I bought a Canon M100 mirrorless in that price range and I have to disagree. Maybe a $1000 phone can come close, but you can't change lenses on a phone so I don't see how a phone camera can match what you can do with a $500 camera.
I am sooo happy with my new Canon M100. I got tired of carrying a big SLR, this is quite a nice portable size. Phone cameras are pretty good these days, but no match for a SLR or Mirrorless with a decent lens.
As someone who works in a no-code platform company, my view confirmed by a look at our revenues is the author is way off. low-code no-code platforms are booming and will continue to for a long time. There are several reasons
1 - there is a huge backlog of business processes which can be made more efficient with apps
2 - there is deficiency in developers, but a surplus of knowledge workers
3 - IT departments are unable to solve all users app needs
4 - enterprises are mananaging far too many SaaS 'point solutions'
5- most importantly, ROI and TCO make low-code platforms very attractive.
6 - the ability to quickly customize business process applications is incredibly important. Low-code platforms provide this
7 - technologies like webhooks are making it easier for low-code app builders to create sophisticated apps tied to multiple cloud and on prem data sources and systems.
Quick Base has been running its no code platform for almost 2 decades and does not tie you to an information or vendor silo - happy to integrate with many cloud and data integrations.
SSO is important for enterprise.. but github presents a challenge where devs usually have pre-existing personal accounts which are added to company github accounts, rather than the company account being used.
10+ year info sec veteran here. I think first order of business is do you want to be a specialist or a generalist? Application security is but one piece (albeit in many cases a very important piece). I chose generalist and I am happy to have done so. Today I am diving into Strict Transport Security, yes, but also working with HR and IT on our employee onboarding and off-boarding process, reviewing vendor and customer contracts and federal compliance requirements. Privacy, Regulations and Law, Compliance, IT and infrastructure security, corporate IT security, and yes application security - every day I deal with all of the above and I love that. And a great foundation into all the things a security person may do, I cannot recommend the CISSP enough go for the CISSP (or, alternatively, CISA) certification.
I appreciate Google not forced all Google customers to install Allo ala Facebook but it's hard not to acknowledge Facebook forcing Messenger on Facebook users didn't achieve their goal of widespread adoption of Messenger.
The #1 reason I limited myself to 2 kids was so that I did not have to drive a mini-van. The #2 reason was my concern I could not adequately provide for them.
I took one look at how iPhoto stores the pictures years ago and said "no way" (same with storing my music in iTunes). My SMB network share has been working quite well for me, connect all my Windows and Mac computers and my Android phone and tablets to my share.. backed up to another USB drive. Has been working well for over a decade for me. iTunes and iPhoto are primary reasons I don't do Apple products.