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How To Become Bit Literate

All in one computer graphic It is no secret that we live in a busy and online world. With social media, texting, and emailing, it is very easy to get overwhelmed with all the information coming through. How do we stay on top of everything? There are many ways we measure the digital age we are living in. It is our ability to get information, communicate, play and learn. But one thing is for sure, we like to interact with bits, especially in the digital space. Bits are everywhere we look, from the small blips of a digital app to the large bytes of a game, they are the building blocks of this new world. I read a book titled Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload (2007) by Mark Hurst. The book was loaded with great insights as to how to best manage your computer and the software that you use for work, home, and play. I was thinking about what subject would be helpful to listeners of my tech blog, and readers of my tech newsletter, that would help them man

What is a Headless CMS

Photographer: Fotis Fotopoulos | Source: Unsplash A headless CMS is a type of software platform that can be used to manage both content and code for a website. One of the first headless CMS platforms was Drupal, which was first developed in 2000. In comparison to traditional CMSs, a headless CMS provides developers with a way to create diverse web applications from one system. Headless CMSs are also known as decoupled or API-first platforms. Headless CMS systems are those that have been implemented through a framework that exposes an API to retrieve content from content sources like MySQL, MongoDB or CouchDB instead of rendering HTML pages. Headless websites are popular now, in software development. This is because they tend to be more cost-effective, easier to maintain, and require less web design work. Headless CMSs allow companies to easily create, organize, and maintain their content without the need for a separate CMS. They can do this by using a headless CMS that provides a set