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When the owl was the baker’s daughter (poem)
By: Kate Holly-Clark
Tags: Feminism, Hamlet, Poetry, Shakespeare, Literally Literary

Ophelia, John Everett Millais CC0

The day Ophelia finally took up arms

she had discarded her bouquet of rue

beside the road

and left it trampled in a muddy puddle

no more addled princes and overcautious fathers for her

she was done trying

to follow everyone’s advice at once

the only place that ends

is soggy and full of regrets.

The day Ophelia rode to battle

She decided to be the watchman

holding the lantern high,

banging the drum to flush

the monsters from the undergrowth

taking up her own bow

shooting to kill

she knew that wound upon wound

was never a kindness.

Hamlet handbill, Wikimedia Commons CC0

The day Ophelia wrapped her bruised wrists

in arnica, straightened her lipstick in the mirror

she said to herself never again

if he would be a prince, it will be because

she herself ennobled him

not because he simply existed. If he were

not her prince, he would be

no prince at all to her.

The afternoon she handed back

his letters, his poems, his sugared devils

and walked straight to the door, honest and fair

a back too straight to be stabbed with deceit again

or touched by his madness and lies

he dwindled to a silly boy behind her

less a colossus than a clown.

The day Ophelia went to war

to be a woman of choices and means

those she left behind told their own stories

she’s crazy, her mind broke

she was lost in love and could not recover”

“we’ll make a song or pretty play of it”

we’ll pretend she never said that word to us —

say “nonny” instead”

“no one in their right mind could turn him down”

“he’s so handsome and sad”

The day Ophelia went to war

she marked it with no more

than footsteps on the road

in her own shoes

with her own song

and the rue ground beneath her heel

and left behind

in later life she told her grandchildren

she was an owl when she was young.
The Call Of The Wild
By: Matthew Donnellon
Tags: Nature, Poetry, Creativity, Life, Outdoors

The call of the wild is the voice of friend,

carried on the whisper of wind as it flows,

the pine needles of the northern forest,

among the the ridges and the valleys,

pausing here and there and back again,

to admire the natural wonders,

the water in the well and the drops of dew on the morning grass,

the storm as it rolls in letting drops of rain to fall,

wet leaves on the dirty ground,

the gentle lullaby as the lake laps against the shore,

and the sound the river makes as it flows from the forest core,

It’s the gentle hymn of the grasses swaying in the summer days,

the wind whipping through the trees,

the call of loons on the water at night,

and above all its the voice you hear the first time you wake up in the forest,

It’s the touch of the dirt, soft in the summer,

frozen hard in winter,

the mud on boots as you walk from there to here,

the dirt under your fingernails that lets you know you’re home,

And it’s the crackle of the bonfire,

the clink of glasses and the sight the next morning,

when empty chairs sit around a burnt out pit,

like ghosts gone camping,

and the smell of campfires on your clothes for a week afterward,

It’s sitting outside on a moonless night,

when you can hear the subtle notes of a country song,

from someone’s radio a mile away,

but you sit with your back against a tree,

looking up at the sky,

wondering why,

and staring at the stars burning a million,

miles a way,

You can hear it in the dark.

the call of the wild, and the whispering wind,

you can hear it,

because it’s calling your name.
Introduction
By: Elysa Caso-Mchugh
Tags: Introduction, Queer, Identity, Lesbian, Leftists

The world is a terrifying place. For most of my life, it has been this way. A large reason why this is the case is because this world was not built for people like me to survive. In fact, there have been centuries, if not millenia, of power structures put in place which are designed to directly hurt and oppress people like me.

For a long time, I have wanted to have a space to tell stories which are enriching and reflect the ways in which I have been forced to operate in the world with my identity. Here, I am hoping to find this space and write stories which are helpful to other people like me.

I’ll give some context so that, as I continue to write and publish and hopefully start to gain support and followers, people will not exactly what I stand for.

I am a freshman in college in New York City, soon to be a sophomore, studying history and either gender studies or comparative literature in the hopes of either becoming a journalist or attending law school some day.

I am a queer, fat, non-binary lesbian who struggles with bipolar disorder and PTSD. I am mixed race and white-presenting who has experience with generational trauma. I hope that this can serve as representation of some kind for people like me, to see stories they can relate to and have a space to be open.

For clarification, I am hoping to put out a story every 1–2 weeks at first, and eventually more as this begins to gain traction, if it does. As an aspiring spoken-word artist and staff writer for other magazines, I am hoping to put out poetry as well.

Something that I want all people to know is that representation matters. In movies, TV Shows, in the stories we tell. With any luck, this will become a space for people like me to feel like they are not alone.
Review: The Prom
Tags: Netflix, The Prom, Musical, LGBTQ, Homophobia

The first scene in The Prom that really caught my attention was right after Emma shows up at her prom and finds no one there. Mrs. Greene, the orchestrator of this cruel and childish plan to exclude Emma in the worst way possible is giving interviews outside of the school. When asked about why there were two proms and if Emma was tricked on purpose, Mrs. Greene gives an all too familiar response:

“The James Madison High School Parent Teacher Association felt Emma would not be safe if we allowed her to attend prom with the other students because the uncomfortable truth is there are people in our community who are offended by her life choices.”

This superficial attempt at blaming Emma for an attack clearly focused on her is very reminiscent of excuses all minorities have heard. Essentially, Emma was just victim-blamed by the same woman who caused the problem in the first place. And not only that, Emma was barred from doing something because someone else might hurt her. On the surface, that might seem like sound logic, but in Emma’s case especially, it isn’t. Instead of punishing the people who want to hurt Emma, instead of preventing that hurt from ever occurring, the PTA decided it was best to punish Emma instead. They choose the easy and conventional way out of a situation like this.

The excuse, “We won’t let them do it because someone else will hurt them” has been used over and over again to justify why civil rights of various groups should not be granted. The Prom does a wonderful job of explaining why this logic is rotten and based solely in victim blaming.

I also loved that despite the overall optimism of The Prom, everything wasn’t perfect in the end. Barry’s father still is not ready to speak to his gay son. Alyssa’s mom isn’t okay with Alyssa’s sexuality even if she decides to support her daughter. And most of all, there wasn’t a sob scene at the end where Emma’s parents come running back in to beg for her forgiveness. There is still a lot of sadness in this musical and we get the really honest feeling in the end that not everything is going to be healed, but life still goes on. The idea that you can still have an amazing life full of joy and acceptance even if your past is left with several loose threads is the prevailing theme in The Prom.

Overall, The Prom is an inspirational story and much like Principal Hawkins sings,
Haftanın Grafiği 1— Ark Diyagramı
By: Veri Okuryazarlığı Derneği
Tags: Grafik, Dataviz, Veri Görselleştirme, Veriokuryazarlığı

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Exporting Static HTML From A Next.js 10 Site
By: Dennis O'Keeffe
Tags: Nextjs, JavaScript, Web Development, Coding, React

In this blog post, we’re going to take the default start from Next.js 10 and export a static site that we can host in S3.

This post goes alongside a partner post on deploying static websites to S3 using the AWS TypeScript CDK if you would like to get the site up and running on your AWS account.

Note: There are reasons for and against exporting static HTML for a NextJS application. Those needs may differ from person to person. Please see NextJS documentation on Static HTML Export for the latest caveats when using their static export feature.

Getting Started

We will use the latest create-next-app deployment to get things rolling.

Once this runs, there will be a new folder that hosts your NextJS 10 application in next-10-static-export .

Building the application

Adjust your application’s package.json file to add a new script for export:

Building and exporting the website

Under pages/index.js I am going to make some small adjustments for the project and add a small paragraph that says This page has been updated to show how to build and export static HTML from a NextJS 10 project.

After making whatever adjustments you would like, run the following from your root directory:

Once you have run both commands, you’ll notice that there is now a _next and out directory created.

The out directory is where next export will move the assets to.

Seeing the final product

We can now serve those assets locally to see the build in action.

If you do not have it already, I recommend globally installing Vercel’s Serve package to enable you to serve the out directory. This can be done with npm i -g serve .

Now, run serve out from the root directory and you will have a URL posted to the terminal to show you where the website is being served from (generally localhost port 5000 unless busy).

Head to the website and you will see the following:

Congrats! You have your statically exported site.

What’s next?

If you would like to see how to deploy your website to AWS S3 using the AWS TypeScript CDK, head to the partner post and continue on.

Resources

Image credit: Isi Parente

Originally posted on my blog.
Oz
By: Aaron Quist
Tags: Poetry, Love, Attachment, Nirvana, Spirituality

Oz, Again

A poem

Photo by Kuma Kum on Unsplash

Letting her

wander deep

within my soul.

Letting her

puzzle-piece

my stepping stones.

Letting her

brand a memory

between my eyes.

Letting her

distract me from

everything, anything

at all.

Letting her

pull me back in

time and time,

life by life,

again…

And

letting myself

fall in and out

of love, of grace,

of nirvana…

Though

slyly smiling

all the livelong day.

Though

slyly smiling

all the livelong Way.
A Canyon Dug By Light
By: Brian C
Tags: Poetry, Art, Edward Hopper, Musings, Christianity

Early Sunday Morning, by Edward Hopper Whitney Museum of American Art

Sunday is the Lord’s day,

a day to lie awake and leave the curtains parted,

and study the projection

of our crested slope against the back wall.

What has become of our life?

It seems just weeks ago we played up on the roof,

our small steps kissing the hot tar,

stirring the eddies of air

that rose towards the warming sun.

We peered over the canyon rim, down at the morning current of souls

rushing down towards the Battery.

The commerce of our fathers

carves new store fronts under the red river clay.

We were spawned under that tar, one night when the sun was gone, the shouts and cries called to us.

We came with the next sun,

the curtains were signal flags that marked our way.

And when we could, we stood on small toes

and puzzled at the signs outside our window.

One day our mother called us down from the roof,

and when she left us she drew the curtains, and gave us all we had of him.

The returning tide would not carry him home this night, or any night.

All we have are fossils, carved from the light of his living

days. We have them still, upright proud on the table, today’s light

mixing with instance fixed.

Today we rest with thoughts of him, tomorrow the great wheel will turn, and the sun will rise on a new river.

This street is a film strip, the pediments latch onto the rising sun

and ratchet all of us one day further. Awnings unroll, and in the shadows

butchers cleave, barbers call in bets, and infants cry from behind the red tide.

The fireplug squats, the shoulder of it capping the same spring,

ready when the sun finally burns us all the way through.

Sunday morning settles quiet, a still time between the cog springs,

when the sun can wash an empty street. We draw the curtains tighter,

We hold close our friend, the darkness.

While on the street a long shadow walks backwards towards the rising sun. He comes every Sunday.

He calls up to us to arise,

and carry out our dead.
Rose
By: Stephen Reza
Tags: Parents, Family, Poetry, Ancestors, Immortality

Photo by Og Mpango on Unsplash

Shedding petals,

Offspring clustered around

In a familial garden.

Who we are

Stems from one –

Whether we reflect good or bad –

Nothing can change that.

For as long as we all shall live

Our spirit will live on

And yours through ours.
Manhattan’s Secret Cult: Congregation For The Light
By: Cat Leigh
Tags: Culture, Cult, Cities, Lifestyle, Religion

The Congregation for the Light, or just The Light, has been around since the 1960s. However, its teachings originated in 19th century England. A married couple, known as the Wyeths, awoke from a shared dream and wrote down what they could remember. These writings became The Light’s ideology.

Fast forward to the 21st century and the mysterious society now has around 200 members in New York and an unknown number in Washington DC and Atlanta.

From Google Maps

Every Thursday evening, without exception, the members gather at their leader’s building to hear him preach. The building is located in a Manhattan neighborhood: 160 East 35th Street, Murray Hill.

Tom Baer, the current leader, stands in the middle of the room and preaches, reading from pieces of paper that have been passed down to him. There are no religious texts and under no circumstance are members allowed to take notes.

The Light’s first leader, during the 60s and 70s, was Morris Kate. He believed that after doomsday took place, members would be reincarnated on a planet called ‘Nay’, be genderless, and have no stomachs.

Past Southern Baptist, Joseph Denton, the ensuing leader, apparently had something against TV’s and internet, as he tried to ban both.

Baer, a man in his late 70s, became the leader after Denton’s death in 2001 and lives on the upper floor of the building. He believes he was once an Apache and does not think of the group as a cult, but rather a religion — despite ex-members highlighting it’s cult-like characteristics.
7 Quotes From “Schitt’s Creek” That Will Make You Feel Great
By: Amy Hartsough
Tags: Television, Mental Health, Psychology, Entertainment, Self Improvement

And then there’s David, the proud son of the Rose family. Pretty much every line he says is comedic gold, but here are a few highlights.

For example, in this quote, we see David relating his fashion sense across economic boundaries:

David: “I got these at a showroom in Paris.” Stevie: “I got these on a clearance rack at Target.”

Clearly, Stevie (who’s lived in Schitt’s Creek her whole life) has never been to Paris for a fashion show. But she ends up teaching David a few things about how to survive in the “real world” of her hometown.

In this next quote, David’s not afraid to claim what he needs: a little medicinal help, a good cry, and an early bedtime. But the way he says it is so relatable; haven’t we all been there?

“I plan on popping a pill, crying a bit, and falling asleep early.”

Despite being brilliantly well-versed in the art of understated snark, David doesn’t always feel like sharing his hilarious personality with the world. Here, he compares himself, quite unironically, to the Queen of England:

“You know, being approachable isn’t that important anyway. The Queen hasn’t smiled since the ’70s, and her birthdays are still very well attended.”

And this quote is one we introverts need to keep in our back pockets for those times when people just won’t accept our “no” to their social invitation:
I Feel You
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Sex, Poetry, Desire, Love, Lust

When I close my eyes, you sing to me a siren song

I hear its melody echoing in my mind, and I smile

The words, so soft and deep, so sensual

Dancing on your tongue, teasing, playing

I am mesmerized, entranced, bewitched

Your spell blows across my body, and I shiver

I am bound, tethered by desire

Unsatiable, I crave you every moment

Breath is short, as my hands wander

In my mind, the hands are yours, they touch

They trace and want and need

I can feel you here, your breath hot on my neck

I can feel you everywhere, holding me

Touching me, every part of me

Your name is soft on my lips, barely a whisper

And then just a little louder, and louder still

And louder still, as I lose my breath

As my heart beats fast, a tear rolls down my cheek

My eyes are closed still, and your song I hear

As your voice echos once more, my name, whispered

I long, I yearn, I crave, I want

And I hope you’ll come to me tonight

As I close my eyes to sleep and think of you

And we’ll lay together if only in a dream

And we will love
Write for iPoetry
By: Gb Rogut
Tags: Writing, Poetry, Submission Guidelines, Reading, Poem

Submissions for new writers are open!

We love poems — all of them.

So, if you share our love for poetry, please, consider joining us.

We are looking for poems on passion, life, spirituality, self-love, and the joy of writing.

If you are interested, send an email to editorgalatmedium@gmail.com

State the name of the publication you wish to join, add your Medium name, and a link to a sample of your writing.

When submitting a post, please, make sure to send a polished draft. We accept previously published posts.

previously published posts. Limit the use of images to one per poem.

Limit self-promotion to one box link per post.

The idea is not to interrupt readers as they enjoy your writing.

If five days go by since you first submitted a post, please check your piece; maybe we left some notes. Otherwise, send us an email alerting us to this issue.

We have a new section! In it, you can publish your thoughts in the art of writing poems. For your post to land in this section, use the tag On Poetry.

Once you have published at least five poems with us, we will create a Feature Page for you. All you have to do is add a tag with your Medium name, and then your poem will automatically land on the appropriate page.

Please, feel free to send questions and comments to editorgalatmedium@gmail.com

We cannot wait to read what you have in mind.

Love,

Gaby
Designing an Enterprise Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) System
By: Justin Baker
Tags: Tech, Design, User Experience, Enterprise Technology, Software Development

Role-based access control (RBAC) is an approach to restricting system access to users based on defined roles. Many companies have built internal system like these, but usually in a very archaic and haphazard way.

There are a few primary semantics to a role and a set of attributes, operaters, and actions that define a role.

Defining a Role

A role should have five semantic components:

Name — a human readable and business-friendly way to identify a role

Description — the role’s purpose, clearly defined

Tags — important for managing multiple roles and creating roles to manage to roles

Assignments — assigning roles to individuals or groups of individuals

Policies — specific rules and permission sets assigned to a role

Defining a Policy

A policy has one primary component:

Array of Statements — a policy can have many statements. You should be able to save policies and re-use them across multiple roles. In other words, a policy is a collection of specific permission rules.

Defining a Statement

A statements has three components:

Resource — the targetted feature, environment, or operation

Effect — typically “Allow” or “Deny”

Action — a resource can have many actions, like deleteUser, addUser, modifyUser. These actions should have human readable names, like “Delete a User” for “deleteUser”. This is essential when you get into more complex actions, like “Modify Image Upload” for “imgUploadMod”.

{

"effect": "deny",

"resources": [

"prod/primaryDB/*"

],

"actions": [

"deleteDB"

]

}

Mapping Roles

You should be able to assign multiple roles to an individual user. Ideally, you would have a clear user interface that allows you to build these roles and attach them to individual users or groups of users.

Avoiding Technical Debt

It is very common amongst large companies to accrue hundreds or thousands of roles over time. Having an intuitive GUI lets you manage this debt, keep your roles up-to-date, and keep your system secure.
What is Mining?
Tags: Bitcoin, Ether, Ethereum

Much is being made of the fact that cryptocurrencies are not backed by anything physical: not gold, not the US dollar, nothing you can hold in your hand. So when you hear that cryptocurrency is “mined” you might be confused for a moment, but like so much in the tech world, “mining” is just a metaphor.

While actual gold comes into being when it is taken out of the Earth, cryptocurrency often comes into being through the process of mining, like the famous Bitcoins. The process of creating cryptocurrency is more complex than just digging and smelting, though. It involves a computer or, more commonly, entire racks (or even warehouses full) of computers, working away on extremely complicated mathematical equations. Once the equation is solved, one unit of cryptocurrency is produced. The owner of the machine who produced it is rewarded with a fraction of ownership in the cryptocurrency, which is how miners make their money, and why so many are interested in mining.

As more and more people learn about the benefits that can come from mining, they buy or build a setup and get to mining. But with a greater number of miners comes greater complexity, so the more who join, the harder the equations get. The end result is that the cryptocurrency is produced at a steady pace, regardless of how many people are mining it, and as more rush to mine, each gets less and less per unit of cryptocurrency, because each can produce less and less. The more powerful your computer, and the more optimized for mining it is, the more it can produce, so it generally pays to have the latest gear.

But what is the purpose of mining? The mining process is usually responsible for verifying transactions such as transfers from one crypto wallet to another. Every transaction is written into the blockchain, the public ledger of transactions, as it is confirmed. The confirmation process is farmed out to miners, and they are compensated with cryptocurrency for verifying transactions. The “block” in “blockchain” comes from a bundle of these verified transactions. When it’s got enough transactions and gets added to the blockchain, cryptocurrency is generated and part of that goes to the miner who added the block. Thus, the blockchain grows as long as the cryptocurrency exists and is traded.

The cryptocurrency that’s issued by adding a block to the blockchain is called the block reward. For Bitcoins this is halved every 4 years, meaning that those who began mining very early were able to generate much more profit than those who are only beginning now. With the extremely complicated equations come a need for extremely powerful computers, which is why today in the Bitcoin world, for instance, most of the mining is being done in warehouses full of dedicated mining computer rigs, owned by syndicates or corporations. The smaller miners can’t get in on the ground floor anymore, alas. Not in Bitcoin at least, but there are other cryptocurrencies that haven’t reached that level of maturity and competition yet, and offer opportunity to the would-be miner with his or her eyes open!
Это прокрастинация или тяга к прекрасному?
By: Orion Nebula
Tags: Online, Music, Video, Music Concert

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Being Self-Critical
By: Zaira Abbas
Tags: Philosophy, Self-awareness, Thoughts, Criticism, Life

Of all the things that hold us back from being who we are and what we can be, our own self plays the greatest role. We have a voice inside of us that tells us we are a failure and we are incapable of great things . It keeps putting us down by telling us what we lack, It exaggerates are shortcomings and makes us unsure of our self.

Many people in our life do a pretty fine job criticizing and judging us. When this internal voice sides with them and gets stronger, we lose confidence in ourselves and start believing it.

The internal critic cant be silenced , it can only be calmed. For it is also the very thing that pushes us forward to be better. We just have to identify its unrealistic standards and realize that its okay to not live up-to them. Its okay to make mistakes.

We have to teach it to look at the bright side of everything. Better yet, we can make our negative nancy be friends with our positive polly.

When we become aware of all the voices inside us and are able to choose which one to believe we get better at taking criticism, whether its internal or external. When we identify our fears and the fact that overcoming them is the only way through, we start to believe in our self more.

We cant really block all the criticism that comes to or through us, however we can be honest with ourselves and see what can we use from it for our own good. Nothing can hold us back unless we identify with it and that’s a choice we make.
Why We Invested: Hometree
By: Ruth Foxe Blader
Tags: Proptech, Venture Capital, Home Insurance, Insurtech, Startup

Photo Credit: Hometree

While our individual COVID-19 experiences have varied, one thing is certain for nearly every human being on the planet: we are spending more time at home. For some, that has meant a desire to move; for others, investment in long-delayed repairs. While supply side challenges and a deprioritization of home security systems has impacted negatively on smart home market generally, consumers are more deeply motivated to remedy non-discretionary, counter-cyclical challenges, like heating, pest control, electrical and plumbing.

That is why we are thrilled to announce our investment in Hometree. Simon and the team are building the 21st century’s home cover platform in the UK. Hometree’s fast-growing customer pays a monthly subscription fee for peace of mind around their heating, electrics, appliances, plumbing, security and home automation.

Hometree’s customers discover products, sign up and onboard online. For added peace of mind, engineers can be tracked, much like Uber customers track their drivers en route to a pick-up. And Hometree customers enjoy 24-hour service and a no price-hike promise.

As home connectivity grows despite a temporary COVID disruption, so too will Hometree’s ability to intervene automatically on a client’s behalf, making home insurance an automated and embedded aspect of home ownership.

Indeed, the near-term Hometree tech story will build on its existing homegrown customer portal, online booking and tracking tools in order, eventually, to offer customers the comfort of full-scale remote monitoring and predictive maintenance.

Currently, Hometree’s care plans cover breakdowns and repairs to the critical infrastructure in a home — heating, electrics, plumbing, drainage and gas fires. The team’s commitment to highest quality customer service is bearing fruit for landlords and individual homeowners alike.

Today, much remains uncertain. But, with its tech-enabled home engineer services platform, Hometree is committed to providing customers unparalleled peace of mind at home this winter…and beyond.
Advisor Spotlight: Lim Cheng Teck
Tags: Advisor, Blockchain, Fintech, Banking, Payments

Lim Cheng Teck is the Chairman of Minterest, a Singapore based FinTech peer-to-business lending startup. Mr. Lim retired as Vice-Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) ASEAN after 28 years of illustrious service, and had held many senior roles, including Regional Chief Executive of ASEAN, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of StanChart Singapore and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of StanChart China. He rose to prominence for his leadership in driving the growth of the StanChart business rapidly in key Asian markets.

Mr. Lim currently serves on the advisory board of Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics (Singapore Management University) as well as the board of Special Needs Trust Company Limited (SNTC) and is presently Chairman of Bright Vision Hospital. He has an MBA from Brunel University London, and a BA in Economics from the National University of Singapore.

“We are in a perfect storm of evolving regulations, revolutionary technology, and mobile-only millennials demanding for new ways to consume banking services. Chynge is in pole position to revolutionize payments with one-click convenience for domestic and international payments using digital and fiat currencies where the lines will blur and payments would be seamless and transparent.”

Mr. Lim believes in the synergy of combining blockchain, cloud computing, and big data with AI/machine learning that creates new business models and novel financial products that will create immersive customer experiences. The rapid adoption of financial technology (FinTech) by non-financial institutions are disrupting traditional banking services, and Mr. Lim’s valuable insight and expertise will not only help Chynge navigate the banking environment but also provide a sharp advantage against its competitors.

We are honoured to have Mr. Lim Cheng Teck on board our team.
SASS in Examples
By: Artem Diashkin
Tags: Nesting, Loops, Mixin, Media Queries, Sass

7. Functions and if/else

Functions allow you to define complex operations on SassScript values that you can re-use throughout your stylesheet. They make it easy to abstract out common formulas and behaviors in a readable way.
6th ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 24 :: AARON BELZ on BLY’s VALLEJO
By: The Operating System
Tags: Writing, Inspiration, Poetry, here, Community

Poems in translation are notoriously hard to discuss, because who wrote them? For example I’ve treasured Robert Bly’s translations of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo for more than 20 years, even though I’ve heard they’re as much Bly as they are Vallejo. Someone told me Clayton Eshleman’s translations are better, but I find them flat and uninspired. I conclude that I have a personal attachment to Bly’s Vallejo, per se.

I suppose it was 1993 or 1994 when I first picked up Neruda & Vallejo. Robert Bly was, or would soon be, my professor at NYU. He was a jolly and frank man, apple-cheeked and barrel-chested, and seemed to have walked to class from the Minnesotan woods. He wore a colorful Native American vest. He reeked of body odor and loved to hug his students with his strong frontiersman’s arms. He would read a poem to us, wait a couple of beats, and read the same poem again. And sometimes a third time.

I describe Bly’s charisma as evidence that he might not be the most impartial or academic translator. When he translated, he must have been in the translation. I don’t think Bly wrote anything at all without his own powerful musk at work.

Which is all to say that although this book with “Neruda & Vallejo” in large pink letters on its cover and spine, containing translations by not only Bly but James Wright, John Knoepfle, and Douglas Lawder, served as my introduction to a poet who would become immeasurably important to me, such service may have been corrupted by oddball, biased, or otherwise intrusive philosophies of translation. I may have fallen, at least to some degree, for the translators’ charm rather than for the pure fire of the original authors.

By way of counter-caveat, the book does contain all the original texts on its facing pages, so readers can enjoy them in Spanish or try their own hands at translation.

But it was the translations with which I, personally, fell in love:
如何計算股票分割的原始價格
By: Yao-Jen Kuo
Tags: AAPL, Tsla, R, Stock Split

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Depression to Repression
By: Ngang God'Swill N.
Tags: Poetry, Love, Pain, Depression, Relationships

Depression to Repression

This is how it feels to love you — Prose Poetry

Photo by Zane Lee on Unsplash

Every kiss stole a piece of my soul, every gasp of pleasure sunk me deeper into the shadows; conveniently into the arms of homely depression as she soaked my pillows and angered the demons that called me home. Every sacrifice felt like a needle effectively evading my efforts to locate it; and even as I pulled off pieces of my flesh to please, the bloodstain rendered my offering disdainful.

Every injustice I overlooked was fuel for hotter burns even as the sun already punished my rich ebony coat.

I lost my self to the lust of your love, feeding my dependency on your love by weaning a fast-growing addiction to a fantasy created in my mind, to help me understand why you didn’t want me too. I grew accustomed to the pain and anguish so much so that the sound of tiny pieces of my broken heart hitting the hard unapologetic floor was a melancholic lullaby that rocked me to sleep in longing’s cradle.

This is how it felt to be in love alone, to give all and get nothing in return, to live for another just to have them die for another. This is how it feels to devote yourself to a love for someone so much that said love becomes normalcy, and a projection without it appears impossible. This is how it felt to be me all those many years ago, looking from backstage and smiling with a shattered heart. Wishing, praying that the Divine should bless me with you.

This is how it felt to man-up and get knocked down over and over again, till there’s no telling the dirt from the man. Till there is no perception of any iota of dignity left.

You knew all I wanted; we stood in that clearing many moons ago, in each other’s embrace as I poured out the contents of my heart to you. I remember your blush, and I would have sworn you understood that I was not just asking you to be mine, but to save me from drowning. I remember your flawless smile as you bid me farewell, and that was the last I saw of all you are.

Even though I’m healing from the massacre, picking up the pieces of my heart that flooded that clearing the following day; the day you first never showed, I found myself thinking of all that we would have been. I can’t put the images out of my mind, the potential experiences which I now must force to become memories before they ever got the chance to be manifested.

So I took to keying in letter after letter, not of what would have been but what really was; how you steadily drove me into depression’s embrace and abandoned me there for the prowling carnivores that nested there to feed off my heart.

I just wanted you to know, that this is how it feels to love you.

Ngang God'swill N. 2020
6 Basic Traits You Will Need to Succeed as a Professional Writer
By: Amy The Maritimer
Tags: Writers On Writing, Writing, Careers, Professional Development, Writing Tips

2. Organization

When you work as a professional writer, you will typically have several projects on the go, simultaneously. Currently, I have my writing job, book, ghostwriting clients, Medium, website, and writing for a blog.

In order to juggle all of these projects, I have a schedule I abide by. This is a flexible schedule because I have to account for waiting on project approval and other normal parts of the job.

Every week looks different, so every Sunday, I sit down and figure out my week. I account for any appointments or non-work commitments I have on the go for that week and work around my husband’s work schedule with the military. Writing down my schedule helps me stay on track.

I also have two different lists, one for writing pitches for my job, and another for Medium article ideas. Having a list ensures that I will never forget any of my ideas.

My lists and schedule are on my Notes application on my iPhone. My Notes app automatically syncs to my MacBook, so whenever I create a list in my Notes, it shows up on both my phone and computer. I believe OneNote for Android will do this for you if you don’t use Apple products.

Google Calendar is also a great application to stay organized and keep track of deadlines and appointments. Stephen Dalton, another professional writer on this platform, uses a large paper desktop calendar where he writes everything down.

It’s up to you to choose what medium you would like to use to keep yourself organized, but always use something to stay on track or you will quickly become overwhelmed.
Get the Grief Out
By: Emily Smith
Tags: Grief, Mental Health, Poetry, Loss, Grief And Loss

Get the Grief Out

The only way out is through

Photo by Mark Tegethoff on Unsplash

The veil is thin, so grief showed up again

Catching me by surprise, grasping for what’s left of a memory

When the grief comes, I let it stay for a while

It usually comes when I’m still and present, giving it space to arrive and I see what it has to say to me

Grief can sometimes visit at an inconvenient time

It can feel like too much for me to handle, so I unconsciously numb in little ways

But I always come back to presence and I meet with grief head-on

Grief doesn’t want to hurt me, it wants to pass-through

It wants to be expressed so it can be released

Grief may not ever leave me fully

That’s why it can catch me by surprise when I feel I’ve already expressed enough

So I make room for grief when it does arrive

Like an old friend who pays me a visit

Or like my therapist who told me, grief comes in waves

I let those waves crash over me and I talk myself out of the shame for feeling so much

No, it doesn’t mean you don’t have a handle on your emotions

It means you’re functioning just as you should, I say

And this is what grief said

Be with me, then release me and you will feel lighter

Get the grief out

You’ll feel relieved as you always do after a good cry

Until grief visits again, you’ll release more to feel lighter again
The Best of Better Programming (November 14 — November 20, 2020)
By: Zack Shapiro
Tags: Software Development, JavaScript, Programming, Python, Startup

Exciting Career Opportunities From Better Programming Jobs

if you're an employer or your company is hiring, you can post a job for free and promote it to this list next week for just $100. This week, we quietly launched BetterProgrammingJobs.com which,and promote it to this list next week for just $100. Featured Jobs: * Northstar is hiring a Software Engineer: We're hiring — software engineers to financial experts! Want to have a direct impact on people's lives? This is the place. We provide unbiased and personalized financial advice to people at all stages in life. Fully remote! Apply at https://angel.co/company/northstarmoney

* Hellosaurus is hiring a Founding iOS Engineer: Hellosaurus is reinventing children’s programming for touchscreen audiences with the most advanced interactive video platform ever built for kids. We give creators the tools to make and distribute incredible shows you can play. Hellosaurus was named by TechCrunch as one of YCS20’s top startups.

Find out more at https://www.notion.so/Join-us-at-Hellosaurus-50bb1d78b109465db763c67812a915c1?p=94ffddf013fb468986ab3c98caf45b3b * Rise Science is hiring a Lead Backend Developer: Rise Science is a sleep app built for everyday people that helps you be less tired and get more out of your day all for less than a cup a coffee per month. We're ready for a Lead Backend Engineer to join our team as we scale. Our co-founder at CTO @leonsasson wrote a letter to you to help clarify our mission, problem, and opportunity to help with self-qualification.

You can read that letter and find out more here: https://www.notion.so/risescience/A-letter-to-our-future-backend-lead-a9b2cfdef78948a0823be17e33f4a811 * Better Programming is hiring a Substitute Editor I'm looking for a part-time editor for @BttrProgramming to sub in for me while I'm on paternity leave in January. It's a part-time, paid position. I'm looking for someone with a technical background as well as some past editorial work in their resume.

If interested, email me @ zack+subeditor@zackshapiro.com with your engineering and editorial qualifications. * Coach.me is hiring a Software Engineer: "I'm looking for a programmer to work on a side project with me to help put self-published books on to Medium. Will pay normal $ + split profit on the tool." More details about the project can be found here: https://coachtony.medium.com/epub-to-medium-daf8ae8431f1
Small Actions Have Giant Consequences
By: Paul Abela
Tags: Climate Action, Society, Psychology, Covid 19, Environment

Small Actions Have Giant Consequences

Peoples everyday actions are leading us to environmental catastrophe

It’s difficult to comprehend how something so small can have such a debilitating impact. A microscopic virus has crippled the global economy and altered our reality. One virus particle isn’t a threat but once it multiples into trillions of particles the impacts are astounding. Actions multiplied countless times have life-altering effects on the world around us. Small actions, giant consequences.

Our relationship with the natural world has a similar dynamic. We’re small and insignificant when compared to Earth. But people are incentivised to behave in ways resulting in negative impacts on the environment. Every person behaving this way has giant consequences on the world around us. To the point where we’re creating an ecological disaster threatening to destroy life on Earth.

Our actions are leading to our demise. But we’re not a virus. We have the power to change our behaviour and with it our destiny.
The Readability Formula: Making Your Website Easy-to-Read
By: Emma Butler
Tags: Design, Web Design, Content, Typography, UI

Have you ever been reading an article, and after a couple of lines started to skim and then thought about closing the tab — even though you’re really interested in the subject and set out with the intent to read the entire thing?

You can tell the content is written well, and you really want to make it to the conclusion, but something’s preventing you from doing so and you can’t quite put your finger on it…

…could it be that the typographic choices on that website are causing you to stop reading the content? 😱

Readability is about more than just having your content make sense — you can spend a pile of money on a copywriter and check reading levels, but if the layout makes reading difficult you might as well set that money on fire. The right balance between font size and line length is a big difference-maker in the science of readability.

If a font size is too small and the line length too long, readers will have to strain to read the text, which causes their eyes to fatigue. On the other hand, if the font size is too big (making the line length too short), readers are forced to jump to the next line of text too quickly, which — you guessed it — is also hard on the eyes!

The last thing you want is for your website to be referred to as “too hard to read”. Customers and clients make choices quickly when you put them at ease. A comfortable reading experience leads visitors to a) easily read your content, and b) make decisions faster.

Line length & font size
A DIFFERENT TYPE OF QUESTION
Tags: Steemit, Questions, Games, Crowdini, Steem

RESULTS AND THE COMMENT OF THE DAY

Yesterday’s Question: Would you rather know all the mysteries of the universe or know every outcome of every choice you make?

Comment: “I don’t want to know what my outcomes would be, where’s the fun in that. Knowing how something work in the world and universe would be much more fascinating.” by tryskele who answered “All the mysteries of the universe”.

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YESTERDAY’S RESULT

Yesterday’s Question: Would you rather know all the mysteries of the universe or know every outcome of every choice you make?

Majority Answer: All the mysteries of the universe

TODAY’S QUESTION

How many faces (cloud formations that look like faces) can you see in the picture of clouds below?
What is Data Science?
By: Aman Prasad
Tags: Data Science

The term Data Science comes with a lot of different interpretations these days, so it might be easier to start with what Data Science is not. Data Science is not about writing code or awesome visualizations. It’s not about making complicated models either.

Hacked?

Data Science is about using data to create as much impact as possible for your company.

Impact could be driven in multiple ways, it could be insights and visibility into the data, or data products which allow prediction/classification. To build such things, we need tools like statistical models, visualizations or writing code.

Data Science aims to solve real company problems using data. What tools do we use? It depends.

What’s popular vs Industry Needs

Some topics are more fun to talk about than others, so there is a misalignment in what’s popular in media and what is needed in the industry.

The rise in big data sparked the rise in data science to support the needs of businesses to draw insights from their massive unstructured data sets. As the term became more popular, the Journal of Data Science described it as:

“[…] almost everything that has something to do with data: Collecting, analyzing, modelling… yet the most important part is its applications — all sorts of applications.”

With newfound abundance of data, companies are shifting from a knowledge driven approach to a data driven approach. All the theoretical papers written decades ago about Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines are now possible to implement, supported by the availability of both big data and the necessary hardware to build Machine Learning models. As we might have seen, the promising nature of Machine learning and Industry 4.0 concepts has been in the news lately.

..and then deletes it?

Machine Learning and AI have dominated the media and overshadow all other aspects of Data Science like exploratory analysis, experimentation and skills we traditionally call business intelligence. This gives the impression that Data Science is research focused on Machine learning and AI. Technically, it is part of the job to have a cutting edge Machine Learning model, but companies have so many low hanging fruits that in most cases they don’t require any more advanced machine learning models than what has already been researched.

This tell us that at the heart of Data Science is finding the right problems and solving them through data driven insights. The process involves financial stakeholders and is guided by business domain specialists who are in turn offered visibility into the data.

Data Science is more about:

Driving Impact

Solving Problems

Building Strategies

And less about:

Advanced Models

Data Crunching

In the case of Merino, the architecture enabling data availability is vast and of high quality

I hope this article gives you a good idea of what capabilities we have and the future directions we could pursue. Feel free to send me any feedback and be part of the process :)

Thanks for reading!

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