A traffic spike on a small website can be surprisingly difficult to explain.
On October 28, my text graphics tool, GummyType, received a sudden increase in visits. I hadn't run a campaign or a batch test.
I used three sources to investigate:
The phenomenon of schadenfreude—deriving pleasure from others' misfortunes—manifests in complex ways when applied to job losses in high-paying industries like software engineering. Three distinct impact chai...
I recently built SalaryPayTools, a small site of free US pay calculators. Here is a short write-up of how it is put together and what I learned.
There are 14 calculators: hourly to salary and salary to hourly, annual income, weekly, biweekly and monthly pay, part-time pay, overtime, pay ...
Folding tables and camping tables often use a hollow, blow molded HDPE top. When a furniture maker plans one of these lines, the first spreadsheet usually takes a cycle time from a machine brochure, multiplies it by hours in a year, and calls the result "capacity". That number is almost always too high, and it is sometimes counted in the wrong unit.
This post turns the planning logic in...
What happens when an AI task disappears from the interface, but the work underneath refuses to die?
A user clicks Cancel. The screen goes quiet. But somewhere inside the system, a worker may still be running, an acknowledgment may be delayed, or a retry may be waiting to resurrect a task that everyone believes is finished.
That i...
I build Qovia, the API used in this post. The method here (search a topic on each platform, pull comments, compare) is generic; Qovia is just where the JSON comes from.
The same topic gets discussed very differently on Bilibili and YouTube: different audiences, different languages, different comment cultures. In this tutorial we'll pick one topic, find a popular video about it on each p...