Dubai ends 30% tax on alcohol sales, fee for liquor licenses
Dubai has ended its 30% tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom and made its required liquor licenses free to obtain.
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Sight of Easter eggs on supermarket shelves leaves Twitter users confused
Some frustrated social media users reported seeing Easter eggs on shelves as early as December 28th.
Ex-Royal Mail boss hits out at board for ‘confrontational path’ on strikes
Rico Back believes postal service’s talks with union have been poorly handledUK strike calendar – service stoppages planned for JanuaryThe former Royal Mail boss Rico Back has launched a withering attack on the company’s board, saying its chief executi…
Automating Image Optimization for Website Performance, Improved User Experience and Website Core Vitals
Last week we explored the importance of updating images to next-gen formats. The net-net of the article was that it is important to update images, and next-gen formats like WebP have the ability to introduce material savings in size and performance. Th…
Is it Worth Updating Images from PNG to WebP for Website Performance?
Spend any time building online brands and you will undoubtedly stumble on the need to optimize the performance of your website. One of the things that will drive you bananas is Web Core Vitals. This was the case while working on Trunc (a log management…
LastPass Error: We couldn’t contact the server. Check Your internet connection and try again.
Have no idea why this started, but it began a couple of weeks ago (August 2022). Today I finally had enough and had to get a solution, it was driving me bonkers. Tried all the different options I could find, none seemed to work. The only thing that wor…
Introducing A Simpler, More Affordable, Way to Collect and Store Logs with Trunc
In my last article I spoke to the challenges large organizations have with innovation, in the same breathe you could argue that there is such a thing as too much innovation! It’s with that, that I’m happy to announce that Daniel and I are r…
The Effects of the Inverted Triangle on Product Innovation in Large Corporations vs Startups
For context, I’m a bootstrap startup guy, so it doesn’t take much to considered larger. But to help build some guard rails on large, imagine it in the context of people more than money. Think an organization that has 250 + people (but certa…
People = More People
This quarter we grew our team by 25%, and we have on the docket to grow by another 25% next quarter adding another 50 people in the next three months. We’re super excited about our future, and the progress we’re making. Our team growth is a…
The Invaluable Resource of Time
There is nothing more valuable than your time. If you’re a startup founder that becomes even more important, especially if they are lean, mean and bootstrapped. When you’re starting things from the ground up, you have to be exceptionally fo…