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Matt Sayar

Simple Wikiclaudia

Have you ever been reading a Wikipedia article and tapped out because it's just too dense and difficult to read? Simple English Wikipedia exists to help make articles easier to read and understand. I sometimes find myself drifting to it for technical concepts, but sometimes…

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Matt Sayar

Why does everyone hate WebP?

Does my website load fast enough? Publii, which I use to build this site, has a "Responsive Images" option which will load smaller images if you're on mobile, and larger images if you're on a bigger screen. That's faster for you, but it comes at…

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Matt Sayar

Sayonara SendGrid; Hello Brevo 

When I wrote my own newsletter email service, I used SendGrid to handle the nitty gritty details of actually sending the emails. If I tried to roll my own email server, I would have to deal with so much nuance around security, spam, and other…

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