If you have a WordPress site, I highly recommend requiring two-factor authentication. WordPress sites are often hacked due to poor passwords. There are many solutions for adding two-factor auth but I believe this is the best way. Read More
Category: How To
IP Geolocation using Cloudflare
Cloudflare offers a neat feature for free to capture the country code of visitors hitting your web server. This can be useful for many different applications.
For example, if you would like to offer discounts to customers from other countries, block certain countries from accessing your website, or even block users on the Tor network.
IP Geolocation in Cloudflare is enabled in the Network tab of your Cloudflare dashboard. The country code is visible in the CF-IPCountry header in the ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 format. Check out the official guide here.
Canceling Hulu
Recently I signed up for Hulu to watch the last season of Lost. Spoiler alert the last season is quite disappointing. After searching for something else to watch on Hulu and not being able to find anything interesting, I decided to cancel.
This should be simple but then there wouldn’t be a need for this blog post. Below are 6 screenshots of the clicks it took to cancel Hulu from their web app. I applaud there to attempt to get me to stay subscribed. It is frustrating to think of the number of people who think they cancel but stay subscribed. A simple confirmation box to cancel should be all that is needed to cancel a service. After clicking cancel 5 times, they sent me an email asking me to reactivate my account 😒 Read More
Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder
I’ve been on a mission to keep the squirrels away from my bird feeder. They are creative creatures and are neat to watch but they cause a mess and eat all the birdseed. I started buying more expensive birdseed to attract different birds and squirrels love it.
