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Category: Social networking
Level: Beginner
Instagram has become a must-have social network, with 18-24 year olds spending an enormous amount of time on it and ... like all social networks its business model is to capture and resell attention. In this article, I propose a non-exhaustive list of ideas for improving your presence on this network. Put keywords in your account name and display name Instagram's search engine doesn't use the data in the "bio" to find a user, it only uses the data in the account name and display name, so...
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Category: Tech tips
Level: Beginner
Hey there! 🙂 To read this article, you use a software, this software is so present in your life that now, for you it seems "part of the scenery". I'm talking, of course, about your browser 😛. Over the last ten years, we're not going to lie to ourselves, there's been one all-category champion who's been raking in all the market share, well, especially on the "desktop", I'm talking of course about Google Chrome. On mobile, this is less true, with Apple forcing the use of...
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Category: Web development
Level: Confirmed beginner
Hey there 😁, Thank you for clicking on this article, I hope you like it 😉. Well, uh... aren't we supposed to be in spring right now? No, because it's cold in the Far East... Ah yes, that's right, we're still not here for it 😮, guess I'm doing it on purpose huh 😛 (yes, I'm totally doing it on purpose). This week it's going to be a cool little article, the big articles will come back, don't worry, but this week, we're just going to go for a microservice...
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Category: Social networking
Level: Beginner
I thought it would be interesting to write an article on the subject now that I've set up a Messenger bot for my Boréales Créations Facebook page. What is a Messenger bot? You've created a robot? It's your fault, isn't it Skynet? Well, not yet anyway. Here the Messenger bot is simply used to answer for you when people, prospects, customers write to you on your Facebook page. 😃 You know what it's like when you're busy, you don't necessarily check all the notificat...
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Category: Web development
Level: intermediate
Hey there. How are you? Good, not too cold? so much the better! This week's article is for my fellow developers, and we're going to talk about search ... but real search! I often see MYSQL used as a search engine ... It's a fact! In the projects I've worked on, I've often seen this database management system (or MariaDB or Postgresql) used as a search engine, with things like "where my_attribute LIKES '%blabla%". And this is a very bad practice... What's the real use of a relational...
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Category: Web development
Level: Confirmed beginner
I think you'll have gathered by now that on this blog we're particularly fond of Symfony. 😛 The robustness and versatility of this framework (I should almost say ecosystem, by the way), we've already talked about here Well, I suppose for this time that the principle I'm going to present also exists in other frameworks, but again, it's really simple to use in Symfony. What's a workflow? This principle is workflow. If you're used to working in an English-speaking context, a workf...
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Category: Tech tips
Hey, good morning 😁! Thanks for clicking on this article 😛. This week we're going to talk a bit about application, not the one I code, but the one I use 😁. Are you ready? Then let's get started. The world is changing... and so are business models Have you noticed? No ? Yes, you have 😁. In the software industry, subscription has become the norm. Gone are lifetime licenses... well, if they still exist, but hey, your version will soon be "obsolete",...
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Category: Tech tips
Hello Hello ?, Windows isn't my main operating system, in fact I'm more Linux / macOS, but that doesn't stop me from following what's going on with Windows and using it from time to time. It has to be said that Microsoft's work over the last few years has been quite remarkable; between the terminal, "WSL 2" and "Powershell", there's plenty to do. This week, I'd like to talk a little about "PowerToys", a set of tools made available by Microsoft to enhance the Windows experience. As the...
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Category: Web development
Level: Confirmed beginner
Hello there, This week's article comes from an observation I made recently. Before, in Chrome, when you visited a site that offered OpenSearch, it automatically added it to the browser's search engines, so all you had to do was type "a keyword" + space and start searching directly from the browser's omnibox. This browser behavior has recently changed (perhaps for the better, as it prevents anything and everything from being added to the browser). Now, in Chromium (and therefore Chrome and...
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Category: Development
Level: Confirmed
Hello 🙂 Lately we've been talking about Turbo and iOS, and about making PWAs installable. This article is the continuation of those two articles (well, more the one on iOS), so I invite you to skim it, because even if the two systems are quite different, the principle is the same. The application in production As always, the app we're going to talk about is the one I use every time I want to test new technologies. As I write these lines, it's available on the Google Play Store....