Author: Awais

Black Friday Deals: Govee consistently offers massive sales on major shopping days, such as Black Friday, and this year is no exception. My favorite, the Floor Lamp 2, is on sale for just $100, the lowest price this year. The new Uplighter is also discounted to just $126, a 30% reduction from the standard price.Black Friday deals are the perfect opportunity to upgrade your in-home lighting, and these stand-alone floor lamps add a lot of ambiance without the need for rewiring. Govee has made a name for itself in the smart lighting business as an affordable alternative to other brands,…

Why It Works Starting the sweet potatoes in a cold oven and roasting them at 300°F (150°C) keeps them in the enzyme-active range long enough for starches to convert to maltose, which deepens their natural sweetness.Returning the mashed potatoes to the oven drives off excess moisture. This allows the dough to come together with less flour, preventing the flavor from being muted and the texture from becoming dense.Parmigiano-Reggiano adds savoriness to the gnocchi and helps balance the sweetness of the potatoes.An optional splash of lemon juice at the end brightens the brown butter sauce. Pillowy yet rich, gnocchi with brown…

For years, marketers measured digital success through impressions, backlinks and clicks. If you ranked high in search results and won the click, you had visibility and control of the funnel. But that landscape is already shifting. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are rapidly becoming the first place decision-makers go for answers. These systems don’t return a page of links; they generate a synthesized response. Whether your brand is included, or ignored, in that answer increasingly determines your relevance in the buying journey. This changes the marketer’s playbook. Visibility is no longer only about ranking on…

used system for writing technical articles. I, for example, wrote my Master’s thesis through Overleaf with a LaTeX file. However, LaTeX is complicated to learn, and when dealing with it through Overleaf, you’ll encounter a lot of compiler errors and struggle to organize the file exactly how you want. Luckily, there is a much faster and more effective way of writing LaTeX code now: Write it in Cursor, or any other IDE powered by AI. You can still write the text like you always used to, but instead of spending time aligning figures, fixing citation issues, and solving compiler errors,…

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters…

Summary Shai Hulud v2 infected 500+ npm packages (700+ versions) and spilled into Java/Maven — yikes. Compromised packages run a preinstall loader that downloads Bun and executes a 10MB obfuscated payload silently. Payload exfiltrates env vars (GITHUB_TOKEN, NPM_TOKEN, AWS keys), scans for secrets; C2 self-heals via GitHub. These days, supply chain attacks targeting npm are not rare. It’s been a couple of months, but we’re back with yet another attack—this one affecting over 500 packages. Yikes. A sophisticated supply chain attack campaign dubbed “Shai Hulud v2” has compromised hundreds of packages within the npm ecosystem and has now spilled over…

Costco has plenty of festive goodies, prepared sides, and heat-and-eat meals that are an ideal addition to any holiday spread. Beyond the sheer convenience, Costco shoppers love the decadent Lobster Mac and Cheese as a holiday side, the puff pastry bite appetizers, and, of course, both the pumpkin and pecan pies for dessert. And while the Kirkland Signature take-and-bake (or, simply shop-and-serve) selections are continually knock-outs, there’s one prepackaged item at Costco that’s so delicious, my family has passed it off as homemade for the last decade at both Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.  Main St. Bistro Mashed Potatoes at Costco…

In this series (here and here), I’ve covered why founder-led marketing works and the systems you need to stay consistent, based on the playbook I co-authored for LinkedIn (my employer). You’ve built the content engine and the operational frameworks to avoid burnout. Now comes the final, most critical part: proving it works. Your founder provides the authentic voice. Your job as the marketer is to amplify that voice to the entire market and build the measurement framework that proves to the board, “This is working.” This is how you turn a content strategy into a scalable, predictable, full-funnel growth loop.…

Have you ever had that feeling when, at a crowded coffee shop, the Wi-Fi is so slow you can barely load your email, and you just know it’s because some genius is hogging all the bandwidth by torrenting the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe in 4K?Zapier EnterpriseAutomation for every team, approved by IT. APIs suffer a similar indignity when they don’t have sensible rate limits in place. To help you remedy this appalling state of affairs, this article explores how API rate limiting works and why it’s vital for maintaining system stability and security.Table of contents:What is API rate limiting?API rate limiting…

Every agency owner knows the feeling: You’ve invested countless hours training a talented team member, only to watch them walk out the door six months later. Then clients start to question why they’re working with their third account manager this year. The cycle of hiring, training, and losing people drains your bank account, crushes morale, and makes sustainable growth feel impossible. When turnover becomes your agency’s defining feature, something fundamental is broken. But what if your culture problem is actually your biggest opportunity? In this episode, we’re joined by Joe Giovannoli, founder and CEO of 9Sail, a New Jersey search…