Unit Conversion Blog

DoorDash is the best all-around choice for most U.S. customers and merchants, while Uber Eats feels strongest for users already tied to Uber, and Grubhub works best where local restaurant depth or campus ordering matters. DoorDash also leads U.S. meal delivery sales share, with Bloomberg Second Measure estimating it at about 67% in early 2024 [source: Bloomberg Second Measure]. That scale shows up in restaurant coverage, driver supply, and fewer “no courier nearby” moments. Still, the best app depends on who is using it: a hungry customer, a restaurant manager, or a courier trying to finish a shift. Read more

Choose Claude Sonnet for most teams, and reserve Claude Opus for the few jobs where deeper reasoning is worth the extra cost. As of Anthropic’s published API pricing, Claude 3 Opus is listed at $15 per million input tokens and $75 per million output tokens, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet is listed at $3 and $15 for the same token volumes [source: Anthropic]. That gap changes the buying decision fast, especially for coding assistants, support bots, research workflows, and document-heavy teams. Read more

Pick Celigo if you want the fastest “works out of the box” Magento NetSuite setup for a normal growing store. Pick Oracle NetSuite Connector if your team lives inside NetSuite and wants a native-feeling tool. Pick Alumio if your ecommerce stack is messy, custom, or likely to change. NetSuite Connector is built to move ecommerce data such as orders, items, inventory, and fulfillment between NetSuite and selling channels [source: Oracle]. Read more

Unix time is a way to represent a date and time as one number: the count of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. That starting point is called the Unix epoch, and the POSIX standard describes time values in relation to it [source: The Open Group]. A timestamp such as 1700000000 is not a random code. It is a compact time value that software can store, sort, compare, and convert into a readable calendar date. Read more

Use the official Instagram app or website first. If Instagram is blocked, think twice before using an “Instagram unblocked” site. Many are just proxy pages. Some are fine. Some are password traps with a cute logo slapped on top. Instagram is massive, with over 2 billion monthly active users, so fake access pages have plenty of people to target [source: DataReportal]. Read more

Use a proxy when you need controlled routing, identity separation, filtering, caching, or access management between a client and the wider internet. A proxy is not magic privacy dust. It is an infrastructure tool that can improve security, reliability, and control when configured correctly. A reverse proxy, for example, can sit in front of web servers and handle requests before they reach the origin server [source: Cloudflare]. Read more

Proxy settings tell a device or app where to send internet traffic before it reaches the final website or service. Instead of connecting straight to a site, the connection passes through a proxy server first. That server can hide the device’s IP address, apply access rules, cache content, or help a company inspect traffic. Microsoft notes that Windows can use either an automatic setup script or a manual proxy server address and port [source: Microsoft]. Read more

Choose a residential proxy service only if you need real consumer IP addresses, clear location control, and stable sessions for legitimate work such as ad verification, price monitoring, SEO checks, or fraud research. The scale of online activity is huge, with 5.35 billion internet users reported at the start of 2024 [source: DataReportal], so systems now treat IP reputation as a serious trust signal. Read more

curl should ignore certificate errors only for short testing, never as a normal production fix. The command is simple: curl -k https://example.test or curl --insecure https://example.test. That flag tells curl to continue even when certificate checks fail, which the curl manual describes as allowing “insecure” SSL connections [source: curl]. The safer path is to fix the certificate chain, trust the correct certificate authority, or pass a known CA file to curl. Read more

Use Canva if you want a pretty GIF fast. Use Ezgif if you want more control and fewer shiny buttons in your way. GIFs still pull serious weight online, with GIPHY reporting 10+ billion pieces of content served daily [source: GIPHY]. So yes, adding text to a GIF is still worth doing. Read more