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SignASL year in review 2023

In 2023 32,197,037 searches were made on www.signasl.org a massive +22.5% increase from last year! (This is a 31% higher search volume compared to Sign BSL). Below I have provided a snapshot of the top 50 most searched words during the year.

2 min readSign ASLSign LanguageYear in Review

SignBSL year in review 2023

In 2023 24,587,983 searches were made on www.signbsl.com a +4.2% increase from last year indicating a growing interest in BSL which I expect to continue, especially with the plans to allow students to learn BSL as a GCSE subject. Below I have provided a snapshot of the top 50 most searched words.

2 min readSign BSLSign LanguageYear in Review

Partitioned Cookies in C#

As browsers start to phase out 3rd party cookies developers need to start using the partitioned cookie attribute (this is a new feature of Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State CHIPS). This will allow users to login when accessing your site in an iframe whiles maintaining privacy. While blocking 3rd party cookies is not yet set as the default, all the major browsers are planning to do this. Also to support users using Chrome in incognito mode you need to be ready to support this, otherwise you will be prevented from setting a cookie.

1 min readC#

Email Spam Headers

One way to help reduce the chances of your emails being marked as spam is to understand email spam headers. Spam headers are the hidden messages that are attached to every email. They contain information about the sender, the recipient, and the content of the email.

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SignBSL Year in Review 2022

Quick recap of this year's search data for SignBSL 23,595,029 searches were done. This is a tiny increase of +0.6% from last year. So almost unchanged the amount of searches. Below I have included the top 50 most searched words.

1 min readSign BSLSign LanguageYear in Review

Inbox Zero in Outlook without deleting an email

Many email organisers recommend a ruthless approach to email management. However, for me, email is an important record of all conversations and a record of what happened, it forms a journal of important details, which I rely upon when needed. Therefore deleting email is not an option. Yet, still finding emails that need to be answered or emails that represents a task I need to complete is important. So, being faced with a massive list that requires lots of scrolling is not optimal either.

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CloudFlare - Add user to account

To allow me to configure your CloudFlare account in a secure way without sharing your login details, login to your CloudFlare account, then from the dashboard (1) Select Manage Account, then Members from the Side Panel on the left. (2) Invite a member by entering in my email address [email protected] and press Add. (3) Choose a Scope by either defining individual domains or select All domains (4) Specify the Account Scoped Roles to give either Super Administrator or Administrator privileges. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Continue to summary.

1 min readCloudFlare