Creating an online store requires the right tools and approach to make it both functional and visually appealing, and for laybella.co.uk, WordPress and WooCommerce provided the ideal foundation. This blog post walks through the steps of building Laybella from scratch, with insights on using WordPress for flexibility, WooCommerce for powerful e-commerce capabilities, and a few …
Building CastleWatch: My Journey into Web Development As someone who’s recently ventured into the world of web development, I’m excited to share my latest project: CastleWatch. This project has been a rewarding learning experience in HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and understanding how web hosting works. I’ve also had the chance to play around with the …
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Almost every day we hear of a new shiny set of crypto coins or protocol listed on your friendly crypto exchange and inevitably thrust into the ‘mainstream’. I suspect this is going to continue well into the future. The concepts the prop up these assets, are still novel and in their infancy (10 years on), and are developing at an incredible pace. The value of crypto assets, especially Bitcoin and Ether is increasing and gaining legitimacy, and this attracts people’s attention to this area. Somewhat of a self fulfilling process. But there is a sting in the ‘tale’, pun intended.
I made an Instagram Bot With Python and InstaPy What do SocialCaptain, Kicksta, Instavast, and many other companies have in common? They all help you reach a greater audience, gain more followers, and get more likes on Instagram while you hardly lift a finger. They do it all through automation, and I have built something similar. I have learnt how …
This is not my paper, the full paper can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article/32/5/1854/5427780 Technology-based (“FinTech”) lenders increased their market share of U.S. mortgage lending from 2 percent to 8 percent from 2010 to 2016. Using market-wide, loan-level data on U.S. mortgage applications and originations, we show that FinTech lenders process mortgage applications about 20 percent …
Raj Shimpi Feb 15, 2018 · 6 min read Background Mortgage industry has been around for a long time but has not improved its end to end mortgage application processing times. This is due to the archaic technology and processes still followed by the parties involved in the mortgage food-chain. Currently it takes on an average of 40+ …
April 11, 2019 | 4 min read Original link and Credit -> https://mojomortgages.com/learn/article/the-wetherspoons-effect Houses within walking distance of a Wetherspoons sell for 27% less than the local average, we’ve discovered.We’ve all heard of the Waitrose Effect, which sees property near one of the up-market stores boosted by as much as £36,000 – with this in …
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Simple steps to make sure lenders and homebuyers — not taxpayers — bear the risk. By Matthew E. Kahn and Amine Ouazad3 October 2019, 13:00 BST Rising risk of default. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Matthew E. Kahn is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of economics and business and the director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative …
What I’m watching —Trial, error, and the God complex, a TED talk by Tim Harford (@TimHarford). Official description: “Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems—and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start …
Fantastic documentary on the rise and fall of Theranos.