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36 | Jeff Byer – Chrome Dev Tools, Shopify, CCPA and Tech Talk

Today Jeff Byer (@globaljeff) talks about his experiment with workspaces in Chrome Dev Tools, the Shopify universe, upcoming project launches, real-world project issues, and tech talk.

Show Links

Chrome Dev Tools – Workspaces

CCPA – https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
Fact Sheet, pdf

Jeff Byer    00:06    Welcome to digital rage, the podcast about all things internet and the people that make it great. My name is Jeff Byer and I know last episode I have promised you guests but uh, that didn’t happen. You know, people are busy, things are happening and uh, you know, just didn’t get around to it. I did have an interview scheduled, we had our <inaudible> in our call

Jeff Byer    00:30    and there was a misunderstanding. This a, I believe a the person involved was expecting some sort of a uh, you know, get to know ya. Uh, cause I sales call and I was expecting it to be an interview. So a little bit of a miscommunication. But um, anyway, I do have a ton of things to talk about. So this will be an episode full of stuff. I like to say stuff because some of it is crap set of, some of it’s not. So let’s get right into it. First thing is I was playing around and in Chrome and, and the dev tools and just futzing around and came across the workspaces in dev tools and thought, okay, this is interesting. Why would, why would they have a, you know, invite somebody to put their file structure inside of Chrome dev tools if it doesn’t actually make any live, live edits as you go.

Jeff Byer    01:41    Because as most developers know, whenever you get to a live website and you go into dev tools, you can modify all of the code you want and change the display of, of that website. You know, change the content, anything you want, run experiments, even if it’s not your site but only you can see it. And as soon as you close dev tools or refresh the page, all those edits are gone. And it goes back to the way it is on the live server. And I do use that sometimes to one. If I’m trying to get a screenshot and I want to modify things for the actual screenshot, I’ll go in, remove modules, remove ads and stuff like that. But on my own sites, I use it just to play around and see, you know, if there’s something visually or content wise that I want to accomplish, how fast it would be to make that adjustment and just kind of play around in dev tools before I open up, uh, you know, my editor editing environment and go ahead and go through with the change.

Jeff Byer    02:45    It also helps me to, to create estimates on what it’s going to take to accomplish certain things requested by my client. So I get into this and I’ve read a couple of articles and I go through the Google tutorial on how to use Chrome tools and the whole time, uh, I’m going through these tutorials and obviously it says, okay, you know, it’s, you’ll be able to save the changes if you use it in, in your local environment and you add your local pho folder for that environment. So I was like, okay, that’s fine, but it, uh, it’s very limited and uh, I didn’t see any way if you are going to use a SAS or any type of, of pre compiler that it just didn’t have a way to really integrate those unless you had another third party script going. So the whole time I’m going through this tutorials, like who the hell would use this?

Jeff Byer    03:47    It’s just basic. If you had a basic site with no preprocessing prop, pre-processing, no minification and uh, just static something, I don’t even know what, um, that’s what you’d use. So I went down a rabbit hole on that and found myself completely disappointed. So moving on. Um, so today I added another team member to my Shopify partner program. Uh, another developer that’s going to help me launch these two big projects that we’re launching this month. And so the month of November is going to be a huge month here for us. And so we needed to bring on extra help. And the way Shopify partners, the partner system on Shopify works is that if, uh, I’m going to take on a new client that has an existing store, I go find the existing stores, my Shopify address, then I request access to that through my partner portal. And then the owner of that store is able to verify and then, uh, I get, I gain access through the partner portal.

Jeff Byer    05:05    If the customer just puts in my email address and sends me access, even if it’s the exact same address, it does not, uh, it’s not available in my portal. So it’s, uh, it’s just a little quirky thing. I’m sure there’s plenty of reasons on the back end or privacy issues or security issues or anything like that that, that takes that into account I guess. Because you know, anybody can put in anybody’s email address and then you can accept and, and, but not really have access. I don’t really understand the details of why it’s separate, but it’s separate. So, um, with adding a new team member, um, you know, I take privacy and my accounts very, very seriously, especially when hiring outsourced developers. So I create account specific for them, you know, server accounts, user accounts, things like that. And for this one, um, the developers first request was just to send me the access and what that assumes is that he wanted to log in as me through my account and take a look at everything.

Jeff Byer    06:20    And that doesn’t really sit with me very well, uh, for plenty of different reasons. Obviously security and, and you know, my, my customers who are, the admins can see my logins. And so if something happens while I’m logged in or near anything, it’s just, I don’t want it on me personally as, as a, you know, possible vulnerability. But the great thing is through the partner program, all of my, all of my accounts are in my partner program and when I log in, it shows that it’s my company that’s locked in, a representative of my company that’s in there doing changes. And that’s much better as far as, uh, my clients are concerned and I’m concerned. So the, the great thing was it the easy way to, there’s an easy way to add people. You just add staff members to your partner portal, then each of those staff members, you can define their access but then they have access to all of your partners sites.

Jeff Byer    07:24    And this hire today was not for for one specific type but for three of them that are in my partner portal. And so it was very convenient that I just had to get his Shopify email address, the email address that he uses for Shopify and he now has access to uh, to make changes to all of my customer accounts, which is, which is very convenient for me because it’s one single point of access. He can access all of them. Now if something happens or if I don’t like the worker or if I’m just moving on to a different developer, remove him and he wrote it, he doesn’t have any access to them anymore and if he’s going to ask them, access them currently he has to go through my partner portal. So a very cool thing. Uh, just thought that was really interesting cause it’s, it’s kind of backwards from how you access how you grant access to a customer’s store rather than through a partner in, through my company.

Jeff Byer    08:27    So that was fun. Um, another piece of information, uh, was regarding the, the California consumer consumer privacy act CC P a. So this is coming on January 1st and uh, I’m making sure that all of my, all of my accounts are aware of this and so that they’re prepared and know that it’s coming. And so digging into the fact sheet of the CCPA, the here’s the requirements. So, uh, E not a lot of my customers actually require this, but for the ones that do, I’m just confirming cause I don’t know the ins and outs of everything that they do. Uh, I have web stats and that’s it. I don’t know how the business is run specifically. I don’t know revenue numbers cause they’re mostly private businesses. But here are the, here’s the, the requirements. So businesses are subject to the CCP. A, if one or more of the following, our true has gross Avenue S sorry, I’m having trouble speaking today.

Jeff Byer    09:47    Let’s try this again. If the following are true, has gross annual revenues in excess of $25 million, um, buys, receives or sells the personal information of 50,000 or more customers, households or devices. So that one’s interesting because when I first skimmed through it and I said, Oh, buy and sells information, that’s, you know, none of my customers do that. But then receives and absolutely all of my customers receive information and checking databases on that information. Is, is only part of what the law entails. This is pretty much everything. So I need to verify that with all my customers because 50,000 consumers on, you know, a site that’s been 10 years old, that’s a pretty easy number to hit. So, uh, even for a small business, so I’m confirming that, uh, all the information that they have is, is w, you know, if it’s over that number or under that number, if it’s over that number, then we have to start looking into being compliant.

Jeff Byer    11:05    And the last, the last one, which I already kind of hinted to but derives 50% or more of annual revenues from selling consumers’ personal information. So since I don’t deal with companies that sell personal information, uh, not really concerned about that one, but receiving, so the 25 million annual revenue and receiving information of 50,000 or more consumers, those are the two key metrics that I’m interested in, uh, as far as this lobbying applied. So that warning is going out to all of my customers and that, that, you know, I’m pretty sure we’re are either close or will qualify and we’re to, uh, start planning on, uh, being compliant with that as of January one. And the one customer that I know is going to be effected by this law were already in the process of a full redesign and we started this process with them back in March.

Jeff Byer    12:11    So, uh, we will be compliant when we, when we relaunch at the, at the end of this year. So, uh, California consumer privacy act that is, uh, it’s a little bit, if you’re, if you’re not yet compliant with GDPR, then you’re definitely not compliant with CCPA. So something to look into. And, uh, if you’re listening to this show and you have customers that qualify, then you definitely want to start that conversation. So I thought, ah, since I don’t have a guest, we talk about things, you know, real world, uh, business issues and technical issues that, uh, I’m working on right now. And, um, I could always use advice and consumer or, uh, and listener advice or anybody that’s dealt with any of these specifically. But, uh, I’m, I’m always open to, to learning and here are some issues right now that I’m specifically working on. So I have three.

Jeff Byer    13:18    I manage three Shopify stores that are going to need California proposition 65 warnings for certain products. Now, if you’re not familiar with California proposition 65, it’s basically a warning label that goes on, products that will be shipped imported into California and California, uh, put this law into place so that consumers are warned if a product that they are purchasing has any elements that the state of California deems related to causing cancer. And so when you go to Disneyland, you see signs when you enter saying that there are elements in this park that, that are known to, the state of California is just causing cancer. So it’s, it’s commonly accepted by most large businesses, public entities, people that offer public access. If they, you know, if there’s anything like lead based paint or, or, uh, uh, anything, if they use something that contains lead or, or they use cleaning products that contain a certain chemical that’s linked to cancer, then they have to have these warnings.

Jeff Byer    14:34    So it’s pretty commonplace and mostly, you know, it’s part of the landscape at, at Disneyland and, and, uh, most restaurants and things like that. And they’re just basically ignored. Uh, for e-commerce though, the solutions that I’ve been finding to this are pretty invasive. So the first place that I looked was Amazon and seeing how Amazon, uh, approaches it. And I wouldn’t say that Amazon’s approach is specifically compliant. I don’t know the legalities, but it’s very, I would say not really. You know, it’s, it’s hidden almost where they just have a link that says, view all of, uh, product warnings here on this page. And they have one page that encompasses every product warning, including California prop 65 warnings. So, um, and they’ve been, they’ve been critic criticized about the, their approach to this online. And, uh, I don’t know that if there’s any, any penalties or litigation against them as far as the way that they’re handling this, but from what I’ve seen as far as, uh, you know, plugins and, and, and other sites that are, that are, uh, following compliance or plugins that offer these compliance, they’re pretty annoying.

Jeff Byer    16:02    Um, the one plugin that I’ve, that I’ve got installed for top-up high right now, and it’s called, uh, you have, it’s called product warnings and it has a free version. And basically if you add a product to, to your shopping cart before it adds to the shopping cart, a modal comes up with the actual warning and, and you have to click accept on the modal to add it to your shopping cart. And the free version is it does it for everybody no matter where you live or where you’re shipping. And it really only specifically applies to if the product is being shipped to California. Thing about that is if you offer guests checkouts or if they’re not logged in, you don’t really know where they are or where they’re shipping. And so this plugin has a paid feature that will use the IP address of the user.

Jeff Byer    17:02    And if the IP address is in California, then they show the warning. And if it’s not, they don’t. So it’s not a perfect solution but at least gets it closer so that you’re not showing it to everybody. Um, the issue with this is without sh, uh, I’m trying to figure out a way that one, you don’t use a modal and you can just use a regular warning that’s on either the product page or the cart page. I’m getting clarification if we can actually show it in the cart and to how to show it for specifically only people that are shipping to California. From what I understand from the law is that if you can’t show the warning after it’s in a, a eCommerce shopping cart, you need to show it in the shopping cart before the purchase process. And you usually, the shipping address is one of the final pieces of information you’ve put in through the checkout process. And was Shopify specifically, uh, if you, unless you have a Shopify plus account, which is, you know, starting at $2,000 a month, you don’t have any access to the checkout process at all. Um, just content updates but you know, text updates and things like that, but you can’t access shipping or, you know, put a warning into the process itself.

Jeff Byer    18:33    So that’s the process. That’s the thing I’m trying to work out right now is one if it, you know, if showing it to everybody is the only way to be fully compliant with the law, then I’ve got to present that to my clients. But to not doing it through a modal and doing it through just a, uh, uh, line item either in the cart or on the product page as if if the person’s in California. So problems I’m working out there and then that brought it up. The other issue is that does, does the plugin itself, you know, does using a plugin and paying a monthly fee makes sense? Or does it make sense to just create my own plugin and be able to install it on my three sites? Possibly making the plugin a product of my company and charging for it. So these are all questions that I will be answering most likely this month and get this underway for, for my three clients that require it.

Jeff Byer    19:41    Um, next thing I’m working on a, I know there’s plugins for this, but the, what I’m working on is trying to make the fastest WordPress based blog. If performance server performance user performance wise, the fastest one you know in the world basically. So finding out what the perfect setup is. If you’re using WordPress as a backend for your blog, and this is specific to blogs, this isn’t front end, you know, this isn’t CMS, this isn’t WooCommerce e-commerce or anything like that. This is just blocked. This is just retrieving information, displaying it to, to the user on the front end. So I have my two experience experiments running now. Uh, the first one is using the, uh, the API through accessing it through PHP. So the server rendering and accessing through PHP is slow. The, the WordPress API is slow. It depends on the WordPress host.

Jeff Byer    20:49    It’s, it’s, it spits out Jason, but on demand, Jason, so it’s got a render that Jason file and then spits it out. And then it allows you to access it and do that. So it’s almost a second round trip that not, you know, anywhere near acceptable as far as if you’re going to, you know, try and provide the fastest solution possible. It’s somewhat acceptable on, on a, on a regular website, on a small, smaller use, low access website. But for me, just across the board, not accessible or not, not possible cause it just takes way too long to do. So the JavaScript API version was a little bit better and uh, it probably cut the time and half but still 500 milliseconds to, to just access the content before displaying the page is still not, not ideal. And if you await, if you wait for, if you just load the page and then let the defer the, the API access, then your user’s looking at a blank page.

Jeff Byer    22:03    And, and the, the experience itself, at least the visual experience itself is not very friendly and uh, and it’ll have issues if you’re running Java script on page load, that act that needs to either modify the interface or do some sort of a function on load and you’d have to defer that after the API. And it just, it becomes this long string of waiting and waiting and waiting. So that’s not an option. So the thing that I’m looking at now is, uh, is a plugin that will export a flat Jason file to a cloud service. Every time there is a change to the content in WordPress on the WordPress back end. Uh, I th this plugin does actually exist. Um, S somebody built one and I, I, I wish I could give them credit right now because, uh, I can’t remember who it is, but, uh, I do love this because I’ve, right now I’m running a, uh, AWS CDN at for my own blog, which isn’t up yet, but when it is, I’ll, I’ll share all the details on how it works.

Jeff Byer    23:19    And so this would take this, this plugin a step further and be able to export the Jason file to AWS and then put it on, uh, on, on the cloud AWS cloud, so on cloud front so that this content is spread out, accessible on local servers and then do my test again as far as being able to access the Jason and display Jace on data using cloud services and a CDN. So that’s the next experiment. Um, I don’t know if I’m going to use by this existing plugin and for the experiment or just go ahead and try and create it myself and with, you know, hard coding, my specific AWS bucket and, and keys and all that stuff. So I’ll keep you updated on that. But that is another, uh, issue that I’m working on. And the last one that I’m currently working on is related to SEO.

Jeff Byer    24:26    And Google’s mentioning through their site rate or guidelines of, uh, eat a spirit experience authoritativeness and trust. So a lot of my clients are, are having issues with this is how do we verify that we’re experts in the field that we’re talking about on our website? And if you are experts, how do we allow, how do we give Google enough information so that they can verify that the person who is publicly responsible for the content on the website is actually, uh, an authority and is trustworthy? So this is coming into being specific about my, my supplement clients, health supplements. And so there’s very strict laws about how, what claims you can make and how those claims can be made. And and proving that those claims are possible. But we’re also running a content marketing and blogs on these sites and the blogs are written by industry experts.

Jeff Byer    25:33    Um, and we now have content coming in, nutrition, content, content coming in from a PhD. So now what I am trying to figure out, and I’m kind of doing trial and error here, is uh, how can we verify that the person who has PhD connected to their name is actually a PhD. I’m going to link to other publications that they’ve been published in, which are, you know, well-respected authorities and do well on health content in Google search results. So I know that those, those pages are respected. Uh, those sites are respected and they’re, they’re by default respecting the content that this person writes. So having an authorship pay page for these specific authors on our site that link out to all of the other places that the author is, is published on top of that is finding some way to verify that our PhD author is to verify the existence of his PhD and how the PhD was, would be verified.

Jeff Byer    26:46    So we’re looking into that. A, I’m not sure that Google would, even if, if their algorithm even takes that into account, anything like that. But I’m just looking at it from specifically what the quality radar guidelines say is that a quality Raider comes on a site that’s making a health claim. They look at the author, they link to the author’s bio, and they see not only other places that they’ve written, but can actually verify the credentials of the person, not only their writing experience, but their credentials. That’s probably the best possible scenario for a quality rater to say, yes, this person is qualified to make this claim, therefore we deemed this, this content as a trustworthy and authoritative. So those are the real world problems I’m solving, trying to solve. And uh, I’ll keep you updated on that as well. So the next thing, uh, Google has achieved quantum supremacy and quantum computing is one of the hot topics, uh, besides Bert, which I talked about Burt all last episode.

Jeff Byer    28:01    So no need to bring that up again. But, uh, quantum computing, uh, it’s a funny thing about quantum computing is that there is no real world use for it. And taking that into account, does any there milestone that they’ve hit, what does it actually mean? It’s kind, kinda like STEM cell research. It’s, it’s, you know, what’s the real world scenario? I guess there’s more real world scenarios for STEM. So, but quantum computing, um, it’s still remains to be seen whether this is going to be something that’s useful or maybe, you know, 20, 50 years down the road when you’re like, Oh, now we get it. This is what this, this quantum computing can do. But, uh, their study also got a lot of, a lot of kickback is, um, you know, in achieving quantum supremacy and they’re saying some, uh, the, I don’t remember the exact, so this is just, this is just, uh, off the top of my head and it’s definitely not accurate, so don’t, don’t take me to task on this.

Jeff Byer    29:09    But, um, the, the calculation that the quantum computer, the quantum computer was trying to solve would have taken the best, uh, processor CPU, combo computer. Uh, something like a hundred years to do and it did it in two and a half minutes or something. And that’s what the benchmark to achieve quantum <inaudible> basically. And there’s been some push back on that saying it’s not, it wouldn’t exactly a hundred years, so it would probably take five years or 10 years, you know, something like that. And um, if it just kind of relatives, like if you’re gonna if you’re going to, uh, publish these results as something that you have a milestone for, for life in general, like, you know, stepping on the moon and stuff like that. Um, definitely have your, your facts and your citations in order. And you know, probably I would have put the benchmark out there publicly before announcing this saying, what do you think is the accurate benchmark for a, a, a quantum supremacy to be achieved? And is it true? You know, just, just check the facts and I don’t know if they did that or not. I don’t know if this is all just people nay-saying on, on Google. But yeah, props to them for, for getting this far and, and doing this without any, any form of, of, you know, real world use case. But my assessment of this whole thing is, is like, it’s super exciting, but what does it actually mean?

Jeff Byer    30:58    So one thing that I’m going to talk about now, which I never really get into, uh, on the show, but, uh, it’s more of a tech tech talk type of a section. There’s a ton of other technology people out there writing about technology, blogging about technology, doing technology podcasts. But for me specifically, uh, regarding digital marketing and SEO, uh, website development, their specific tech that, uh, that I look into on a daily basis. And it’s something that, uh, that’s worth talking about. So, um, the first thing that that’s been coming up in tech talk is the Amazon exploding batteries. So Amazon’s a white label brand of batteries are, are, uh, inexpensive. Um, and so now people are complaining that the batteries are actually exploding in their devices. And there’s been a lot of knocks on these batteries for a long time, uh, as far as how long they last.

Jeff Byer    32:06    And you know, they’re just not up to the quality there. They’re inexpensive for a reason and so, but this now brings a whole new aspect to it. It’s like, okay, the cheaper they make these batteries, the more dangerous they are. And so, uh, I thought it was a interesting take, but I have never bought Amazon batteries. Um, I don’t really buy cheap batteries because I, when I replaced batteries in something, I don’t want to be doing it all the time. So, uh, I buy fresh and, uh, a good quality battery next. Oh, the ear pod pros. Um, I always, I did have a lot of questions about these and got answered on a, on a podcast today. Uh, let’s see if I can find which episode that was. Um, I believe it was the, uh, tech meme ride home for, for yesterday. Anyway, the, what’s interesting to me is the air pod pro has 10 audio cores that are running an enormous amount of data hundreds of times a second.

Jeff Byer    33:19    And I was like, that’s amazing. And it’s all based on, on their, uh, noise canceling algorithm and knowing your voice and knowing what’s coming out of the ear pods themselves and counseling out what’s coming out from coming in, uh, you know, comp complicated stuff and they’re smaller. So what is the battery life like on those? If they’re constantly, if they’re powering up 10 audio cores and running that much data per second while they’re on a, it’s kind of an insane thing to think about in such a small device. And so, uh, it’s something interesting. Um, I’m very happy with my current version of my EarPods and I’m not gonna upgrade, but it’s, uh, it’s definitely something to consider is how much power do you actually need in a pair of earbuds. So, uh, and now, uh, on a personal note, uh, my, my current MacBook pro, let me just see what this is.

Jeff Byer    34:33    So this is a late 2013 15 inch MacBook pro. Uh, it has a 2.3 gigahertz Intel core, I seven. It’s running 16 gigabytes of DDR, three 1600 megahertz memory. Uh, it’s got a one terabyte SSD hard drive. It’s got an Invidia G force GT, seven 50 M with two gigabytes of a video memory, uh, and it is failing quickly. So I, I need to upgrade my whole program here. So I started down the, down the road of researching what am I going to get and when the iMac pro came out, cause I do have an, uh, a five K iMac that I bought for my home computer. So I didn’t max it out. I didn’t get a bunch. It’s got it’s running I five, uh, it’s on the guy who 500 gigabyte a SSD, you know, and I put some added Ram in it so that I could run, you know, my apps from home when I needed to, but, uh, everything, I stored everything on the cloud.

Jeff Byer    35:53    So I didn’t really need the, the hard drive space and all that stuff. So, uh, I, but I love the format of the, I especially love the five K display and now that Apple doesn’t sell displays anymore, the iMac just for the display alone is a really huge selling point. So, um, you know, I’ve got expensive displays hooked up to my MacBook pro, but they’re nothing like the five K IMAX. So I looked at the iMac pro and Holy moly, they are expensive. I priced out what my, not even my top of the line fully loaded one is I just priced out what would be acceptable to me, you choosing specifically the lowest Ram option because I can upgrade the Ram cheaper aftermarket than I can when I buy the new one from Apple. And it still ended up at just shy of $8,000 the way I had it configured.

Jeff Byer    36:52    So I’m like, Oh man, that’s going to be a huge expense. So then I said, okay, well what if I get the new MacBook pro? And of course it doesn’t have a Deion processors and everything, but it’s got a I nine. It’s, it’s a huge upgrade from what I’m currently using and it has the, it has a, a storage capacity up to a four terabyte SSD, which, which, you know, really makes me happy because, uh, my one terabyte is constantly filling and I’m constantly offloading projects to the cloud or to my, my, uh, Thunderbolt drives to, to just get them off the main hard drive because filling up the main hard drive definitely affects performance. And so I’m constantly doing that. And now my computer has the nasty habit of whenever it’s sinking to either the, the, uh, Thunderbolt drives or to the cloud, my computer just freezes, it seizes up and, uh, it’s starting to affect the audio quality of my audio recordings.

Jeff Byer    38:02    It’ll seize during audio recording and you’ll hear these little blips. So, uh, it’s definitely time to upgrade. And so I’m looking into most likely going with Mac book pro just because iMac pro is such a huge cost difference. So the, the, back to what I was saying is so about $8,000 to upgrade to the iMac pro and right around, you know, 4,000 4,500 to get the MacBook pro. So that’s leaning me towards the MacBook pro. Now also have an iPhone eight plus, which is is great because it has a home button and I know the home button, uh, you know, I’ve heard mixed reviews on, on face detection and how that works. And so I’ve, I’ve been using my friends and my cousins iPhone tens just kind of playing around seeing, you know, okay, now I get it. Now you don’t press the, you don’t press the home button, you just swipe up to get home.

Jeff Byer    39:04    And so as the way everything’s going, I’ve got to give up my, my home button. So what I am looking at getting is the iPhone 11 pro of course pay and you’re going into the store and paying full retail is not the way I like doing things. So now I’m looking around at different, uh, different options to, to get the best deal. You know, they’ve got the trade in and you know, my phone is still in perfect condition cause it’s always had a case. So trade in values. Good on that. But I’m not sure I want to trade it in. We’ll see. Uh, but yeah, iPhone 11 pro is probably going to be the next purchase. And finally the Mac O S Catalina upgrade. Uh, I, I’ve been hearing horror stories about it, especially for late 2013 MacBook pros, which is what my main computer is. So I am not upgrading this computer to Catalina.

Jeff Byer    40:06    Uh, people who have posted their horror stories have said they’d have, they’d had to re-install completely re-install their Adobe suite and losing days of production, having to overcome a bunch of issues. And, uh, I, so what I did is I upgraded the five K, uh, core, I five iMac, cause I don’t rely on it. It’s more of a, a backup computer and it’s newer. So, uh, it could, it could, it’s better able to handle the upgrade and upgrade went fine. There’s a few things, but a Adobe suite updated fine. Uh, the, uh, Photoshop 20 installed perfectly. And the one thing is that I, I use a tiny P and G for compressing images for the web and I have a Photoshop plugin that’s been, it’s been spotty at best. If I have, if I’m using a huge amount of, of memory or scratched disc on a, on a file that’s open or if I have multiple art boards or anything, the plugin just crashes, Photoshop completely.

Jeff Byer    41:19    So I only use it on small projects or one off images that I need. Otherwise I have to go to the website and, and use the, the website services for the, for the tiny P and G squishing. Um, so on, when I updated the iMac, the first thing I did was created an image and I wanted to export it through tiny B and G. and sure enough, the plugin isn’t compatible, error message can’t do it. It didn’t crash Photoshop, it just refused to run the plugin. So, uh, I had to compress it manually through the website. And that image is actually up on my Instagram at global Geoff. It’s just basically the Catalina waterproof picture or a wallpaper picture of Catalina Island that just says it’s, you know, my stuff is working. So if you go to my Instagram you’ll see that. But uh, I’m pretty sure that this MacBook is not going to get upgraded to Catalina anytime soon cause I am too busy and I’ve got too much going on. So that is it for today’s episode. If you have any questions, comments, you can find me on Twitter or Instagram. I am at global. Jeff, you can go to buyer.co for any information or if you want to contact me about anything, episode ideas, you can go to digital rage dot F M and if you rate and review us in any of your pod catchers, we would sincerely appreciate it. Thank you very much for listening.

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Published: 2010-07-01 - Updated: 2018-01-26
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Synopsis: Study finds that simple 2-question survey can better identify hungry children.

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Study finds that simple 2-question survey can better identify hungry children - Early screening and intervention is critical to preventing long-term consequences of hunger.

Asking parents just two simple screening questions could help health care providers and social workers to easily and quickly identify families whose young children are suffering from hunger, enabling early interventions that could prevent serious health consequences, according to a new study led by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers. The study, published July 1 in the journal Pediatrics , analyzed data gathered from more than 30,000 families nationwide, about a quarter of whom suffered from hunger.

The researchers examined whether the time-consuming, 18-question Household Food Security Survey provided by the federal government could be shortened and still be effective in identifying hungry families. They found that just the first two statements, with which families were asked to agree or disagree, were key: "Within the past 12 months we worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more;" and "Within the past 12 months the food we bought just didn't last and we didn't have money to get more."

The researchers found that 92.5 percent of the hungry families answered "yes" to the first question, and 81.9 percent of the families answered yes to the second, meaning that positive answers to those questions alone could accurately identify most families affected by hunger.

Such an efficient screening test can save time and get help to more hungry families faster, according to lead author Erin Hager, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "This paper is the evidence that it works," Dr. Hager says. "Now, this can immediately be used by any social service agency or any clinic to more quickly get hungry children connected with the assistance they need to stay nourished, healthy and developmentally on track."

Hunger can be invisible in American children because they do not physically appear skinny or emaciated, according to senior author Maureen Black, Ph.D., the John A. Scholl, M.D., and Mary Louise Scholl, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "Unlike hungry children in Third World countries who may go without food, American parents have access to cheap, nutrient-deprived foods they can use to fill their children's bellies and maintain their weight. However, without critical nutrients such as iron, babies and toddlers can suffer from serious health consequences."

Health care professionals rarely ask parents if they have enough nutritious food to feed their families. "People who are hungry and who can't feed their kids are often anxious and depressed," says Dr. Black. "They don't feel good about this "food is a basic need you're supposed to provide for your children."

Identifying hungry children and intervening early is so important because of the serious health effects kids can suffer without proper nutrition. Children younger than three who live in food-insecure households are 90 percent more likely to be in fair or poor health (versus good or excellent health) than children in food-secure homes. Hungry babies and toddlers are 31 percent more likely to have been hospitalized since birth, and 76 percent more likely to be at increased developmental risk than children in food-secure homes.

A quick, easy way of identifying hungry families can help them get assistance before the hunger seriously impacts the children's health. "Food stamps, welfare and programs like WIC can provide these families with nutrient-rich food to avoid the negative consequences of hunger," says Dr. Black.The researchers hope social workers, health professionals and other outreach workers who come in contact with needy families will begin using the quiz right away, and will immediately seek help for those who need it. Health care professionals can use a Web site set up by the City Health Department to identify nutritional resources for families who are at risk for food insecurity.

The study was conducted as part of Children's Health-Watch (, a nationwide consortium of urban medical centers devoted to monitoring how national policies and environmental conditions affect the health, growth and development of children under three years of age. Working in emergency departments and pediatric primary care clinics, Children's Health-Watch interviewers asked 30,098 families all 18 questions on the U.S. Household Food Security Scale. The scale is a survey developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to track food insecurity in America. About 23 percent of the families who participated were food insecure.

Dr. Black and colleagues analyzed the families' responses to all 18 questions see if fewer queries could be just as definitive as the full survey. The responses to the first two questions accurately identified the vast majority of hungry families. The researchers evaluated statistical factors and found a sensitivity of 97 percent, meaning that only three percent of families who experience food insecurity were likely to be misclassified as food-secure using the two-question survey. The results are encouraging, and the new test can be implemented right away, says Dr. Black.

"We're hoping our findings will immediately enable clinics and other outreach centers screen families for food insecurity," she says. "We want children and their parents to get help as soon as they can to prevent long-term health and developmental consequences."

"This study is an example of how taking an innovative approach to evaluating existing methods can help us find a better way and improve human health," says E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., vice president for medical affairs, University of Maryland, and John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine. "We are confident these findings will have an immediate impact on the health of America's babies and toddlers. We're proud of Dr. Black's work toward a better life for children who are at risk."

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morcellatorAn estimated one of every 350 women undergoing a hysterectomy for removal of the uterus or uterine fibroids may have an undiagnosed sarcoma, which doctors cannot detect prior to the surgery. Laparoscopic power morcellators used in such cases can lead to the spread of sarcoma and other aggressive cancers.  Contact a Hysterectomy Sarcoma Attorney for a free legal consultation if you or someone you love was diagnosed with uterine cancer following a hysterectomy.

Cancerous Cells spread by Morcellator

Morcellators are used in some 55,000-75,000 procedures in the U.S. yearly. Morcellator blades cut tissues into smaller pieces to make them easier to remove. But morcellators often leave behind tiny pieces of tissue. If those pieces contain cancerous cells, morcellators can spread the cancer throughout the abdomen and greatly increase the risk of death. Many women have been diagnosed with advanced stage uterine cancer following a laparoscopic hysterectomy or robotic hysterectomy, in which leiomyosarcoma, endometrial stromal sarcoma, or other cancer has metastasized to the bladder, pelvis, lungs or other remote areas.

FDA Warnings

Because there is no reliable way for doctors to determine which women have uterine sarcoma prior to hysterectomy, the FDA determined that the cancer risks associated with using morcellation during a laparoscopic or robotic hysterectomy surgery outweigh any benefits provided over other methods of removing the uterus or uterine fibroids, for the great majority of women.

The FDA issued the first warnings about the risk in April 2014, urging doctors not to perform laparoscopic hysterectomy with morcellators. In November 2014, the agency announced that a “black box” warning will be placed on the devices to ensure women are aware of the risk before considering laparoscopic hysterectomy morcellation.

Hysterectomy Cancer Lawsuit

In a lawsuit against a power morcellator maker, we would charge that the maker knew or should have known about the substantial risk of spreading unsuspected sarcoma associated with the design of the morcellator. It appears to us now that these corporations withheld vital safety information from the medical community and from women, placing their desire for profits ahead of a woman’s safety.

Hysterectomy Sarcoma Attorney

Contact an experienced hysterectomy sarcoma attorney for a potential lawsuit against the maker of a power morcellator if your or someone you love was diagnosed with uterine cancer following a hysterectomy.  We offer a free legal consultation. Please view our testimonials to see how we have helped others.


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What are the main advantages to clicker training, you may ask? What actually is clicker training and are its benefits really worth the effort?

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7 Reasons Why Clicker Training is Worth The Effort

1. Fun. Clicker training, it’s often said by its advocates, keeps the sessions fun and allows dogs to really develop a consistent understanding of new commands.

2. Fast track. Clicker training is a great way to fast track your dog when they’re learning new things.

3. Science. No mumbo jumbo here! Clicker training has been scientifically proven to help dogs learn. It is a well established mechanism by which the learning process can be made simpler for your dog.

4. You can teach your dog literally anything. See the video? That’s the result of a confident dog who obviously loves to learn and an owner who understands the benefits of training with a clicker.

5. Consistency. Dogs love consistency. Using a noise marker, such as a clicker, helps to develop consistency as you train your dog in more advanced situations.

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Unibuddy is a student chat platform embedded on the Douglas College International website that connects current Douglas students to prospective students. There's nothing like talking to a peer about their college experiences!

As a DCI Ambassador, you will represent Douglas College in interacting with prospective students and their families to help them learn about the college and provide guidance regarding joining Douglas.

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"The operative word here is 'friendly'."

Jessica Jones avoids the traditional Netflix mid-season lag: A.K.A. Do not read this review until you've watched the episode.

Well, I feel like kind of an asshole now.

Jessica Jones and Gregory Sallinger spend some quality time trying to piss one another off as much as possible. Both succeed. Of course, this isn't a game you want to play with a serial killer, as Jessica discovers.

There's actually a solid thread running through this episode as regards actions having consequences. In hindsight, I should have realized that we were being gently prepared for a big, unforeseen consequence heading our way at high speed. Jessica acknowledges that it was her compulsion to rub Sallinger's nose in the fact that she'd discovered his first murder victim which led to his decision to kill that day. That was causing her enough guilt when it was going to be a stranger, God alone knows how she's going to handle...

No, I'm not there yet. Let's keep circling that one.

Trish's actions are also bringing consequences, however unlike Jessica Trish isn't recognizing or owning them. Her need to get photographed last episode directly resulted in the local police no longer being able to bring in the body of Sallinger's first victim so that they could examine it for possible vital evidence proving him to be a killer. That's a huge problem which threatened to undo all of the forward momentum that Jesssica's gazebo demolition had achieved. Unfortunately, Trish doesn't appear to be learning and growing from the mistake, which means she hasn't reached a newfound level of superhero maturity. Which is too bad, because she really needed to be a little more centered when...

Nope. Still not yet. Soon.

Jessica also has grown enough that when it came down to alerting and possibly saving an unknown woman, she didn't hesitate to eat crow and call in Dorothy for a little PR help. Dorothy was absolutely right earlier in the episode when she pointed out that Trish and Jessica were in dire need of a publicist. They're currently engaged in an active public relations battle with Jeri's law firm and are currently getting their asses handed to them. It's telling that Jessica was perfectly willing to endure it forever when it was just hurting her, but didn't hesitate to take the available help when it was a case of helping a stranger. In fact, Dorothy was solid throughout this whole episode. OK, she was solid through almost the whole episode. She was even kind at one stage, pointing out to Jessica that her tantrum on air would actually make the potential victim more likely to see the video. That's solid publicist reasoning. You know, I feel like there's something we should be discussing about Dorothy. Now what was it.

OK, one last thing and I'll get there. There's a huge 'I look like a jerk' acknowledgement involved, and I'm deeply opposed to situations where I look bad.

This episode was largely a struggle of wills between Jessica and Sallinger, and as such it worked well. The back and forth of 'who will irritate the other more' was riveting to watch unfold. However, it came at the cost of several enormous suspensions of disbelief that really took me out of the story a few times. For example, Jessica might not know what Instayap is, or that it only gives you two plays of the video. I'll even buy that Trish didn't know that, although that's more of a stretch. But app traffic between phones is hugely trackable by the authorities, and the mere fact of Sallinger having provably sent video to Jessica, a woman he's accusing of stalking him, would be a big deal. Likewise, he either currently has or is getting a restraining order against her and is handed video proof of her in his apartment destroying things. His current goal is to humiliate her, why would he not let the cops and/or media know about this immediately? I suppose it would get in the way of his day's murder plans, but it still felt like an odd moment.

On a lesser point, Trish was taping promos for her show, she wasn't on air. There's no way that a floor director wouldn't have stopped cameras the second Jessica started making noise. They certainly wouldn't have acted like Dorothy was trapped doing the spot once Trish brought her in.

OK, let's do this.

We need to talk about Dorothy.

In my review for 'Sorry Face' I stated that I hated Dorothy and I hoped she would be Sallinger's next victim. I swear, I had no idea what was coming, I was just being bitchy. And while I realize that she's a fictional character and no actual people were harmed, it's astounding how guilty I felt about having written that when the penny dropped and we all realized just what Sallinger had been doing with his day. Of course it was Dorothy he killed. It should have been obvious from the beginning, and yet I didn't clock it until just before the lipstick on the glass shot. Excellent use of established prop to convey unspoken information, by the way.

This really comes down to the final disbelief that I haven't been able to dispel for the last few episodes. Specifically, there's just no way that the entire city wouldn't be looking at the mysterious new blond vigilante hanging out with Jessica Jones and not thinking, 'Oh, hey. There's Trish.' Their connection is just too easy to know about and Trish is around Jessica way too much for that to not be the most solvable mystery the city has ever seen. The fact that Sallinger seems to have figured it out is, I think, supposed to be a sign of how smart he is, but mostly read as, 'thank God somebody noticed that really obvious thing.'

So, I'm sorry Dorothy. I didn't mean to wish you dead immediately before you were violently killed in exactly the way I said I hoped you would be. My bad. All I can say is that in your eleventh hour you proved to me that you were, if nothing else, actually a really good publicist./

Bits and Pieces:

- Zaya covered up the fact that Malcolm knows who the 'mysterious' vigilante that hacked their system is. I think that proves that she isn't evil, right? Her points about the need for legal defense even for the guilty were all solid as well. Our whole legal system is kind of based on that.

- It was a really good decision to not show us one way or another whether Sallinger was dead at the end. My gut tells me that Trish killed him and now she's going to be the moral problem for the remainder of the series, but I don't yet know.

- Did we already know that Costa was gay? I don't recall. In any case, he and his husband Russell were adorable together, and I really hope they don't go the 'Curtis on Arrow' route with Costa's relationship.

- Whatever Jeri's motives for breaking up Kith's marriage were, in terms of plot function it led to Peter's suicide video accusing Jeri of helping supers get away with lawbreaking which directly led to Jeri having to take a harder stand against Jessica at this stage than she otherwise would have just to prove that she isn't. That's nice long term structure.

- I loved the waiter knowing all about Patsy and being totally unimpressed with Trish's attempts to con him.

- No Erik again this episode. I miss Erik. I hope we see him again. I could live with losing Berry, however.

- The above was not meant to read as a wish that Berry would be murdered.

Dorothy: "Oh no. Her costume is a disaster."
Jessica: "Once again you’ve hit the nail on the head."

Jessica: "Well, it turns out that vandalism is both fun and effective."

Trish: "He's changing his MO to a proxy for you."
Gillian: "Glad I haven’t Single White Femaled you yet."

Dorothy: "Just a little zhuzh. You have to sell yourself, and this is part of it."

Costa: "I’ll be here processing all the women you’ve terrified."

Jessica: "I hate giving a shit."
Trish: "I’m beginning to see why."

Once you accept a few plot contrivances that don't entirely work, this is a solid and suspenseful episode with a killer ending. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist that. I'm weak.

Seven out of ten broken wrestling trophies.

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Billie Doux said...

Mikey. Sweetums. Take it from someone who's done it a lot -- you do not need to feel guilty for predicting the death of a television character. :)

TJ said...

Figuring out who is next to die is something that comes with this type of shows. But I have to admit, I was completely unprepared for this one. I couldn't stand Dorothy, but Rebecca De Mornay did a fantastic job with the character. RIP Dorothy. Fantastic episode.:)

Panda said...

Count me as another person shocked about Dorothy!

JRS said...

Does anyone else think of Dorothy as the Lwaxana Troi of this series?

Mikey Heinrich said...

Is there a really upsetting episode of Next Generation that I don't know about?


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Is Your Thyroid Still Working?

How do you know if your thyroid gland is still working?

If you have ever wondered if your thyroid was still functional, shut down, or making half of what you need, then let’s dive and sort out what you can do about it today.

Your Thyroid Calculator

As far as I am concerned, the goal of thyroid treatment is to not need treatment anymore. Instead, you should focus on getting your thyroid to a point where you no longer have to worry about the performance of your thyroid.

That is why I have put a lot of work into crafting this handy thyroid calculator (Click Here). It is going to give you an answer in two specific ways:

  1. A Percent Number – How much there is versus how much there should be.
  2. Micrograms – How much your thyroid gland is truly making.

Bottom Line: How cool is that? You can simply plug in some numbers and learn so much about your health – and what you can do to optimize it. You can even track it over time to see how it is changing with your treatment.

What You Need To Know

In order to use the calculator to its full extent, here is what I would like to know:

  • Your weight
  • All the thyroid medicines you are on
  • Your gender
  • Pregnancy/menopausal status

Key Insight: Women have a lot more hormonal considerations that need to be taken into account. Men simply do not, even if they are taking testosterone.

Understanding Your Answers

Once you get the chance to use the thyroid calculator, here are what some of the numbers mean and what you can do about them.

You can still feel your best even if you are at 0%. Please know, though, that your gland will more than likely not take over in a case such as this.

A score of 0 could relate to something such as thyroid surgery, having been removed (partially or completely), there is also a variation of Hashimoto’s disease known as atrophic – which is where the gland shrinks and goes away (and is rather common).

We can also see this at any percentage in between. If you are somewhere around 50%, your gland is making about half of what your body needs. At 75%, it is at about three quarters.

If you are at 80 – 90% it may be fair to question whether you need to be on thyroid treatment at all. If your body is close, or even over, then you might just be fine letting your body handle the last step.

Action Steps: Raising Your Percent

Let’s say that your percentage is lower than you need to feel your best. Here are just some of the things you can do to help raise your percentage:

Metabolism Reset Challenge

One of the easiest ways to do this is by joining us in our next challenge. We have had so many people experience amazing thyroid results, and I have seen two distinct categories of people coming through this program:

  1. Folks who are not on treatment but are told they need it.
  2. Those who are taking more than they need.

Bottom Line: The results of the Metabolism Reset Challenge continue to amaze people, and I would love for you to join in on the next one. If you are ready to learn more, this is your chance to hear the full story and what you can do to take your health to the next level (Click here to join).

The Daily Reset Pack is a targeted multivitamin made for those with thyroid disease.  Within it, you will find the right types and amounts of selenium (and the right minerals to maintain a strong balance with it) (Read: What supplements are important to take, what nutrients not to take).

There is so much data about selenium being:

  • Cancer-protective
  • Good for your thyroid
  • Body detoxifying

The truth is that selenium is so important, in so many ways, but it is also lacking in our day-to-day diets. Personally, I am a fan of a handful of Brazil nuts a week, but it is also smart to add selenium through supplementation.

Avoiding Iodine

This is the pitfall of most multivitamins – they have iodine! Look at all of your labels and avoid anything that has iodine in it, and consider avoiding “sea vegetables” as a food category altogether. Those two steps alone can go a long way.

Our thyroid is a very strong concentrator of iodine. Every speck of iodine that gets into your bloodstream, and then eventually pulled into your thyroid.

This means that any time you have iodine in your body, it is going to be interacting with your thyroid (Read: Benefits of a low iodine diet for your health).

Optimizing Your TSH

Before we begin, we need to have a really solid understanding of what TSH is, what it does and what it can do. This is going to help give us a solid understanding of why a test like this exists, and why learning more is going to help us with our health down the road (Read: Should you ignore your TSH).

Key Insight: There is another thyroid calculator that I put together named “what are your best thyroid levels?” This can help you get a much better idea of where your TSH should be, and the closer you are to your optimal TSH the better you will end up feeling.

The cycle works something like this: when your thyroid makes too little hormone, your pituitary gland makes more TSH. The same applies if you are on thyroid hormone. If you have too little, you make more TSH. If you have too much hormone, you make less.

I have heard plenty of doctors suggest that you can ignore your TSH. These same people have come to me, and I have screened them for their heart health and other issues and noticed the same thing time and time again. They have had these trademark low-TSH outcomes.

Bottom Line: Forcing your thyroid to work harder, through a high TSH score, does not mean that you are making your thyroid stronger. That is why dialing in your TSH is a great idea, to where your thyroid is working but it is not overworking.

This is one of our specific supplements that is a specific nigella extract (Read: Is Nigella Sativa the next miracle her for Hashimotos).  (Purchase Here) This is so interesting, and studies have shown that the right versions of this extract can help reverse the inflammation and under-activity from thyroid disease.

In a broader sense, studies with Nigella have shown the following benefits:

  • Allergies
  • Arthritis
  • Asthma
  • Autoimmune disease
  • Cancer growth
  • Diabetes
  • Hair Loss
  • High Cholesterol
  • Hypertension

Nigella oil is not commonly available as food. Some versions have been reported to be adulterated with other plants including black caraway. This substitution would make the compound ineffective for improving thyroid function.

Key Insight: For optimal weight loss and greater thyroid health, take 2 gel caps of Nigella once daily with meals. Like any supplement, take it separate from any other thyroid medication.

This black cumin seed extract has been used forever in Middle Eastern cuisine. It is ridiculously safe and there are absolutely no drawbacks to it. For someone who is close to optimal thyroid performance, nigella extract can help them take things to the next level.

Try The Calculator Today

Interested in learning more about your thyroid and how it is doing? Try the thyroid calculator today to learn more (Click Here). After learning more and taking the right steps, you can then retest using the calculator again and see how your improvements are making a real difference.

P.S. Whenever you are ready, here is how I can help you now:

1. Schedule a Thyroid Second Opinion with me, Dr. C, Click Here for Details
2. Download and use my Favorite Recipes Cookbook Here
3. Check out my podcast Medical Myths, Legends, and Fairytales Here

Dr. Alan Glen Christianson (Dr. C) is a Naturopathic Endocrinologist and the author of The NY Times bestselling Adrenal Reset Diet, The Metabolism Reset Diet and The Thyroid Reset Diet.

Dr. C’s gift for figuring out what really works has helped hundreds of thousands of people reverse thyroid disease, lose weight, diabetes, and regain energy. Learn more about the surprising story that started his quest.