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Why add a Messenger bot to your Facebook page?
Why add a Messenger bot to your Facebook page?

147 reads
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...

Josselin Dionisi - Freelance developer
Josselin Dionisi
Mar 15, 2021
My top apps on Setapp
My top apps on Setapp

145 reads
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",...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Oct 1, 2024
How to auto-host Google Fonts in 2026?
How to auto-host Google Fonts in 2026?

144 reads
Category: Web development
Level: Confirmed beginner

Hello good morning 🙂, Ah, you're still on vacation? I'll come back later with my article, then? No, it's okay? Can we go now? Top! 😁 Today, we're going to talk about Google Fonts, more specifically: how to "self-host" them ? Let's turn on the fan, warm up our fingers and get started! What are Google Fonts? Google Fonts are a set of fonts created by Google. What's special about these fonts is that they're designed for screens, especially the web. On this site I don't us...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Aug 20, 2022
Mailcow, a plug and play e-mail server?
Mailcow, a plug and play e-mail server?

144 reads
Category: System administration
Level: intermediate

Hello, hello 🙂, Thank you for clicking on this article, was it the cow photo that made you click? So, yes... I see what you mean... I let loose on the image and on the title of this page... yes no, but it's summer, we're relaxing here 😛. So, have you ever managed your own e-mail server? I have, several times in the past for different companies I've worked for... Today, we're going to talk about a cow, but, not the one from interville (old man's reference...), but ano...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Jun 27, 2024
How do I get my Turbo application onto Android?
How do I get my Turbo application onto Android?

143 reads
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....

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Oct 16, 2023
How do you back up your data?
How do you back up your data?

142 reads
Category: Computer security
Level: Confirmed beginner

Following the fire in a datacenter in France, I saw reactions on social networks such as "I've got my company in your servers", which gave me the idea of writing this article.Of course, it's not the owner of the data center who's to blame here, but accidents like this do happen, so you need to be prepared. By having a data backup strategy. Can you imagine? Losing your accounting data? I've already touched on this subject in my article "How to protect yourself from ransomware". The disaster r...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Mar 23, 2021
A microservice for generating QR codes
A microservice for generating QR codes

142 reads
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...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Apr 1, 2024
How to capture your screen as an animated GIF?
How to capture your screen as an animated GIF?

141 reads
Category: Tech tips
Level: Beginner

Hello, hello?, The last article was about PowerToys and how they improve productivity in Windows. To make this article more fun, I thought it might be a good idea to capture my screen and give it to you as a GIF... So, in this week's article, we're going to look at how to capture your screen in GIF format, on Windows and macOS. Yes, we're doing an "articleCeption" here, having as much fun as we can? Are you ready? Let's get started! Capturing your screen in GIF format, on Windows...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Apr 3, 2023
Why isn't MYSQL a search engine?
Why isn't MYSQL a search engine?

140 reads
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...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Nov 8, 2021
How to imitate OpenSearch with a Chrome extension?
How to imitate OpenSearch with a Chrome extension?

140 reads
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...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
May 8, 2023