If you’ve not been living under a rock these past couple of weeks, you may have noticed social media users posting what looks like a miniature version of a minesweeper screenshot. Mostly grey tiles with a few yellow ones strewn across and a row of green blocks at the bottom. If you don’t know what it is, do not fret, we’re here to help you understand it and subsequently win it (most times)....

Next.js is built using React. So, there are a lot of similarities between them. It’s obvious to get confused between these two. Let’s dive deep into these two and see how they differ in clarifying the confusion. Let’s start with React. React: Getting Started React is an open-source library for building user interfaces using JavaScript. React is used to create single-page web applications. What do I mean by single-page applications?...

kubectl is the common CLI tool that we use to query and manage a Kubernetes cluster. kubectl uses the API interface of Kubernetes to view, control, and manage the cluster. It is supported across different platforms and can be easily set up to manage a cluster. In this article, we’ll be covering some common kubectl commands that help in day to day administration of Kubernetes. Getting kubectl kubectl is already installed as part of the Kubernetes cluster setup....

NoOps is driven by increasing IT automation and cloud computing. A NoOps organization is one with no operations staff at all. In NoOps, the operations team tasks of code maintenance and other tasks are automated. What is NoOps? NoOps is the belief that software environments can easily be automated to the point that no operational team is necessary. NoOps stands for “no operations”. NoOps completely automate an IT environment when deploying, monitoring, and improving software operations....

When you run a simple Python program, the code execution happens sequentially—one statement after the other—without any time delay. However, you may need to delay the execution of code in some cases. The sleep() function from Python built-in time module helps you do this. In this tutorial, you’ll learn the syntax of using the sleep() function in Python and several examples to understand how it works. Let’s get started!...

No matter how powerful it may be, I personally don’t like the Windows 10 Start menu; it just looks like it got beat up by a rainbow. To make it simpler, I tried getting rid of the whole live tiles section, but it wasn’t the right call as I still need it to pin important apps. Thankfully, I found a third-party replacement for the Windows 10 Start menu that allowed me to customize the Start menu exactly as I wanted....

While personal WordPress projects can survive without such utilities, ineffective user management begins to haunt you once you enter the business territory. Although WordPress has native user management, it’s bare-bones and lacks the excellent features some plugins offer. If you’re still confused about it, then start with this: What is WordPress User Management? User Management, put simply, is assigning roles and controlling who-can-do-what on your WordPress website. For instance, it helps you preserve something special only for your subscribers....

TypeScript is created on top of JavaScript, which adds static types. Having types is a wonderful thing for developers. Writing types will be hard, but you won’t regret it in the long run. TypeScript has all basic types like number, string, boolean, etc. Along with the basic type, TypeScript allows us to create custom types and define how an object looks with the help of Type Aliases and Interfaces, respectively....

The way each device and link is arranged in a network and how data flows through them can make or break your operations as it impacts your network’s performance, security, and scalability. In addition, you need to know networking intricacies if you want your business to survive in this highly competitive market. And network topology is an excellent way to understand this. Not to mention, a large number of employees nowadays bring their own devices to work....

The need for such payment systems has increased in the past couple of years, especially after the pandemic where contactless payments were necessary. On the other hand, traditional methods of cash payments are not flexible. You can’t possibly walk with a huge sum of cash in your hand and then hand it over to a merchant. Instead, you can just take out your phone, go to a payment processing app like Google Pay, type the amount, and pay it right there....

It’s an integral part of your branding process and helps to cement your company information into your customers’ minds very subtly. Give it a thought, how many times have you been handed a brochure by a company, and even though you don’t stick it in your face all day, you still remember a nice portion of the brochure’s content and the visuals it had for a long time. That’s what a good brochure does to your potential customers....

In fact, Giphy, the most popular GIF sharing site, receives over 300 million users every day. It’s insane and shows the amount of craze there is for GIFs. I don’t know about you, but I share GIFs on social media platforms literally every day, and it’s more fun than traditional emojis, probably because they’re more visually expressive. No matter what you’re feeling like, there’s a GIF to express that accurately....

As a writer, I use multiple Chrome extensions that make writing my posts much more accessible. Whether fixing grammatical errors, taking screenshots, or researching topics, Chrome extensions take the hard part out of my hard work. Whether you are an author, a college student, or a business manager who needs to write often to clients, I know a bunch of Chrome extensions that can make writing surprisingly easier for you....

CRTs like these aren’t one-of-a-kind or collectible but rather normal ones from a few years ago. CRTs provide the most authentic experience for retro gamers who want to play their favorite retro games. As technology changes and how we interact with our devices changes, monitor technology has also undergone several changes. Since monitors changed from S-Video to DVI and now HDMI, LEDs with HDMI inputs have become the new standard for TVs....

There is too much content packed in a single Lego game. Whether you are playing alone, with a friend, or even with your children, you will find it fun and fabulous to keep going with it. Lego games will put up a smile on the faces of children and adults alike. Every console and device tries to make the Lego games available on their device. Whether you are a PC gamer, mobile gamer, Switch console gamer, or even any other console gamer, you will find Lego games on every platform....

As we progress with time, technological advancement keeps going higher, and as a result, our tasks become much more convenient and easier. One byproduct of AI is art generators. Though it can also have its own downsides, in the bigger picture, it does more good than bad for ordinary people. Dall-E software by OpenAI is an excellent example of that. It’s a revolutionary tool that helps you generate amazing-looking art within seconds....

Right now, NFTs are completely revolutionizing the world of digital ownership. More and more people are getting into NFTs. This is making it really difficult for investors to find the right non-fungible asset to invest in. The best thing here is that anyone can create or collect NFTs. The popularity of NFTs is booming, and people see that it is not slowing down in the near future. Everyone is seen talking about metaverse and NFTs....

Data can be diverse and sensitive and requires the right tools to make it meaningful as it has unlimited potential to modernize business statistics, information and change lives. Big Data tools and Data scientists are prominent in such scenarios. Such a large amount of diverse data makes it difficult to process using traditional tools and techniques such as Excel. Excel is not really a database and has a limit (65,536 rows) for storing data....

And that’s the beauty of the block editor. You can tweak and extend it with various plugins and build amazing-looking pages. You’re no longer limited to a certain set of features inside the WordPress editor. And I totally believe every website needs an extra plugin for the block editor in order to achieve a great design. In this post, I’ve compiled the best WP block editor plugins so that you can create professional pages within mere minutes....

Digital marketing has the potential to grow to a market of $264.15 billion by 2030. Hence earning a dedicated degree and professional certifications should place you in top-level positions with the highest earning opportunities. Read on to learn why pursuing a marketing degree online and then discover some eminent online institutions where you can apply. The Role of a Marketing Professional Marketing executives or managers ensure exhaustive promotion and awareness of a product or service....