TL;DR: The Ultimate DevOps Mastery bundle is on sale for £25.41 as of August 1, saving you 95% on list price.
In its 2017 State of DevOps Report, Puppet.com found that DevOps engineers are considered "a significant attribute to businesses". Those that hire people with DevOps skills deploy code with 30 times the frequency of their competitors, with 50% fewer failures.
Despite this, only 18% of those surveyed claimed that their organisations had a DevOps engineer at their company. What's that sound? That my friends is the sound of opportunity.
TL;DR: The Fundamentals of Physics course is on sale for £7.69 as of August 1, saving you 94% on list price.
When you were a kid, being forced to learn things was the worst. You coasted through school doing the least amount of work possible and filled your free time with mindless nonsense.
When you became an adult, you suddenly realised that you don’t know half of what you thought you did. Fortunately, it’s never too late to learn something, and a great place to start is by taking a course in physics. Yes, physics. Stick with us here.
This evening, reporters in the White House press pool have said via Twitter, that the president told them on Air Force One that he will ban the video sharing app in the US, and is apparently against the possible sale to a US company like Microsoft. According to Donald Trump, he believes he has the power to do that via executive order or emergency economic powers, but was not specific about how such a ban would work.
Two days ago, TikTok CEO and former Disney exec Kevin Mayer published an open letter saying his company is “not the enemy,” and “We are willing to take all necessary steps to ensure the long-term availability and success of TikTok. The one thing that will not change is our commitment to ensuring that TikTok remains a safe and secure platform for the tens of millions of American families that derive joy from it.”
We’ve contact TikTok for a comment, and will update this post when more information is available.
BREAKING: Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One he is banning TikTok
Per pool, Trump said, “Well, I have that authority. I can do it with an executive order or that.” The pool says Trump made clear he was not in favor of a deal to let a U.S. company buy TikTok’s American operations.
Whether you've just purchased your first vibrator or are a seasoned dildo user, it's important to learn how to properly care for it. One major safety precaution you need to take — before both solo and partner play — is to clean your sex toy.
While it may not sound sexy, cleaning your toys is essential. "Pleasure products can help you embrace confidence, help navigate intimate desires and boundaries and boost self-love," said Kristin Fretz, co-founder and CMO of Emojibator. "But having an experience like getting a UTI from a vibrator is not just uncomfortable and can be extremely painful if left untreated, but it perpetuates the shame around masturbation and can create individual resistance to self-pleasure." Read more...
If you have a small business, you know it needs to have an online presence. The days of being able to succeed without some kind of website or online store are far behind us.
Fortunately, making your mark online has never been easier thanks to many companies offering easy-to-use website builders. That means you no longer need to hire a dedicated designer to construct your website. Many of these sites appreciate that you might not have expert knowledge, offering simple drag-and-drop interfaces and intuitive methods that help your website rank highly on search engines.
With so many services out there, how do you know what's best for your business? Read on, and we explain what to look for when buying a website builder and everything you need to know about the best ones for you. Read more...
TL;DR: Make your Amazon Echo 2 wireless with the SkyTote Battery Sleeve for $23.99, a 59% savings.
As smart as your digital home assistant is, it's not exactly mobile. Alexa generally lives inside your smart speaker, which needs to remain tethered to an outlet. That also means you have to bring yourself to it whenever you want to issue a command, ask a question, or choose some music. Seems a bit counterproductive, yeah?
What if you want to bring your digital assistant with you on a camping trip? Or out by the pool? Or anywhere else where you don't have access to an outlet? That's where the SkyTote Battery Sleeve comes in to save the day and keep your Amazon Echo 2 working no matter where you are. Read more...
The pandemic that has defined 2020 has thrown us all a financial curveball. While we were all worried about our social calendars, COVID-19 slowly drained many of our bank accounts.
From the stock market crash to the loss of jobs, the economic impact is truly incalculable. It's definitely enough to make your anxiety skyrocket, which is why there's no time like the present to engage in some financial planning. And we've got a great resource to get you started: the Beginner's Guide to Personal Finance and Investment Bundle, which is on sale for a limited time. Read more...
A good blow dry is the foundation to a good hair day. The fanciest hair straightener or curling wand in the world won't do you much good if your hair was singed with a crappy blow dryer beforehand. That's that on that.
It's common knowledge that pressing hair onto a sizzling hot flat iron or curling iron isn't great for it. We're quick to blame those tools for split ends and frizz, but less often, we consider that part of the problem may be the way the hair was dried in the first place. If your lifelong dream has been to give yourself the same glossy blowout that you get at the salon, your skills might not be totally to blame — your stylist's professional blow dryer is a lot better than your drugstore one. Read more...
As work and home life continue to meld, it can be difficult to maintain boundaries, stay productive, and keep your mental health in check — especially since the COVID-19 pandemic won't seem to let up.
But here's the thing. Successfully working from home really just takes a few essential skills: self-motivation, communication, collaboration, and time-management. Easier said than done, right? If you need a bit of a push in the right direction, this 2020 Work From Anywhere Hacker Bundle can help you ace the work from home lifestyle and develop the skills you need to thrive as a remote worker. Read more...
You look at your watch and see your step count, how many calories you burned on that bike ride you went on earlier, when your next period is due to arrive, what the temperature is outside, and more, but cannot figure out how to get back to the main screen that tells you the time. Sigh. Remember the good ol' days when watches told the time — and only the time?
The Umbrella Academy Season 1 adapted Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s bestselling comic into a popular superhero extravaganza that introduced the Netflix audience to the mayhem that is the Hargreeves’s family drama. In Season 2, which time-travels the Academy members into the middle of Dallas in 1963, the hijinks continue in an entertaining, unpredictable season that moves the saga forward into truly dope territory — while retaining some of the first season’s original flaws in pacing and plot cohesiveness.
There’s no doubt that Season 2 is fun as hell. Everything that was good about Season 1 is back, including the endearing dysfunction of the Hargreeves siblings, inventive fight scenes scored to pop and rock hits, and laugh-out-loud funny dialogue that needs to appear on a merch line (I would buy a Five Hargreeves “I’m the daddy here” mug in a heartbeat). It’s one of the rare shows where simply putting three characters in a hair salon and watching them hang out is equally as rewarding as watching a team of superhumans fight Soviet soldiers in an apocalyptic battle sequence, which is a credit to the strength of its cast and script. Read more...
Is your job search as desperate as your dating life? We feel that.
As of January 2020, 3.6% of Americans were unemployed, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. By April, the rate escalated to 14.7%, presumably because of COVID-19-related layoffs, and has hit 11% as of this writing.
These numbers obviously fluctuate all the time, but one thing remains the same: People will always be looking for jobs. And with all the competition out there, you should probably work on your résumé — and a few other things — to score the position.
When you're looking for a new job, there are certain skills you'll need just to get noticed. We recommend taking an online course to walk you through the specifics, but here are some pointers to get started. Read more...
Who else is finding themselves online shopping way more often lately? Over at Mashable, it's happening to a lot of us. Maybe it's boredom. Maybe it's that we're longing to fill some sort of void with material possessions. Yeah, it's probably one of those two things.
Reasons for rampant online shopping aside, we're back again to share with you all the cool stuff we bought this month to hopefully inspire our fine readers to treat themselves, just like we did. Come on, we've all been living through tough times (that show no signs of stopping anytime soon) — you deserve to hit that "buy" button on that thing you've been wanting. Go ahead, do it. Read more...
Twitter has banned notorious white supremacist David Duke, enforcing a new policy against hate speech links it introduced earlier this month. “The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct,” a Twitter spokesperson told Engadget. “This enforcement action is in line with our recently-updated guidance on harmful links.”
Duke was banned from the service before, albeit very temporarily. Earlier this month, Twitter defended keeping his presence by saying that he’s “not currently a member of the KKK,” according to Gizmodo. That’s despite Duke using the platform to call Black people “savages” and referring to Jewish people as “degenerate filth.”
Since then, Twitter has updated its policies by banning links that promote “hateful content.” It didn’t say which links might have prompted Duke’s permanent ban, but noted that its policies prohibit the promotion of violence or threats of attack towards people on the basis of religious affiliation, race, ethnic origin and other categories. Other figures definitively suspended from the site include far-right UK activists Katie Hopkins and Milo Yiannopoulis.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duke is a “figure of the American radical right, a neo-Nazi, longtime Klan leader and now international spokesman for Holocaust denial.” The ban is a good start, but a great many white supremacist figures, including Richard B. Spencer, can still surprisingly be found on the site.
