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When transitioning doesn’t cure internalized transphobia
By: Queer Kentucky
Tags: Self Improvement, LGBTQ, Queer, Love, Transgender

Thinking Queerly: A Series

The other day, someone misgendered me. Not to my face, but to my boyfriend. He said: “I hear you’re dating Adrian. Isn’t she trans? — or he — or whatever.”

My face was on fire as my boyfriend, a cis gay man, nervously relayed the story to me over the phone. Midway through, my thoughts started to spiral. How was I misgendered? I have a full beard, a flat chest, a deep voice, a masculine build. Does my boyfriend see me differently now? As less of a man? As more “trans” than “man?” As not a man at all?

“How did he even know I’m trans?” I finally responded. I was testing him. I knew I would be able to tell from his answer if his perception of me had changed. He passed the test. “I have no idea babe. Someone must have told him. Or he found your Thinking Queerly column. Or went through your status updates.” I relaxed a little. That the guy had simply clocked me — or figured out I was trans just by looking at me — wasn’t on the list of plausible theories. My boyfriend still saw me as cis-passing, a man who read as cis to the rest of the world.

But after I hung up the phone I was still troubled. Why did I care whether this random acquaintance had clocked me? And why was I so certain that my boyfriend would think less of me if he had?

Sometimes I think I’m comfortable and confident in my identity as a trans man, and then something happens, I “read the comments,” and my internalized transphobia rears its ugly head.

Most self-destructive behaviors serve some purpose. Internalized transphobia has helped me perform my gender according to cis standards, and thus win the approval of cis people. Society rewards trans people who pass as cis, and it punishes trans people who can’t, or don’t care to. This sends a clear message to trans people that cis is good, trans is bad.

On the one hand, I believe it’s my responsibility to eradicate my internalized transphobia — for one, because I’m responsible for taking care of myself, but also because my biases toward myself are also biases toward other trans people. On the other hand, I have to be careful, because to blame myself for my internalized transphobia is a form of victim-blaming. I need to be gentle with myself when I struggle, or when I’m triggered because some transphobe came out of the woodwork to remind me of all of the times I’ve been hurt, rejected, and made to feel inferior by cis people.

So I felt what I felt. And I forgave myself. And then I saw my reaction for what it was: a trauma response, and myself for what I am: a man.
Who is Really Undecided
By: Samantha Lazar
Tags: Elections, Debate, Politics, President, Satire

Who is Really Undecided

Do you need to watch this last debate?

Photo by John Bakator on Unsplash

25 minutes until the final debate. Is there anyone out there that is watching it to figure out who they will vote for? Is there any other reason to watch it other than entertainment?

The replay will be on Saturday Night Live. It probably cannot get any worse than the interrupting cow of debate one, nor the interrupting fly of debate two.

Seriously, who is watching tonight to make the pros and cons list about the candidates. What new insights could each of them bring to the table?

If anything, the last debate will just separate us further. Pro-Trump (or at least anti-democrats) will find fault with everything Biden says. Pro-Biden (and definitely anti-Trump) have already voted early. Am I right?

Either way, it is bound to take up time. I mean, aren’t we just killing time until the election is over? Don’t we need something to do?

Maybe you are boycotting the whole thing. Good for you! I am going to make some popcorn. See you on Twitter.
Stop doing Scrum! at PHPBenelux. Loved the title, loved the talk! Here’s…
By: Thomas Dutrion
Tags: Community, PHP, Scrum, Agile, Conference

I’m afraid I’m gonna state the obvious here, but have you ever been to an 11 years old community conference? PHPBenelux made it so far, and guess what? It was AWESOME! Thanks to the organizers and to Tideways (for the unconference).

I do think my feelings about the event is now clear to you… I could carry on for ages and go over every talks I liked, but that would get quite lengthy! I just want to share with you a very interesting talk and subject from Jeroen de Jong, who spoke first thing in the morning on the second day of conference, in the unconference track (hence the sticker on his badge)!

Stop doing Scrum!

What a catchy title! I won’t go on an off about it, but short version: Don't try to force Scrum (or any Agile methodology) on a team! . How boring will you argue! And you’d be right… Unless the speaker delivers it perfectly, in an experienced based talk!

I’d love to see this conference again with a larger crowd as we were only a few, but the collaborative approach using smartphones to generate cloud tags allows everyone to chip in with it’s own view and experiences.

I won’t spoil the talk for you (I already know Jeroen de Jong submitted to ScotlandPHP at least, CFP still opened), but you may ask him the slides directly if you want to!

My main takeaway as previously stated is that one should never try to force an approach but should drive the change by letting the workers do their work, and let them face the exact same issues that may have led to defining such frameworks (as the Scrum one). This also may apply to other domains, such as code 😃

Discussing further, he explained a strategy where he removed all rituals and estimations, and then went from there. As a confused proponent of the estimation-less movement, I am both for and against that strategy, but more than that, I have never been able to sell it to my clients on projects that weren’t critical legacy where they basically had no other choices.

I really loved the discussion and how transparent on these issues Jeroen has been.

For once, I’d love to use the article comments to keep the discussion going (or my own twitter feed if that’s more your jam!). I’m actually really passionate on this topic as my current job seems to be split between digging deeper in saving projects on a tech point of view and saving projects on a human/organization point of view 😨 I’m waiting for your thoughts just down below 👇!
Pallet Story #1 — Checkboxes vs. Radio buttons
By: Gauthier Casanova
Tags: UI, Web Components, Design Systems, Product, UX

Pallet Story #1 — Checkboxes vs. Radio buttons

Today, we begin a series of stories about our design system at Everoad.

As a product designer at Everoad, I have a great mission: to work with all the tech team on our design system. Mission as complex as it is exciting because it requires a detailed analysis of UX and UI best practices to design the most relevant components for our current and future users and to use them in all our products in order to easily scale our platform.

To add a new component in our design system Pallet, we follow different steps.

Pallet Status on Google Sheet

Design rules: First, we do an UX and UI benchmark for each component in order to identify guidelines and styles.

First, we do an UX and UI benchmark for each component in order to identify guidelines and styles. Test on platform & Validation (naming, UI, UX): After that, we start designing and we try the component in our product environment to check if it works or not.

After that, we start designing and we try the component in our product environment to check if it works or not. Shared style/Symbol Sketch: Then an engineer and a product designer review the component, if the component is ready, we implement it on our design system file.

The first thing I had to do was to understand when using checkboxes rather than using radio buttons and vice versa, so I decided to share with you the results of this research about usage of these two components. If you hesitate between checkboxes or radio buttons, this article is for you.

🤨 Ok… Um… Checkboxes or Radio buttons ?!

☑️ Checkboxes

Checkboxes are used in the case of a list of items. This component allows a user to select any number of choices, including zero, one or more.

There are 3 states for checkboxes:

Unselected (default state)

Selected

Undetermined

A checkbox is independent, if a checkbox’s state within a list changes, it should not change the status of other checkboxes.

In the case of multiple choices, checkboxes will be the right choice to make. Take the example of the type of vehicle in the Everoad freight offers filters :
How to Trim a JavaScript String?
By: John Au-Yeung
Tags: Programming, JavaScript, Software Development, Web Development, Technology

Photo by Edgar Chaparro on Unsplash

Trimming strings is something we have to do often.

This is because whitespace often trips us up when they are there.

We can’t see them, but if 2 strings have different spacing, then they’re considered different.

Therefore, we should trim them before doing anything with them.

In this article, we’ll look at how to trim strings in JavaScript.

What are Whitespaces?

White spaces include the space, tab, no-break space, and line end characters.

They are all trimmed by the JavaScript string methods that trim whitespaces.

trimStart

String instances come with the trimStart method.

It’ll trim the start of the string and returns the string.

For instance, if we have:

' hello '.trimStart()

Then it trims the string in place and we get:

"hello "

trimEnd

Likewise, there’s the trimEnd to trim the end of the string and returns the string.

So if we have:

' hello '.trimEnd()

We get:

" hello"

trim

There’s also the trim method to trim both starting and ending whitespace and returns the string.

For instance, we have:

' hello '.trim()

Then whitespace on both ends would be trimmed in place.

So we get:

"hello"

Aliases

There’s the trimLeft method, which is the same as the trimStart method.

Also, there’s the trimRight method, which is the same as the trimEnd method.

There are aliases because trimLeft and trimRight are introduced first.

But to make them consistent with other methods like padStart and padEnd , trimStart and trimEnd are introduced.

Now they coexist, but to be consistent, we use trimStart and trimEnd .

Compatibility

Most modern browsers support these methods.

However, Internet Explorer only supports trim .

If we want to use the other 2 with IE, then we need to add polyfills for them.

Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash

Conclusion

There are a few methods to trim whitespace from a string.

It’s available in almost all modern browsers except for Internet Explorer.

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Before the All-Star Game
By: Michael Warner
Tags: Data Visualization

Half a season of NBA stats and figures of the top 4 and bottom 4 teams

With the second half already in full swing I wanted to take a look at some NBA data of the top 2 and bottom 2 teams in both conferences to see what separates them besides just the wins and losses column.

This was more an exercise in exploratory data analysis (my thanks to https://github.com/Fossj117/NBAdata for the web scraper and @amitkaps who helped me figure out what I needed to get the data ready for dplyr) and I looked at just a few offensive stats. With one being 3 point shots and 2 different ways to take the shot, being as a pull up shot while dribbling the basketball and as a catch and shoot shot from a stationary position and hopefully open. There is a way to verify how open a player is on a particular shot (http://www.gregreda.com/2015/02/15/web-scraping-finding-the-api/) but the data used is just aggregate totals for the first half of the season. Another one is passes, touches, as well as assists. And another being drives to the basket and how many points the driving player gets a game and how many points the team produces a game on the same player driving to the basket.

Golden State Warriors

The Splash Brothers is an apt nickname as 5 players average over 2 attempts a game and 3 players averaging over 3 attempts. Of course attempts splash brothers does not make but the 3 players averaging over 3 attempts make quite a few of them with Stephen Curry at 41.3%, Klay Thompson at 44.6%, and Draymond Green hitting 34.7%.

With the pull-up 3FG being one of the hardest shots to make it is surprising that 1 player (Stephen Curry) takes 4.2 attempts a game, but when that players makes 40.4% we can see why he has free rein.
Gas Station Blues
By: Anna Moriartylev
Tags: Spiralbound, Comics, Relationships, Anna Moriarty Lev

Spiralbound

Comics for life, brought to life by Edith Zimmerman.
How to Make Friends With Your Heart
By: Dasha Tolstikova
Tags: Relationships, Personal Histories, Comics, Dasha Tolstikova, Love

dasha is a brooklyn based author and illustrator. to see more drawings of people lying on floors go to: www.dashatolstikova.com

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Spending a long weekend in Belgium? Here’s how to do it right
Tags: Belgium, Travel, Travel Tips, Food, Culture

Day 1 — travelling to Brussels and beer tasting!

I was traveling from London to Brussels using the Eurostar. The journey takes two hours.

The Eurostar is always a pleasant experience. If you have a small family, this is definitely the travel route I would recommend. The Eurostar has few luggage restrictions — which is good news if you want to bring back bottles of Belgium beer!

Top tip: book your train tickets well in advance. Travel earlier in the morning to get cheaper deals.

After arriving at Brussels Midi station, we took the tram to Grand Place, the centre of Brussels. You will need to buy a ticket to use the tram. There are machines and helpful staff on hand to help you. Read this guide to learn more about public transport in Brussels.

Top tip: stay in the centre of Brussels (Grand Place). Everything is walking distance so you don’t need a travel day pass.

We settled into our accommodation, before heading out to explore what the Grand Place had to offer.

The first place we visited was the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (shopping arcade). The arcade is home to famous chocolatiers and shops.

Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert. The shops are a little pricey, but the quality is assured.

At this point, we were hungry so it was time to try one of Belgium’s most famous delicacies — French Fries! One of the most popular places to try French Fries is Bij Chez Pappy.

Go for the special with Onions, Mayonnaise and Ketchup. Delicious!

Continuing our journey, it was time to see Brussel’s most famous icon — Manneken pis.

Manneken pis. There’s a tradition of dressing up the statue in different costumes.

Next, we saw the Everard T’serclaes. It’s right next to the Grand Place.

Everard T’serclaes.

Grand Place time! The centre is a large public square surrounded by bars, cafes and restaurants. It’s lively and always buzzing.

Grand Place!

Grand Place at night. It’s the perfect place to have a late night picnic. Bring Belgium beers and some snacks.
CFTC & NASAA crack down on crypto derivatives
By: Kel Dennis
Tags: News, Securities Law, Derivatives, Commodities, Bitcoin

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) are working together to police cryptocurrency derivatives.

With the increasing popularity of initial coin offerings, the government is beginning to pay close attention to investigating bad actors.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair J. Christopher Giancarlo delivered a speech to NASAA members last month.

“We applaud NASAA on a new program [Operation Cryptosweep] being announced today. It complements the CFTC’s on-going virtual currency investigations with NASAA members.” — J. Christopher Giancarlo, CFTC Chair

The CFTC was formed after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974. This historic act regulates open markets and investigates manipulation and fraud.

The NASAA, short for North American Securities Administrators Association, is committed to protecting investors. Like the CFTC, they investigate violations of security fraud.

Both the CFTC and NASAA traditionally oversea securities. Initial public offering (IPO) registration has declined 65%. 363 companies registered in 2014. In 2016, the number dropped to 128.

Both organizations are switching gears and focusing on defining crypto derivatives regulations.
Understanding Urban Hunger : Food Deserts, Behavior, & Poverty
Tags: Health And Wellness, Education, Urban Planning

Research shows that increasing access to quality food only solves a small portion of the nutritional gap. When researchers Schnell et al. controlled for income, differences in access only accounted for ten percent of the nutritional gap across education groups.

“It is easy to advocate for more grocery stores, but if you are looking for what you hope will change obesity, healthy food access is probably just wishful thinking.” Dr. Kelly Brownwell of Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity

Better food access is an important, but it is a small piece of the larger puzzle. Joe Cortright, Director at CityObservatory.org, advocates for efforts that raise the incomes of the poor. Given the research, that is a smart move. However, it doesn’t seem like a tangible action for local governments in the short-run or address the issue of human behavior. When we give kids healthier school lunches, they leave the fruits and vegetables untouched. Even when consumers from a food desert begin to shop at grocery stores with a wider-variety of healthy foods, they do not increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Our eating habits are largely influenced by how we were raised and what we ate as children. People in poverty are often working multiple jobs, jumping through hoops to keep their government assistance, and caring for a family. It is no surprise that people might lack the time, energy, and skills to cook healthy meals.

Programs that teach people to cook healthy meals might be another important piece of the puzzle.

More Than an Inconvenience

This burden of food deserts lays heaviest on people without cars. After driving people in his community to the next city to buy groceries, Burnell Colton of New Orleans’ Lower-Ninth Ward set out to open a small grocery store. By opening a tiny shop, Burnell lent his community a lifeline. The response has been gratifying. Of his customers, Burnell says, “Some people come and cry. I have people come and take pictures. I have total strangers come and give me a hug.”

For city leaders, providing a neighborhood with a small lifeline can be transformative. When affordable real estate alone does not encourage grocers to open up in food deserts, the next move might be to host a biweekly famers market or to rethink the public transportation system with food insecure citizens in mind.
Serving customer experience
By: Alok Tyagi
Tags: Enterprise, Erp, Kaizen, Software Development, Usability

Last few days I went through two separate incidents reminding me of poor business applications resulting into bad customer experience that can easily be avoided — should customer view point is considered while automating any business process.

1. My elder daughter who is now 17+ was in the process of buying a car. I decided to have her apply for an auto loan where she can be a secondary co-applicant with me — hoping it will start to establish her credit history. We spent multiple hours at one of the major national bank filling out the paper work, etc. only to be reminded after few days that loan can’t be granted with her as a co-applicant given she is a minor. How hard it is to have a simple work flow in the loan application process to error out on the age of a minor while filing the application when certain conditions are not valid? Think about the countless hours wasted of the banker; someone from their lending department and leaving customer with a bad taste who unnecessarily have to go through this long process.

2. A national university suggests we pay bill on-line to get student registered to their college. We all conduct commerce on-line and now assume certain level of service. However, this university only accepts MasterCard as an acceptable form of payment. It does not accept Visa cards or other popular on-line payment forms. Visa and MasterCard are the big gorilla in the credit industry. In fact, hands down Visa is #1 in the industry with 60% of the market share. MasterCard comes second with close to 30% market share. We happen to be fortunate and had few days left before the deadline for us to apply snail mail way posting cheque in mailbox. Why tout on-line when you can only serve a percent of the customers?

Anyway, it brings me to the point — automating business processes are to provide improved customer experience. Making business applications usable and customer connected is important.

We experience similar trend in the enterprise software industry — particularly products that have been around for decades and has accumulated lot of features over time. But if those features are hard to use and don’t provide basic reminders or simple error checks — what is the point as they anyway end up in lost productivity and unsatisfied customers. Just ponder — how few features get used when the product is difficult to navigate and hard to use. Feature rich is good — but product build without customer experience in mind is simply not a recipe for success. Applications has to be usable and not just functional to serve desirable customer experience.

Usability matters and it is much more than just cosmetics.
Four Washington Schools Receive National Blue Ribbon School Honors
By: The Office Of Superintendent Of Public Instruction
Tags: Academic, Education, Education Awards, K 12 Education

Today, the U.S. Department of Education recognized four Washington state elementary schools for the schools’ overall academic performance.

The awardees are located in the Eastmont, Port Angeles, Puyallup, and University Place School Districts, and they won the award for their exemplary high academic performance.

Washington’s Recognized Schools

· Cascade Elementary School, Eastmont School District, Educational Service District (ESD) 171

· Hamilton Elementary School, Port Angeles School District, ESD 114

· Ridgecrest Elementary School, Puyallup School District, ESD 121

· University Place Primary School, University Place School District, ESD 121

An award ceremony for the awardees will be held by the U.S. Department of Education virtually on November 12 and 13. Each awardee will also receive a plaque and flag in the mail.

About the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program

The coveted National Blue Ribbon Schools award affirms the hard work of students and their educators, families, and communities.

Now in its 38th year, the program has provided awards to more than 9,000 schools nationwide.

The U.S. Department of Education website contains photographs and brief descriptions of all 2020 National Blue Ribbon Schools.
Divi‘s Roadmap Updated
By: Divi Cryptocurrency
Tags: Divi, Roadmap, ICO, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

The Divi Project team is excited to announce the release of our updated roadmap for development.

Since the successful completion of the Divi Project token sale, our developers have been hard at work and now the time has come to provide the Divi community with a wealth of information about the progress being made. The new Divi Project roadmap is built with the intent of creating transparency into the development of every aspect of our system and allow easy access to technical information.

”Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”- Abraham Lincoln

Meticulous planning preceded the development that recently began, which is crucial for a successful mainnet launch. The Divi Project developers spent weeks planning every aspect, scoping all the features to ensure everyone’s on the same page and every part of the system was properly accounted for, as well as creating all the requirements for the system. Our team recently began the design specification phase and had already completed some tasks.

Progress being made on individual tasks can be found on the Divi Project roadmap, organized in its own section and will be updated every Friday. Development is underway, we’ve forked PIVX, and our team has begun building infrastructure with the confidence of meeting our Q2 release. This post is the first in a series of official development updates to the Divi Project, to inform the community about all the facets of the Divi project. Future posts in this series will typically be published in the first couple days of each month. We will also continue to release other breaking Divi news as it happens.

While we intend to provide the community with detailed and highly transparent updates, information on some projects may be withheld due to confidentiality agreements or competitive market dynamics.
Tomorrow is Another Day
Tags: Character, Politics, Procrastination, Impeachment, Strength

Written by

Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too.
Introducing Link in SwiftUI
By: Kelvin Tan
Tags: Swif, Xcode, iOS, Swiftui, Programming

Introducing Link in SwiftUI

An easy way to present links to your users

Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash

Recently introduced in WWDC 2020, Link is text with a link within it. When you press it, you will be redirected to the link you have attached within.

Bear in mind that this is only supported in iOS 14 and above and can only be used in Xcode 12+.
It’s All About Architecture
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Devsnack

DevSnack #20: We know that writing quality software is hard and complex. It’s not only a matter of satisfying requirements, but the system should also be robust, maintainable, testable, and flexible enough to adapt to growth and change. In this DevSnack you’ll find 5 links discussing different architectures, and hopefully you’ll be able to choose the most appropriate for your Android application.

#1 — Clean architecture

In this article, Robert Martin (@unclebobmartin) explains the clean architecture concept and summarizes some rules to achieve this. Go ahead and read it carefully, it’ll save you a lot of headaches.

#2 — Android architectures​

Thanos Karpouzis (@Droid_Coder) wrote this simple guide for MVC, MVP and MVVM on Android projects.

#3 — MVP for Android

One of the most popular architectures for Android applications is the MVP. In this post by Antonio Leiva (@lime_cl), you’ll find the most important features of this pattern.

#4 — Goodbye Presenter, hello ViewModel!

In this article Frode Nilsen (@nilzor) talks about how the Data Binding library changes everything. You’ll learn the advantages of using it, along with a code example.

#5 — Code examples

This repository showcases and compares different architectural patterns that can be used to build Android apps.
To Terms
By: Bryan Young
Tags: Acceptance, Poem, Poetry On Medium, Therapy, Heartache

Photo by Matt Flores on Unsplash

Honor

your good

to blunt

the trauma

you inflicted

Focus

your empathy

to counter

the selfishness

you harbored

Celebrate

small victories

to dull

the heart-stab

of defeats

Love

yourself.

Perhaps

no one else

will
Lambda architecture — Part 1 — An Introduction to Lambda Architecture
By: Ananth Packkildurai
Tags: Lambda Architecture, Bigdata, Lambda, Data Warehousing, Cloudera

In last couple of year people were trying to conceptualize big data and business impacts of it. Companies like Amazon and Netflix pioneered in this space and delivered some of the best products to its customers. We should thank to Amazon for bringing in data driven business to end consumer market. The big data paradigm emerged from a conceptual understanding to real world products now. All the major retailers, dot-com companies and enterprise products focus on leveraging big data technologies to produce actionable insights and innovative products out of it. The system emerged to the extends potentially replace traditional data warehousing solutions.

How this big data shift happened?

It is fundamental design thinking of how we store and analyses data. The moment you start to think that the data is,

Immutable in nature Atomic in nature, that one event log is independent of another events.

Traditional databases were designed to store the current state of an event (with its update nature and data structure in beneath to support it). This made traditional RDBMS systems not fit in to the big data paradigm. There are numerous NoSQL solutions started to flow in to address the problem (See my earlier blog post on HDFS vs RDBMS).

Now we need an architectural pattern to address our big data problem. Nathan Marz proposed Lambda Architecture for big data. In this two part blog post I’m going to brief overview of Lambda architecture and its layers. In the second post I’m going to walk you through my thought process of designing Lambda Architecture with Cloudera Hadoop Distribution (CDH).

“Lambda” in Lambda Architecture:

I’m not sure the reason behind the name Lambda Architecture. But I feel “Lambda” perfectly fit here because “Lambda” is a shield pattern used by Spartans to handle large volume, variety and velocity of opponents. (Yeh 300 movie impact :-) )

Picture : Lambda Architecture

Layers in Lambda Architecture:

Lambda architecture has three main layers
The Warm Rays of Benevolence
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Gratitude, Spiritual Secrets, Letters, Spirituality, Family

SPIRITUALITY | NEWSLETTER

The Warm Rays of Benevolence

Spiritual Secret #9

Image by Valiphotos from Pixabay

Dear Spiritual Souls,

Tuesday it is!

It’s time for me to pour my heart’s love and its warmth into yours.

When I started Spiritual Secrets two months ago, everything seemed vague and impossible. But as the journey progressed, many spiritual souls joined hands. And today, within just two months, we have over 200 members in our Spiritual Secrets’ family. I am overjoyed and can’t contain my ecstasy.

All the credit goes to my super talented writers! Please accept my heartfelt gratitude.

Humble thanks to all my spiritual writers for their continued efforts and consistently sending us their best stories.

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” Eckhart Tolle

I feel enriched and complete because of your support and love!

I want to thank and bless each one of you for being a part of my life.
FTW to be listed onto IDAX Exchange
Tags: Bitcoin

Deposits for FTW Tokens on IDAX Exchange open on 18:00, 31st Aug, 2018 (UTC/GMT+08:00) Trading will begin on 18:00, 2nd Sep, 2018 (UTC/GMT+08:00) with pairs of FTW/BTC and FTW/ETH.

About IDAX

IDAX (International Digital Asset Exchange) company is originated from GBC (Global Blockchain Research Center), an international blockchain research center and it’s a global digital assets service platform that is designed for blockchain exchange research.

IDAX operates from GBC high-tech industrial complex in Ulaanbaatar. The platform is designed to be trustworthy and user friendly crypto currency exchange which is supported with many functions such as multi-crypto currency, multi-language options, and multi level of security architect that ensures a safe transaction of digital asset exchange.

For more information, please visit www.idax.mn.

About FTW

The first purely decentralized blockchain lottery based on NEO.

For the Win (FTW) aims to rectify the shortcomings in the traditional lottery in which the participation is limited and most funds are used in maintaining administrative costs. FTW uses Blockchain technology to overcome these problems and make participation global.

We are creating a lottery wherein all entries are managed by blockchain based ledger. The information right from deposits to payouts will be public so participants in the lottery can monitor lottery tickets 24x7 via blockchain.

The lottery winners are paid instantly after drawing and verifying has been completed and other users in the lottery who participated can maintain full autonomy over their earnings.

So we are bringing a user friendly, rewarding and transparent platform for the interested gambling enthusiasts to try their luck on “For The Win” Platform.
Russian Thrill and a Poison Pill
By: Prav Jagwani
Tags: Beatles, Poetry, Russia, Limerick, Sex

It was Paul, me and Ringo Starr

Back In The USSR

A Yellow Submarine

LSD and Caffeine

While I penned a juicy memoir

I was writing Eight Days A Week

Like an Ob-La-Di freak

‘til groupie Michelle

came ringin’ my bell

looking deliciously chic

“Hold Me Tight,” she sweetly crowed

“Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?”

Was a Hard Day’s Night

in dewy moonlight

We tapped away in Morse code

Next day, the Wild Honey Pie

Left without Hello Goodbye

I found it odd

till the vice squad

Revealed she’s a Russian spy

Sent to feed me a poison pill

for I was the Fool On The Hill

but Yesterday

after foreplay

I was saved by my pneumatic drill

***
Trade Your Asset Tokens on a Global Exchange
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Art

Imagine a world where fine art paintings — Picassos, Warhols, Monets — each costing millions of dollars (and whose value only increases with each passing year) can be owned by the everyday investor, like you and me.

Masterpieces traded briskly through an open exchange, efficiently pricing the artworks to the market. Portfolio managers will be able to manage their positions more accurately and diversify their risk by investing in a range of different art assets. They will no longer need to have their funds concentrated in a handful of hard-to-sell pieces.

This is no longer just a dream. Maecenas has made it a reality.

For the first time, technology will allow investors, collectors and owners to exchange shares in paintings and sculptures instantly. It will also offer top emerging artists a showcase space for their work, free from the interference of middlemen.

Maecenas takes fine artworks and mints (ERC-20) asset tokens that represent a share of the artwork. Your asset tokens can then be bought and sold and are also be tradable on any global exchange where they are listed.

Asset tokens = a piece of a painting

Asset tokens, which represent a share of an artwork, are minted compliant with the Ethereum ERC-20 standard, so you can enjoy the safety of a public protocol and the convenience of storing your asset tokens on any popular crypto wallet.

Our first tokenised artwork offering, Warhol 14 Small Electric Chairs (Reversal Series), 1970 [WHRL1] is already listed on the ethereum chain.

After many months of hard work and technology integration, we are also very excited to announce a partnership agreement with a new exchange that is launching soon. Our partner exchange focuses on listing and trading asset tokens.

WHRL1 tokens will be included as part of its offerings when it launches. As part of our partnership agreement, both platforms will be integrated and users of Maecenas will be able to sign-up easily with their Maecenas account login info.

We expect to foster multiple partnerships with various exchanges in order to provide maximum liquidity for our investors. We have been given access to the alpha build of the exchange for testing and so far we are very impressed with the design and functionality. Here’s a sneak peek of what one of our partner asset token exchanges looks like, released with their consent.
Drupal Future Scope 2020 and Beyond
By: Binal Prajapati
Tags: Drupal Development, Drupal 8, Future Scope, Drupal Developer, Drupal

Whenever I discuss CMS systems with my friends they always recommend WordPress with drupal for comparison. But at the end of the discussion, I found that Drupal has a high future scope in 2020 and beyond as compared to other similar CMS.

In today’s scenario, the demand for Drupal developers is increasing day by day because Drupal popularity is rapidly growing in the market. Because of Drupal’s future scope, Many startups prefer Drupal CMS having for their business. Some large websites such as Arizona, Mint, The Economist, and the NY Government are running with help of Drupal CMS successfully and smoothly.

By reading this blog you can better understand the drupal future scope, popularity, why drupal in demand.

Let’s start,

Brief Overview of Drupal:

Drupal is written in opensource script code-PHP and it is one of the best content management frameworks. For at least, 3.2% of all websites around the world Drupal provides a back-end framework and it is distributed under the General Public License. For sites looking for faster, better, and superior web application performance drupal is perfectly suitable with large community supports.

What is the future of Drupal?

In terms of popularity, Drupal is rapidly growing over the past decade and that is a great reason. Nearly 2 Billion Drupal-based are online today by W3Techs conducted survey. Using Drupal approximately 1.9% of all websites are built and by 3.5% of all the sites, it is used. Drupal has been also awarded in many categories let’s go through that.

In Hungary the 2nd most popular platform in the CMS category.

In Belgium, Drupal is the most popular platform under the CMS category.

In the top 10K websites the 2nd most popular platform under the open source category.

In India the 3rd most used platform under the open source category.

Drupal Popularity:

According to Google trends Drupal’s popularity increasing day by day worldwide.

Drupal Future Scope as a Technology:

Peoples are demanding drupal more, it gains more focus over the past months. The best thing is that the entire content management system is totally free so we can conclude that Drupal future scope 2020 and beyond is more as a technology.

Conclusion:

With the excellent features and core modules of Drupal, every size of the business is capable of adopting CMS to create their website more strong and powerful. So, if you are looking to hire drupal developer for your business then it is the best choice for your future business growth.
BitBay Community Update — Jan. 28th, 2018
Tags: Fintech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitbay, Bitcoin

Give a warm welcome to our new full time social media manager Yassuda in the Slack! Yassuda will be in charge of not only updating many of our social media pages directly, but also coordinating our numerous community managers of different languages to maximize their impact.

We also would like to introduce the new author of our newsletters, Charlotte. Until now Shorn was writing our monthly newsletter for the mailing list, this will free up more of his time for general project management.

So far, testing of the auction template has been going well, and Craig has successfully executed a test of the reverse-auction template as well. Very exciting! We encourage our users to run their own tests as well and report any problems you may have with the software, although do not yet recommend any sincere transactions until we are 100% positive everything is on the up-and-up.

Our enhanced web wallet will be released very soon, with the ability to create joint accounts of up to 15 participants. If you haven’t had a chance to utilize the web wallet, check it out!

Recently we have seen a wonderful hashtag campaign on social media, #PayWithCrypto. Individuals are tweeting at their favorite retailers and pressure them into accepting digital currency as a valid means of payment. We would like to encourage our users to do them one better and let them know that with the BitBay Market Client, you can already pay with crypto! This will be a fun and easy way to gain some valuable exposure for BAY, as well as contribute to a good cause. Get those Twitter-fingers in gear!

As always, thank you for your interest in the BitBay project!

Join the conversation at the BitBay forum!
ماذا لو تم دعم البيتكوين ك الدنمارك؟
Tags: Crypto, ICO, Arabic Wpr, Blockchain, Bitcoin

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Angular — How To Add Jasmine Custom Matchers In Unit Testing
By: Bhargav Bachina
Tags: Web Development, Angular, Programming, Software Development, JavaScript

Jasmine is a BDD framework which provides a lot of built-in matchers for unit testing. But, sometimes we have to create our own custom matchers to facilitate all the testing scenarios or to make more readable test cases.

In this post, We will go through jasmine matchers and their usage both in Javascript and Typescript.

What are Matchers

Built-in Matchers and How to use them

Custom Mathers and How to define them

Example Project in Javascript

Example Project in Typescript

How to define Custom Matchers in Angular

Summary

What are matchers

Matchers are nothing but compare functions to actually compare the expected and actual result in the test specs.

Here is an example of one of the Matchers. If we look at line number 4, toBe is the matcher and is always used with expect. It just compares the actual result with the expected result and returns a boolean value.
The $99 billion pet-retail economy is booming, thanks to a surge in pandemic puppies and kittens…
By: Gloria Oh
Tags: Retail, Economy, Pets

Ling Jin / Getty Images

The $99 billion pet-retail economy is booming, thanks to a surge in pandemic puppies and kittens: Chewy’s shares have more than doubled since the start of the year, Petco rebranded itself as a health and wellness company ahead of its IPO, and dog-supplies startup, BarkBox, recently announced it would go public in a $1.6 billion deal.

As Minyoung Lee wrote in The Bold Italic, the majority of America’s pet parents are millennials who find comfort and stability in their “fur children” after experiencing a series of economic setbacks. “We own less than 5% of the country’s wealth, starting our adult lives in the deep shadows of the 2008 housing crisis, working through the rise of the gig economy and stagnant wages,” Lee writes. “And now, in what should be the prime of our career and family-building years, we’ve been hit with a global pandemic.”
August 2020 Burn Report
By: Locktrip.Com, Loc Token, Official Blog
Tags: Blockchain, Locktrip, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Token Economy

Following the strong booking performance reported in July, we have seen the burn mechanism reaching new records in August!

About the Mechanism

Every booking made on our marketplace triggers a LOC burn equal to 3% of the booking value. These are specifically bought from exchanges and sent to the parking wallet.

When the customer checks in to the hotel, we consider the booking as final and the parking wallet executes the final burn transaction. If the customer cancels the booking, the parking wallet returns the balance into circulation.

Burn Rate

The burn mechanism continuously removes LOC from the circulating supply, which is driven by booking volumes. This factor turns LOC into a deflationary economy as opposed to other coins such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, where new coins are added to the supply with every block.

In the chart below you can see the rate at which LOC are being destroyed.

In August we have seen a record burn rate of 35.19 LOC per day, which shatters the previous record of 21.72 achieved in February. This confirms how quickly the burn mechanism reacts to changes in booking rate and LOC price.

Will we see new records later this year?

Cumulative Amount

Another fundamental metric is the cumulative amount that has been removed from the circulating supply.

At the end of August we have almost broken the 5,000 LOC barrier. More importantly, for the first time ever we have seen more than 1,000 LOC being burnt in a single month.

Another 1,000 LOC are sitting in the parking wallet, waiting to be burnt upon check-in of the customers. Adding these to the cumulative amount, we are now scratching the 6,000 mark.

Verify the Numbers

All transactions are publicly verifyable on the blockchain through the two wallets linked below.

Burn Wallet

Parking Wallet

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LockTrip is a blockchain-based travel marketplace that allows users to save up to 60% on their bookings by cutting out middlemen. Every booking burns LOC proportionally to its booking value, continuously reducing its total supply.
Flutter. Multibar with animation
By: Artem Diashkin
Tags: Multibar, Flutter, Icons, Animation, Button

A more clear way to implement onPressedHandler with the same result is:

void onPressedHandler() {

if (animationController.isDismissed) {

animationController.forward();

} else {

animationController.reverse();

}

}

You can choose what way is more preferable for you.

Step 2. Create “MovableIcon” widget

Transform(

transform: Matrix4.translationValues(

rightStart - rightEnd * animation.value,

topStart - topEnd * animation.value,

0),

This code fragment will allow us to move icons from one point to another. When animation is “running” animation.value will be changing from 0 to 1 (if you will use implemented above AnimationController). When animation is finished, “value” will equal “1".

But we should have “delayed” animation, not “at the same time”. For this case will will be using Tween() widget, that will allow us to customize animation by adding “delays” and animation curves.

Step 3. Create “IconsStackWidget”

Don’t forget to change “start” and “end” points for different screen resolutions.

To imitate delay we are using class Interval:

To specify animation behavior we will be using Curves. For this case — easeOut curve:

Step 4. Replace body in “Multibar” using “IconsStackWidget”

...

body: Container(

color: Colors.white,

width: double.infinity,

height: double.infinity,

child: IconsStackWidget(animationController),

),

...

And that’s all!

Full code implementation you case see here: multibar.dart gist file
Expectations
By: Sharon Brandon
Tags: Religion, Spiritual Secrets, Illumination, Spirituality, Enlightenment

Commitment brings assurance

Assurance leads to anticipation

Anticipation is expectation that has been proven

Proven expectation happens when in relationship with the Creator

Expectation is not a right

Expectation is a granted privilege

What a privilege it is to carry…
New, More Cost-Effective Fee Structure Now on itBit
Tags: Itbit, Bitcoin

We’re excited to announce that we have updated the fee structure on itBit — making our exchange the most competitive in the industry!

Pursuing our commitment to be the most trusted and accessible crypto asset exchange, itBit is pleased to announce a new, lower tiered fee structure. Customer feedback and market analysis inspired itBit to design a fee structure for the benefit of all our customers to make crypto asset trading more efficient and affordable. As a result, itBit is proud to be an industry leader with the most competitive trading fees in the market.

Please note, we will continue to waive maker trading fees, giving all customers the opportunity to buy and sell bitcoin for free on our exchange. The new fee structure is below:

itBit’s new fee structure is effective as of July 12, 2018 at 6:30p ET (10:30p UTC). Please note that any open orders submitted to the exchange before this time will incorporate the new fee structure at execution.

We invite you to start enjoying this new pricing today — or if you are not already participating on the platform, please visit our website www.itbit.com or reach out to us at help@itbit.com to get started.