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Follow RSS Updates With Obsidian Integration, Email Newsletters, Webhooks And More

Updates to the Follow RSS Aggregator including Obsidian integration, email newsletters, webhooks and user-generated puzzles for access codes

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Venv or Virtualenv: What's The Difference?

A quick tutorial on the difference between Python virtual environments Venv and Virtualenv and how to use both

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Burger Kings Angry Whopper And Facebook Debauchery

Burger King's launch of their 2009 Angry Whopper campaign was nothing short of Facebook Debauchery as they rewarded users of the platform who were willing to publicly de-friend 10 in their network in exchange for a free burger coupon. The campaign changed social media marketing forever.

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Dos Equis - The Most Interesting Man In The World [Revisited]

The Dos Equis - The Most Interesting Man In the World ad campaign was one of the most popular, most back-linked pages on the old brentter.com blog back in 2007. Now we revisit that campaign, add some content since it was still airing new versions ten years later and explain why we chose this specific old page out of all the others.

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Easy 301 Redirects For SEO On Any Platform

A guide to implementing easy 301 redirects to send traffic from one link or website to another. 301 redirects can be used to help boost your SEO by letting search engines know that those old backlinks should now be going to your new page. Whether you're changing the domain of your blog, re-arranging the website structure or hoping to siphon some good old fashioned link juice from the backlinks on a domain you just purchased, 301 redirects are your best option.

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Add A Recently Played Music Page To Hugo

A guide to adding your own auto-updating recently played music page to your hugo site

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Add HTML tags to Hugo Pages

How to add raw html content to your hugo pages or posts

Follow - the Best Rss App Now in Alpha

The new must-try RSS app named Follow is here and I'm going to show you how it works

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A Quick Wget Tutorial to Download Everything

A Quick tutorial on using wget to download anything

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Getting All Known Links From Wayback Machine

Get all the links the WayBack Machine has for a domain

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Time for a Reboot

Restarting this blog after 10 years of it being an empty, one page placeholder. 15 years ago though it was one of the top independant advertising blogs on the internet. I think it's been long enough, I need to share again.

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