How to improve the performance of your WordPress sites?
For simple blogs, you can create them as lightweight static websites. That’s the best way to ensure a stable secure performance. For more sophisticated projects, involving dynamic data queries, my platform of choice remains WordPress. But if you’ve already created WordPress sites, you know how painful it can be to wait a few seconds for a page to […]
Renpho AI Smart Bike Honest Review
I don’t publish product reviews very often but this Renpho AI Smart Bike deserves a short piece on my blog. After trying a few spinning classes in a nearby gym (£15 per session), I decided to purchase a home exercise bike, which would better fit my daily routines. I did not want to spend £2000+ on a […]
Beware Gmail limits when using it for outreach purposes
In a previous article, I told you which stack I’m using for outreach purposes. It includes Mailshake, which is connected to a personal Gmail account for outreach purposes, via the official API. It’s great but you have to be aware of Gmail limits, which can even be stricter than the ones usually advertised. Depending on which article you’ll […]
What can be automated in content creation? [2022)
If you’re an indie publisher competing against big-pocketed media outlets, you’ve got to be smarter than the pack and automate what can be automated, to focus on the highest value added tasks. The question is: what can be automated in content creation today? Can content ideation be automated? Let’s be clear from the start to […]
What is myip.ms ? How can you use it in your research?
Myips.ms is a popular web service which can be used for multiple purposes. By default if you enter the myip.ms website you’ll see your own IP address along with some information: the name of your ISP, your status in the global blacklist of IP addresses (no reason why you should be blacklisted), your location, your browser […]
Which are the most popular APIs in the world?
As part of my market research, I was wondering which are the most popular APIs in the world in 2021. As you might know, there are 2 main online repositories of APIs: RapidAPI.com and ProgrammableWeb. ProgrammableWeb is currently the largest API directory you can find on the web, feat over 24,095 APIs! Unfortunately you can’t really play with the data on […]
What is the best text-to-speech engine? Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, Google Cloud?
Text-to-speech has come a long way since the robotic voice developed for Stephen Hawking in 1986; a peculiar voice which he kept until his death in March 2018, aged 76. That computer-generated voice, created by MIT engineer Dennis Klatt, based on Klatt’s own voice, used algorithms developed by Swiftkey, a British company later acquired by Microsoft. […]
I switched from WordPress to Publii, then I came back to WordPress. Welcome to my brand new site.
👉 You might have landed on this article if you clicked on this link: https://callmefred.com/i-switched-from-wordpress-to-a-static-website-using-publii/ The content won’t be what you expected. You deserve an explanation. December 2022: I’m back to WordPress. In July 2019, I had decided to switch from WordPress to Publii (a great static site generator). It took me roughly a day […]
Is there a better online translation tool than Google Translate?
This article will be very short. The quick answer is: YES. This tool has been developed by the founder of Linguee, which you’ve probably come across if you’re frequently looking for long phrases translations (Linguee has a similar approach to Ludwig, mining phrases from leading publications). The translation tool I invite you to consider if you’re looking to […]
How to play commercial music on a podcast
Not all podcasts have the format of Joe Rogan’s episodes, consisting only of long informal conversations. By the way, speaking of Rogan, if you’re following the podcast scene, you might have read that he recently signed an exclusive $100 million deal to move his podcast to Spotify. That’s a lot of money! Which enabled him to revamp […]
