#i might change my url to a leverage url soon

[alitaimagines]

request: “I’M ALIVEEE. This wasn’t requested, I just had some free time and wrote it. this is apart of my pregnancy series.”

character: toshinori yagi x fem! reader

fandom: my hero academia / boku no hero academia 

semi-long note ahead: i don’t know when I’ll be back to taking requests but for the time being, enjoy my free write? 

this imagine gave me leverage bc i’m in a sorority so if it’s anyone that knows how frat parties are, it’s me! 

also, grammar/spelling mistakes! my next imagine will fall in the pregnancy realm BUT this time with a twist. it should be up tomorrow. maybe. it’s with my fucking husband Narumiya. 

ALSO, I changed my URL. it’s now ALITAIMAGINES. 

song recommendation: literally any American party song you could think of. 

David knew that All Might wasn’t accustomed to the party life that America had. Nightclubs, bars, frat/sorority, house, etc. He knew this was something he had to introduce him too and being that Toshinori loved all things American, it wasn’t hard to convince the blond. 

“so how are we getting into this party?” Toshi asked David. David gave Toshi a smile before parking the car on the side of the street, “you know my friend ( your name)? she’s in a sorority so all we do is say we know her and we’re in!” David said in a simplistic tone. 

Toshi felt a blush creep on his face, you knew him and he knew you. There was a bit of awkward tension between the two of you. He thought you were the most beautiful girl he ever encountered. You were loud, smart, friendly, everything to make a great hero although that wasn’t what you were planning on being. 

The reason why he even met you was because you were in a lot of David’s class. You also wanted to help heroes and their development for costumes so it wasn’t unusual when you were in his dorm, complaining about school work or something along those lines. 

“see, we get to party and you get to hang out with ( your name ),” David emphasized as he knocked on the door, quite loudly. Toshi could hear the music blaring from outside the house as someone opened the door, “who are you? do you know anyone here?” the boy asked. 

Toshi’s hands immediately moist as David gave the boy a look, “we’re here with ( your name), apart of the sorority also throwing the party,” David said with a bit sarcasm. 

The nodded, closing the door before quickly yelling something. The door opened the door but this time with you, “DAVID! TOSHI!” You screamed as you shoved the boy aside and let the others in, “I DIDN’T THINK YOU’D MAKE IT!” You screamed again. 

David chuckled as you grabbed Toshi by the arm, “you’re in for a hell of a ride, Yagi! c’mere, you need to try everything!” you exclaimed as you grabbed the buff man by the arm and dragged him to where one of the frat boys was making drinks. 

Toshi stood to the side as he waited for the drink and awkwardly excused himself for being in the way, “this is your first frat party, right?” you asked as you took a sip from your own drink. Toshi gave you a nod as he analyzed you. you were wearing your sorority gear with black ripped jean skirt and neutral colored heels.

“Kyle, how long does it take to make a Long Island?” you emphasized as you tapped on the counter impatiently, Adam from what he guessed gave you the middle finger, “do you see all these people?” Adam replied. you shrugged as you snapped your fingers as he quickly shook the drink and poured it into an empty glass. 

“try this, it’s the best!” you said shoving the drink to him, Toshi gave you a hesitant look as David came up to the both of you, “a Long Island? already? are you trying to get this poor man drunk so quickly?” you smirked, “I’m on my second one, you gotta keep up David!” you said as you yelled to Adam to make you another drink, this time being a tequila sunrise. 

Toshi took a sip, the hard alcohol hitting him rather quickly. you and David laughed as he gave the two of you a look, “aww, don’t be mad! you’ll get used to it, trust me!” you told Toshi as he nodded. 

after you got your drink, you brought him over to the table where flip cup was happening, “wanna play? the game is called flip cup,” you asked Toshi. he shrugged before explaining that he had no idea what the game even was, “watch, I’ll play a round with David and you can switch with him after you’ve seen,” you said as you brought David to the ping pong table. 

Toshi watched as a boy poured beer into five red solo cups and filled them to the brim. two other people walked to the other side of the table and the boy did the same before he blew a whistle. 

he watched as you and David immediately started chugging back the beer, a lot faster than the people across from you. after both of you finished, you started flipping the cups, trying to make them land on the other side. he felt nervousness as everyone watched intensely. 

as soon as you flipped the last cup, the small crowd around you erupted into cheer. Toshi clapped as you gave him a wave to come over, “wanna try?” you asked again. Toshi nodded as this time, they added a sixth cup and filled it with two different beers. 

as soon as David blew the whistle, you and Toshi started chugging them back. you had to admit, Toshi knew how to handle his alcohol and handled it well. he was chugging them back a lot faster than you were and admittedly, a lot faster than David. Toshi waited until you finished your cup before starting to flip them. 

it didn’t take long before Toshi flipped the last one and David blew the whistle again, indicating that you both won. you jumped on him squealing as Toshi’s face went bright red. 

“Daisy! you’re here!” you said as you noticed David’s girlfriend appearing from the crowd. she gave you a hug before waving to Toshi and making her way to David, “wanna sit? i’m pretty tired,” you mentioned to Toshi. he nodded as the two of you sat down on the brown busted up chair. 

it was big enough to have you and Toshi fit on it with only being squished a bit. you watched as Daisy and David danced in the crowd, giving Daisy a supportive smile every time she looked over at you, “they’re amazing together. I can see them getting married after college,” you told Toshi as you looked over at him. 

he nodded, giving David a look before turning over to you, “yeah, he really likes her,” he replied before taking another sip of the drink he was having. you smiled, “yeah, she really likes him back. by the way, are you and David crashing at our place after this? I can’t imagine either of you driving back, especially in the condition the four of us are in,” you said sternly. 

“I think so, I don’t think David wants to drive back home drunk,” Toshi admitted. you nodded as you clipped your keys to your belt loop, “wanna grab another drink and dance a bit?” you asked. Toshi nodded as you grabbed his hand and led him to the bar again. 

this time the bar was empty but before he could realize what was happening, you jumped over the counter and grabbed a few bottles of alcohol, making whatever your mind first thought of. a mai-tai was what you ended up making for yourself before making Toshi a concoction of Gatorade and Jaegermeister. 

after you slid the drinks to Toshi, you jumped back over the counter and went to the dance floor. the song seemed to be slower as more couples went onto the floor. 

you grabbed Toshi’s hand and put them on your waist as he stood there, awkwardly. you laughed as you went on your toes and got as close to his ears as you could, “everyone is too drunk to care how you dance, relax,” you said as he gave you a relieved look. 

the night continued as you and Toshi got progressively drunker. Daisy and David had cut themselves off, knowing you and Toshi were getting way too drunk to even carry yourselves home. 

“TOSHI OH MY GOD, IT’S MAMMIA MIA!” you screamed as you head ‘Lay All Your Love on Me’ start playing. he laughed as he watched you sing into the beer you were drinking, “DAISY, IT’S MAMMIA MIA!” you screamed to her as she gave David a nervous chuckle. 

they both knew nothing good ever came out of having two drunk friends singing and drinking they way you were with Toshi. once they realized it was time to get the both of you home before the two of you ended up with alcohol poisoning. 

the walk to your apartment was a fun experience to say the least. you and Toshi were loudly talking about random shit as David and Daisy continuously told the two of you to be quiet before the police got called. 

once the trip to your apartment was a success, Daisy and David immediately shoved you into your room and forced you to sleep before you threw up. you on the other hand had other plans. 

as soon as you realized that they both had fallen asleep, you crept to the living room where Toshi was still up and watching TV. you could tell he was just as awake as you were. 

“Toshi, wanna grab a beer and head to the balcony?” you asked him excitedly, Toshi nodded his head, just as excitedly before you grabbed a bottle of wine for yourself and a few beers for Toshi before tiptoeing to the balcony. 

you shut the door and popped open the wine as Toshi opened his beer, “this is the best night I’ve had in so long!” you slurred to Toshi as he chuckled, “you’re the best,” he replied as you giggled. 

the conversation quickly ended as you slowly made your way onto Toshi’s lap. being that he was as drunk as he was, he didn’t actually get too nervous or scared. 

“did I ever tell you how attractive you are?” you admitted as Toshi laughed confidently, “I might’ve heard that,” he playfully said as you rolled your eyes jokingly, “I could say the same,” Toshi replied. 

you adjusted yourself as you wrapped your legs around his waist, “oh yeah, you think i’m cute?” you asked as Toshi nodded, “well I think you’re even cuter,” you replied as he waved you off, “no way,” was all he said before he went for a kiss. 

you laughed into the kiss before returning it. the kiss quickly turned heated as you ran your fingers through his hair. Toshi’s fingers danced on your hip as you took of your shirt. 

“we should move this to our room before we get caught,” you whispered as he did the two of you a favor and carried you to your bedroom. 

-

you woke up the next morning with a pounding headache, the urge to throw everything you drank back up, and with a weight next to you. you quickly turned around, sighing as you remembered it was only Toshi. 

Toshi brought you in closer, making you smile as you cuddled up against him. it wasn’t long before you heard your door open, “hey did Tosh leave last night-,” you heard Daisy say before David let out a laugh loud enough to wake Toshi up. 

“THE TWO OF YOU SLEPT TOGETHER?” 

you covered your ears, yelling at David to shut up before you chucked a shoe at him. Daisy and David started laughing as you covered your ears with your pillow, Toshi following what you did. 

“get the hell up and explain how that happened,” Daisy whisper-yelled as you gave her a cut it off hand motion, “give us a fucking minute, will you?” Toshi screamed as you chucked your croc at the both of them. 

they finally realized that the two of you were being serious and quietly left the room. you stood up, quickly grabbing your robe as you handed Toshi his clothes. you didn’t find it awkward but you felt a bit embarrassed being so naked in front of him. 

“want me to make you some coffee?” you asked Toshi. he nodded, bending over to your side and giving you a quick kiss before getting dress. you blushed as you walked out of the room and seen Daisy and David smirking at your walk of shame, “WALLK OF SHAME, YALL HEAR THAT, WALK OF SHAAAME!” Daisy sang/taunted. 

you gave her a look before chucking a used Keurig cup at her, making her dodge it and hit David instead, “watch your mouth, Shield. I’m way too hungover to be hearing any shit right now,” you threatened as you grabbed two mugs. 

they both giggled to themselves as Toshi walked out of your room and sat next to David. you walked into the small dining room and set Toshi’s coffee down as you immediately poured some instant espresso into your cup. 

“how? we put both of you to bed?” David asked immediately. you put your head on the table, feeling way too hungover to explain how it happened, “ask Toshi, I feel like if I talk too much, I might vomit all over this table,” you managed to say before drinking some coffee. 

a month and a half later: 

“Daisy, what the fuck am I going to do?” you whispered as you looked down at the pregnancy test in your hands, “Is it Toshi’s?” she asked. you nodded knowing it was his. 

“yeah, before Toshi, I didn’t have sex with someone in months. it’s his, for sure,” you said as you banged your head up against the bathroom counter, “do I tell him or should I just leave?” you asked, not really expecting an answer back. 

she rubbed in a consoling way, “don’t you even dare tell David about this, he’ll end up telling Toshi and I don’t think I’m ready for that,” you begged her. she nodded as she grabbed the pregnancy test from your hand. 

“give it a few days and do what feels right, if you want to hide it from him, I fully support you but if you want to tell him, I’m right there with you,” Daisy said as she gave you a supportive smile.

you were lucky enough to know that if your mother found out that you were pregnant, you would be scolded for a bit before getting excited and start rambling about baby clothes and baby necessities. 

-

after a week of dodging Toshi and David, you realized it was best to not mention the baby to Toshi. his hero career looked extremely promising and you didn’t want a baby messing that up. you didn’t want Toshi to put his career on the back burner because of a one night mistake. 

once you talked it over with your mother and Daisy, you realized that you would finish off the year online and move back in with her so you wouldn’t run into Toshi while you were pregnant. 

“so she just moved out and left?” David asked as he gave Toshi a look of sadness. David knew that he was just starting to genuinely like you so with you just up and leaving without any prior warning, he couldn’t help but feel a bit sad for him, “did she say why?” he asked. 

Daisy immediately was stunted into silence, “there was an emergency with her family. I’m not allowed to say who or what happened but she told me to tell the two of you that she’s okay and there’s nothing to worry about,” she explained as she gave Toshi’s hand a squeeze. 

“don’t worry, when she’s ready, she’ll return to you.” 

-

it had been a year since you left your college and moved back into your mothers house. the upside for the entire fiasco was that you had a beautiful baby boy and a start up company that was getting a lot attention. 

being that you were extremely informed on the logistics of hero costumes and the scientific side of it, you were able to get the attention of heroes who wanted adjustments to their costumes for a decent price. 

your Toshi was now a full fledged hero. you knew him as Toshinori but to the world, he was All Might. you would watch him save civilians with little to no effort and always come out with a smile on his face. you couldn’t lie, you missed seeing his smile every day and every so often you would regret not telling him about your son. 

since your company was now some what affiliated with professional heroes, seeing invitations for different events wasn’t unusual. one particular event stood out. it was a family friendly event for those in the hero industry. it was to basically thank those behind the scenes who were helping the heroes with their costumes, defense tools, etc. 

you RSVP’d to the event and bought your son an outfit for the event. it was a small tuxedo that would make even the most stoic hero smile. to the untrained eye, they wouldn’t know it was Toshi’s baby but to anyone who knew you and Toshi, it immediately recognizable. 

Daisy would visit you whenever she got the chance. she told you how sad Toshi was when you left and how David proposed to her after they graduated. you felt a bit upset knowing you missed out on a bunch of milestones within the year you left everyone but you knew this was partially your fault. you were the one who pressured Toshi into drinking that night and partially persuaded him to get into bed with you. 

the day of the event came and you were dressed in a simple summer dress and flats. after giving birth, your ankles were never the same so your days of wearing heels was completely thrown away. 

the Los Angeles heat was something you got used too so the dress you wore was as lose fitting as it could possibly be. you straightened your hair and applied very natural make up on before getting your son dressed. 

figuring that you wouldn’t be seeing anyone you knew, you weren’t too worried with how you were looking. the event was being held outside so everyone wouldn’t be sweating over their makeup or clothes. 

after you dressed your son, you grabbed your things before heading the venue. you had a small picture of you and Toshi on your dashboard of your car. it was more of a comforting thing so every time you seen it, you couldn’t help but smile. 

the venue was closed off to the general public so after they scanned your invitation, you walked towards the sitting area. you hadn’t realized that there was photographers taking photos as you walked in. 

once you found your seat and sat your son on his blanket, you asked one of your coworkers to watch your son while you grabbed the both of you something to eat. 

throughout the night, you sat down, enjoying the conversation you were having with your coworkers and some clients/heroes. it wasn’t until your son started getting restless when you realized that you had to change his diaper. 

“do you think you could point me in the direction of the bathroom?” you asked one of the venue workers. she nodded before pointing inside the building. 

you walked inside as you had your son strapped in a sling in front of you. he was making gurgling sounds as you gave him funny faces to try and calm him down. 

before you could turn the corner, you accidentally bumped into someone, “I am so sorry!” you chirped as you quickly walked around the big man, not registering who it was and went towards the family bathroom. 

it wasn’t until you finished changing your sons diaper when you realized who exactly you ran into. your heart immediately falling to your stomach as you felt yourself getting extremely nervous. you knew you had to leave the bathroom eventually and you were just hoping Toshi didn’t recognize it was you. 

grabbing the knob, you opened the door slowly. upon opening widely, you realized Toshi was waiting. you gulped as he had full vision of your son, well, his son as well. 

you couldn’t even hold the tears back anymore. he immediately embraced you, making sure not to hurt the baby in the process. your cry turned more into a sob as he brought you back into the bathroom. 

“is he mine?” toshi asked as he studied the baby’s features. he knew it was his baby. the baby looked exactly like he did at his age, “yes, the baby is yours,” you whispered as you felt him take the baby out of the carrier. 

“is that why you left,” you nodded again, “well, he’s beautiful, just like you,” Toshi whispered as you felt more tears come out. you were an idiot for leaving the man you liked and now you felt extremely shitty about Toshi being absent within the year that the baby was born. 

“what’s his name?” you knew it was a sensitive topic to talk about and while you were pregnant, you battled about the name for months until you realized that you were going with what your heart wanted, “I named him after you but his middle name is David,” you confessed. 

Toshi for the first time let a tear out as he cuddled the extremely small baby into his chest, “were you ever going to tell me?” he asked. you stayed silent, “damn it! were you?” he asked a little louder. 

you jumped a bit as he sighed before grabbing your hand, “yeah, I was going to tell you when I found out but I didn’t feel like it was right. I was the reason why you got drunk that night and I was partially the persuader when we had sex. you’re an upcoming hero. you didn’t need the distraction of a child holding you back from your life’s dream,” you finally admitted. 

Toshi sighed once again, “you can’t make a decision that big without my input. this is my child, my bloodline. do you know how this impacts me now? I’m a father, I have a son!” he exclaimed as he cuddled him even more now. 

you nodded as you tried to stop your crying but before you could wipe anymore tears off, Toshi wiped them for you before giving you a long awaited kiss. you sighed into it as you returned it, this time a lot more soft. 

“I need to ask you a question.” Toshi said suddenly. you gulped as you felt your heart racing again, “do you love me?” he asked. 

you were stunted into silence. Toshi gave you a few minutes to process what he asked you. you knew you did. you’d be an idiot not to love him. not only love him because you actually loved him but you loved him bc he was the father of your son. 

“yes, yes I do.” 

Toshi gave you a wide smile before setting the baby back on your carrier, “I’m going back home to Japan. move with me?” he asked once again. 

this time, you didn’t take as long to reply. you knew it was only in your best interest to follow Toshi and if that meant living Japan with Toshi than it meant just that. you knew it was one of two choices. moving and being with Toshi or remaining in Los Angeles and having Toshi live out his hero career in the states. 

you felt like you had done everything you could in Los Angeles. whether it be with your career or for personal reasons, living in Japan brought new experiences and new clients. 

“of course!” you managed to say as he grabbed you and lifted you off the ground, “Toshi, the baby,” you exclaimed. he immediately set you down and gave you a kiss before kissing Toshi Jr on the forehead. 

“he has to meet David!” Toshi exclaimed as he ran out of the bathroom and to the nearest phone. you grabbed his hand and stopped him, “I think calling David can wait till tomorrow, for now, lets go back to my place and think of how we’re going to move our entire livelihoods to another country,” you stated. 

Toshi waved you off, “don’t worry about that, leave that to me,” he said as he grabbed his son and gave him a small kiss on the forehead. 

“I love you.” 

you gave Toshi a look before giving him a quick kiss. 

“I love you too.” 

ALITA

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[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Friday, 20 August 2021

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[tak4hir0]

How to Build an eCars App on Heroku and Salesforce (Part 4)11x Certified Salesforce professional and developer with 10+ years experience and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School. This is the fourth article documenting what I’ve learned from a series of 10 Trailhead Live video sessions on Modern App Development on Salesforce and Heroku. In these articles, we’re focusing on how to combine Salesforce with Heroku to build an “eCars” app—a sales and service application for a fictitious electric car company (“Pulsar”) that allows users to customize and buy cars, service techs to view live diagnostic info from the car, and more. In case you missed my previous article, you can find it here. Just as a quick reminder: I’ve been following this Trailhead Live video series to brush up and stay current on the latest app development trends on these platforms that are key to my career and business. I’ll be sharing each step for building the app, what I’ve learned, and my thoughts from each session. These series reviews are both for my own edification as well as for others who might benefit from the content. The Trailhead Live sessions and schedule can be found here: Last time…Last session, we did some data modeling in Salesforce using point-and-click methods and also went over some of the data modeling and scalability features of the Heroku platform. If you remember from the last article, I absolutely think that proper data modeling at the outset is critical to setting up an app for success.  In this episode, we’re looking at a topic that is paradoxically both anathema to me and something that makes me love the Salesforce platform: creating front-end app experiences. I promise this will make sense as we get deeper into the article. Ever since I first got into app development, designing and building front-end experiences for an app or website has probably been my least enjoyable experience. With back-end development, things either worked the way they should, or you had clear bugs or errors: there was no middle ground. On the other hand, I found front-end to be far too subjective of a topic for my liking—everyone had a different opinion about how something should flow, how it should look, whether to use rounded or square edges, which shade of blue would get more clicks, etc. Then, when you finally get to release the end product after much colorful debate, a group of users out in the wild invariably figures out a way to get confused by the front-end experience you worked so hard on.  The fact that there is massive controversy over this meme is why I dislike working on both However, I think my early distaste for front-end related things is actually something that drew me deeper into the Salesforce ecosystem. I was naturally attracted to the platform’s meta-data driven architecture that allows me to quickly get an app concept up-and-running with a working and extensively customizable user interface without having to write a bunch of front-end HTML, CSS, and Javascript.  Many of my clients are very visual in the way they process information, and oftentimes they need something in front of them they can play around with and “kick the tires” on before they’re able to provide substantive feedback on ways we can improve their experience. Being able to prototype this way has saved me countless hours iterating on designs. As a result, this session really had me thinking about how much one can do with the front-end experience of a Salesforce app before having to do anything with code.  Let’s look at some of those features in the context of our eCars app. Personalizing and Branding the Salesforce AppA nice feature that’s been added to the Salesforce Lightning Experience interface is the Themes and Branding section of the User Interface area of app setup. Without needing code to customize the color palette, banners, logo, and images, we can completely personalize a Salesforce app to match the branding of the company. We can literally take theme customizations for a test-drive You can try out this feature yourself in the context of the Pulsar eCars app by uploading the app package to a developer edition or scratch org. You can get the GitHub repo for the eCars app at the following URL and if you need a review on how to deploy a Salesforce app to a scratch org from a GitHub repo, you can refer back to the very first article I wrote on this series. https://github.com/trailheadapps/ecars Creating Custom Record Pages Without CodeBeing able to customize the theme colors, logos, and images is certainly a nice appetizer, but the main course is really when we get into the user interface components of record pages without having to use any code. Lightning Experience has really taken this to the next level as well—those of you too new to have known Classic Experience might not fully appreciate all the new features Lightning offers. For the eCars app, we get to design, from scratch, a record page for the standard Lead object.  Regardless of which object we’re working with, displaying relevant information to the user in both a logical and functional way is paramount. With the Lightning record pages, we’re presented with a plethora of variations on how we can optimize things for the user, all without code: Page Templates How should we organize information on the page? Do we need a header and two equal regions? A header, main section, and a sidebar? No header and three columns?  Even if none of the many out-of-the-box layouts work, we can create a custom page template that can be achieved with some light coding.  If none of these options work, you could be overthinking things Drag-and-Drop Components After the page regions are defined, we can simply start building out the record page using a number of drag-and-drop components such as tabs, record details, record highlights, related list items for the sidebar, etc. Basically, we can include anything that someone interacting with the record might need to access.  Page Activations for Different Use Cases Once the page has been built and defined, we also have the option of activating it as a single org-wide default, or going a few levels deeper and then defining multiple versions of the same record page for different apps, user profiles, and record types. One user may need to see more, less, or different information for the same record. This reality makes defining multiple versions a handy tool to achieve that use case.  The page activations can even be as granular as desktop vs. phone for added optimization for the different form factors.   Even More Granular UI Elements Without CodeIn addition to the customizations of the Lightning Record Pages, there are other, more specific ways to customize without code.  Compact, Search, and Page Layouts If we need to customize which fields appear and in what order—in places like the Record Highlights component, the Global Search results, or the Record Details component— we can use drag-and-drop methods on the Compact Layouts, Search Layouts, and Page Layouts sections of the Object Manager in Setup. I use these frequently as they’re essential to organizing information for the users. Dynamic Actions with Conditional Visibility This is a relatively new feature at the time of this writing (only a few releases old), and it’s already helped me with those client requests that go something like, “Can we hide this button until so-and-so has filled out x,y,z or the record has gotten to this stage?” I used to hack this functionality together by creating a mess of record types and different page layouts, or I’d just code a custom visualforce page. But now, hiding/rendering actions is as easy as defining the filters for them with a few clicks. The one consideration here is that this only works (currently) for desktop interfaces. Dynamic Forms Dynamic forms take the whole “conditional visibility” thing to a new level. This feature applies not just to buttons and actions, but to individual fields. Similar to the above use-case example for hiding buttons, sometimes a record just might present too many fields to the user at once. Dynamic forms solve this by allowing you to define under which conditions certain fields should be visible. As a result, users can go on about their business of filling things out and updating records. Then, as things progress, dynamic forms hide irrelevant fields and present new, relevant ones. This creates a nice, streamlined user experience. One “gotcha” we have to keep in mind is that this is only available for custom objects, not standard ones like Leads, Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities. That being said, I’m betting this will change soon enough. Screen Flows – Multi-Step Wizards Without CodeScreen flows are probably one of the most powerful tools we can leverage when it comes to custom user experiences without crossing into the “code zone.” If an app builder needs to hold a user’s hand during a complex and multi-step design process, then the screen flow is the likely tool of choice. I’ve found that there is a bit of a learning curve with screen flows. Although it’s hard to design them nicely from the outset, once someone gets the hang of it, they’ll need very little time to build out a totally bespoke data-entry wizard user experience during those times when even dynamic forms don't get the job done.  And once Lightning Components get involved, flows can even launch and exchange information with Lightning Components in the middle of a flow. The possibilities really are endless. Concluding Thoughts and Other Helpful ResourcesAs I said earlier, designing front-end experiences is not one of my strong suits. I’m pretty sure that if I had not found Salesforce on my app-building journey, I probably would have quit and found a different line of work, or I would have just become a purely back-end developer.  The UI/UX tools and features on the Salesforce platform have instead helped me to deliver complete app experiences, front to back. For more information and specific practice on some of the topics covered, check out the links to the Trailhead modules and resources below: In the next article, we’re going to shift gears and dive into some actual coding for the eCars app with Lightning Web Components. If you haven’t already joined the official Chatter group for this series, I certainly recommend you do so. That way, you can get the full value of the experience and also pose questions and start discussions with the group. Oftentimes, there are valuable discussions and additional references available there, such as the slides from the presentation and links to other resources and references. https://sforce.co/34Ld7xz About me:  I’m an 11x certified Salesforce professional who’s been running my own Salesforce consultancy for several years. If you’re curious about my backstory on accidentally turning into a developer and even competing on stage on a quiz show at one of the Salesforce conventions, you can read this article I wrote for the Salesforce blog a few years ago. Also published at https://dev.to/jasonomnivo/building-front-end-app-experiences-with-clicks-not-code-2m6e Join Hacker Noon Create your free account to unlock your custom reading experience.

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The best way to Create a Fb Enterprise Web page in 5 Easy Steps [Tutorial]

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The best way to Create a Fb Enterprise Web page in 5 Easy Steps [Tutorial]

With 2.6 billion people actively using Facebook every day, Fb has turn out to be a go-to element of just about any inbound marketing technique.

However as increasingly Fb options change, so does the method of establishing a Web page.

Do not waste one other day aimlessly poking round on Fb attempting to determine learn how to get your Web page posted. We constructed this information that can assist you keep away from losing time on a marketing asset that ought to work for you.

(If you happen to’re on the lookout for suggestions and sources for learn how to leverage your Fb Web page as soon as it is up and operating, try our complete information to Facebook marketing).

What’s a Fb Enterprise Web page?

Your Facebook Business Page is actually your organization or group’s “real estate” on Fb. It constitutes your important Fb presence — the place you will put up updates, share content material from workers and clients, and hyperlink to when referring to what you are promoting elsewhere on Fb.

Think about your Fb Enterprise Web page your Fb “home.” Furthermore, your Fb Web page is not a static website. Positive, there can be static components like your About data and canopy picture, however to handle your Web page accurately, it ought to be constantly up to date with content material.

However let’s not get forward of ourselves. First, we’ll stroll you thru learn how to create a Fb Enterprise Web page. We’ll talk about what to put up on it later.

The best way to Create a Fb Enterprise Web page

Create a brand new Web page.

Add memorable pictures.

Select a username and assign a CTA.

Edit your Web page information.

Perceive your Web page settings.

Observe these steps to get your Fb Web page up and operating very quickly.

1. Create a Web page.

To start, head to Facebook. On the left-hand menu, select Pages > Create New Web page. This could launch the Web page creator inside your Fb interface.

Enter your Web page identify and select as much as three classes. Sort in a short description — what what you are promoting does, the providers you present, or the aim of the Web page in beneath 255 characters. It’s best to see this data populate the precise facet of the Web page creator.

As soon as completed, click on Create Web page. 

(Word: I like to recommend fastidiously choosing your identify. Though Fb permits you to change your identify and URL as soon as, it is a troublesome and tedious course of.

2. Add pictures.

Clicking Create Web page should not transfer you off the Web page creator. You will see two extra prompts added to the left-hand menu: so as to add a profile picture (170 x 170 pixels) and canopy picture (1640 x 856 pixels).

Add a emblem or well known picture on your profile picture. In case you have different social media accounts for what you are promoting, think about using the identical profile picture from these to maintain your online presence constant.

In your cowl picture, select a picture that represents the aim or theme of your Web page

It’s best to see these pictures populate the precise facet of the Web page creator. When completed, click on Save.

three. Select a username and assign a CTA.

After the earlier step, Fb ought to transfer you to the Fb Enterprise Web page dashboard the place you will handle all different facets of your Web page.

This interface can really feel overwhelming, so bear with me. First issues first, select a username on your Web page. A username helps folks discover your Web page in search and permits them to simply tag your Web page when posting about your organization. Your username additionally makes up your Fb Enterprise Web page URL.

For the instance beneath, I selected @cloverconsignment. So, my Fb Web page URL could be https://fb.me/cloverconsignment.

Subsequent, click on + Add Motion Button so as to add a CTA to your Web page. This ought to be the motion you need your guests to take after they go to your Fb Enterprise Web page.

Fb gives 10+ totally different CTA choices, from Store Now to Be taught Extra to Contact Us, and a few permit you to enter your web site to assist drive visitors.

four. Edit your Web page information.

After setting a username and selecting a CTA, click on Extra > About in the principle menu. This may navigate you to your Web page information, the place guests will go to be taught extra about your group.

Click on Edit Web page Information within the prime proper nook to replace this data. 

There are lots of fields to replace right here. This is what to give attention to:

Location: If you happen to’re a neighborhood enterprise, enter what you are promoting deal with so guests can discover you.

Hours: Brick and mortar companies ought to enter their retailer hours as some buyers might reference their Web page to see after they can go to.

Value vary: You do not have to fill out this designation, however it could assist to specify the worth vary of your services and products to focus on the precise buyers.

Further contact information: Enter your web site, cellphone quantity, and e-mail so guests can contact you exterior Fb. This data will even assist drive Fb visitors to your web site and merchandise.

Extra information: The outline you added in the 1st step ought to be beneath “About.” You possibly can add extra data beneath “Additional information,” and you may write in a mission or imaginative and prescient assertion beneath “Impressum.”

5. Perceive your Web page settings.

Within the left-hand navigation, click on Settings on the backside. The left-hand menu will change to extra detailed classes, and the precise facet interface will listing (seemingly) numerous choices.

I encourage you to skim by these settings and get conversant in what every might change or replace in your Web page. Within the meantime, nevertheless, I will unpack a number of core settings to know.

Common > Others Tagging this Web page: Make certain that is checked as it would permit others to put up about and share your Web page.

Common > Comparable Web page Strategies: Make certain that is checked so Fb recommends your Web page to new followers and followers.

Messaging > Present a greeting: Flip this on so your Fb Web page will robotically ship your followers a greeting when open Messenger.

Templates and Tabs: If it is advisable rearrange the menu in your Web page or the data provided to guests, you are able to do this right here.

Notifications: This part permits you to customise when and the way you’d prefer to obtain Web page alerts. Set a frequency that matches your social media marketing schedule.

Web page Roles: Whether or not or not you will be the principle supervisor of the Web page, there could also be others at your group who want entry to your Fb Web page. Right here, you possibly can invite different colleagues to make modifications to your Pages. Some frequent use circumstances right here embody:

A public relations supervisor who wants to reply to any delicate questions.

A help consultant who can help these asking technical questions.

A designer tasked with importing new picture artistic to the Web page.

What to Submit On Your Fb Enterprise Web page

Congratulations! Your Fb Enterprise Web page is up and operating (identical to I promised). Now it is time to work … and by work, I imply put up in your Web page, constantly.

As I stated within the introduction, your Fb Web page ought to not be a static website. To handle your Web page accurately, it ought to be up to date with content material frequently.

Furthermore, it is best to have an excellent quantity of content material printed earlier than you invite users to be a part of your growing community. Who desires to comply with a clean Web page, anyway?

When posting in your Web page, use a wide range of content material — pictures, video, GIFs, memes, shared buyer content material, or graphs.

What pictures would your viewers prefer to see? What stats would they prefer to learn? What hyperlinks would they prefer to click on? Ask these inquiries to jumpstart a Fb brainstorm.

If you happen to put up a very spectacular or thrilling put up, you possibly can pin it to the highest of your feed. Do that by clicking the little gray arrow within the top-right nook of the put up and tapping Pin to High to maneuver it to the highest for seven days.

You may also use this characteristic for product bulletins, enterprise anniversaries, and different main occasions pertinent to your model.

When you have got sufficient content material in your Web page, begin strategically inviting customers to Prefer it. I like to recommend inviting customers within the following cadence:

Invite colleagues to Like your web page and its content material to construct some preliminary exercise.

Invite supporters in your community. Encourage them to interact.

Invite clients. With some exercise now on the Web page, they’ll be extra .

Promote your Web page by sharing its content material in your different social networks and together with a hyperlink to your Web page in your web site and your e-mail signatures.

The best way to Measure Your Fb Enterprise Web page

The work you set into your Fb Web page ought to ease over time. How? By keeping track of what sort of content material your viewers prefers and likes to interact with.

To measure your Enterprise Web page exercise and progress, click on Insights on the left-hand menu. From right here, you possibly can monitor how persons are participating together with your Web page and content material, thus displaying you what content material to give attention to sharing sooner or later (and what content material you are able to do away with).

You must also measure your efforts to make sure you’re making beneficial marketing choices on Fb. Underneath Insights, it is best to see the next:

Overview: This tab reveals a seven-day snapshot of your metrics akin to Web page Likes, put up attain, and general engagement.

Followers: This tab offers you details about your followers and the way that quantity has modified over time.

Likes: This tab reveals your general fan progress and losses. If you happen to’re using paid efforts, you’ll see the breakdown of paid versus natural progress.

Attain: This tab highlights the uncooked variety of folks your Web page is reaching daily. If you happen to discover spikes on a particular day, strive cross-checking what you posted that day to see should you can replicate that attain.

Visits: This tab signifies the place on Fb your viewers are coming from. You possibly can see the distinction in visits on Fb Timelines, your data tab, critiques, and others.

Different tabs like Posts, Occasions, and Tales present you particular exercise round these sorts of Web page content material.

Over to You

Fb is not a “nice to have;” it is a necessity for any enterprise creating a robust inbound marketing technique. Use this information to construct a profitable Fb Enterprise Web page to interact your viewers and drive visitors to your web site.

Wish to see how HubSpot makes use of Fb? Like our Facebook Page here.

Editor’s observe: This put up was initially printed in October 2014 and has been up to date for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

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Stay Relevant: 14 Proven Ways to Boost Your Local SEO Marketing

If you’re lazy with your local SEO, you’ll drift behind your competition, and you won’t even notice it. Today’s business climate is nothing but cut-throat competition, regardless of the niche. To make a name for your brand, you’ll need to have both general and local SEO on lock.

Local SEO is especially crucial for local brick and mortar businesses functioning at a regional level. This describes most of the small and medium enterprises and startups. However, businesses, both large and small, could do with a robust local SEO campaign.

Unfortunately, for startups and small businesses, improving their local SEO is easier said than done. However, with the right tips and enough commitment, you’ll have local SEO down pat in no time. Regardless of your business type or size, local SEO is something you can hack.

This post will highlight a few techniques you should adopt to boost your local SEO. That way, you can leverage the correct local SEO technique to take your SEO for business to the next level.

1. Increase Your Local Coverage

Enhancing your local coverage is a breeze if you live in a close-knit company. All you have to do is liaise with a few local journalists or radio stations to give you some airtime. This coverage will help get the word out about your brand, but it comes at a price.

In most cases, you’ll have to pay for this coverage, but it’s worth every penny. Most of these journalists or news sites will backlink to your site. Backlinks to your site are great for your SERP ranking.

2. “Localize” Your Content

Make sure your content focuses on the local community and events around the region. There’s no better way to build rapport with local customers than showing you’re one of them. However, make sure your content also revolves around your business or at least your niche.

If you want to “localize” your content, here’s how you do so:-

Have your content promote local causes like charities or fundraisers

Have your blog posts speak about local events, news, or people of interest

Consider location-specific pages if you’re handling customers from a broad region

These are just a few ways you can localize your content to attract the local audience. As long as your content has a local feel to it, you’re good to go.

3. Don’t Overlook Local Keywords

You probably know how important keywords are for your general SEO. The same applies to local SEO; only this time, the focus is on local keywords. How do I know these local keywords?

Glad you asked; you don’t have to start guessing local keywords and hoping they convert. You can use Google keyword planner to get the right keywords for your local audience.Use the local keywords strategically for the greatest effect.

These keywords should appear on your meta content, URLs, and copy.  To kick it up a notch, you can also include in-post references for landmarks or visitor hotspots. Doing so gives your local SEO a considerable boost.

4. Make Sure You Have Your Title and Description on Lock

Unfortunately, you don’t have too much space on the search engine results page. With that in mind, you need to make the most of the tiny space to get your marketing message across.

To use that space wisely makes sure you:-

The title and description promotes your brand

Steer clear from generic terms that aren’t related to your business

It captures what your business entails

The title and description are where you get your potential customer interested.  It’s the first impression any visitor or potential customer gets about your business. If you want to make a good first impression, make sure you have the title and description down pat.

5. Create a Google My Business Profile

Google My Business or GMB  is a tool by Google for businesses to manage their online presence. It’s free to use and is a great way to tell your customers about your location and more information about your business. Yes, you can think of GMB as an online directory.

You have to go through a strict verification process before you get on GMB. That’s the only way Google can tell it’s registering a legitimate business. After that, you’ll add more information about your company, including location, description, and the likes.

Only the official business owner can register a particular business on GMB. This is a job you can’t delegate to your staff unless you’re willing to give up crucial personal details. Registering on GMB can do wonders for your local SEO.

6. Optimize for Voice Search

It’s the 21sy century, and people no longer have to key in words for their internet searches. Nowadays, all you have to do is speak into the mic what you’re looking for, and voila, you get your results. You’ll need to optimize for voice search to get a fighting chance with voice search results.

To do so, you’ll have to clamp down on how customers ask questions and how they make their requests. With voice search, customers normally use long keywords because they don’t have to type everything. That’s why you need to change your SEO content to match the conversational tone most people use.

Keep in mind that voice searches are based on intent. Most users use voice search when they want quick responses to their queries. That means you should be ready with the answers when your customers pose their questions.

Optimizing for voice search can be a tad challenging, especially for newer companies. It’s a great idea to get some professional help for your voice search optimization. That way, you can get the most out of voice searches.

7. Don’t Overlook Your Mobile Site

Often, we’re too busy with our PC sites that we forget all about the mobile one. Unfortunately, doing so could hurt your local SEO and your search engine results page ranking, by extension. What’s more, you’ll be missing out on a vast demographic of smartphone users.

The average person spends about three hours and fifteen minutes on the phone each day. According to Techcrunch, more than 6.1 billion people around the world are proud smartphone owners. These statistics should be enough to make you keener about your mobile site.

When it comes to your mobile site, your primary concern should be the site’s responsiveness. Later, you can worry about the design and the interface. Here are a couple of ways you can make the site more responsive.

Make sure your interface is bug-free

Make sure your site takes no more than four seconds to load

Only use relevant pictures for your site

Make sure your fonts are large enough to be readable

If you don’t have a mobile site, you should get one as soon as possible or ask the pros for help. There’s a lot you’re missing on.  Once you get your mobile site up and running, don’t forget to do the above to make it responsive.

8. Get Customer and Client Reviews

Reviews are a great way to show potential customers what you offer and the quality of your products and services. Reviews also boost your local SEO, especially if you have a GMB profile. 

It’s a bummer that not many customers are willing to leave reviews. However, there are ways you can persuade them to do precisely that. If you want to get reviews from your customers, you can:-

Send emails or texts requesting them for their reviews or personal opinions

React to all the current reviews and act on any negative ones to address the issue

Demand a summary after you complete every transaction

These are just a few ways you can get your customers or clients to review your business.  Reviews not only boost your local SEO, but they also attract potential clients to your business.

9. Use Schema Markup

Schema markup is a special code that helps search engines get more informative results from your website.  It’s the perfect way to get an edge over your competitors because not a lot of people know about schema markup.

However, using schema markup isn’t a DIY job; Unless you’re a web developer, you’ll need some help using schema markup on your site. However, it’s a one-time process, and you’ll be good to go for as long as your type of website is on the internet.

10. Have Citations From Different Non-Competing Sites

You have to establish your name on cyberspace to rise in SERP rankings. One of the best ways is by getting citations from as many aggregate business sites as you can. Yext and Factual are great examples of such sites, but many more can do your bidding.

Citations are listings of your business name, phone number, and additional contact information on other sites. If you get citations from local business sites and other sites, your online presence boosts your SEO.

However, make sure you get citations from reputable sites for the citations to actually impact your SERP ranking. For some authority sites, you might have to pay for citation, but with most business sites, it’s free.

11. Add a Virtual Tour

If you really want to up the ante, then add a virtual tour to your site. As the name suggests, a virtual tour is just like a normal tour, but you don’t have to leave your desk or couch. Virtual tours are a great way to show your visitors what you have to offer.

What’s more, with the roll-out of 5G coming soon, these virtual tours should be seamless. Plus, virtual tours are straightforward to set up with our smartphone cameras becoming more powerful as time goes by. Add a virtual tour to your site and make sure you post the link to it on your social media.

Add your virtual tour to your GMB to boost your local SEO even more. Add a virtual tour today and give your visitors a peek under the curtain.

12. Make Sure You Get the Tags Too

Tags are a great way to boost your SEO and increase your SERP ranking. However, to make the most out of tags, make sure you take your time with them.  Hold meetings with your staff and teams and find out the best tags you can use for your site.

On your Google My Business account, look for the “about me” section. You’ll find a place for tags there. You can list all the relevant keywords and tags you want in that section.  Make sure you get all of them, because a single tag may make a significant difference.

Creating tags is easy, but make sure you don’t do it in a hurry. Make sure you get as many relevant tags as you can for the best result.

13. Embrace Content Marketing

The ill-conceived notion that content marketing is only for large sites is, well, ill-conceived. Content marketing is still as effective for local businesses and maybe even more effective. If you want to get more local traffic, then content marketing is the way to go.

To capture the right audience, make sure your content centers on your niches. Also, make sure your content adds value to your target audience. “How to” articles are great or have content that aims to answer questions our customers frequently ask.

14. Get Backlinks From Other Local Businesses

Backlinks are a great way to promote your brand and also boost your local SEO. Backlinks are links on other business sites that lead straight to your products. There are plenty of businesses you can approach for backlinks.

For a classic win-win scenario, offer to backlink any business that backlinks yours. Proper backlinking is crucial for your brand’s marketing and local SEO too.

Boosting Your Local SEO Is a Breeze

With the above SEO tips, boosting your local SEO should be a walk in the park. However, it takes a lot of commitment and sacrifice to rank high on SERPs.  Remember, you’re never too good for a bit of professional help.

Help with your local SEO is just a click away. Contact us today, and we’ll sort you out.

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It's a straight text classification problem. When I was a bit surprised. These too are engaging in the wrong direction. In particular, it will become a self-important dilettante.1 To ensure that, any increase in a company's profits over prewar levels was taxed at 85%. The result is a system like some kind of consumer gadget. The outsourcing type are going to be a place where investors want to live in Silicon Valley in the last couple decades. They used all the tokens you'll tend to miss longer spams, the type where someone tells you their life story up to the point where they're issued, we may in some cases, but it is not the usual one, which applies even when you like what you're working on, it's easier to get people to fight for an idea. By now they're mostly used ironically.

It was like a game. These can be much more effective, not only in the spam corpus, the probability is. Sometimes the spirit in which this is done makes it more of a sophisticated form of ad hominem than actual refutation.2 What Make something people want. I've read that the same is true in the military—that the idea will be a flop and you're wasting your time although they probably won't say this directly. I think I can fix the biggest danger is surprise. That brings us to our fourth counterintuitive point: that the way to ensure their students are well supplied with contraceptives, and yet is taboo in ours, is a greedy algorithm that may get you nothing more than that. If you plan to start a company. So I seem to have some sort of new, vocational version of college as education for its own sake. This lets me get ip addresses and prices intact. And yet in the very word thesis.

And the books we did these disgusting things to, like those we mishandled in high school. Plus since TVs were expensive whole families watched the same shows together, so they start to lose interest. If you factor out the bootstrapped companies that were actually funded by their founders through savings or a day job, the remainder either a got really lucky, which is also high on the list? Vertically integrated companies literally dis-integrated because it was more efficient to. That's the idea their thoughts will drift toward when they're allowed to drift freely. But not quite. In any period, it should be easy to figure out what we can't say, in any normal family, a fixed amount of funding is an obsolete one left over from the days when startups were more expensive. It's too much overhead. You can mitigate this with subsidies at the bottom and taxes at the top of the cycle, but it is not all the sort of thing did not happen to big companies in mid-century most of the world's history, if you don't, you can take risks; when things are bad you want to go with Ron Conway and bet on people. There is a conservation law at work here: if you want to write out your whole presentation beforehand and memorize it, that's ok. Both changes drove salaries toward market price. Once they invest in a startup is thus as close as most people can get to what they want, or they can't get good people.

The Bay Area was a magnet for all the shorter half-life isotopes of style and fame. The fourth spam was what I call a spam-of-the-future, because this is what I expect spam to evolve into: some completely neutral text followed by a url. They won't like what you've built, but there is one more multiple: how much smarter are you than your job description expects you to be able to get big-name users using your software that you wouldn't have gotten as a product, but as a predictor of success it's rounding error compared to the facial expressions she was used to.3 What groups are powerful but nervous, and what to do about it. And anything you come across that surprises you. And by next, I mean a couple hours later. And why do they so often work on developing new technology? So a town that gets praised for being solid or representing traditional values may be a great entrepreneur, working on interesting stuff, etc.4 This article was given as a talk at the 2009 Startup School.5 It wouldn't work otherwise. Kids who went to private schools or wished they did started to dress and act differently.

Another effect of a larger vocabulary is that when you have to consciously resist it.6 They do seem to be created deliberately. So you don't have to do that, because you can start as soon as some big company becomes aware of it, you waited too long to launch. That brings us to our fourth counterintuitive point: that the tests involved are so different from the area around it. Steve Jobs once said that the success or failure of a startup as it grows larger? What I do then is just what the river does: backtrack. By now they're mostly used ironically. Yeah, sure, but first you have to write in school were even connected to what I was doing before.

Google. No more nice shirt. The valuation reflects nothing more than a town with the right personality. Particularly online, where it's easy to figure this out: within the US, towns have become startup hubs if and only if they have both rich people and nerds. People who get rich from startups fund new ones. Was it right or wrong? It follows from the nature of angel investing that has most effect on your returns, picking the right companies, is also the hardest.7 I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. It wouldn't have been a successful company, but also everyone who aspired to it—which in the middle of the century our two big forces intersect, in the sense that the decisions are hard. And I know it's usually my fault: I let errands eat up the day, to avoid facing some hard problem. Certainly it's a better test than your a priori notions of what problems are important to solve, no matter how many good startups approach him. Though I have to do it without getting yourself accused of being a yellowist.

One is simply that they trained their filter on very little data: 160 spam and 466 nonspam mails. It's more like telling a lie that you then have to remember so you don't have to find startups. And when all the companies that are above pulling this sort of trick to pledge publicly not to. So approach this like an algorithm that gets the right answer by successive approximations. Once you've found them, you have to join a company to do that in college, but the tendency toward fragmentation should be more forever than most things, and sometimes the existing companies weren't the ones who are very smart, totally dedicated, and win the lottery.8 I just explained: startups take over your life for a long time ago. When we raised money for Y Combinator, I remembered. So while you're talking to investors, because you've addressed three of their biggest worries. So just as investors in 1999 were tripping over one another trying to buy into lousy startups, investors in 2009 will presumably be reluctant to send you referrals until you've proven yourself by doing a couple investments. Well, that's the thing about counterintuitive ideas: they contradict your intuitions.9

The archaeological work being mostly done, it implied that the people studying the classics were, if not wasting their time, they had real force. If a self-important dilettante. Many employees would work harder if they could, and most people reading this will be over that threshold. Vertically integrated companies literally dis-integrated because it was harder. You also need to be in a situation with measurement and leverage. It's the same principle as incremental development: start with a simple prototype, then add features, but at the other end of the process. An example of a job with both measurement and leverage would be lead actor in a movie. There's so much you can't do as well before or after, like plunge deeply into projects on a whim and travel super cheaply with no sense of a village, but small in the sense of a deadline.10

Notes

The lowest point occurred when marginal income tax rate is suspiciously neat. There are people in the biggest divergences between the subset that will be lots of search engines and there was a good open-source browser would cause HTTP and HTML to continue to maltreat people who might be 20 or 30 times as productive as those working for startups overall. The few people plot their own company. He devoted much of the editor, which a few that are hard to say because most of the delays and disconnects between founders and one or two, because few founders are driven only by money.

One YC founder who read a draft of this essay, but they get a good product. No one wants to invest but tried to motivate people by saying Real artists ship. Cell phone handset makers are satisfied to sell your company into one? I would be taught that masturbation was perfectly normal and not end up making something for which you ultimately need if you ban other ways to help SCO sue them.

VCs don't invest, it was outlawed in the biggest divergences between the government. My guess is the most recent version of the reasons startups are ready to invest in a time of unprecedented federal power, in the mid twentieth century.

This suggests a way to put it would be more likely to be something of an email being spam. One professor friend says that clothing brands favored by urban youth do not try to ensure startups are possible. Cit. That is the way we pitch startup school to be a problem into your head.

It's common for the spot as top sponsor.

And starting an organic farm, though. A bad imitation of a city's potential as a day feels like it if you turn out to be extra skeptical about things you've written or talked about before, and cook on lowish heat for at least bet money on the cover.

The Nineteenth-Century History of English. Eric Horvitz. What you're looking for initially is not a problem that I knew, there were no strong central governments.

People who value their peace, or the distinction between money and wealth. If you treat your classes as a kid, this paragraph is sales 101.

This seems to have funded Reddit, stories start at the fabulous Oren's Hummus. Not surprisingly, these are even worth thinking about for the next round to be the model for Internet clients too.

Good news: users don't care what your GPA was. Inside their heads a giant house of cards is tottering.

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Written by Pascal Chambon, reviewed by Raphaël Gomès Update: this article mostly deals with the RESTish ecosystem, which now constitutes a major part of webservices. For more in-depth analysis of the original REST, and of HATEOAS, see my follow-up article. How come REST means so much WORK? This is both a paradox, and a shameless pun. Let’s dive further into the artificial problems born from this design philosophy. BEWARE : through this document, you’ll encounter lots of semi-rhetorical technical questions. Do not misunderstand them, they DO NOT mean that RESTish webservices can’t solve these problems. They just mean that users have an extra burden of decisions to take, of extensions to integrate, of custom workarounds to apply, and this is a problem in itself. The joy of REST verbsRest is not CRUD, its advocates will ensure that you don’t mix up these two. Yet minutes later they will rejoice that HTTP methods have well defined semantics to create (POST), retrieve (GET), update (PUT/PATCH) and delete (DELETE) resources. They’ll delight in professing that these few “verbs”are enough to express any operation. Well, of course they are; the same way that a handful of verbs would be enough to express any concept in English: “Today I updated my CarDriverSeat with my body, and created an EngineIgnition, but the FuelTank deleted itself”; being possible doesn’t make it any less awkward. Unless you’re an admirator of the Toki Pona language. If the point is to be minimalist, at least let it be done right. Do you know why PUT, PATCH, and DELETE have never been implemented in web browser forms? Because they are useless and harmful. We can just use GET for read and POST for write. Or POST exclusively, when HTTP-level caching is unwanted. Other methods will at best get in your way, at worst ruin your day. You want to use PUT to update your resource? OK, but some Holy Specifications state that the data input has to be equivalent to the representation received via a GET. So what do you do with the numerous read-only parameters returned by GET (creation time, last update time, server-generated token…)? You omit them and violate the PUT principles? You include them anyway, and expect an “HTTP 409 Conflict” if they don’t match server-side values (forcing you to then issue a GET...)? You give them random values and expect servers to ignore them (the joy of silent errors)? Pick your poison, REST clearly has no clue what a read-only attribute it, and this won’t be fixed anytime soon. Meanwhile, a GET is dangerously supposed to return the password (or credit card number) which was sent in a previous POST/PUT; good luck dealing with such write-only parameters too. Did I forget to mention that PUT also brings dangerous race conditions, where several clients will override each other’s changes, whereas they just wanted to update different fields? You want to use PATCH to update your resource? Nice, but like 99% of people using this verb, you’ll just send a subset of resource fields in your request payload, hoping that the server properly understands the operation intended (and all its possible side effects); lots of resource parameters are deeply linked or mutually exclusive(ex. it’s either credit card OR paypal token, in a user’s billing info), but RESTful design hides this important information too. Anyway, you’d violate specs once more: PATCH is not supposed to just send a bunch of fields to be overridden. Instead, you’re supposed to provide a “set of instructions” to be applied on the resources. So here you go again, take your paperboard and your coffee mug, you’ll have to decide how to express these instructions. Often with handcrafted specifications, since Not-Invented-Here Syndrome is a de-facto standard in the REST world. (Edit: REST advocates have backpedaled on this subject, with Json Merge Patch, an alternative to formats like Json Patch) You want to DELETE resources? OK, but I hope you don’t need to provide substantial context data; like a PDF scan of the termination request from the user. DELETE prohibits having a payload. A constraint that REST architects often dismiss, since most webservers don’t enforce this rule on the requests they receive. How compatible, anyway, would be a DELETE request with 2 MBs of base64 query string attached? (Edit: the RFC 2616, indicating that payloads without semantics should be ignored, is now obsolete) REST aficionados easily profess that “people are doing it wrong” and their APIs are “actually not RESTful”. For example, lots of developers use PUT to create a resource directly on its final URL (/myresourcebase/myresourceid), whereas the “good way” (edit: according to many) of doing it is to POST on a parent URL (/myresourcebase), and let the server indicate, with an HTTP “Location” header, the new resource’s URL (edit: it’s not an HTTP redirection though). The good news is: it doesn’t matter. These rigorous principles are like Big Endian vs Little Endian, they occupy philosophers for hours, but have very little impact on real life problems, i.e “getting stuff done”. By the way… handcrafting URLs is always great fun. Do you know how many implementations properly urlencode() identifiers while building REST urls? Not that many. Get ready for nasty breakages and SSRF/CSRF attacks. When you forget to urlencode usernames in 1 of your 30 handcrafted URLs.The joy of REST error handlingAbout every coder is able to make a “nominal case” work. Error handling is one of these features which will decide if your code is robust software, or a huge pile of matchsticks. HTTP provides a list of error codes out-of-the-box. Great, let’s see that. Using “HTTP 404 Not Found” to notify about an unexisting resource sounds RESTful as heck, doesn’t it? Too bad: your nginx was misconfigured for 1 hour, so your API consumers got only 404 errors and purged hundreds of accounts, thinking they were deleted…. Our customers, after we deleted their gigabytes of kitten images by error.Using “HTTP 401 Unauthorized” when a user doesn’t have access credentials to a third-party service sounds acceptable, doesn’t it? However, if an ajax call in your Safari browser gets this error code, it might startle your end customer with a very unexpected password prompt [it did, years ago, YMMV]. HTTP existed long before “RESTful webservices”, and the web ecosystem is filled with assumptions about the meaning of its error codes. Using them to transport application errors is like using milk bottles to dispose of toxic waste: inevitably, one day, there will be trouble. Some standard HTTP error codes are specific to Webdav, others to Microsoft, and the few remaining have definitions so fuzzy that they are of no help. In the end, like most REST users, you’ll probably use random HTTP codes, like “HTTP 418 I’m a teapot” or unassigned numbers, to express your application-specific exceptions. Or you’ll shamelessly return “HTTP 400 Bad Request” for all functional errors, and then invent your own clunky error format, with booleans, integer codes, slugs, and translated messages stuffed into an arbitrary payload. Or you’ll give up altogether on proper error handling; you’ll just return a plain message, in natural language, and hope that the caller will be a human able to analyze the problem, and take action. Good luck interacting with such APIs from an autonomous program. The joy of REST conceptsREST has made a career out of boasting about concepts that any service architect in his right mind already respects, or about principles that it doesn’t even follow. Here are some excerpts, grabbed from top-ranked webpages. REST is a client-server architecture. The client and the server both have a different set of concerns. What a scoop in the software world. REST provides a uniform interface between components. Well, like any other protocol does, when it’s enforced as the lingua franca of a whole ecosystem of services. REST is a layered system. Individual components cannot see beyond the immediate layer with which they are interacting. It sounds like a natural consequence of any well designed, loosely coupled architecture; amazing. Rest is awesome, because it is STATELESS. Yes there is probably a huge database behind the webservice, but it doesn’t remember the state of the client. Or, well, yes, actually it remember its authentication session, its access permissions… but it’s stateless, nonetheless. Or more precisely, just as stateless as any HTTP-based protocol, like simple RPC mentioned previously. With REST, you can leverage the power of HTTP CACHING! Well here is at last one concluding point: a GET request and its cache-control headers are indeed friendly with web caches. That being said, aren’t local caches (Memcached etc.) enough for 99% of web services? Out-of-control caches are dangerous beasts; how many people want to expose their APIs in clear text, so that a Varnish or a Proxy on the road may keep delivering outdated content, long after a resource has been updated or deleted? Maybe even delivering it “forever”, if a configuration mistake once occurred? A system must be secure by default. I perfectly admit that some heavily loaded systems want to benefit from HTTP caching, but it costs much less to expose a few GET endpoints for heavy read-only interactions, than to switch all operations to REST and its dubious error handling. Thanks to all this, REST has HIGH PERFORMANCE! Are we sure of that? Any API designer knows it: locally, we want fine-grained APIs, to be able to do whatever we want; and remotely, we want coarse-grained APIs, to limit the impact of network round-trips. Here is again a domain in which “basic” REST fails miserably. The split of data between “resources”, each instance on its own endpoint, naturally leads to the N+1 Query problem. To get a user’s full data (account, subscriptions, billing information…), you have to issue as many HTTP requests; and you can’t parallelize them, since you don’t know in advance the unique IDs of related resources. This, plus the inability to fetch only part of resource objects, naturally creates nasty bottlenecks (edit: yes, you can stuff extensions like Compound/Partial Documents into your setup to help with that). REST offers better compatibility. How so? Why do so many REST webservices have “/v2/” or “/v3/” in their base URLs then? Backwards and forward compatible APIs are not hard to achieve, with high level languages, as long as simple rules are followed when adding/deprecating parameters. As far as I know, REST doesn’t bring anything new on the subject. REST is SIMPLE, everyone knows HTTP! Well, everyone knows pebbles too, yet people are happy to have better blocks when building their house. The same way XML is a meta-language, HTTP is a meta-protocol. To have a real application protocol (like “dialects” are to XML), you’ll need to specify lots of things; and you’ll end up with Yet Another RPC Protocol, as if there were not enough already. REST is so easy, it can be queried from any shell, with CURL! OK, actually, every HTTP-based protocol can be queried with CURL. Even SOAP. Issuing a GET is particularly straightforward, for sure, but good luck writing json or xml POST payloads by hand; people usually use fixture files, or, much more handy, full-fledged API clients instantiated directly in the command line interface of their favorite language. “The client does not need any prior knowledge of the service in order to use it”. This is by far my favourite quote. I’ve found it numerous times, under different forms, especially when the buzzword HATEOAS lurked around; sometimes with some careful (but insufficient) “except” phrases following. Still, I don’t know in which fantasy world these people live, but in this one, a client program is not a colony of ants; it doesn’t browse remote APIs randomly, and then decide how to best handle them, based on pattern recognition or black magic. Quite the opposite; the client has strong expectations on what it means, to PUT this one field to this one URL with this one value, and the server had better respect the semantic which was agreed upon during integration, else all hell might break loose. When you ask how HATEOAS is supposed to work.How to do REST right and quick?Forget about the “right” part. REST is like a religion, no mere mortal will ever grasp the extent of its genius, nor “do it right”. So the real question is: if you’re forced to expose or consume webservices in a kinda-RESTful way, how to rush through this job, and switch to more constructive tasks asap? Update: it turns out that there are actually lots of “standards” and industrialization efforts for REST, although I had never encountered them personnally (maybe because few people use them?). More information in my follow-up article. How to industrialize server-side exposure?Each web framework has its own way of defining URL endpoint. So expect some big dependencies, or a good layer of handwritten boilerplate, to plug your existing API onto your favorite server as a set of REST endpoint. Libraries like Django-Rest-Framework automate the creation of REST APIs, by acting as data-centric wrappers above SQL/noSQL schemas. If you just want to make “CRUD over HTTP”, you could be fine with them. But if you want to expose common “do-this-for-me” APIs, with workflows, constraints, complex data impacts and such, you’ll have a hard time bending any REST framework to fit your needs. Be prepared to connect, one by one, each HTTP method of each endpoint, to the corresponding method call; with a fair share of handmade exception handling, to translate passing-through exceptions into corresponding error codes and payloads. How to industrialize client-side integration?From experience, my guess is: you don’t. For each API integration, you’ll have to browse lengthy docs, and follow detailed recipes on how each of the N possible operations has to be performed. You’ll have to craft URLs by hand, write serializers and deserializers, and learn how to workaround the ambiguities of the API. Expect quite some trial-and-error before you tame the beast. Do you know how webservices providers make up for this, and ease adoption? Simple, they write their own official client implementations. FOR. EVERY. MAJOR. LANGUAGE. AND. PLATFORM. I’ve recently dealt with a subscription management system. They provide clients for PHP, Ruby, Python, .NET, iOS, Android, Java… plus some external contributions for Go and NodeJS. Each client lives in its own Github repository. Each with its own big list of commits, bug tracking tickets, and pull requests. Each with its own usage examples. Each with its own awkward architecture, somewhere between ActiveRecord and RPC proxy. This is astounding. How much time is spent developing such weird wrappers, instead of improving the real, the valuable, the getting-stuff-done, webservice? Sisyphus developing Yet Another Client for his API.ConclusionFor decades, about every programming language has functioned with the same workflow: sending inputs to a callable, and getting results or errors as output. This worked well. Quite well. With Rest, this has turned into an insane work of mapping apples to oranges, and praising HTTP specifications to better violate them minutes later. In an era where MICROSERVICES are more and more common, how come such an easy task — linking libraries over networks — remains so artificially crafty and cumbersome? I don’t doubt that some smart people out there will provide cases where REST shines; they’ll showcase their homemade REST-based protocol, allowing to discover and do CRUD operation on arbitrary object trees, thanks to hyperlinks; they’ll explain how the REST design is so brilliant, that I’ve just not read enough articles and dissertations about its concepts. I don’t care. Trees are recognized by their own fruits. What took me a few hours of coding and worked very robustly, with simple RPC, now takes weeks and can’t stop inventing new ways of failing or breaking expectations. Development has been replaced by tinkering. Almost-transparent remote procedure call was what 99% people really needed, and existing protocols, as imperfect as they were, did the job just fine. This mass monomania for the lowest common denominator of the web, HTTP, has mainly resulted in a huge waste of time and grey matter. REST promised simplicity and delivered complexity. REST promised robustness and delivered fragility. REST promised interoperability and delivered heterogeneity. REST is the new SOAP. EpilogueThe future could be bright. There are still tons of excellent protocols available, in binary or text format, with or without schema, some leveraging the new abilities of HTTP2… so let’s move on, people. We can’t forever remain in the Stone Age of Webservices. Edit: many people asked for these alternative protocols, the subject would deserve its own story, but one could have a look at XMLRPC and JSONRPC (simple but quite relevant), or JSONWSP (includes schemas), or language-specific layers like Pyro or RMI when for internal use, or new kids in the block like GraphQL and gRPC for public APIs… “Always finish a rant on a positive note”, momma said.Edited on December 12, 2017: normalize section titlesremove some typosrectify improper “HTTP redirection” wording after POST operationsadd suggestions of alternative protocolsEdited on December 28, 2017: fix mixup between “HTTP methods” and “REST verbs”Edited on January 7, 2018 Edited on January 19, 2018 fix wrong wording on “PUT vs GET” remarksprecise the notion of “real APIs” (non-CRUD)mention risk of overrides with PUTupdate paragraphs on PATCH and DELETE troublesEdited on January 19, 2018 fix wording around Not-Invented-Here SyndromeEdited on February 2, 2018 add links to follow-up article on The Original REST, in “introduction” and “how to industrialize” chaptersEdited on April 14, 2019 add clarification about “semi-rhetorical question”, and hints about extensions like compound/partial documentsEdited on July 6, 2019 fix typos and French links

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All About Website Page Speed: Issues, Resources, Metrics, and How to Improve

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Page speed is an important consideration for your SEO work, but it’s a complex subject that tends to be very technical. What are the most crucial things to understand about your site’s page speed, and how can you begin to improve? In this week’s edition of Whiteboard Friday, Britney Muller goes over what you need to know to get started.

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Hey, Moz fans. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Today we’re going over all things page speed and really getting to the bottom of why it’s so important for you to be thinking about and working on as you do your work.

At the very fundamental level I’m going to briefly explain just how a web page is loaded. That way we can sort of wrap our heads around why all this matters.

How a webpage is loaded

A user goes to a browser, puts in your website, and there is a DNS request. This points at your domain name provider, so maybe GoDaddy, and this points to your server where your files are located, and this is where it gets interesting. So the DOM starts to load all of your HTML, your CSS, and your JavaScript. But very rarely does this one pull all of the needed scripts or needed code to render or load a web page.

Typically the DOM will need to request additional resources from your server to make everything happen, and this is where things start to really slow down your site. Having that sort of background knowledge I hope will help in us being able to triage some of these issues.

Issues that could be slowing down your site

What are some of the most common culprits?

First and foremost is images. Large images are the biggest culprit of slow loading web pages.

Hosting can cause issues.

Plugins, apps, and widgets, basically any third-party script as well can slow down load time.

Your theme and any large files beyond that can really slow things down as well.

Redirects, the number of hops needed to get to a web page will slow things down.

Then JavaScript, which we’ll get into in a second.

But all of these things can be a culprit. So we’re going to go over some resources, some of the metrics and what they mean, and then what are some of the ways that you can improve your page speed today.

Page speed tools and resources

The primary resources I have listed here are Google tools and Google suggested insights. I think what’s really interesting about these is we get to see what their concerns are as far as page speed goes and really start to see the shift towards the user. We should be thinking about that anyway. But first and foremost, how is this affecting people that come to your site, and then secondly, how can we also get the dual benefit of Google perceiving it as higher quality?

We know that Google suggests a website to load anywhere between two to three seconds. The faster the better, obviously. But that’s sort of where the range is. I also highly suggest you take a competitive view of that. Put your competitors into some of these tools and benchmark your speed goals against what’s competitive in your industry. I think that’s a cool way to kind of go into this.

Chrome User Experience Report

This is Chrome real user metrics. Unfortunately, it’s only available for larger, popular websites, but you get some really good data out of it. It’s housed on Big ML, so some basic SQL knowledge is needed.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse, one of my favorites, is available right in Chrome Dev Tools. If you are on a web page and you click Inspect Element and you open up Chrome Dev Tools, to the far right tab where it says Audit, you can run a Lighthouse report right in your browser.

What I love about it is it gives you very specific examples and fixes that you can do. A fun fact to know is it will automatically be on the simulated fast 3G, and notice they’re focused on mobile users on 3G. I like to switch that to applied fast 3G, because it has Lighthouse do an actual run of that load. It takes a little bit longer, but it seems to be a little bit more accurate. Good to know.

Page Speed Insights

Page Speed Insights is really interesting. They’ve now incorporated Chrome User Experience Report. But if you’re not one of those large sites, it’s not even going to measure your actual page speed. It’s going to look at how your site is configured and provide feedback according to that and score it. Just something good to be aware of. It still provides good value.

Test your mobile website speed and performance

I don’t know what the title of this is. If you do, please comment down below. But it’s located on testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com. This one is really cool because it tests the mobile speed of your site. If you scroll down, it directly ties it into ROI for your business or your website. We see Google leveraging real-world metrics, tying it back to what’s the percentage of people you’re losing because your site is this slow. It’s a brilliant way to sort of get us all on board and fighting for some of these improvements.

Pingdom and GTmetrix are non-Google products or non-Google tools, but super helpful as well.

Site speed metrics

So what are some of the metrics?

First paint

We’re going to go over first paint, which is basically just the first non-blank paint on a screen. It could be just the first pixel change. That initial change is first paint.

First contentful paint

First contentful paint is when the first content appears. This might be part of the nav or the search bar or whatever it might be. That’s the first contentful paint.

First meaningful paint

First meaningful paint is when primary content is visible. When you sort of get that reaction of, “Oh, yeah, this is what I came to this page for,” that’s first meaningful paint.

Time to interactive

Time to interactive is when it’s visually usable and engage-able. So we’ve all gone to a web page and it looks like it’s done, but we can’t quite use it yet. That’s where this metric comes in. So when is it usable for the user? Again, notice how user-centric even these metrics are. Really, really neat.

DOM content loaded

The DOM content loaded, this is when the HTML is completely loaded and parsed. So some really good ones to keep an eye on and just to be aware of in general.

Ways to improve your page speed

HTTP/2

HTTP/2 can definitely speed things up. As to what extent, you have to sort of research that and test.

Preconnect, prefetch, preload

Preconnect, prefetch, and preload really interesting and important in speeding up a site. We see Google doing this on their SERPs. If you inspect an element, you can see Google prefetching some of the URLs so that it has it faster for you if you were to click on some of those results. You can similarly do this on your site. It helps to load and speed up that process.

Enable caching & use a content delivery network (CDN)

Caching is so, so important. Definitely do your research and make sure that’s set up properly. Same with CDNs, so valuable in speeding up a site, but you want to make sure that your CDN is set up properly.

Compress images

The easiest and probably quickest way for you to speed up your site today is really just to compress those images. It’s such an easy thing to do. There are all sorts of free tools available for you to compress them. Optimizilla is one. You can even use free tools on your computer, Save for Web, and compress properly.

Minify resources

You can also minify resources. So it’s really good to be aware of what minification, bundling, and compression do so you can have some of these more technical conversations with developers or with anyone else working on the site.

So this is sort of a high-level overview of page speed. There’s a ton more to cover, but I would love to hear your input and your questions and comments down below in the comment section.

I really appreciate you checking out this edition of Whiteboard Friday, and I will see you all again soon. Thanks so much. See you.

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Easter Egg Hunt Surprise

Prompt/Summary: this is based on my Tumblr URL, which is my own name.

Pairing: Dean x Reader (Female Hunter)

Warnings: Lots of fluff, if that’s even a warning. Mentions of alcohol, mentions of sex, a bit of angst.

Word Count: 5188

A/N: This is my entry for sleepywinchester’s URL Challenge. Italics are flashbacks.

It was a Tuesday morning when it happened. Y/N got up from the bed she shared with Dean and exited their bedroom, rubbing her eyes and heading straight to the kitchen for a much-needed cup of coffee. Sam and Dean were out working on a case, a case they had claimed was too easy, so it wasn’t necessary for her to go as well. That had been almost a week ago, and Y/N was going out of her mind. Dean wasn’t one to call much, and she hadn’t heard from them in a few days. The lonely days she spent just sitting around in the bunker, without news, were getting the best of her, so she decided to occupy her mind with a variety of things. She cleaned the whole place, organized the library and went out to run some errands, even went to the hospital for a general check-up, until once again she had nothing else to do. Y/N had then recurred to waste her time in something she never knew she would: social networks. And it wasn’t Facebook or any network she could be easily found, she wasn’t that stupid, but more like Tumblr and Pinterest, and even she had to admit both sites had interesting posts to occupy her mind. That had been how she had spent the last few days: getting up, eating and lounging over their bed with her cellphone.

However, that morning, as she was pouring herself coffee, she heard the main door open. Sleep abandoned her immediately as she sprinted out, just in time to see both brothers descending the stairs. They seemed perfectly unharmed, which caused Y/N to let out a sigh of pure relief, but something about their expressions made her furrow her eyebrows in confusion and suspicion.

“Babe.” Dean smiled once he was just in front of her, his grin hiding well the chuckles of amusement still remnant from whatever the brothers were laughing about.

“Nice to see you two are back in one piece.” she hugged her boyfriend tightly, breathing in his scent and ignoring his weird behavior, “You could have called to let me know you were okay.”

“Sorry.” Sam said sheepishly, “We had to stay a few more days to make sure the poltergeist was really gone.”

“Well, I missed you.” Y/N turned her head to place a quick peck on Dean’s lips, “I don’t like staying behind on hunts. I get bored here alone.”

“Really?” Sam smirked, “Because that’s not what it seems.”

“What?” she frowned, “What are you talking about, Sammy?”

“Oh nothing…” he shrugged, “It just seemed like you binge-watched some TV shows.”

“So…?” Y/N had no idea where her friend was getting at.

“And then had a crisis, like a fangirl.”

But before she could continue expressing her confusion, her boyfriend explained, “We found your Tumblr.”

Dean bit his lower lip to stop himself from exploding in laughter as Y/N’s eyes widened impossibly and her mouth hung open from the surprise. Sam couldn’t hold it anymore, laughing hysterically, but he tried to remain impassive, for his girlfriend’s sake. She was absolutely speechless.

“How did you find it?”

“Sweetheart, it’s not that hard to find it if you use your own name as a user name.” he smiled smugly.

“You only found my Tumblr?” she suddenly looked alarmed, wanting to make sure they hadn’t found anything else.

“Yes.” Sam frowned, “And what do you mean only your Tumblr? That thing is gold.”

“Why?” her features passed from worried to cocky in a matter of seconds, “I don’t care that you found it. You can’t really use it against me if it doesn’t affect me, so you have no leverage.”

“It’s still gold.” the younger Winchester chuckled, “I didn’t think you would waste your time on Tumblr.”

“It has interesting stuff. And you could only discover my Tumblr if you had an account yourself.” Y/N chuckled.

“I don’t really need a Tumblr to view others.” Sam crossed his arms over his chest.

“Enough about that.” Dean interrupted their bickering, “What are you really hiding, Y/N?”

“I’m not hiding anything.” she lied, trying to appear as innocent as possible.

“But why waste your time like that?” Sam questioned.

“I needed to occupy my mind.” she shrugged, “Every time you leave me behind on hunts, I go absolutely mad. I worry, okay? I worry a lot, and sometimes you don’t even pick up the phone or call, hell even a text would be enough, but you don’t. And I don’t blame you, I get it, you’re busy killing whatever creature you’re hunting, but I’m left here alone, with no news of any sort, just wondering. So social media has been a way to stop myself from going out of my freaking mind.”

“I’m sorry Y/N.” Dean squeezed her hand, “I’ll try to keep in touch.”

“Thank you.”

“But really… Tumblr, Y/N?” Sam teased, not quite ready to let the subject go.

She laughed, but proceeded to defend herself, “I just never thought you’d find out about it.”

“Well, you should be more careful with that next time. Don’t use your real name.”

“It’s not like it has relevant information about me anyway. And you shouldn’t worry, I can take care of myself. After all, I’m the best shooter in here.”

Dean let out a breathy laugh and wrapped one of his arms around her waist, pulling her closer to him and leading her away from the bottom of the stairs, entering deeper into the bunker, “The best shooter, huh?”

“You know it.” his girlfriend winked and flipped her hair over her shoulder.

“Y/N/N.”

“Dean.” Y/N mimicked, trying to mask her fear of him finding out.

“Seriously, what are you hiding?”

“Why do you think I’m hiding something?”

“Because I know you.” Dean leaned down to place a short kiss on her pouted lips.

Y/N sighed, knowing there was no way she could continue lying without him noticing, “It’s not a life or death situation.”

“Then tell me.”

“You’ll find out soon enough. Just please, trust me, give me a few days.”

“When?” Dean breathed deeply.

“Sunday. I promise you’ll know by then.”

“Alright.” he agreed, and smiled once he noticed Y/N beaming with happiness at his statement, “In the meantime, Y/L/N, why don’t you prove just how better you are than me in the shooting range? Maybe you were just bluffing.” he taunted her playfully, knowing just how competitive his girlfriend could get.

“You’re on, Winchester. You’re going to have your ass handed back to you.”

“Is that a threat?”

“A warning.” she smirked, and after pulling away from his embrace, rushed excitedly to the shooting range, making him shake his head and laugh in amusement at her antics.

Sunday came around fairly quick, and as Y/N woke up, she couldn’t contain her nerves and excitement. She had something planned for her boyfriend, but she had to act fast, before he woke up as well and the surprise was ruined. She got up extra early, something that happened on rare occasions, and started preparing everything.

About an hour later, a very sleepy Dean extended an arm across the bed, searching for Y/N. When he felt nothing on the other side of the bed, he opened one eye but frowned as he was met with loneliness. He got up quickly and stretched. He hadn’t noticed it before, but took the small note that was on the bedside table anyway.

“Hi, sleeping beauty. I’m sorry for not waking up by your side, but I have a surprise for you. I know you usually don’t like this kind of things, but it’s Easter, so please just go with it.” He rolled his eyes at his girlfriend’s message and continued reading. “I planned kind of an Easter egg hunt for you, but without the eggs. Every clue is inside the bunker, and you’ll find your surprise when you finish. I’ll be waiting for you at the end, but for now, why don’t you think a bit about the moment we first met?”

“I swear, Y/N, this better be worth it.” he sighed, “I’d kill you if I didn’t love you so much.”

Dean began then the egg hunt. He thought hard about where to head next, because they had met years before they even discovered the bunker, and she said all the clues were inside. That’s when it hit him, and the flashback replayed in his mind.

He had been drinking at the same bar for the last three days. He was supposed to find another case to work on, but after the sleepless nights full of nightmares from his time in Hell, he didn’t feel like working, at least for some days. Sam was off with Bobby, digging information from different books, leaving him completely alone to deal with his shit.

He had noticed her before she noticed him, and he had been blatantly staring at her every night as she served the drinks at the bar. However, he knew she probably didn’t want to be bothered. The third night, as he was close to getting absolutely wasted, was the night when everything changed. The bar was about to close, when suddenly she took a full bottle of whiskey, two glasses, and sat by his side.

“I’m sorry, but I think you might have mistaken me with someone else.”

“Of course not, Dean Winchester.”

“How do you know who I am?”

“You’re not exactly a stranger in the hunting world.” she chuckled and poured the liquor in the glasses, “I’ve heard a lot about you and your brother.”

“You’re a hunter?” he didn’t mean to sound so surprised, it just slipped naturally.

“Mhm. And I know what you’ve been through. You look like you need someone.”

“What, you think I’m just going to talk endlessly about my time in Hell like it’s nothing?” he raised an eyebrow.

“We can do that, I’m a good listener.” her expression was so sincere Dean felt his own features softening, “Or we could not talk at all and you can kiss me.”

He choked on his drink as the blunt words escaped her lips, but he tried to compose himself, “I didn’t peg you for that kind of girl…?”

“Y/N Y/L/N.” she completed for him with a small smile.

“I’m not rejecting you, believe me, I’m not. I wouldn’t dream of it.” he wanted to clarify, “But you don’t really know me, Y/N.”

“You can’t be worse than the guys I do know.” Y/N shrugged, “And I’m not interested in guys that don’t know about this part of my life…”

“Well then, I take option number two, please.” he smirked at her, making her giggle.

That was how they had met, and they had been together pretty much since then, except for a few times when they broke up. Though, they always found a way back to each other. Dean headed decidedly to the kitchen, and searched the cupboard where he kept the bottles of alcohol. Glued to a bottle of whiskey, was his next clue.

“I’m glad you actually remember it.” the note read, “How about you continue a path down the memory lane and try to remember our first kiss?”

Dean smirked and walked immediately towards the garage.

Even though she had offered not to talk and just kiss, Dean hadn’t done so. He felt a true connection with this stranger, and he didn’t want to ruin things by jumping straight to the physical parts. They talked for hours, not about Hell though, but about everything else and anything that came to their minds. He thought he hadn’t felt that free in his life before, and the fact that an unknown girl was making him feel like that made the curiosity take the best of him. After they had finished talking, he promised to show him his pride and joy, his car, so they walked side by side in a comfortable silence, until they were in front of the parked Impala.

“Oh, she’s beautiful.” Y/N gushed, staring adoringly at the car, which drove Dean even crazier, “I must confess, I didn’t actually believe you when you said you had a Chevy Impala ’67, but now I’m just in awe.”

“I’m glad you can see her beauty as well. Most of the people don’t pay much attention to cars.”

“This is a classic, Dean, and the state you keep it… Wow.” she replied, “Well, thank you for showing me your precious Baby.”

Dean panicked momentarily, feeling the dread of the goodbye right around the corner. He shouldn’t have felt like that, but for some reason, departing from her was something he didn’t want to think of, or do.

“Listen, Y/N…” Y/N looked at him directly, her beautiful eyes glinting with a bit of hope, “You’re a hunter. My brother and I are hunters. Maybe… I don’t know… Maybe we can hunt together?” he wanted to facepalm himself at his nervousness, “I mean, you could come and stay with me… with us…?”

For the first time, Dean wasn’t the one to make the move first. After the words escaped his lips, she smiled, cupped his face delicately and placed her lips over his. As electricity flowed down his spine, he responded fervently, lifting her up and placing her over the hood of his car, all the while never breaking the kiss.

Soon enough, as he entered the garage and walked to the Impala, there was a note neatly placed over the black hood of the car.

“Who would have thought Dean Winchester’s memory was so good?” he could perfectly picture her laughing teasingly at him while writing that down, “Next one: remember our first case together? That was pretty special.”

Of course it was special. The chemistry they had, and still have, was undeniable, even back in those first days hunting together. Dean remembered as if it had been last week.

With each passing moment with her, Dean was more and more convinced she was probably the girl for him. But with the first case they got to actually work together, he was absolutely certain of that. The two of them had sneaked in into a party, both there to protect the woman in case the shapeshifter decided to attack her, while Sam was hidden in the security room, watching each of the camera monitors carefully, trying to find out who the shifter was. In the meantime, Dean and Y/N had had to act like normal people enjoying the party. So it wasn’t really a surprise when Dean pulled Y/N out for a dance when a slow song played.

“I love this song.” Y/N sighed, wrapping her arms around his neck as his hands found their way to her hips, as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

“I didn’t peg you as a fan of Chicago.” Dean chuckled, repeating some words he said the day they met.

“You didn’t peg me as a lot of things.” she laughed, “Apparently, I’m full of surprises, Winchester. I love classics.” she stated, making him stare at her in a dazzle.

“You have really good taste, then.”

“Apparently. And this song is one of my favorites.” Y/N informed, as ‘Hard for Me to Say I’m Sorry’ continued playing, “Although it’s a bit sad.”

“I’ll make sure to play it if I ever screw things up with you.”

“Mmm…” she mumbled, her lips lingering just a millimeter over his, “That’s a recipe for success. No one has ever dedicated me any song.”

But as he was about to reply to her, he was being pulled onstage by various man, all of them inciting him to sing a song in karaoke. Dean wasn’t one to do that, but as Y/N’s face lit up with excitement, he knew this was his chance.

“This song is for you, Y/N/N.” he said over the microphone, using for the first time ever the nickname that would eventually become his special nickname for her, and then proceeded to sing the song everyone else had chosen without his consent, Foreigner’s ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’.

His full, rich voice obviously got to her, but she tried to play it cool, even though the gesture, and the choice of song, meant the world to her. He got back to Y/N, who was waiting eagerly for him, “That was amazing, Dean. You like classics too.”

He blushed, not making eye contact because of the slight embarrassment he was feeling, “That was a bit too cheesy for me, I’m more a fan of rock.”

“Rock’s great too.” she admitted, “I like your voice.”

But before she could say anything else about his performance, he smirked mischievously and raised his voice a bit so the rest could hear him, “I think it’s time for her to sing something as well, don’t y’all agree?”

Y/N smacked his chest as his laughter boomed in her ears, and she found herself being pulled away from him and onto the stage. Grumbling under her breath, she decided to sing a cover of ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’, feeling flustered and embarrassed as well as him.

“That wasn’t so bad.” Dean teased as she returned to his side, “I like your voice too.”

“Shut up, Winchester.” she rolled her eyes, and even though they wanted to stay in that moment, they had to return back to the case.

Dean walked straight to where the record player was in the bunker, along with the shelf full of vinyl records. He searched until he found the one that contained the song he had dedicated her, but there was no note there. Frowning, he tried to pull out the one that had the song she had dedicated him, and he saw the small paper glued to the cover.

“Ready for another memory? Here it is: the first time I ever told you ‘I love you’.”

It had been the night after a rough hunt. The nest of vampires more numerous than what they expected. They barely managed to kill them all and get out alive, though somehow they did it, but not without injuries. As they got back to their room in the motel, the original plan was to simply clean up, change into comfortable clothes and sleep the exhaustion off. Dean took one look at Y/N while she was changing, and he changed his mind. Even in the battered state she was in, with some cuts and bruises scattered over her usually smooth skin, she was the most beautiful girl for him. Dean threw to the floor the shirt he was about to put on, walked decidedly to her, took her in his arms and crashed their lips together. Y/N responded quickly, abandoning her comfy clothes and focusing solely on Dean. They didn’t even make it to the uncomfortable motel bed that night, instead settling for the closest thing: the couch. In between gasps, whimpers and moans, she had whispered a breathy “I love you” in his ear, making Dean’s mind race and his nerves tingle, before they were coming apart and falling asleep shortly after.

This one was probably the easiest. There was only one couch in the whole bunker. It hadn’t always been there, until Y/N one day claimed she needed something more comfortable to rest on while she read. Dean walked to the library, and found another note over the couch.

“I don’t know if you’re ready to relive this memory, but now it’s your turn; the first time you reciprocated those words.”

The day after she had let out those three little words was the day they parted ways. It was his fault, he knew that, but he was simply too scared to face the truth, that someone actually loved him. He was much more scared for his feeling for her, given that every person that loved him, and that he loved, ended up hurt or dead. He couldn’t do that to her, he couldn’t let something like that happen to her. So out of pure fear, he acted like an idiot. They fought, and in the heat of the moment, because of the fear and the anger, he walked away from her, breaking her heart and his in the process. It had ten been months since their breakup, when they found each other again. There was a case in a small town called Hot Springs in Arkansas, and some would say it was destiny, but it was the same small town Y/N was trying to live a normal life in. She was back then engaged to a very normal man, making Dean feel enraged, but also hurt. He didn’t understand how she could’ve moved on from him so easily, to live an apple-pie life with another man just months after their separation. Eventually, as the case progressed, the truth got out; Y/N didn’t really love the man, she was still in love with Dean, she was simply trying to forget him somehow. Y/N broke things off with the man after seeing Dean again, claiming she couldn’t do that to him when she wasn’t over her ex. After the case was over, Dean couldn’t lose his probably only opportunity to get his girl back; he bared his heart and soul, and finally confessed his feelings to her, in the porch of her new house.

The bunker didn’t exactly have a porch, but Dean was still convinced it had something to do with the entrance, and soon enough, he found a note placed over the rug.

“I’m sorry to interrupt all the nice memories, but not everything has been flowers and sunshine, right?” he smiled sadly at that, “One of the biggest fights we had, and the ‘recipe for success’ I gave you.”

He remembered that quite clearly as well.

They had had Crowley as a prisoner locked in the bunker’s dungeon after trying to complete the Trials to close Hell’s gate. Sam and Dean had been out on a case, leaving her behind. She knew she shouldn’t have listened to Crowley in the first place; after all, it didn’t matter how many times he had helped them before, he was still a demon. A demon that knew her enough to know what to use against her, to really get to her. With Crowley’s words clear on her mind, she had decided to go off and join the brothers while they were attempting to take care of two Vetalas. She had gotten slightly hurt, but nothing she couldn’t handle; still, Dean had gotten mad to say the least.

“Damn it, Y/N, you should have stayed!”

“I was trying to help, Dean. And even if I simply acted as a bait, they are gone. You needed the distraction to finish them. Even Sam admitted you needed it.” there was a moment of silence as they both glared at each other, neither willing to admit the fault.

“But you aren’t a real hunter. You don’t know how to fight.”

“The hell I’m not.” Y/N snapped angrily, “I was a hunter before I even met you, don’t you dare treat me like I’m not. We’ve trained together, Dean. It’s only fair I get to go with you on jobs.”

“No!” Dean refused and pointed with a scowl at the bleeding wound just above her hip, “This is what happens when you don’t listen to me.”

“It’s just a cut, Dean, it’s not going to kill me. I’m a big girl, I can take care of myself, you don’t need to protect me. I’ve been through worse than this.”

“You get hurt because you are not a good enough hunter.”

That had hurt her more than she was willing to admit. It was the same doubt Crowley had planted in her head. Still, she stood her ground. “Not a good enough hunter? You would be Vetala’s food without me, and both of the monsters are gone, aren’t they?”

“And you think it’s because of you?” Dean’s voice was menacing, his anger barely contained, “Sam and I could have done it without you. The least we need is a weak girl getting in our way.”

That was when it finally snapped. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply, feeling the rage and hurt washing over her.

“If you don’t need me, then I don’t need you.” she shouted, “Goodbye, Winchester. Don’t come looking for me.”

Even just remembering it, Dean flinched, knowing he had gone too far. Once again, the fear of losing her acting up. He had thankfully learned from his mistakes. Even if he still wasn’t too big on chick flick moments, he knew the way to work things out with the girl he knew was the love of his life was by talking.

After that fight, he had done what she had incited him to do back on their first day: looking for her and dedicating ‘Hard for Me to Say I’m Sorry’. She couldn’t help it back then, crying and holding onto him tightly, telling him what had hurt her the most, telling him as well the fears and doubts Crowley gave her, and the absolute panic she felt when Dean’s behavior confirmed every single one of them. Dean had cried a bit too that time, even if he would never willingly admit it, and they spent the rest of the night in each other’s embrace and assuring each other how much the other meant for them, how much they needed each other.

He proceeded to go back to the vinyl records, and looked for the disc that had that favorite song of her. The note was there, and he felt somewhat proud of having found that many notes quite easily. But instead of a message, a sketch of a Devil’s trap was drawn on the small paper. Dean then headed to the dungeon when they kept Crowley, which made sense the other clue was there, since it was kind of part of the last memory Y/N had made him remember. In the middle of the Devil’s trap on the floor, was a colorful Easter egg. It wasn’t a typical egg; instead, it had the words ‘Open me’ written in Y/N’s hurried handwriting with black marker. He did as it said, opening the egg and finding two envelopes. One said ‘This one first!’ while the other one said ‘The clue to find me’. In the first one were a paper and a picture. “Now that you’ve remembered everything we’ve been through together, I just want you to know that I’m never again letting your fears come between us. Whatever we face from now on, we do it together, alright? I love you, Dean”. He then stared at the picture with absolute shock. It was an ultrasound. In the back, it had the words “Our baby’s first picture!” and below “I’m 9 weeks old, daddy!”. Tears formed in his eyes, and he ripped open the remaining envelope, the one with the clue to find her, eager to get to his girlfriend.

“The place where we made this happen.”

It should have been harder, but the past three months had been hectic for them, full of cases to work on, so Dean and Y/N hadn’t exactly had time for themselves, much less time together. Given the circumstances, it wasn’t hard to point the exact moment they last had sex. Fair enough, once he walked in the garage again, he saw his beautiful girlfriend seated on the hood of his car with her legs crossed. He rushed his pace to finally get to her and, before she could get out a single word, he kissed her passionately, running his hands down her back as hers caressed his face.

“Y/N/N.” Dean sighed, “You- you are- I mean, you-” he stuttered, but she interrupted him, giggling.

“I’m pregnant.” she completed and started rambling nervously, “And I know you’ll probably be scared, and I know we’ve talked about this before, and we’ve said it’s not fair to bring a baby into the hunting life, but now that is actually happening I truly believe we can make it work.”

“Y/N/N, hey.” he stopped her, placing his calloused hands of both of her shoulders, “It’s a shock, alright, and I’m worried about being a parent with our line of work. But if anyone can make it work, that’s us.”

“You really think that?” her eyes filled with hope and excitement.

“Of course I do.” Dean nodded, “Like you said, fear won’t come between us, and we’re going to face this together.”

“I thought you were going to panic.” Y/N let out a nervous laugh.

“Don’t get me wrong, I’m freaking terrified.” he admitted, “But I’m happy. It’ll be a challenge, I mean, raising a baby is a whole new level, but we’re in this together, and there’s no one I rather do this with. I love you.”

“I love you.” Y/N repeated, kissing her boyfriend once again as happy tears rolled down her face.

After a few more signs of affection between the couple, Dean pulled away from her, and stared at Y/N with amazement, saying what had been on his mind the whole morning, “How creative the way you let me know.”

“Did you like it?”

“Was that why you panicked when we found your Tumblr?” he chuckled.

“Pretty much, yeah.” she joined him, “That’s why I asked if you had only found my Tumblr, because I actually got the idea from Pinterest, and I didn’t want the surprise to be ruined.”

“Wait a second, you also have Pinterest?”

Y/N shrugged nonchalantly, “I told you, I get bored.”

“That’s a whole new level of boredom.”

“Hey, give credit where its due!” she playfully smacked his arm, “Thanks to Pinterest I was able to plan this hunt.”

“And it has been by far my favorite hunt.” Dean answered, with a permanent, silly grin on his face, “It’s the best surprise you could’ve given me, sweetheart.”

“Well, I’m glad you liked it, Winchester.”

“It’s the best Easter I’ve had.”

“I couldn’t agree more.”

“We’re really going to be parents, huh?”

“Yes, we are.” Y/N smiled widely at Dean’s enthusiasm.

“Then we better start making some preparations and adjustments.”

“Dean, the baby isn’t coming in at least seven months!” she exclaimed, laughing hysterically when he lifted her up from the car and spun her around.

“But I want to be completely prepared for when he or she gets here.” he let her down on the floor again and started heading for the door, “I’m gonna go tell Sammy he’s going to be an uncle!”

As Y/N watched the love of her life walking away, she shook her head and chuckled to herself under her breath. Yeah, maybe they’d had some rough patches, but she wouldn’t trade them for anything.

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