Better Alternatives to Facebook Ads
There are too many challenges with Facebook ads such as difficulty of paying in Egypt due to limits on dollar spend. But there are too methods to cope with these challenges or avoid them. Method 1: Credit Card 🔗 If you don’t have credit card, go to your prefered bank and request a credit card backed by certificate deposit (CD). Use this credit card to pay your ads bill. Make sure your bills are below the monthly limit.
Should I use plain text files or sqlite database on my Android app?
I developed An android app to read the books of Pope Shenouda III in Arabic . I used plain text files as a storage. Each chapter of each book is a plain text file called for example a1.txt. I want to add more books quicker and it’s relatively easy and straightforward. But I also want to add search functionality. Searching in plain text files is not that hard! but search SQLite database is faster, efficient and overall better.
Phishing Facebook Pages via Recommendation
The hackers and stealers use new ideas and methods to convince you to click on their phishing page link. We discovered the direct message way in a previous post , and the recommendation way in another post . The hacker stole a Facebook page or created one, named it “Ad Assistant Pro” which indicates that it is for advertising assistance from Facebook. The hacker uses their fake Facebook page to recommend your page.
Another Strategy to Send a Phishing Link into Facebook Inbox
After few days of that phishing campaign we talked about in a previous post , I faced a new strategy to phish Facebook page admins and steal their accounts/pages. In this method of reaching out to Facebook page admins to convince them to click the phishing link and follow through the phishing funnel is using the inbox. The hacker/phisher is just sending you a direct message in messenger to convince you to click on the link.
Why I Migrated KMT Hugo theme from Tailwind CSS to Vanilla/Pure CSS ?
I created a theme for my bilingual website called kmt . In the beginning, I designed the layout of the theme in Tailwind CSS . After some time, I realized that tailwind is complicate things more for my simple theme. Building and designing with tailwind CSS needs a build step before shipping, but native CSS doesn’t. Using tailwind CSS resets the default values set by web browsers, but I can use those defaults and change ONLY the things I need.
How to show posts of my kmt theme on demo but not on others' websites
I want to create documentation and tutorials about my Hugo theme KMT, but I want to simplify my setup by adding them inside the theme itself. But if I added the posts in kmt theme, they’ll show up on all websites that use the Kmt theme! Another project for demo 🔗 I can use another instance/project that uses kmt theme, and add posts in it, and deploy it as the kmt theme demo.
SEO optimization in Kmt Theme
KMT theme is the theme developed for websites powered by Hugo . Kmt theme is developed to be optimized for search engines. Minimal 🔗 Kmt theme is developed with minimalism in mind. The less code enough to get the job done. Very Small 🔗 All files are optimized to be small.. very small. I used CSS instead of Tailwind for efficiency and optimization. Lazyloading of Image 🔗 Kmt theme has a custom Hugo renderer for images to add loading="lazy".
Making Your Website Shine on Search Engines: SSG vs. SSR for SEO
So, you’ve built a fantastic website, but how do you get people to find it? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is key! This post dives into SSG (Static Site Generation) and SSR (Server-Side Rendering), two web development techniques that can significantly boost your SEO. Even if you’re not a programmer, fear not, we’ll explain these concepts in a clear and simple way. Imagine your website as a restaurant menu 🔗 Static Website (No SSG nor SSR): This is like a printed menu.
Why I migrated my website to Hugo?
futureproof post format 🔗 In Hugo, we use a markdown file as the structure of the post. It is a reuseable post format. If something happen in the future, I can write a simple script to convert each markdown file into an HTML webpage. super fast 🔗 Hugo is built in Go, both are super fast. Hugo is simple and fast. I personally appreciate performance and efficiency and simplicity.
Why Markdown for Content?
I rewrite my own website (this website you’re reading on) to be build with Hugo static site generator to save my content in a simple markdown files. Future-Proof 🔗 The best thing about saving content/posts as markdown files is being futureproof. Why it is futureproof? Isn’t everything susceptible to change? Yes, All things is gonna change in a way or another. But markdown language is simple enough for all programmers to parse its syntax and generate any other file format or post format in the future.