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GARDA — Emergency App for Deaf. What is the problem?
Tags: Product Owner, Product Development, Leadership, Product Management

Engage

Our team was assembled because we were choose Disabled Community. Most of us were interested in this community not only because we want to learn more about accessibility, but also we want to make this world more accessible. So, together we’ve voted and decided to “Help disabled community to solve their problems or issues”.

Before we moved to the next phase, we were created a team agreement. This can help us defines our expectations for each other. Our operating parameters and the ways in which we will define success at the end of the project. The very first thing I wrote on our team agreement was: Everyone should not only be on the same page but also involved on design decisions.

And here, I proudly tell you about my team members:

Aji Saputra Raka Siwi

Technical Lead

I was working with him from the previous challenge until the final challenge. Since he is working as an IOS Developer, he always share his knowledge and teach our team members Swift, including me. He also make sure everyone in our team follow the coding rules and write a clean code.

Edo Lorenza

Coder

We were team mate for a week on our first time in Academy and I worked with him again in this challenge and in the final challenge alongside with Aji. He is not only smart and creative, but also really fun to work with.

Eko Cahyo

Product Design Lead

He is really good at product design. He is not also good at implementing text, colours, and images in a way that enhances a design or interaction, but also an initiator. You can always count on him to give you honest, direct feedback and ideas from an outside perspective.

Ranty Pratiwi

Designer

Our positive agent that always carries a positive attitude no matter what happens. The most important thing from Ranty is Reliable.

Adeline Marvel

Designer

The youngest one that always bring joy to our team. She has a lot of energy and optimistic, she never letting negativity get the better of her.
Drawing The 2018 Women’s March
By: Liza Donnelly
Tags: Womens March, Feminism, Politics, Gender Equality, Womens Rights

Drawing The 2018 Women’s March

More than 200,00 people marched and I drew a few

I arrived at the Women’s March in NYC around 10:30am and easily moved to the press area. There was a buzz of activity and musicians were onstage testing equipment. I had seen protesters — many with signs and pink hats — on the subway on my way to Columbus Circle, but the area was not crowded yet.

A volunteer who was so cheerful, it was clear she would never need or want to use her megaphone.

I interviewed this mother and daughter pair

While I waited for the speakers to begin, I interviewed a mother and daughter standing next to me, and the video of me drawing them along with audio interview can be seen here.

As soon as the program began, the area got very crowded. I was able to draw the first speakers, but soon was unable to draw anymore because it was too crowded. And it was freezing, my hand wouldn’t really function until it warmed up.

Opening speakers of the rally

I left the stage area and after warming up in a cafe, began walking around. Columbus Circle was amass with people, most of whom appeared to be there for the march. Traffic was nowhere to be seen, and baracades attempted to keep people contained to certain areas. I overheard someone say the marchers were backed up to 84th street (Columbus Circle is at 59th). They were waiting for the marching to begin once the speaker part of the rally was over.

I wandered around somewhat aimlessly, looking for interesting subjects to draw. I stumbled on a table set-up for children to draw and write signs for the protest.

And saw a family with very enthusiastic daughters holding signs. They posed for me.

There were signs everywhere, and I tried to chose the ones that were more positive in nature. As I saw it, the march was about a variety of concerns: extreme disagreement with President Trump, hope and desire for women’s and girls’ rights, a call to get out the vote and a call to elect more women to public office. One woman just stood in the middle of the street and held her sign for a long time. Another group of young women expressed their strong feelings, chanting and holding their signs about the importance of diversity in the women’s movement.
Ontology & Muzika Joins hands in a Strategic Partnership on DApp Development
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Music Business, Ontology, Blockchain Technology, News

Muzika, a decentralized blockchain music ecosystem and Ontology, a new high-performance public multi-chain project, have announced our partnership on the blockchain-based development in Muzika ecosystem, using Ontology technical infrastructure.

Ontology, based in Shanghai of China, regarded as Asia’s Ethereum (ETH), is a $700 million blockchain platform who aims at taking over the place of third parties and intermediaries in Internet transactions.

The strategic partnership reaches beyond technological cooperation where Muzika ecosystem is structured and built on Ontology Blockchain. Both parties agreed to closely partner together in many aspects including, but not limited to, technology, marketing, community operation and product development, etc.

Inseo Chung, CEO of Muzika, spoke highly of this partnership:

“Muzika is creating a truly decentralized digital music ecosystem for all the parties within the digital music space, pushing the distance between the parties closer and in more structurally innovative way than ever. In the quest for the successful implementation of our blockchain-based platform and incentivized structure, our strategic alliance with Ontology will be a tremendous step forward. With Ontology as our strategic partner and powerful ally, we will together envision and enable a meaningful transition of the digital music world.”

Speaking on Ontology’s partnership with Muzika, Founder of Ontology LI Jun said:
FrontSpot Digest #221 (ENG)
Tags: JavaScript, Web Development, Angular, React, Software Development

How to build microfrontends with React, оfficial styleguide from Redux team, CSS architecture for modern JS apps, how to improve performance of your Angular SPA and other hot news from the frontend world.
IOTA to be added on next CoinHub release!
By: Raj Kadam
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Iota

The next version of CoinHub, with Secure Portfolio, will include IOTA. For those that don’t remember, IOTA is pretty innovative distributed ledger technology that plays well the distributed devices and services.

IOTA has been on a tear lately and a lot of users have asked for it to be added. IOTA on CoinHub will be available later this month.

What about community?

On the community side, we have decided to add /r/iota and /r/iotamarkets. If you wish to have your IOTA sub-reddit added to CoinHub’s IOTA dashboard, feel free to join us on Telegram and let us know.

When will it be released?

CoinHub, with Secure Portfolio, will be released later on in December. You can follow us on Twitter or join us in our Telegram channel for updates.
The 5 Most Popular Cooking With Sarah Posts
By: Aaron Charles
Tags: Life Lessons, Cooking, Food, Letters, Marriage

Hello everyone!

I hope you are all enjoying summer as it (sniffle) winds down. Sarah and I have been quite busy, but we’ve also been so blessed to find some downtime to spend together. As we’ve had time to sit back and reflect on Cooking With Sarah, we can’t help but be absolutely blown away by how amazing you all are. We just passed 1,500 followers on the publication, which is still hard to believe! Since some of you may be new to the group, we thought it might be nice to see where we’ve been. It’s been quite a ride so far! So, with that, here are the 5 most read posts from Cooking With Sarah…

Recipe 6: Brinner, Y’all! — In this recipe, Sarah shows you how we made breakfast…for dinner. Our meal included banana pancakes, bacon and eggs. Check out the recipe and try it yourself! Week 1: Enjoying Simple Moments — This is where it all started. We decided that we wanted to start spending more intentional time together when we weren’t just staring at our phones. So we started cooking together. And we found that simple moments hold great power and even greater joy. Welcome to Cooking With Sarah — We want everyone who comes to our publication to feel at home. Like they’ve just come in from a long, hard day at work to find a piping hot meal on the table. We want you to feel welcome. This post explains the heart behind our publication, so that everyone is on the same page. We want to help others experience the joy of simple moments shared with those you love. Week 3: Chopping and Mixing — When you’re cooking, there’s always another way to help. That’s a valuable lesson to learn early on in marriage, and I saw that lesson in action this week. Sometimes, cooking also involves getting your hands dirty. Oh, I saw that too! Bonus Recipe #5: Strawberry Dump Cake — You. Have. To. Try. This. Sarah’s Strawberry Dump Cake is quite possibly the best dessert I’ve ever had. It was amazing! You can check out the recipe above and try making it yourself. I highly recommend it!

Whether you’ve been following along this whole time or you’re new to the publication, I encourage you to go check those posts out. It’s amazing to see where we started and now where we are. That’s all because of you! Without you reading these posts, we would not be here. So thank you so much! We appreciate you more than we can express. We wish all of you the best as you enjoy simple moments with the ones you love.

— Aaron and Sarah Charles

P.S. Did you know Cooking With Sarah is on Instagram now? Check out all the cool photos from our cooking adventures! Just click the link below.
2次元にもメイクできちゃう！？女性キャライラストの個性を引き立たせる5つのメイクアップアイデア | いちあっぷ講座
By: Yuko Fukushima
Tags: Drawing Lessons, Drawing Tutorial, Illustration

in Both Sides of the Table
Unfolding December
By: Nidhi Agrawal
Tags: Writing, Poetry, Fiction, Love, Creative Writing

Unfolding December

Feelings that linger long after the kiss is over.

A/Typography by the author.

I

Love slips through the corner of my eyes and

slips into his mouth,

I beg him to activate his taste buds.

II

There is a shade between orange and pink

in his colour palette

where my arteries plummet and

start to pump millions of roses

in my bloodstream.

III

Our bodies worked together

in the garden and the orchards,

the demeanour of animals is

put to remorse.

The collision began with a bud and

culminated in a flower child.
Happy Holidays & December Recap from Stan World
By: Peter Jung
Tags: Virtual Reality, Updates, Christmas, Holidays, VR

Here is a recap of some milestones that were hit this month.

We have published the 7th entry of an ongoing series in our Fanthropology analysis — The Study of Fans and IP’s (Stars & Brands) and their impact and potential in Stan World. Check the articles out here. Our mobile app reached+10k installs and top 5 in 10 countries for the free app category within the first week of launch. You can read more about it here. Our article has been featured on the front page of Hacker Noon! We have published a post on how we will scale with AI machine learning. You may read about it here. We have updated our MVP app demo and are now available for view on iOS, Android and Oculus. Check it out here. Confirmed Youtuber TonyVToons who has 777k subscribers on Youtube!

To those that have been following us: Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Look out for more updates from us in 2020!
The Simplicity of One
Tags: Blog, Solo, Writing Prompt Response, Photography, August

Welcome to August!

What does that mean to you? Here in Florida, August is a heavy month — bulky with heat and humidity, overrun with weeds and vines, slow and cumbersome, wet and weighted.

August is July’s chubby sibling. The couch-potato month. The month when we want to slow down, even when we can’t.

And, to me, August is the month of one.

In a pandemic-less year, May would be crowded with graduations, June with weddings, July with family reunions and vacations. And, August would be the month of let’s send the visitors home and lock the door, let’s hibernate in air-conditioning and Netflix or binge-read.

Let’s be one — just, one — well, maybe, two — I wouldn’t want to be without the Captain, after all!

Let’s be less. Let’s be fewer.

Our backyard wildlife has dwindled. Where did they go? To the mountains for the remaining summer? To the beach? I don’t know. But, we are feeding fewer squirrels and ducks and, at this moment, no crows.

We have a black-bellied whistling duck we named Uno. Whistlers cluster. They gather and congregate and fuss and fume. But, not Uno. Uno likes to be alone.

He is the only lone whistler that I’ve seen. He shies away from his raucous relatives, avoiding their never-ending family feuds. He prefers eating alone and close to our patio and, sometimes, on our patio. He is the only introverted whistler that I know. And, he seems perfectly happy flying solo.
New Discord Channel for InfoSec Enthusiasts
By: Anangsha Alammyan
Tags: Infosec, Hacking, Community, Discord, Reverse Engineering

For the purpose of making the communication easier and discussing technical details along with other relevant information of related write-ups, we created a Discord channel. The aim is to share knowledge in the community and keep the discussion going on.

Here is the link to join: https://discord.gg/4DZpgvV

We are hoping that this would be a step forward in our journey towards learning new and cool InfoSec concepts.

The two key features of the new Discord Channel are:

There are separate channels for discussion on various topics — like general updates,bug bounty, capture the flag, hardware hacking, reverse engineering, social engineering and job opportunities among several others. This, along with the option of directly messaging eminent hackers in the group helps in making the discussion more focused and lively. To ensure the discussion keeps going on, members who haven’t been active in the lat 30 days would be automatically pruned. We are more focused on quality than quantity. Of course, if they are interested, they can click on the invite link to log in again.

So what are you waiting for? The Discord channel is already 900+ members strong. Go ahead and be a part of the largest community of InfoSec enthusiasts online!
a narrow arrow
By: Alexander Nagel
Tags: Poetry, Spirituality

wraps around a tree

rather than piercing

the heart;

wrought of wood, no less,

yet far less hard

than its target;

bending; never buckling;

always snapping back

to find its mark.
Meditating while driving
By: Bruce Stambaugh
Tags: Travel, Civil War, History, Meditation, Outdoors

When I drive alone, I often meditate.

It’s not what you might think. I don’t close my eyes, of course. I enjoy the peace and the time alone to think.

I don’t forget about driving. It would be both foolish and dangerous to do so.

I try to allow extra time for a more leisurely drive. I avoid superhighways. Backroads are my preference because I never know when I might need to stop to take a few photos of the fantastic scenery that Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley affords.

Unlike my younger years, I drive silently. No radio, no CDs playing. I enjoy the quiet unless the road surface is too rough. Then I take in the music that my tires sing to the tune over the various macadam surface textures. The octaves change by the mile.

I’ll use the GPS when I have to. Once I know the way, however, I am on my own, like the other day when I had a doctor’s appointment 35 miles away.

I left nearly two hours before my 2 p.m. appointment. Besides a couple of brief planned stops, I knew there would be photo opportunities along the way. I had been that route before.
Maintaining My Hip Skeleton Vigorous, Active and Cultured
By: Francine Fallara
Tags: Inspiration, Life Lessons, Poetry, One Line, Covid 19

Isolated in confinement, maintaining my hip skeleton vigorous, active and cultured, I have no actual right to whine observing countless misfortunes in life greater than living under a comfortable roof.

Francine Fallara, 2020

As we approach Remembrance Day*, I thought our present ‘sacrifice’ to stay at home safe was a complete joke compared to the prior generations who fought in all kind of wars. I could not justify any form of validation to any of the complaints I here about our social distancing isolation confinements we have to live once again with Covid-19 second wave. And so, I am choosing, like the first wave, the chill and retreat approach. Resilience is key to survive through anything we cannot control.

*Remembrance Day, November 11th, is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.
Happy Birthday, Alexa: An Educators Reflection on this 5 Year Old
By: Julie Daniel Davis
Tags: Echo Dot Kids, Student Privacy, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Voiceedu

Five. That’s not very old for a new paradigm. It’s been a bloody cutting edge tool for educators. Some of us educators have been along for the bumps, bruises, and growing pains. Just like a mama and daddy, we’ve encouraged, suggested, worked with your limits, and smiled at your accomplishments. We are proud to say “Alexa, you have such potential!”

Last week, I had the opportunity to call the Alexa help desk to ask a few questions about the Kids Edition Echo Dot. I’ve mulled over the conversation for several days now trying to process everything I took in. Big thankful shout out to James and Diana of Amazon that I kept on the line way longer than I should have. My question related to this graphic I pulled up on the Amazon website when contemplating the buy between the Echo Dot and the Echo Dot Kids Edition:

I always assumed that I could only filter on the Echo Dot Kids Edition because of FreeTime. I am happy to say that the “leveled age access” filtering is still part of the Echo Dot Kids Edition even if you choose not to continue purchasing FreeTime. To me, this is a big deal. I want to be able to filter access based on the age of a student. I feel like that is an important part of being CIPA compliant. But what does that mean? By enabling FreeTime, an Echo Dot Kids Edition device is COPPA compliant because of the parent dashboard which prevents children from enabling skills by themselves and only allows access to skills that are labeled “kids skills.” If you let FreeTime lapse, the Echo Dot Kids Edition will still protect your child from hearing the explicit version of “Apple Bottom Jeans” based on the age filter but it might let that child hear the non-explicit version of that song because FreeTime is no longer only offering kid friendly music like iHeart Radio Family.
Why I Set Unforgiving Goals
By: Elan Cassandra
Tags: This Happened To Me, Ideas, Life Lessons, Goals, Advice

Honestly, I almost allowed myself not to publish anything again today. I’m tired and overfull, and I just don’t feel like it.

And that’s a real problem with this sort of goal.

Something with such a clear yes/no success metric as “publish every day in December” makes it easy to say, well, I’ve already messed it up so what does it matter if I skip another day?

But here I am, typing away at my laptop, so I obviously didn't allow it to completely derail me.

Still, the question remains, why the hell would I do that to myself? Why would I set myself up with a goal that could so easily be interpreted as “ruined” by the slightest slip-up?

1. I need to grow the f*ck up

Indulging feelings of upset and failure over small imperfections is a recipe for unhappiness.

In case you’re someone like me who needs to hear this…

Things that are imperfect aren’t automatically ruined.

Now, do I feel that way sometimes? Yes! I’m the person who sees a 99 out of 100 and wants to freak the hell out. I f*cking hate that sh*t.

But that’s not cool. That’s not a pleasant or helpful way to approach life

So I guess you could say that I’m setting myself up with the likelihood of some version of “failure” in order to make myself deal with it.

Masochistic? A bit.

2. It gets me out of bed in the morning

As someone with depression, I need an extra push to feel motivated. For me, goals that feel challenging feel worth doing in a way that other goals or activities don’t.

And yeah, obviously I’m an over-achiever. (I chose the Whitehouse for my model house project in second grade, and I make about fifteen separate dishes on Thanksgiving every year.)

I need to feel like I’m doing something big — something maybe even a bit crazy.

Would publishing an article 5 times a week be a worthy achievement? Sure. But it wouldn’t be crazy, and it’s just not going to get me going and keep me going.

What it all comes down to is this:

I set unforgiving goals because, for now…

3. It’s the best choice for me

When I set goals, I take what I know about myself, and I use it.

Yes, I understand that there are pitfalls to such an unforgiving goal as one that requires me to do something every single day. I know the downsides.

But it’s been a good month — a really good month, even if I did mess up yesterday.

So no, I’m not suggesting that everyone set unforgiving goals.

That would be stupid.

My real advice? Do what works best for you

Yes, do your research; get to know what SMART goals are, and read all the articles on why New Year’s resolutions so often fail.

But at the end of the day, you are (or should be) the expert on yourself.

So take all the information you have on what has and hasn’t worked for you in the past, what motivates you, what discourages you, and develop a plan just for you.

Sure, the experts know a lot. But they don’t know you.
Find Product Market Fit with our new Segment integration
By: Nathan Ganser
Tags: Analytics, Segment, Product Market Fit

No need to repeat it, as a startup founder, you know that you’ve got to talk to users.

Only, it’s not that easy…

Which users should you talk to?

Where do you keep track of what your users tell you?

Which users are your super-users?

Which users are fading away?

We know that this is a problem because we’re experiencing it ourselves. As a startup, we’ve been struggling to keep up with the right users and optimize for learning. Luckily, we’re already building a smart automated CRM, so we just had to do a few changes to build the perfect app to find product-market fit!

Plug-in with Segment

As our beta users can testify, if you already use Segment, integrating your Nat account with Segment is a matter of seconds.

Once you do, we’ll start to import customer actions into Segment. Many CRM apps already do this, and there isn’t that much value in doing so.. unless you have a smart AI!

Initially, we built our AI to determine how in touch a user is with his contacts, but it works as well to determine how in touch a user is with a startup! Our app will analyze your data and determine trends: which users have kept using the app regularly, which ones dropped off, and so on.

The colour bars show you which users are fading away (in red) and which users are super-users (in green)

Add Gmail

Website data is only one thing. But when you add your company email account that you use to reach out to users, you start to get a pretty complete image of your interactions with users.

Demo of our app

Check out this 1-minute demo to see how our app works in action.
8 Small Things to Do When You Return from Vacation
By: Jake Daghe
Tags: Health, Travel, Travel Tips, Vacation, Gratitude

Do you want to have great vacations? Of course you do. I’ve never met a single person who goes on vacation to have a bad time.

However, most people unknowingly compromise the quality of their vacations by failing to think about what happens when they return back to their day-to-day lives. Going from the beach back to the office can be a jarring change of pace, so you need a plan. Because no matter how great your trip is, how you finish your vacation will leave a stronger imprint in your mind about the quality of that vacation as a whole.

When asked about the quality of their vacation, I’ve recently been hearing people say this phrase: “I feel like I need a vacation from my vacation.”

Maybe you’ve said something similar to this. While many factors contribute to this feeling, such as overcrowded itineraries and a higher percentage of travel days per vacation than in the past, one of the leading determinants of feeling unrested and unaligned after a vacation is neglecting your re-entry strategy.

The eight steps below are not the entire playbook for re-entering day-to-day life after a vacation, nor are they in the exact order that will render them entirely applicable to your life.

Instead, these are suggestions that you can take and craft into your own time-tested strategy.

The next time you get back from vacation, have a plan in place for how you’re going to end it. Failing to end your vacation well is similar to failing to pack on the front end. The results are unhelpful and often disastrous for your trip.
孤獨先生：Angel Olsen
Tags: Oldies, 中文, 翻唱, 音樂, Indie

今天應該是孤獨與寂寞的一天



來聽 Angel Olsen 重新詮釋 1962 年老歌〈Mr. Lonely〉

多年來我一直在找這首歌最棒的翻唱，現在終於出現了啊！

Lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely

I have nobody for my own

Lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely

Wish I had someone to call on the phone

Now I am a soldier, a lonely soldier

Away from home through no wish of my own

That’s why I’m lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely

I wish that I could go back home

Letters, never a letter

I get no letters in the mail

I’ve been forgotten, yes, forgotten

Oh, how I wonder, how is it I failed?

Now I am a soldier, a lonely soldier

Away from home through no wish of my own

That’s why I’m lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely

I wish that I could go back home
Imagery update for February 2019: What’s new in Google Earth
By: Google Earth
Tags: Google, Google Earth, Super Bowl, Google Maps, Satellite Technology

By Eric Kolb and Matt Manolides, Google Imagery team

It’s a new year, and we’re excited to be adding more great imagery to Google Earth and Google Maps. Because we’re often asked about the age of our imagery and how often it’s updated, here’s a summary of what we’ve been up to recently.

New 3D imagery: Ready for some (American) football?

In the past several months, we’ve added new high-resolution 3D imagery for nearly 190 cities and metro areas, covering nearly 32 million people. Some of our favorites include Liverpool, England, home of the Fab Four; Supertree Grove in Singapore, featured in the movie “Crazy Rich Asians”; and just in time for Sunday’s Super Bowl kickoff, new imagery of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia

In case you missed it, we announced a new layer in Google Earth that shows you the cities and towns where we have 3D imagery available. Check it out in Google Earth.

Other new locales in 3D:

Croatia: Split, Zagreb

Germany: Essen, Magdeburg

Norway: Trondheim

Poland: Bydgoszcz, Oswiecim

Sweden: Uppsala

USA: Allen Hills, North Carolina; Carbondale, Illinois; Crystal Lake, Illinois; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Santa Ana, California; San Antonio, Texas

UK: Cardiff, England; Glasgow, Scotland; Kingston-upon-Hull, England; Lilford, England; Liverpool, England

New satellite imagery

Since last we checked in, we’ve updated or added enough satellite and aerial (2D) imagery to cover more than 2.4 billion people across the planet. Explore new imagery for Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen; Mykonos in Greece; and parts of Puerto Rico, including San Juan. Tip: Turn off the 3D toggle in Google Earth to view our freshest 2D imagery around the globe.

Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen

Until next time, keep exploring and enjoy the view!
Deploying to On-Prem Server with using Azure DevOps — Pipelines
By: Aybars Arslan
Tags: Azure Pipelines, Azure Devops, On Premise, Ci Cd Pipeline, Continues Deployment

For a long time, I am thinking to share my development experiences 📋. After all this desire and the pandemic time (COVID-19 #StayHome), I decided to share my Azure DevOps on-prem deployment experience. 💪

Azure DevOps is a platform that helping to improve SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

In this article, we will use Azure Pipelines while creating our automated deployment.

Basically, Azure DevOps teams define Azure Pipelines as ‘Build, test, and deploy with CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud.’

Here, I will explain how to create build and release pipeline at Azure DevOps and deploy your code to the on-premises server
[Release Notes] uPrism.io Meetings V1.4.3(중요) 👏
Tags: 유프리즘아이오, Release N Updates, 화상회의, 유프리즘, Video Conferencing

in Both Sides of the Table
Large Dynamically Generated Forms in React — Part 4
By: Stuart Casarotto
Tags: Forms, JavaScript, Performance, React, Testing

For each implementation, I collected 50 data points by entering keystrokes and waiting for the page to render. I attempted to do this while keeping my computer under similar load (not sure this would make any difference). Feel free to view this data here.

*It’s worth noting that I don’t know how React profiler or React Components work at a deep level. It is very possible that these tests are not indicative of what people will see in the wild with more complex components and as such my results should be taken with a grain of salt.

Some Observations

While running these tests it was interesting to see the amount that Chrome and the React profiler changed in responsiveness. While attempting to create this data I repeatedly crashed the React profile, specifically when it came to the Separated Component without Context implementation. What I found even more shocking was that both Chrome and the React Profile performed smoothly with the hooks implementation. I don’t know the reason for this but it does get me excited to see what sort of performance difference people see when 16.7 lands with hooks.

The Results

All In One Component — 72.46 ms

Separated Component No Context — 104.56 ms

Separated Component With Context — 62.12 ms

Hooks With Context — 57.60 ms

Render Times (ms) by Implementation Type

Let’s talk about what we see here. As we move from an all-in-one component to separate components the render time increases. This is somewhat expected because React has to traverse the entire component tree but I was surprised by how much it increased.

Once we moved our form state to context we start to see some improvements (~15%) over our all-in-one component.

When implemented with hooks we saw an improvement of about ~20% as compared to the all-in-one component. This is interesting because when hooks were announced there were comments about it possibly being slower in some respects than a class implementation.

Ultimately there is a lot more work that can be done here but these were defiantly some interesting results
Meaning
By: Rebecca Thomas
Tags: Writing, Feminism, Poetry, Women, Life

Ouch illustration

the woman who cuts my hair says

she thinks of me

as someone who built a rich life

without having children

this amuses me

What is a woman

if not

a world unto herself?
Is Black Friday Ruining Thanksgiving?
By: Kevin Canaber
Tags: Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Shopping, Holiday

When we think of Thanksgiving, we think of turkey and gravy served on a dinner table surrounded by gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pecan pie. We think of family and friends ringing the doorbell to join the party. We think of dressing nice and taking pictures and having delightful conversations. But what we are not used to thinking about is ending Thanksgiving at 5 pm to stop and get ready for work. Now when we think of Thanksgiving, we think of Black Friday

College students might think more of Black Friday than any other demographic. It is part of the culture. Whether or not you choose to go shopping, or if you have to come to work to serve shoppers, or if you have family members rally people to shop too, Black Friday conversations makes its way to the party. This “holiday” which was once an intimate, calm family event is going the commercial route at full speed, gaining speed, showing no signs of stopping.

Is It Worth It?

You would think the commotion for Black Friday, the people camping out in front of stores 24 hours our beforehand in the blistering cold, means insane deals, bargains, and giveaways, but that is not the case. A careful look at the promotional copy and calling in stores, managers will reveal the discounts are not extraordinary, in fact, they may be typical of last week or some weeks earlier. Employers know the craze of Black Friday guarantees the traffic to the store, so there is really no need to anymore to lure people with crazy discounts. People will camp out for 20% off of a product which was available for the same discount last month. Fast forward to last year, people clock in at 7 pm the Thursday before. Employers are now treating it as Black Friday all week, starting promotions as early as Monday. A weeklong promo for Black Friday. With Black Friday getting more and more hyped and commercialize, the ultimate question is will Thanksgiving survive Black Friday?
More To Life
By: Jj West
Tags: Life Lessons, Poetry, Love, Dating, Relationships

Love reading haiku? Then go on, read a few!

Or try reading something longer too:

Want to be the first to pick up what I’m putting down? Click this link to slip inside my inner circle for updates on new articles, stories, poetry, and anything else I’ve got goin’ on.
A Name Before Death
By: Joshua Ehlers
Tags: Death, Short Story, Fiction, The Junction, Existentialism

Image Credit: Amey Kandalgaonkar (http://ameykphotography.com)

Sometimes you just need to sit down. In front of a TV, in front of a computer, in a chair under the only light in your one-room apartment, where you sit doesn’t matter. That’s not the point. It’s what you think about when you sit.

Do you sit and think about death? Or is it your life’s failures — those that continually haunt you — who finally have a chance to speak to you, alone. Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who can sit and think about nothing, and can recall no trauma.

For as different as we all are, whether you think negatively or positively, there is one thing that unifies us: we die. It’s a theme talked about over and over and over again in fiction and non-fiction and memoirs and poems and real-life and so on and so on.

Death was on Frank’s mind just before he slumped over, dead, in his recliner. He was 67. It was a massive coronary. If he’d only waited one more year, someone might have been there to care about him. His neighbor tried to look upset as paramedics wheeled Frank’s body away from his small home. They’d never met, even though they lived next to one another for three years.

That same neighbor, name of Martin, died 20 years later at the age of 53. He was checking his phone when a brick fell from construction scaffolding five stories up. It hit him square in the head, caving his skull and turning his brain into mush. He didn’t feel a thing.

Alicia, only a few feet away from Martin, couldn’t believe what just happened. She screamed, then she ran. An express bus, running unsurprisingly late, hit her as she sprinted across the street. Death, however, did not find her immediately. No, her family kept her on life support for six years while the reaper waited in the wings. Finally, a freshly-hired nurse decided to speed things along.

June, the aforementioned nurse, removed Alice from this world. She was the tenth person June had saved in two months. Now she found herself standing on top of the hospital staring death itself in the face. Twenty-four floors of hopelessness beneath her, and yet her mission ended after saving a mere ten of them. The roof’s access door slammed open. They screamed for her to put her hands above her head, to get on her knees. Instead she flew, like all angels, though her wings were clipped.

Elias, recently unemployed and alone in his suburban apartment, read about Alice on his computer. He was listening to the newest release by “Birthed By Demons”, his favorite electronic band, and didn’t hear the man enter his room. Didn’t see the gun pointed at his head, nor did he feel the bullet as it exited his left eye and entered the computer monitor.

Two cities away, a woman with no name gave birth to a daughter. She named her Kate, and the two of them would live a peaceful life together. Nothing bad befell them, and neither had a worry in the world. It was refreshing to see such a wonderful duo as they navigated the world.

Twenty-six years later, Kate sat down at her mother’s funeral and thought about death for the first time.
Did I Waste My Time Spending 30 Days Writing 30 Poems?
By: Gregory D. Welch
Tags: Writing, Life Lessons, Poetry, Self, Life

My reads were up, my engagement promising, and I felt in tune with who I am as a poet and writer. It brought me to life as only the act of creating something can. And not just the poems either, but the bigger collection of poetry, and the life that fed the poems. Inspiration fed inspiration.

But, plot twist, I wasn’t being paid much for any of the poems I had written. I felt, on some level, I had sacrificed these poems — what I publish on the blog is treated as published material and as such, many markets won’t even consider them. Does this matter? Should it? I think it does, on some level.

Money isn’t everything and it shouldn't be the first, second, or third thing for a writer, but it is still a valid thing. We work, we write, we pour ourselves into our projects, and even though we would happily do this work with or without money, we still have a rightful expectation for pay. Our bills and hunger tell us so, if nothing else will.

Am I wasting my poems by writing them on here and on social media?

I had sacrificed something of the potential of each of the poems I put out there. Doomed them to a future of being reprints, at best. Ghosts caught in the machinery of the internet, haunting the digital corners an alleyways of our online lives.

But is that so bad?

These poems were being read. They were reaching people. They were evoking a response, connecting an resonating. Is that the stuff of doomed poetry, second-rate stuff? Or is that the true meaning and purpose of poetry to start with?
How Sobriety Becomes Easier Than Addiction
By: Benya Clark
Tags: Sobriety, Mental Health, Recovery, Self Improvement, Addiction

Addiction is hard

In the midst of my addiction, it felt like I was taking the easy path by continuing to drink.

In retrospect, I can see that my heavy drinking was making every aspect of my life more difficult than it needed to be.

Drinking was ruining my finances. Day by day, it seemed like I was only spending a few dollars on alcohol. Month by month, those few dollars added up to hundreds. Year by year, the hundreds became thousands.

It’s no exaggeration to say that over the course of my lifetime, I spent tens of thousands of dollars on booze. How much easier could those years have been if I hadn’t been putting that insane strain on my wallet?

Drinking was also getting in the way of my friendships and relationships. Alcohol is often called a “social lubricant,” but for me, it mostly got in the way. I couldn’t make real connections because I only learned how to talk to people when I had been drinking. I often avoided going out because I was embarrassed by my own drunkenness.

By the final years of my active addiction, alcohol had invaded every facet of my life. I was scheduling my time around drinking, and even when I was sober I could feel alcohol’s lingering effects in the form of hangovers and fatigue.

Perhaps worst of all: my addiction got harder and harder to live with as time went on.
JavaScript Auto Linting in VSCode
Tags: Clean Code, Vscode, Javscript, Linter, Software Development

Note: Recommended to have eslint installed on your VSCode.

Setup

$ npm install -g eslint

# Or for yarn users

$ yarn global add eslint

Now create your .eslintrc file

ESLint --init

Tell them why you need lint?

Now this will create something like this in your project

Add folder or files that don't need lint check. Create file named .eslintignore in root.

// .eslintignore node_modules/

**/node_modules/

.webpack/

.vscode/settings.json

coverage/

Manual Linting

Linting in Action in my App.js File

Now hit cmd+shift+P and it will open this

Hit Fix all Auto-Fixable problem

Now my file looks like this. Much Better.
#DrewsViews: Five Signs You Should Take a Break
Tags: Health, Mental Health, Advocacy, Burnout, LGBTQ

Mental health should always come first, but since the spring semester is really starting to pick up, more and more I’m seeing my friends get burned out. I think it’s often overlooked in activism circles and social justice group discussions, but overburdening yourself and becoming overwhelmed and burned out is a real problem for young people today. While it can be easy to forget about your own wellbeing while focusing on issues you care about, or just living your life, burn out can catch up with you at any time if you aren’t careful. Here are my top 5 signs that might indicate that you are nearing burn out and need to take a break.

1. Passion running out

You should feel passionate about whatever you are working on, especially in activism. If your passion or motivation has run out, you might want to take a step back and rest so that you can rekindle your passion and come back reenergized!

2. Fatigue, both mental and physical

If you feel constantly exhausted, even after a good night’s rest, to a point where you want to slack on your responsibilities, you might want to take a break!

3. Irritability

If you find yourself snapping at the people around you, raising your voice more often than usual, or getting easily overwhelmed and frustrated, you might want to take a day off.

4. Dread

This goes along with the others but I think it is distinct enough to warrant it’s own number. If you find yourself dreading completing whatever task you need to complete, more than you normally procrastinate, you might want to take a break. Similarly, if you don’t want to go to bed for fear of waking up to your responsibilities, or dread waking up at all, then you probably should check in with yourself and see what you need different.

5. People telling you to take a break

You might think this one is self explanatory, but I can’t tell you the number of people in my workplace and friend circles who we all know are overloading themselves, but they refuse to admit it. If your friends are worried about you, asking if you are okay, or expressing concerns for your wellbeing, you might need to take a break more than you realize. Put your trust in your friends and listen to them.
To Brave the Night Without Fear
By: Tre L. Loadholt
Tags: Poetry, LGBTQ, Bisexual, Haibun, Night

To Brave the Night Without Fear

A Haibun

Photo by Artur Aldyrkhanov via Unsplash

Lightning struck as soon as we stepped outside. The sky was angry. It spat what looked to be fire at us — screeched at the top of its lungs. We’d offended it — the order of things had been knocked unbalanced. We held hands — hers in mine — his in hers. We skipped away from danger — ran away from harm. No one would hurt us anymore. No one would ever want to.

Three lovers in sin

Fought tooth and nail for freedom

Braving the dark night
If You Want to Be Extraordinary, Spend Less Time on Your Phone
By: Eva Keiffenheim
Tags: Success, Inspiration, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Advice

“Ordinary people seek entertainment. Extraordinary people seek education and learning.” — Benjamin Hardy

Yet, most people can’t seek education and learning because they live in constant distraction. They’re distracted at this moment. Their attention is always diverted: when they’re at work, when they exercise, or when they’re with their families. These people are even distracted while brushing their teeth.

And the ordinary majority will continue to live a distracted life, never experiencing the rewards of a life filled with meaningful work and human connection.

Most people spend four hours on their phones every day. They prioritize distraction and entertainment over creation and learning. These people don’t care enough about success to change their habits. Yes, phones are incredible tools. But most people use them as life-shortening devices that distract them from living their best lives. Instead of learning and creating, they’re scrolling and reacting.

As a result, these people will never achieve real success. They never experience the depth of true friendships and keep stuck in mediocre jobs. Without even realizing it, they’re on the fast-track to unhappiness.

Cal Newport once said,

“What we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore — plays in defining the quality of our life.”

And it’s true. If you don’t want to end up wasting your life, stop focusing on your phone. Spending less time in front of your device is the fastest way to become extraordinary.

The Best Habits You Can Build

Here are some of my favorite habits that have enabled me to spend less time on my phone:

Make your mornings phone-free

Turn off all alerts and notifications

Use flight-mode whenever possible

Charge your phone outside of your bedroom

Get rid of social apps on your phone

The Worst Habits You Need to Break

Here are some of the worst behaviors to give away your life-time:

Waking up to your smartphone alarm

Using social media apps on your phone

Carrying your phone in your pocket

Relying on a mobile to-do list

Using your phone for entertainment

If you want to become extraordinary, you need to stop doing what everyone else is doing.

To unplug yourself from the matrix of social media and distraction, you need to get rid of certain behaviors.

Improving your smartphone habits is about what you do less of, not more of.
The Paper Moon
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Writing, Mental Health, Writing Life, Poetry, Self Love

The Paper Moon

Micropoetry about self-love

Photo by thomas brenac on Unsplash

My happiness is not dependent on others,

there’s a fine line which divides my world from yours.

I know how to seek that solace.

I know how to paste that paper moon

in the sky above.
Take the Time you Need
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Culture, Mindfulness, Self, Lifestyle, Relationships

When did you last have a no-holds-barred conversation with a fellow human?

How about the last unhurried hug you shared with a relative, a lover, a friend, or maybe even a stranger?

Do you sit down for dinner every night or do you mindlessly shovel junk food into your mouth because feeding is yet another task to be dealt with?

Even if you eat alone, preparing a healthful meal needn’t take long and setting the table for one can be an act of self-love if you put some thought into it.

Why not be the person you wish you could spend some quality time with and then do exactly that?

When I’m home in the US, I arrange my dinner into small bowls on a pretty tray and select suitable reading companionship because there’s no one to converse with.

To say that I eat alone wouldn’t be quite accurate though.

Trudeau, my tuxedo cat, always plops onto the chair next to mine and oversees human feeding proceedings. He does so selflessly, too, because there’s no plant on my plate that ever appeals to his exclusively carnivorous tastes.

Stateside, mine is a very isolated life in a house on top of a steep hill in an area underserved by public transportation. I work remotely, I do not have a driver’s license, and because major depressive disorder felled me almost as soon as I immigrated, I do not have a social network to speak of either.

But here in Europe, life plays out so differently it is the complete antithesis of how I survived from 2013 onwards on the other side of the Atlantic.