IP Geolocation using Cloudflare

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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

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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

Weather Extension v5

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Over the past 5 years, Weather Extension has gone through many changes. The first version was pretty basic. It showed the hourly and daily forecast. Over time I’ve added the ability to add multiple locations, weather alerts, translated the extension to 32 languages, support for multiple different metrics, interactive radar, inspirational quotes, and more!

Version 5 brings a bold new design to Weather Extension.  The first thing you will notice is the background image that will change depending on the weather conditions. I also made sure to keep all the same weather data points so many users have come to appreciate and use on a daily basis. So far the reviews have been wonderful. What do you think Weather Extension will look like in the next 5 years?

2020 Weather Extension v5

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AirPods Pro Clone Review

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I purchased the original AirPods back in 2017 when they were first released. They have been my favorite product of the past couple of years and I highly recommend them. Recently I noticed the batteries in the pods not lasting as long as they used to. I was considering getting the new AirPod Pros that are noise canceling. When researching them, I started seeing several companies offering clones that claimed to be as good as the real AirPods for a quarter of the price. I decided to try a pair of AirPod Pro Clones to see how they compared to the real thing. Read More