about Bulk Resizing Images With R
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Which Marvel Character Has Been In The Most Crossover Events?
Comics are awesome. If you know me, you’ll know they’re one of my favourite things; Marvel, DC, Image, self-published, it doesn’t matter. If it’s good, I’ll read it, although thanks to the excellent Marvel Unlimited service, most of what I read comes from them. Marvel Unlimited, my shiny Android … Read More about Which Marvel Character Has Been In The Most Crossover Events?
The Yahoo Breach Affects 1 Billion – What Do You Do Now?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’ll have heard the news about the Yahoo data breach. If you haven’t, the basics are that Yahoo User details were compromised a few years back, and anyone that had an email account with them up until that point may have had their email addresses and … Read More about The Yahoo Breach Affects 1 Billion – What Do You Do Now?
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How To Stop WhatsApp Sharing Your Info With Facebook
WhatsApp has just announced that its privacy policy and terms and conditions have changed to give Facebook access to your account info, including your phone number and the phone number of your contacts. Although the way they phrase it in their blog post frames this change as benevolent, allowing … Read More about How To Stop WhatsApp Sharing Your Info With Facebook
Brexit And GDPR – A Politics-Free Post
A big part of my job for the last few months has been updating my agency’s data protection policies and practices in order to get us in line with the forthcoming EU data protection law, known as the GDPR (General Data Protection Ruling). It’s been a lot of fun, and it’s not quite over, but some … Read More about Brexit And GDPR – A Politics-Free Post
My Favourite Scrapers
If you've been reading for a while, you've probably noticed that I'm a big fan of working with as much information as I can get. And what's the best way to get that information from websites when you're not much of a programmer? Scraping. There are loads of really good web scraping tools out … Read More about My Favourite Scrapers