SignBSL Year in Review 2022

Quick recap of this year's search data for SignBSL 23,595,029 searches were done. This is a tiny increase of +0.6% from last year. So almost unchanged the amount of searches. Below I have included the top 50 most searched words. Search Query No. Searches % Change from last year how are you 45,911 -16% i love you 42,692 26%

SignASL Year in Review 2022

Quick recap of this year's search data for SignASL 26,274,632 searches were done. This is a small increase of +5.6% from last year. Below I have included the top 50 most searched words. The top 5 words are offensive words. In fact there are 7 offensive words in the top 50, unlike users searching for BSL where none of the

Inbox Zero in Outlook without deleting an email

Many email organisers recommend a ruthless approach to email management. However, for me, email is an important record of all conversations and a record of what happened, it forms a journal of important details, which I rely upon when needed. Therefore deleting email is not an option. Yet, still finding emails that need to be answered or emails that represents a task I

Low Latency Serverless Typeahead using CloudFlare Workers

Helping users find what they want fast is essential for a good user experience. Using a typeahead input box allows this. But to be effective it needs to be fast. Typeahead search at www.signasl.orgThe fastest solution would be to have all the search entries available locally on the browser. But for this website there is currently 41,046 entries, taking 508kb

Business Owner Technical Guide - Domains

Any new business owner needs a domain. Essential for your web presence, emails and other internet services. Most important is that you maintain ownership of the domain. Don't allow an outsource web development company to register the domain on your behalf. If you ever have issues with that company then they have you over the barrel. Of if you wish to engage other

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To allow me to configure your CloudFlare account in a secure way without sharing your login details, login to your CloudFlare account, then from the dashboard (1) Select Manage Account, then Members from the Side Panel on the left. (2) Invite a member by entering in my email address [email protected] and press Add. (3) Choose a Scope by either defining individual

SignASL Year in Review 2021

End of a year, so time for a quick analysis of the year. SignASL has been running since 2013 and has experienced growth every year. This year 24,887,947 searches were completed, a massive increase of 39% from last year! It is always interesting to see what people search for. Below is the top 50 searches. Search Query No. Searches % change **** 19,

SignBSL Year in Review 2021

End of a year, so time for a quick analysis of the year. SignBSL has been running since 2013 and has experienced growth every year. This year 23,433,479 searches were completed, an increase of just over 16% from last year. It is always fascinating to see what people search for. I have included the top 50 searches below. Search Query No.

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Ingesting CloudWatch logs cost money ($0.57 per GB log data ingested), so removing log lines that are not useful will save you money. In my C# API project the logs are filled with this Warning: [Warning] Amazon.Lambda.AspNetCoreServer.AbstractAspNetCoreFunction: Request does not contain domain name information but is derived from APIGatewayProxyFunction. This warning comes from the code found in Amazon.Lambda.

Identify and monitor missing AWS S3 files using Athena

Like many websites and mobile apps, www.signbsl.com hosts its static media files using S3, which provides a reliable service without managing servers. The bucket currently holds more than 126,000 images and videos. On a self hosted solution to find missing files I would usually use the Apache Access Logs. But with S3 you need to use Server access logging to