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Joost Greenhouse, Melbourne
By: Dan Hill
Tags: Architecture, Melbourne, Urban Agriculture, Food, Sustainability

Particularly interesting to me — as a keen if limited urban gardener — is the building as platform and showcase for urban agriculture. A little more could be done to explain the system at work here — which plants make it into the food; how the waste is turned into compost etc. — and the opportunity for increasingly greening all urban spaces with productive planting. I’m trying to move a few projects forward in this area during 2009 …

A simple newspaper-format publication explains in more detail, as does the website — which is a little bereft of images. With that in mind, all my photos of the Greenhouse are collected in a set at Flickr.

The Greenhouse is installed at Federation Square until the end of January 2009.
Update Queries without changing RecyclerView Adapter using FirebaseUI — Android 🔥
By: Shreyas Patil
Tags: Android, Cloud Firestore, Firebase, Recyclerview, Kotlin

FirebaseUI

In this article, you will learn how to change Firebase Realtime Database/Cloud Firestore queries without changing the whole adapter of a RecyclerView in Android by using the FirebaseUI-Android library.

Let’s say you need to populate a list using RecyclerView to show data loaded from Firebase Realtime Database or Cloud Firestore and you have implemented a custom RecyclerView.Adapter to hold data or you used FirebaseUI-Android which is an official open-source library developed by the Firebase team. In this article, we’re going to use the FirebaseUI-Android library.

We’ll load data from Firebase Realtime Database/Cloud Firestore and populate a RecyclerView (Simple + Paginated) using the adapter. After that, we’ll change/filter the query based on some user interaction at runtime without changing whole adapter.

In the end, you will see app like this 👇. After clicking on one of the buttons, data in RecyclerView will be replaced by new data.
When the Mountains Hide
By: Kae Smith
Tags: Prose, Mountains, Nature, Poetry, Scuzzbucket

I’ve never trusted places without mountains; flat plains, farm land, middle of the country, nothingness;

however, even in places with the most magnificent of peaks,

they seem to disappear in clouds of grey.

On the coast, thick heavy fog covers the tops, sometimes the only distinction is a slight difference is the shade of grey in the sky;

back at home, the yearly purge of fire scours the mountainside, and with

the sky a horrendous orange, the peaks slink behind clouds of smoke that

coats your lungs and saddens your mind.

It’s another love hate relationship, where the raw image of grey wisps floating around the peaks makes my chest beat a little faster,

god, there’s just something about me and mountains, but the

fog or the smoke gets too thick, so thick you could choke on it,

the mountains disappear.

Either from view, thanks to the fog, which covers the entirety of the coast and leaves you

locked in, trapped, safe

or they disappear entirely, and when the smoke clears the charred trees and ashy grounds don’t give off the same spark,

dampened by the forces of nature.

Even when they stand tall and stand their ground, they still require their time away ,

from prying eyes and flashes of cameras,

maybe the mountains are shy,

maybe they’re getting too old for this,

sometimes they just need to hide away.
Into The Woods
By: Matthew Donnellon
Tags: Nature, Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Creative Writing, Creativity

Matthew Donnellon is a writer, artist, and sit down comedian. He is the author of The Curious Case of Emma Lee and Other Stories.

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What are virtual bots currently like and what is their future potential?
By: Laura Rodriguez
Tags: AI, Design Thinking, Design, User Experience Design, Bots

Research prompt: Relative to [these work-related problems], build your dream bot. End-users ripped a strip of paper and voted on the various bot characteristics (listed below).

We’re surrounded by bots and AI-infused virtual assistants in our everyday lives, or at least if you choose to be. For me, a typical day involves the phrase, “Echo, good morning” as soon as I wake up (preferring the more gender-neutral Alexa presence). This turns on my lamp, plays news highlights, and then seamlessly transitions into a radio station of my choice. As I get ready for the day I find myself constantly inquiring, “Echo, what time is it?” to find out I’m running behind. Later that day, if I have a question for my husband I say, “Hey Siri, text Gaines: Do you know where the phone charger is?” And in the evening while cooking dinner I yell from the kitchen to the Alexa device sitting in my living room, “Echo, play music!” and minutes later, “Echo, add carrots to my shopping list!” Ending the night with a simple, “Echo, wrap it up.” resulting in all of the houselights turning off.” I clearly live in the future, and it’s pretty dope.

As you can see, my life has been drastically simplified and enhanced by the presence of bots as virtual assistants. Now, on to the good stuff…

While I was a designer in IBM’s Social Collaboration organization back in 2014, I had the responsibility to understand the potential for our products (like email, chat, file-sharing, and e-meetings) to meaningfully leverage bots. So, as a starting point, I asked myself, “Laura, what are bots currently like and what is their future potential?” Unfortunately, the answer didn’t come spilling out of a device like I’m currently used to, but I built a framework that breaks it all down with some notes on what we feel confident we know, and open questions we still have.

Let me know what you think and if anything has changed in the last 6 years.
টেস্টারের দৃষ্টিকোণ থেকে Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) — চলমান পর্ব: 9
By: Rafayet Hossain
Tags: Engineering, Career Advice, Software Development, Careers, Testing

Excelling Essential Skill Sets for future you. We are not going tell you what should be done rather how it is done.

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Stop Looking at Social Media When You’re Trying to Get Hired
By: Allison Chow
Tags: Work, Life Lessons, Self Improvement, Social Media, Life

Stop Looking at Social Media When You’re Trying to Get Hired

It falsely inflates your sense of self-righteousness and makes you feel unreasonably disappointed.

Struggling to find a job? You’re not alone.

Image by【中文ID】愚木混株 【Instagram】cdd20 from Pixabay

Finding a job is tougher than it needs to be in this day and age. While part of it is that there are more educated people making their way into the workforce, the other part of it is what we do to ourselves psychologically.

M ost people don’t work at top companies.

I know, it doesn’t seem like it. In fact, it might seem like everyone is being hired by a top tier company because all you see are these kinds of posts on your feed.

“So excited to announce that I’ll be joining <insert big 4 company> in <San Francisco, New York, Seattle, etc…> this year after I graduate making an absurdly large salary!”

Those posts show up all the time, probably not in that exact format but the implied “bigger-than-what-you-make” salary is there, more frequently than posts from people advertising that they’ll be working at regular small companies.

You might see these posts so frequently that you start to think that you should be able to get these jobs too. Like why are so many people getting hired at these awesome jobs and I’m not? I’m probably just as good as them, so what’s wrong with these companies and why aren’t they hiring me?

The self-righteousness starts to build, the disappointment when you spend longer and longer waiting for these companies to call you up mounts fast.

The reality of it is that most people don’t end up working at these top jobs, especially not right out of university, because statistically how could everyone be hired by four companies? But, this small percentage of people are the most active at advertising their success on social media, which leads to a disproportionate feeling that everyone is being hired at huge companies.

This, in turn, makes you feel like you also deserve to be in this 1% because you want to make that celebratory post too. So if and when you end up getting interviews only with small companies paying an average salary, you feel like it isn’t worth advertising in comparison. It’s almost like you don’t want to broadcast to the world that you’re not doing as well as these other people in your circle, so you don’t post at all.

It’s a destructive loop that makes people think that they deserve to have better because all they see is the 1%.

Some people start to turn down interviews with regular companies because they think they’re better than that, and will just wait forever for a top company to come knocking. These are the people you’ll see leave disparaging comments on Facebook, lamenting on how they don’t understand why they’re not being hired. Sometimes it really is just an algorithm screening out their resume, but sometimes it is them having an overinflated sense of worth.
Separating Content
By: Linzi Berry
Tags: Lists, Design, UX Design, Visual Design, Design Systems

If you do go with lines (so did we — no judgement), here are some factors to keep in mind:

Item Dividers

Item dividers are typically inset to visually indicate that the thought is still connected.

Start inset

Both Apple’s HIG and Material Design recommend item dividers that align to the start of the text on the starting side (the left for LTR languages.) I believe they do this to give the imagery visual space, but I dislike the inconsistent item divider line starting points when a single screen is comprised of iconic and plain text list items. It makes the group of list items with icons feel more connected than the group without.

Having the item divider always start at the same inset gives the illusion of a more consistent layout.

Content vs Text Start

End inset

For interactive elements, both recommend item dividers that go to the edge of the screen on the ending side (the right for LTR languages.) For static elements Android recommends to inset. I believe they do this to clearly delineate between static and interactive elements, but I question if the user is tuned into such a small difference and it brings an asymmetry to the screen that may not be desired.

Insetting both the interactive and static dividers creates a more symmetrical and consistent layout.

Content vs Edge End

Exceptions

There are a few exceptions to the equal inset item divider:
Ghost From the Fugue
By: The Nonconformist Magazine
Tags: Poetry Writing, Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Poet, Poem

POETRY

Ghost From the Fugue

by Amanda Tumminaro

I am present.

I used to be lost in the fugue of fumes,

but now I appear like a ghost

from the particles of fog.

I resent the idea

that I had disappeared.

Yet, I did,

and, better still, now I haunt.

I am transported by will,

transported by the foot of my soul.

Better still, now I haunt.
具有「中國特色」的東亞史──讀《火槍與帳簿：早期經濟全球化時代的中國與東亞世界》
Tags: History, Book Review, China, East Asia

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Can you Live without your Favourite Music?
By: Mai はな
Tags: Travel, China, Language, Music, Essay

Nanjing is a big city which used to be the capital, but it is one of the least popular destinations for Japanese people because of the historical background. It is a shame because there are many beautiful sites in Nanjing. Anyway, that was the reason why I moved to Nanjing after a one-month stay in a college dorm for international students in Shanghai.

The majority of the students in the dorm in Shanghai were Japanese and most of the time they spoke Japanese in the accommodation. I thought it was not worth staying there to improve my Mandarin and decided to go to Nanjing which is nearly 300 km away from Shanghai.

I had learnt Mandarin for more than five years before I went to China, so I didn’t have much difficulty with communicating the local people in Nanjing. Luckily, I found an apartment to live and shared it with a Chinese woman after having stayed a few days in a college dorm in Nanjing.

The Chinese woman who I shared the room with was nice to me and I could learn authentic and domestic Mandarin from her. The apartment I stayed cost 1,500 yuan (181.38 USD equivalent, at that time) per month. I paid half, and she paid another half. Generally, the price in China was much lower than in Japan, though it is getting more expensive now. I had enough money to live and to travel around in China; money was not the issue for me.

I enjoyed pretty much everything during that period. I didn’t have any trouble with people and I loved Chinese food. I could safely walk around in one of the historical cities, Nanjing. I could get along with my classmates too, even though there weren’t many Japanese students; most of them were Koreans.

However, after a couple of months passed, I had a sudden feeling; ‘I miss something.’

In the beginning, I thought it was Japanese which I was missing in my life, but it was not. I could speak Japanese with a few Japanese students in the class when I wanted to talk or hear Japanese.
Steak and Pasta Night
By: Leonard Ng
Tags: Steak, Food, Cooking, Pasta

This was the dinner I cooked for Chester and myself back in Tuesday.

Medium scotch fillet with fusilli on the side topped with home made tomato source (made from 6 real tomato, in the pot on the right hand side).

I like cooking, and I like making my sons happy. They were happy, and the cooking was fun. So I was happy too.
How Colorism Negatively Affects Little Black Girls
By: Kitami Prescott
Tags: Race, Racism, Women, Colorism, Life

I Was Black, She Was Almost White

I remember it so vividly. I was eight years old when she moved from the United States to our little twin-island country of Trinidad and Tobago, to live at my grandmother’s house. She was my cousin, born to my Afro-Caribbean aunt and her Puerto-Rican father. She had very light-colored skin with luscious, thick 3A hair, dubbed the “good hair.”

I was in awe when I saw her, as was everyone else. Why? Tobago is a predominantly Afro-Trinbagonian community so she stood out wherever she went. She was fondly called “Reds”, which was Trinbagonian slang for a person of “Red-skin”. RED-SKIN (adj) — Light-colored in complexion, brown, light brown, reddish-brown or reddish-white; usually a mixture of European (White) and African (Black).

I was about eleven years old when I began to realize that something was wrong. It had somehow gradually evolved from awe and curiosity to preferential treatment. I noticed how she got treated better than I was by everyone else. How she got sent to a fancy, private primary school while I went to a public one. How she got doted on a lot more than I did.

“Light Skin and 3A texture Hair” (Photo by Thgusstavo Santana from Pexels)

While in the town with our grandmother, people would stop us and shower her with compliments with nary a word about me. I felt unattractive and unwanted.

This continued even through high school, where she would be pursued a lot more by the guys and was very popular. I saw teachers give her preferential treatment, I even had my crush approach me because he was interested in her. He asked me, “Can you introduce me to your cousin? Reds are really my type.”

Back then, I thought to myself, “Wow, maybe I really am quite ugly.”, but that didn’t seem to be the case. If I was alone, I received compliments but if I was together with her, I was overlooked. I was so confused.

We didn’t even look that much different from each other, save for the fact that I didn’t have the “good hair”, rather, my hair was “nappy”, and I was Black whereas she was almost White.
What is wrong with talking about magnesium and pain?
By: Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Tags: Business, Writing, Education, Leadership, Innovation

Feedback is essential for growth.

Feedback is critical for writers.

Feedback is invaluable in every profession.

I love writing about my experience and sharing important messages.

Writing and sharing have always been passion for me.

In this article, I want to discuss an article close to my heart.

The pure intention of the article was to share my personal experience supported by science. I attached it below for your reference.

The experience mentioned in the article made a substantial positive impact on my health. Therefore, my aim was to pass on the message to a wider audience so that many other people can benefit from this experience. I introduced a natural substance and some practical tips to use it.

By following the Medium curation guidelines, I submitted the article with no ads or clutter. I did not use the term Medium and did not tag anyone. More importantly, the article received excellent feedback with many claps from my readers. Even some well known health professionals endorsed it. I also had fantastic feedback from many professionals on LinkedIn.

However, Medium curators did not distribute it to the topics for unknown reasons. I am wondering why. What did I do wrong in this specific article? Or was there something wrong with my message? Did the article misguide people? Was it too personal? Did it give harm to society? Was there any harassment in the content? Was the title click-bait? Was the cover photo too aggressive, offensive, or misleading? I keep asking these questions but cannot find a convincing answer. Therefore, I need your help.

Since there is no feedback mechanism from curators and I am a person who strives for excellence and wants to improve his writing and content marketing, I want to invite my readers to provide me honest feedback on what is wrong in this article prevented it being distributed to the topics on Medium.

Please be as brutal as possible in your feedback. You can’t offend me, I enjoy and value negative feedback too. I’d appreciate your comments on what is missing or what it is too much to prevent it from distribution.

I truly want to improve my writing skills and want messages to reach out to a wider audience. Since you are all creative writers on ILLUMINATION, I value your feedback. We are here to help and support each other to grow and become successful in our writing practice.

Here is the article for your review.
Be The Change
By: Glen Binger
Tags: Growth Mindset, Mindfulness, Betterism, Learning, Change

From The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche:

“There is only one law in the universe that never changes — that all things change, and all things are impermanent.”

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These things seem to be common sense:

Change the things you can.

Accept the things you cannot.

However, we mustn’t forget:

Your definition of things which can and cannot change — will in fact — end up changing.

Because:

All things change eventually.

We are in a constant state of chemical change.
In Our Opinion: We will never forget
Tags: September 11, New York City, Never Forget, Headlines, Voices

Twelve years have passed since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.

That’s hard to believe.

It’s hard to believe that it was 12 years ago that this country changed forever.

It’s hard to believe that it was 12 years ago that so many innocent lives were lost.

It’s hard to believe how much our lives have changed in those 12 years — how heightened security at public places, especially airports, is expected and openly accepted; how a person’s privacy is not always private; how farewell and welcome home celebrations for servicemen and women seem to be commonplace.

There are so many other examples to mention of how our lives have changed since that fateful day 12 years ago.

Here we are, more than a decade later, with 9/11 as a memory for all of us who lived it, and a history lesson for those who didn’t.

Twelve years later, we should all be proud of the way we are remembering and honoring those who lost their lives that day as well as their families, and also the servicemen and women — and their families — who so bravely have volunteered to serve this country.

In addition to annual memorials put on at the national level, local communities are playing a large part, too. Our community, and others around us, are setting up 9/11 memorials, obtaining steel from the World Trade Center to display and hosting 9/11 remembrances.

We should all be proud of ourselves and our fellow citizens. But we should not stop here just because we have done well so far.

We should never forget what happened 12 years ago. We should always respectfully pause and respect those who were taken from us and those who fight for our freedom.

And we should ensure that those who weren’t alive 12 years ago, or were too young to remember, are taught about what happened that day, and how it will continue to affect our lives and theirs.

We will never forget.

Share your experiences:

Have a 9/11 story to tell, or want to send a message to the community or our

servicemen and women? Write us a letter to the editor.
An Unlikely Ally
By: Samantha Kemp-Jackson
Tags: Short Fiction, Teens, Short Story, Fiction, Flash Fiction

Her dad was livid. She had never seen him this angry before.

“Where do you think you’re going dressed like that?!” he shouted for not only her, but everyone in the neighbourhood to hear. “Get upstairs and change out of that god-awful outfit NOW!”

His crimson face and the beads of sweat that had quickly formed on his brow underscored his words. He wasn’t kidding.

“I don’t know where she gets these crazy ideas about ‘fashion,’ and what these kids today think is appropriate,” he complained to his wife. “I ought to cut her off completely unless she checks with me about anything she plans on buying before getting any more money.”

His wife nodded in agreement while invisibly rolling her eyes. She had seen and heard this all before. No one had said that parenting would be easy. “Yea, I agree,” she concurred, dutifully.
Stubborn Mountains
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Mountains, Life Lessons, Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Poem

Hi! I’m Terry Mansfield and I Specialize in Eclecticism

Here are some things about me you probably don’t know (and maybe don’t even care to know; sorry about that).
Chance Only Favours The Prepared. It Won’t Wait For You
By: Krystal Lo
Tags: Writing, Life Lessons, College, Personal Development, Education

Chance Only Favours The Prepared. It Won’t Wait For You

Most college students would start to panic in their final year, due to the fear of unemployment after graduation. The status “jobless” is definitely every college graduate’s worst nightmare, it is as good as admitting that all these years of education are just a waste of time since you are not even able to secure a job.

But, is it really true the job market has become more competitive than before? Why are college students facing employment despite having the right qualifications?

Personally, I don’t believe that it is hard to find a job. But, finding a job which matches your desired salary can be really hard. Hence, many college graduates complained about not being able to find a job.

Have they ever considered the possibility that they could be demanding too much?

The society would never lack talent however, it’s the people living in the society who truly lack resilience. When it comes to Generation Z, most of the technologies which revolves around us are instantaneous.

However, the same logic does not apply for jobs, relationships and self-growth. All these aspects take time and effort but we just refused to wait.

“You need time to climb the corporate leader and gain all the necessary skills before moving to another company. That’s how you grow your worth in the workforce.” My parents used to tell me this all the times.

The reality is, the thought of working under someone else after graduation has never crossed my mind. I want to become my own boss, so how on earth can I ensure that I am able to stay competitive after graduation despite facing failures?

Our parent’s advice do not work on us besides the resilience part. Take that to heart and start building your side project from freshman year onwards as your aspiration also requires time to grow into reality.

If a person is constantly putting himself down for the possibility of unemployment upon graduation, it shows a lot. He has not made any effort in attempting to secure a job or working on his goals.

Talk is cheap, my darling. Take action instead of dreaming.

The society needs someone who is prepared and forward-looking. Furthermore, no matter which part of the world we are in, the workforce is always competitive. It would never wait for us to be ready enough to seize the opportunity.

I hope when your opportunity arrives, you will always remain ready and competitive. Show the world what you got and from that, work up the ladder of being a great leader.

We need more great leaders to inspire the upcoming generations and make the world more innovative.
Man’s Culture in Sons Eyes
By: Yazzy Paradise
Tags: True Story, Culture, Deep

It was New Years. The Ethiopian New Years. The only reason I knew about it was because my coworker is from Ethiopia. I asked him why is he at work and not at home spending time with family and he said, “Over here you cannot really celebrate it the same way. You would want to invite friends but most of the Ethiopians over here forgot about our New Years. It’s not the same. In Ethiopia everyone is off of work, out of school, and we all gather and celebrate with food and music. It is amazing.”

The moment he started to gradually rotate his head back towards his tiring job position to continue working, you could see the pain, sadness, and yearning for a past that will never come back. You could feel the anger of a culture that is being lost in a mans eyes as he is struggling to hold on like someones sweaty hand as you dangle from a rooftop. Knowing that he will never get the money needed to go back for a simple vacation with his family and have his relatives and siblings look at him and say, “He made it,” he continues to work the same job he has had for years. He does not plan to change. He can only hope his kids can do better.
Always Do the Right Thing by Following Simple Commandments
By: John Mashni
Tags: Character, Business, Self Improvement, Personal Growth, Leadership

An older man sat down next to a younger man on an airplane. They had never met.

After a few moments of silence, the older man made a proposition to the younger man. He asked the younger man to steal something for him. In exchange for the stolen item, the younger man would receive a sum of one million dollars.

The younger man initially was offended, but when he heard the amount, he listened carefully. He became excited at the prospect of becoming a millionaire overnight. He agreed to the man’s offer. The two men then arranged the details and the rest of the conditions.

As the older man prepared to leave the plane, he made a confession.

“I’m sorry. In my excitement, I may have misled you. Everything I have said is true, but one thing. I don’t have a million dollars. But would you consider the same proposition for, let’s say, 10 dollars?”

The younger man had to resist punching him in the nose. Offended, he snapped back at him, “What type of man do you think I am?”

“The type of man you are has already been established. Now, we are just haggling over the price.”
Selina Kyle será madre
Tags: 9paneles, Catwoman, Batman, Noticias, Comics Journalism

in Both Sides of the Table
新規アドバイザー及びパートナーシップのお知らせ
By: Tom Won
Tags: Notice, Blockchain, Jpn, Bitcoin, Investment

Traveler, Cryptoinvestor, Official Community Manager for APIS Platform project. To learn more about APIS, please visit apisplatform.io

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For Jeremiah
By: Tre L. Loadholt
Tags: Family, Poetry, Love, Children, A Cornered Gurl

For Jeremiah

The First

Jeremiah smiling, why? Auntie had some of his favorites shipped to him for his 7th birthday.

My phone dings a

Tune divvied out to my

Brother who has been exceptional

At fathering his son.

I watch the images load

One-by-one

And the smiling face that appears

Before me is my oldest nephew

Happy about some little things

Received for his seventh year on Earth.

I am engrossed in the blips

Of life — caravaning their way

Into my Sunday morning.

I am not quick enough with my hand

And the tears begin to fall.

Distance is a powerful thing that

Keeps us in different States while he

Rises above the many woes

Of childhood.

I look at him and see my

Brother smiling back at me

When he was his age.

I am thinking —

*Where has the time gotten off to?*

*You just got here little one.*

But it is I who is stuck in the past,

Afraid to move from the day

His birth was announced.

I am surrounded by boys,

Little men — cemented foundations

That shake when storms come

Because life is a tricky thing

And magic isn’t something they

Were taught in school.

They are not spinning webs

Of reflections shared with wanderers of

Forgotten faith and mercenaries

Welding their shielded souls.

No one is rescuing them from tattered halls

Of misunderstandings and silencers catapulting

Bullets of fire into their chests.

Protection —

My brother offers it to him and

I find myself overwhelmed with joy

Knowing that he is doing,

Has done

What he needs to for

A son.

He is doing what I pray

Others will do

For their sons who are

Poisoned before purity

Can find its space for settling.

Emotion strikes me and the only

Thing I can muster up to type

Among all other things is:

“I am so proud of you.

You are a great father, Joshua.”

My nephew is a walking reminder

That life is cyclical.

A turn of phases that no

Time machine can stop.

I can sulk in the potential

Demands of a Nation too focused on

Drowning his beginnings, but

I choose to find solace instead.

After all, hope is in his smile.
[T3EXT DAY] TYPO3 + Disqus.com!
By: Nitsan
Tags: Plugins, Extension, CMS, Disqus, Typo3

What it is?

DISQUS is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and has many other features.

The EXT:ns_disqus_comments extension will help you to integrate DISQUS comments plugin into your website. Our extension will integrate DISQUS comments section on TYPO3 pages (you can easily enable or disable comments block on your pages).

What are the topics?

1. Front-end view of Disqus Comment plugin

2. Overview of extension:

3. Back-end view after plug-in installation

4. How to get Shortname?

5. Cache clearing

6. Support, Feedback & Suggestions

Checkout whole blog at https://www.nitsan.in/blog/post/disqus-comment-system-typo3-plugin/

#TYPO3 #Extension #Disqus #InspiringPeopleToContribute
Hundred Waters — Firelight. An exercise in inhabiting…
By: Mikhal Weiner
Tags: Songs, Music, Music Voices, Pop Culture, Indie

Hundred Waters — Firelight

An exercise in inhabiting contradictions

Photo by moein moradi from Pexels

Delicate and gritty, golden and heart-wrenching, intimate and epic: ‘Firelight’ is an exercise in inhabiting contradictions. It sits in that sweet spot right in the center of the chest, swaddling us in a blanket of vocals and pianos. The slow, steady groove leaves us with no choice but to move our bodies in time to the music. Our very ligaments twist and turn when the synth hook comes in with a hard hitting bass after the initial chorus.

All subtly layered and treated vocals dripping in reverb, ‘Firelight’ opens with lead singer Nicole Miglis posing a lonesome, double-edged question: “Sunshine, where’d you go?” Closing my eyes, I can almost see Miglis standing on the edge of a canyon, sending the question into the empty space. She waits less than a heartbeat before answering herself, and when she does, the broken way in which she places the words within the melody feels uncertain, hesitant. She’s both hopeful and hopeless — connecting to a place so many of us know too well.

The ballad continues with full force, as Miglis promises to “walk through your fire”. She continues to break with conventional sentence structure, as though stuttering her promises to whoever has gone missing.

Hundred Waters, courtesy of OWLSA

And then. Two choruses in. Just when we thought we knew what was happening. A full beat of silence—long enough to catch the ear of any casual listener. Long enough to remind us all just how powerful silence can be.

When the song comes back it’s just the piano for a moment, until a broken groove echoes the vocal stutter. Miglis sings one more desolate verse before returning to an even fuller chorus.

One more surprise awaits us, just a few seconds later, in the empty space left after the chorus. A distorted voice message — a man is asking someone to call him. ‘Te quiero mucho,’ he says, and then it just explodes, and we explode with it, now fully willing to go along for any ride as long as the members of Hundred Waters are holding the compass. A million Miglis’ are now singing: “You’re gonna come back”. We are the chorus, and it’s an ocean, and we’re giving ourselves up to the water, willingly drowning in vocals and longing.
World Blockchain Summit
By: Alfa
Tags: Events

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Sketchnoting Manifesto
By: Cindy Chang
Tags: Sketches, Design, Events

Held at the beautiful Autodesk Gallery overlooking San Francisco’s Ferry Building and Bay Bridge, Manifesto was an exciting Thursday afternoon for 250 product thinkers, designers, and makers in design and technology to come together to share, learn, and collaborate. With 4 keynotes and 3 panels on a spread of topics including product design, behavior design, customer retention, and disruption, the conference was the perfect opportunity for me and others from Salesforce UX to meet some inspiring folks in our field.

Between all the talks and mingling, it can sometimes be tricky to capture the content of these cool live events. Photographs don’t really say much, and videos can be too long to watch. Meanwhile, hand-scrawled notes scribbled on a page are often too cryptic or personal, and forgotten about after the fact. In light of this, I’ve actually always thought of visual note-taking as a fantastic medium for capturing live events. It’s essentially cartoon journalism: easily consumed, easily shared.

To test out my hunch, I decided to take my visual note-taking skills out for a spin during Manifesto last week. Here are my sketchnotes from some of the keynote presentations.

Chris Anderson: Product Design

Author of “The Long Tail”, Former editor-in-chief of WIRED, Founder of Geekdad, Co-founder of 3DRobotics

Chris shared with us the story of how he started his company 3DRobotics 6–8 years ago, and how different getting to V1 is today. A natural storyteller, Chris emphasized “peace dividends of the smartphone wars” and how much of where we are now harkens back to 2007 with the rise of hardware.
The Battle for the Soul of Islam
By: James M. Dorsey
Tags: Indonesia, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Religion

By James M. Dorsey

The battle for the soul of Islam pits rival Middle Eastern and Asian powers against one another: Turkey, seat of the Islamic world’s last true caliphate; Saudi Arabia, home to the faith’s holy cities; the United Arab Emirates, propagator of a militantly statist interpretation of Islam; Qatar with its less strict version of Wahhabism and penchant for political Islam; Indonesia, promoting a humanitarian, pluralistic notion of Islam that reaches out to other faiths as well as non-Muslim centre-right forces across the globe; Morocco which uses religion as a way to position itself as the face of moderate Islam; and Shia Iran with its derailed revolution.

Read further at https://www.hudson.org/research/16463-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-islam
It’s Time for Fullstack Dev Tools
By: Nir Soudry
Tags: AWS, Devtools, JavaScript, Full Stack, AWS Lambda

It’s Time for Fullstack Dev Tools

Get your Fullstack toolbox out

Photo by Barn Images on Unsplash

As time goes by, JavaScript is proving itself as the most popular language in the world. Developing on the web is so accessible nowadays, and many new developers learn JavaScript as their first language.

But new developers are not the only ones who find their way into JavaScript. Node.js by itself is the most popular framework, and seasoned back end developers, whether they like it or not, join the JavaScript community too.

Since web apps are so popular, and you can use JavaScript to run back ends too, more developers find themselves working on both front end and back end and are required to hold the complex skills of simultaneously debugging two systems.

But the complexity doesn’t end there. Most back-end architectures today look like a thick forest. As cloud services develop, as serverless solutions mature, and as microservice architectures gain popularity, the back-end architecture becomes harder to understand than ever.

Even a simple back-end architecture can contain many resources. Here is a simple example of two back-end services, worker lambdas communicating via a queue, CDN with static content storage, a database, and a cache server:

A simple architecture, sketched with cloudcraft.co

Now, imagine you click a button on your React app that causes unexpected data to be written to the database. You must first debug the client code and check that you called the correct API with the correct parameters. Once that’s cleared, you’ll continue to debug the server. But then you notice your server invoked a lambda that inserted an item to a queue, which was later picked by another lambda, that may have eventually written the wrong data to the database.

This debugging session may take your full day—and your good mood.

I Call for Fullstack Dev Tools

Today, in order to debug the discussed flow, you’ll probably need your Chrome DevTools, IDE, a log explorer, and some superpowers to correlate the specific API request with both lambda invocations.

Observe for a second the Timing panel on Chrome DevTools:
Four Signs That You Are Being Psychologically Abused
By: Carrie Wynn
Tags: Abuse, Mental Health, Psychology, Women, Relationships

The most harmful things are usually the ones that we cannot see with our naked eye.

I was in my early twenties when I entered into a romance with a man that would attempt to break me down to absolutely nothing. Not only did I leave the relationship with the trauma that I would deal with for the rest of my life, but I had no idea what to call what I was feeling.

This is the case with psychological abuse. There may be no physical scars to be seen with the naked eye, but the damage is vast and deep.

I left that relationship with a head and heart that was bruised, battered, and broken.
Mankind’s War Against Humanity
By: Yonason Goldson
Tags: Life, Life Lessons, Philosophy, Theology, Religion

The Paradox of Unity

“Come, let us go down and diffuse their language, so that one will no longer understand the language of the other.”

The unity that should have uplifted humankind became twisted into a vehicle for corruption of the human spirit. The solution was not to confound or confuse their language, as the popular translation suggests. Rather, it was to mix together a multiplicity of words and thoughts so that understanding would become more elusive and, consequently, require more effort to achieve.

No longer would human beings be able to take for granted the commonality of their thoughts and conceptualizations. Now they would have to grapple with the complexities of competing values and priorities, reaching consensus through rational discussion and constructive disagreement. Ethics and justice could not be assumed by virtue of popular opinion and conventional wisdom, but would have to be carved out through sincere investigation into and contemplation of the moral bedrock on which stands the human condition.

Whereas universal values should have been accepted as self-evident by the community of human beings, the distortion of those values necessitated a more tortuous path in the journey toward moral truth. Now, the self-consciousness of the individual would play an indispensable role, one that could only be successfully fulfilled by engaging the minds of other individuals and laboring to find the common ground of authentic wisdom.

Where intellectual homogeneity had become a source of weakness, now diversity of thought would become a source of strength. But if human beings take the low road, withdrawing into ideological cliques and tribes that perpetuate solidarity of ideas at the expense of intellectual integrity, then we repeat the errors of the past and perpetuate confusion and discord.

Intellectual tribalism not only pits human beings against themselves; it also promotes ideological extremism as each side endeavors to distance itself from the other. The resulting partisan myopia naturally indulges the toxic fallacy that civil discourse is a symptom of moral compromise.

Nothing could be less true.

Rather, constructive disagreement is the only rational approach toward restoring the unity of common commitment to universal values that is the enduring legacy of the human race.

Adapted from the commentary of the 19th century Torah genius Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch.
How to Become Your Own Life Coach
By: Kimberly Forsythe
Tags: Coaching, Life Purpose, Life Coaching, Self Reliance, Self Improvement

Life coaches hold no magic powers. They just know the right questions to ask you that guide you to find your path.

Photo by Allie Smith on Unsplash

If you have ever thought to yourself, “I need a life coach,” then this article is dedicated to you. I was a life coach without calling myself one before I studied how to become a certified life coach. It was merely in my personality to encourage people to figure out how to make their own lives better.

It seemed as though it was a natural passion for me, and in 2018, I decided I would become a certified life coach and make a living out of it. So, I studied the courses available, watched tons of videos on YouTube (especially Tony Robbins), and calculated how I would pay for the certification process.

I soon realized that most of the life coaching industry focuses upon dolling out simple questions (albeit seemingly elusive to most of us) that inspire us to find our own answers to our problems. Instead of relying upon a life coach to help guide you in finding the answers you seek, learn the techniques they use, and apply them to yourself or your loved ones.

After all, just because the methods are somewhat shallow, it doesn’t mean they are entirely ineffective. Incorporating them into your life can have a significant positive impact! Just keep your expectations realistic.
Storytelling: La historia que cuenta tu marca
Tags: Brand Storytelling, Marketing, Brand Story, Storytelling, Digital Marketing

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Empreendedorismo: 5 dicas essenciais para quem deseja abrir o próprio negócio
By: Agência Bang
Tags: Gestão, Empreendedorismo, Negocios, Gestao De Projetos, Coworking

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I’m Coming For You
By: Zachary Phillips
Tags: PTSD, Mental Health, Sexual Assault, Poetry, Me Too Movement

*Trigger warning*

It’s time I got my own

From a world that didn’t care

From a world that wasn’t home

Taken and laid bare

Taken before I had grown

My home turned into a lair

Used and left alone

But now I can share

But now I have grown

But now I will dare

To take back that loan

To make the ledgers fair

Perhaps you need a clue?

Because I still remember

Now I am coming for you

A new contender

If you only knew

That night in December

That door stepped through

Had me questioning my gender

Unsure of what was true

You took life’s splendor

Now its time for a coup

You consummate pretender

Your sins have come due

No, I won’t be tender

What I will do

Is become future’s defender

You are just a fucking mutt

Your crimes will be laid bare

Turned me into a slut

Were you so unaware?

Forced my mind shut

But I will now dare

A swift knife cut

Some pain to share

I’ll force your eyes shut

Into a death glare
Integrating Scrapy with Flask
By: Rohan Goel
Tags: Flask, Amazon, Data Science, Scrapy, Web Scraping

Flask is an API of Python that allows us to build up web-applications. Flask’s framework is more explicit than Django’s framework and is also easier to learn because it has less base code to implement a simple web-Application.

In this article, we’ll see how we can integrate the Scrapy for scraping any website with FLASK and build up a web form such that on a click of a button the entire scrapy code will be up and running and returns us the scraped data.

This article will be a follow up on my previous article where I have explained how to scrape Amazon reviews using the Product URL but if you have your own scrapy project and want to learn how to merge it with flask then you are also good to go because the base structure will almost be the same.

The Working Demo of this Project is given in the last.
Regarding SBTC Distribution
By: Huobi Global
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Announcements

Dear users,

Since Super Bitcoin (SBTC) is scheduled to fork at the height of 498888, Huobi Pro will take a snapshot of users’ BTC assets after the fork happens and distribute the equal number of SBTC to users who have BTC assets. If you have BTC assets in otc.huobi.pro, you will get SBTC in the next 3 days. Please transfer your BTC to Huobi.pro account to ensure a timely distribution. We will also enable SBTC/BTC trading after the distribution. If you have BTC assets in Huobi Wallet, you will receive SBTC in your Huobi Wallet account.

What is Super Bitcoin (SBTC)?

The expansion war in the past three years has severely hindered the development of the bitcoin technology. Bitcoin has lost a tremendous share of the cryptocurrency market given aggressive competition coming from the likes of ethereum and Zcash. The bitcoin community has therefore gathered a group of enthusiasts and developers who share the goal to revitalize the bitcoin dominance. The fork will take place at block height 498888, after which, new functionalities will be added to the forked chain. The original bitcoin holders will be compensated with one super BTC for every BTC held.

What is the total supply of SBTC?

SBTC will have a total supply of 21,210,000, of which 210,000 will be pre-mined

What is the purpose of pre-mining?

The 210,000 pre-mined tokens will be managed by the Super BTC Foundation and are mainly used to encourage early developers, invest in the super BTC ecosystem and ensure the operation of the Super BTC Foundation.

The prices of chain split coins are extremely unstable. We hope that users can have a full understanding of the investment risks of chain split coins and be prudent of your own investment decisions.

Huobi Pro

December 7, 2017