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A Cross-Platform GUI Theme for Desktop .NET Core Applications
By: Artyom V. Gorchakov
Tags: Programming, Dotnet, User Interface, Xaml, Desktop

A Cross-Platform GUI Theme for Desktop .NET Core Applications

Build beautiful user interfaces with AvaloniaUI

Graphical user interface components of Citrus.Avalonia — a style kit for cross-platform .NET Core applications. Available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Avalonia is a novel XAML UI framework, allowing .NET developers to deliver cross-platform .NET Core desktop applications for end-users. Inspired by Microsoft stack technologies, such as Xamarin Forms, Windows Presentation Framework, and Universal Windows Platform, Avalonia provides fully-featured means of building high-performant user interfaces of any complexity and any scale. Compared to Windows Presentation Framework, Universal Windows Platform, or Xamarin Forms, Avalonia provides a faster type-safe XAML compiler known as XamlIl, which makes the process of developing and debugging complex XAML interfaces far less painful. Moreover, XamlIl allows debugging XAML — watch this video on YouTube if you are still in doubt about giving Avalonia a try. Avalonia comes with ReactiveUI support out of the box, and this makes it possible to use the full power of reactive programming in an Avalonia .NET Core app.

Known Avalonia applications include its use in a cross-platform IDE and shell, in code editors, and in privacy-focused Bitcoin wallets. Avalonia is shipped as .NET Standard MIT-licensed NuGet packages and is available for free for anyone willing to build cross-platform desktop experiences in C# or F#, even for commercial use.

However, the ecosystem around the framework is still developing — there aren’t many GUI themes developed for the framework yet. Hence, designing a brand new modern style set seemed reasonable to me. User interface themes in Avalonia were designed as standalone components that can be easily replaced with any other sets of styles, and this made the development process of different color schemes even more simple and convenient.

XAML markup of Avalonia CSS-like styles attached to a Window.

The styling system in Avalonia can be thought of as a mix of CSS styling and WPF styling, a style consists of a selector and a collection of setters. Styles can be defined on any control, importing styles from files or packages is supported as well.

Avalonia styling system also supports pseudo-classes, which allows us to control the look of controls in different visual states. With the help of this feature, we can easily change the background of a button when a user presses it, or when a user moves the mouse over the control. Using the /template/ syntax, we can style the primitives based on which a more complex control is built. Dynamic and static resources are also supported, which may seem familiar for those coming from WPF, UWP, or Xamarin Forms.

XAML markup of TextBox template adjustment via a CSS-like pseudo-class and a dynamic brush.
Stream of Self-Consciousness
By: Karen Fayeth
Tags: Humor, Beauty, It Happened To Me, Satire, Aging

Stream of Self-Consciousness

A Modern Fable

That moment when you are sitting at stoplight as a pedestrian crosses with the light in front of your headlights and you notice that the early morning sun is giving this gentleman a solid backlighting. As he strolls directly in front of your view, you notice that the hairs that extend well past his nostrils are beautifully set to glowing by the golden California sun rising in the east.

And you think to yourself, “Oh wow. That’s…well that’s something.” And you laugh alone in your car because why not. You can sing in there so why can’t you cackle like a dyspeptic hen in there?

As you turn the corner and head into the parking garage you think to yourself. “Don’t laugh, sparky. There but for the grace of a nose hair trimmer go I.”

So then you surreptitiously check both barrels of your own breathing device to see if the protective filtering is tidy and in place.

And you realize that, you know, you could use a little trim yourself.

So you sit in the car facing east and while the morning light of a California sunrise floods in through the windshield and you use the scissors from your small Swiss Army Knife to give a quick clip, just enough to let your sanity rest during the day that lies ahead. Because no one should have to worry all day long about the nostril streamers that suddenly seem to grow with less control than they once did.

And when finished, you feel both satisfied and mildly crazy and kind of blind because why didn’t you notice a trim was in order when you looked at your tired face in the mirror this morning?

But alas, you did not. Then you vow to take care of this problem more fully later tonight. And you should probably put on your reading glasses and give the eyebrows a check too because I bet those are out of control.

And then you get out of your car and walk into the office and enter this crazy day in a crazy way with crazy hair growing in crazy places.

Did you ever have a day like that? Yeah, um, me neither.

Because this is just a fable. Or a morality tale. Or a work of fiction…right?
#49: Chain Agnostic Logic
By: Kelly Mcquade-W.
Tags: Investing, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Education, Bitcoin

Coloring Crypto is a podcast that sets out to illuminate the blockchain. For more episodes or to join us for a future episode, contact us at ColoringCrypto.com.
How to Reinvent Yourself Before 2021
By: Holistic Dan
Tags: Personal Development, Personal Growth, Growth Mindset, Self Improvement, Inspiration

How to Reinvent Yourself Before 2021

The 3 steps to turn 2020 from a collective disaster into a gold mine of personal growth!

Photo by Jason Hogan on Unsplash

With 2020 coming to a close, the internet is flooding with memes of how “bad of a year” it has been…

But if you’re anything like me, instead of agonizing over all the unexpected challenges — you want to spend time gathering the lessons and preparing for the next 12 months!

What follows here is a simple 3-step process that will help you extract all the gems from this year and prime your mind for a truly epic next year.

The whole process won’t take you more than 10 –15 minutes. By the end of it, you will be ready to enter 2021 with clarity and confidence!
State offers special use permit for the Dr. James Still property
Tags: Headlines, Burlington County, Burlington County College, Gender, Autobiography

The state has offered the Township of Medford a special use permit for the Dr. James Still office property and the adjacent Bunning Farm.

The historical society will continue work on the office restoration as well as development of an Education Center to tell the Still story.

The township council will review the proposed special use permit in executive session on May 7 and, with its approval, it will be placed on the May 21 council agenda to authorize execution of the permit.

The oversight for the Still restoration and development project will be given to the Medford Historical Society through written authorization.

A permanent use permit will be provided by the state before the end of the year.

With the special use permit secured, the Still project plans to continue the work begun through its Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.

That work brought more than 80 volunteers out to clean up the property.

The educational symposium hosted at Medford Leas featured speakers such as Valerie Still, the great-great-granddaughter of Dr. James Still, and Dr. Charles Blockson, curator emeritus of the Charles Blockson Collection of Temple University.

They will include an herbal garden, reflective of the herbs used by Dr. Still in his practice, and two edible gardens that will be harvested and donated to a local food pantry, in recognition of Still’s life of service.

Volunteers from the Pinelands Garden Club will maintain the edible gardens. Matt Williamson will create the herb garden as an Eagle Scout project.

Dave and Renee Zallie, owners of Shop Rite of Medford, have offered funds to start this important work and to establish these Medford Township sites as permanent reminders of Still’s contribution to our shared American story. However, all of the follow-up work for this ambitious project will rely on the donation of time, goods, services, funds and the good will of all concerned persons.

Anyone who wishes to know more about this project or would like to contribute to its support should contact Bill Stauts, president of the Medford Historical Society, at drstillproject@comcast.net.
‘Private Eyes’: S04.E07. “Under Par-essure”
By: Shain E. Thomas
Tags: Canada, Private Eyes, Jason Priestley, Cindy Sampson, Television

Jason Priestley, further to playing Matt Shade, took on directorial responsibilities for this latest Private Eyes episode. Priestley’s Under Par-essure, with a story co-written by Aaron Bala and Sydney Calvert, was televised on Canada’s Global on Tuesday, 14 December 2020.

Hannah Whysner, a rising professional golfing talent, is stalked during a celebrity golf tournament. Angie and Shade, whilst the later participates in the tournament, tries to identify the culprit.

Curiously, as Shade competes in the tournament, romance blooms between the former ice-hockey player and actress Willow Maitland. Angie seeks out some much-needed fun.

Image Credit: IMDb.com

Further to series regular cast members Jason Priestley, Cindy Sampson, and Samantha Wan, Under Par-essure guest stars Amalia Williamson, Keshia Chante, Madison Cheeatow, Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves, Brad Everett, Cliff Saunders, Ted Whittall, and Elyse Levesque.

Showing up as themselves, noting the episode revolves around a story set at a celebrity golf tournament, Under Par-essure features Michelle Money, Scott McGillivray, Nick Nurse, and Mike Weir.

This latest episode, like previous instalments, sends us on a wild goose chase after a seriously deranged stalker that may or may not exist. Whilst all the evidence initially points to Hannah potentially being targetted by her brother, Colin Whysner, the truth reveals a more plausible explanation.

Screen Capture: Ted Whittall and Amalia Williamson as Donovan Crane and Hannah Whysner, respectively, in “Private Eyes”

Under Par-essure, with significant plot twists and misdirects, revolves more around Hannah’s branding than it does the golf itself. Hannah, after discovering her manager Donovan Crane had been using sweatshop labour to produce her merchandise, had decided to tank her own career.

Colin, Dr Morris, and Jenna Bowen, working together, were helping Hannah execute the plan. Crane, realising what Hannah had been doing, confronts the young golfer. Shade and Angie, after putting all the pieces together, ultimately saves the day.

Previously…
The Goddess Tree
By: Shakti Bliss
Tags: Channeling, Trees, Nature Writing, Goddess, Empowering Women

A couple of years ago I was meditating under this really amazing tree in west-central Florida. She (the Goddess Tree, as I came to call her) was nestled next to a fresh-water lake.

I’m not exactly sure how this came about, but the next thing I know I was composing a message. Did she tell me these things? Did she inspire them to spring forth from within me? Regardless, the message is beautiful. I hope you get something from this.

“The Goddess Tree Speaks”, June 29, 2017

The Goddess Tree, Lake Tarpon, FL

Divine Wild Women, step into your goddess-hood.

You are exquisitely made jewels of the eARTh… all of you… channels, conduits of sacred sensual healing frequencies.

Place your hearts upon the altar of the Spirit, Mother Earth, and she will shelter you, cherish you, nurture you, nourish you.

And she will show you the path to the fulfillment of all your desires, as well as the sacred duty to this planet all women hold within them.

Know that you are loved with such magnitude that you cannot even comprehend.

You are surrounded in the unseen by sacred wildflowers of Cosmic Truth, Beauty, Wisdom, Guidance and Protection.

Envision yourself in your quiet time sitting at my roots in a field of glowing, sparkling, shimmering, vividly colored flowers. Feel the breeze. The fresh water is nearby, twinkling in the sun. Take in the sights and sounds and fragrances.

Feel the power rising through my roots and into your soul.

We share a common bond and mission: to ground this planet in Love and Light throughout all space and time.

May it be so, and so it is.

Go forth in peace and power.
Why People Like Amy Coney Barrett Can Get Away With Climate Denial
By: Danny Schleien
Tags: Elections, Climate Denial, Politics, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels

Why People Like Amy Coney Barrett Can Get Away With Climate Denial

Climate change is considered a matter of belief rather than a scientific reality as serious as COVID-19 or smoking.

Photo by Jaroslav Devia on Unsplash

“Every nation gets the government it deserves.” — Joseph de Maistre

Congressional hearings have by and large become a series of “Gotcha” moments where our elected officials try to lay traps at the witness stand. The rest of the time, congresspeople typically reveal a stunning level of incompetence by asking Big Tech CEOs how their phones work or throwing snowballs on the floor of the Senate to disprove climate change* (because a cold snap means the average global temperature can’t possibly be rising, right?).

*Seriously, that last thing happened. And the guy who did it — James Inhofe — is still in office. In fact, he’s served two separate stints (lasting six years in total) as the chair of the Senate Environment Committee. He was in that position when he put a snowball in a plastic Ziploc bag and tossed it across the floor of the Senate to claim climate change is a hoax.

As with much of our political infrastructure, this process has become grossly politicized and polarized. These trends, which have tarnished our civic discourse and impeded the functioning of our government, have now made their way into Supreme Court nominee hearings.

The Supreme Court is supposed to be apolitical, and up until recently, Senators tended to confirm presidential SCOTUS nominees in a fairly bipartisanship fashion. The nomination process was intended to evaluate judges on their merit for the highest court in the land.

These days, congresspeople in the President’s party have abdicated any sense of responsibility to scrutinize nominees and vote for themselves rather than for their party. So, the onus of responsibility has fallen on the opposing party to scrutinize a nominee who is poised to take a seat on the high court precisely because the President’s party has rejected democratic norms and prioritized political processes above the well-being of the American people during the worst crisis in recent American history.

Thankfully, Democrats came prepared to the SCOTUS hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
The God of Mathematical Law
By: Jonas Ellison
Tags: Faith, Self, Christianity, Self Improvement, Personal Development

There’s a meme going around that I’ve seen that says this…

“Mathematical law is the only true God.”

Let’s see, where do I start?…

I like smart people. I’m so glad there are people way smarter than me doing things that solve complicated problems for humanity. So, in this regard, I totally get it and can get behind God-as-mathematical-law. A God that’s logical. That figures things out and shows up in rational ways.

I particularly like this God when I’m in a comfortable place. I don’t need a God of faith, I just need a God who solves problems (or, even better, who helps ME solve problems). Everything is figure-out-able, so get to work, God. And show us your answer key so we can take it from there. In this mindset, a perfectly suitable God is math and science.

But when I’m in a more vulnerable place, this God will not do. In fact, this modern rationalistic God can just as easily convict me as does the God of wrath from yesteryear.

When I get a bad diagnosis and I learn that the cells are multiplying and growing…

This God of mathematical law is a tyrant.

When I learn that my spouse of twenty years that I’ve been nothing but faithful to and have sacrificed so much for has betrayed me and lived a separate life with their yoga instructor…

This God of mathematical law is not enough.

(Neither of these cases are (currently) true for me, dear reader, so please don’t be concerned.)

I say an emphatic YES on medical advances and building better bridges. In my day-to-day life, I want to know more about just about everything.

But when life has me in an impossible place, it does me no good to summon a God that helps me figure things out. To know WHY the cells are mutating. To know WHY she lived that life with that other person.

In these cases, I don’t need a statistician, I need a savior. I need a God of promise.

I need God to extract my trust in the laws of reason and logic so that I can stop convicting myself and the world based on them.

(Hmmmm… Maybe this is what suffering does.)

I don’t need God to show me how the sausage is made in every historical event or in every aspect of life.

I need a God to speak something new to me outside of the laws of reason and logic.

I need a promise that overrules the case that reason and logic has made against me and the world.

I need a God that breathes new life into my veins when my soul has been murdered by my own nefarious ways and/or this cruel world.

I don’t need a God of mathematical law.

I need a God of promise and resurrection.

Amen.
Smart Airdrops vs. Airdrops
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Airdrop, ICO, Marketing Strategies

Why Do ICOs Do Airdrops?

The reason projects want to do this is to grow community interest: if investors find out that they can get free coins, they may look into investing more. It’s a great PR tactic for promoting your project.

That’s how it would work in the perfect world, but question yourself: why do most airdrops fail? The space is so overcrowded today. For this reason, the efficiency of airdrops has gone down exponentially. Many ICOs use it just for community-building, just for numbers in Telegram group chat, etc. We would like to give you some tips about what a perfect Airdrop should look like — and how to make it successful.

The Strategy Any Company Needs to Follow When Doing an Airdrop

Keep in mind that casual airdrops don’t work anymore. Before doing one, a company should perform data mining in order to define their target audience. This includes:

looking for people (investors) who have already participated in ICO airdrops, and have returned with an even larger investment after the airdrop

finding people who have invested in FinTech ICOs

detecting wallets that have participated in ICOs

After data mining is finished and you’ve identified a target audience — start an airdrop. For example, if your project has a community of 5,000 on Telegram but only 100 investors, announce an airdrop on your Telegram account.

Create a to-do list for interested parties listing the basic requirements: following on Facebook, sharing links, etc.

Introduce your product as a game. Let people try your product and “play” with it.

Airdrop is a smart marketing tool. If you use it wisely, your project will benefit. Feel free to check out Applicature’s marketing services here.

Successful Airdrop Checklist

Alternatively, you can track the latest, hottest, and most exclusive airdrops here.

Pay attention to what airdrops are done for. Is there a marketing purpose, or is there community-building behind it?

One good thing about airdrops is that you will never lose your money (airdrops supposed to be free). Why not to try participating?

Pro Security Tips

When you sign up for airdrops, make sure they are legitimate.

Ensure that you never have to send your private keys. Airdrops won’t ever request this.

If they are legitimate, obviously, don’t send any money to them.

Check official sources such as Twitter and Facebook. Research them. Have a look at how many followers they’ve got and the number of tweets they’ve been doing. Scrutinize their entire history, as well.

Look for and learn more about airdrops at airdrops.io. You can learn about the requirements, and see a step-by-step guide of getting AirDrops for each ICO.

Conclusion

With the growing popularity of ICOs, new types of marketing tools need to be created. Airdrop has proven to be one of the best and most successful marketing tools. Each company should do airdrops wisely and make them specific to the interested audience, not to everyone. This can be achieved through the data mining process.
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Our 8 top stories in Digital Diplomacy in 2018
By: Andreas Sandre
Tags: Foreign Policy, Digital Diplomacy, Government, Technology, Social Media

Our 8 top stories in Digital Diplomacy in 2018

Looking forward to an engaging 2019!

2018 has been a great year for Digital Diplomacy, a Medium publication started in July 2016 and collecting stories and articles on innovation and technology in government and foreign policy.

We hosted new writers, new stories, and new topics. And we now have more that 35,000 followers.

Here’s a collection of the most read articles in 2018.

Thank you all for an amazing 2018 and looking forward to an engaging 2019!
Make your everyday purchases with cryptos and MinexPay
By: Minexcoin
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Debit Card, Cryptocurrency, Minexcoin

Our team is proud to announce the upcoming launch of the first working payment solution using cryptocurrencies.

Indeed, it will not be long before in any store, whether it’s a huge supermarket or a small point of sale, you can pay using not the usual dollar, euro or ruble, but your own cryptocurrencies.

Imagine if you could have your cryptos at your disposal for your everyday life?

Well, crypto fellows, stop dreaming… Instead, get acquainted with Minexpay debit card.

Pay with crypto instantly anywhere

MinexPay cards is designed to be the fastest and easiest to use payment solution for goods and services with cryptocurrencies. Anytime, anywhere.

While working on an effective solution, our team took into account all the current drawbacks with existing crypto cards. This resulted in the creation of an ingenious product with an innovative approach.

MinexPay main advantages

Borderless: You can pay with MinexPay card worldwide wherever VISA is enabled (Visa card is accepted in more than 200 countries, 40 million retail outlets and 2.5 million ATMs for withdrawing cash).

You can pay with MinexPay card worldwide wherever VISA is enabled (Visa card is accepted in more than 200 countries, 40 million retail outlets and 2.5 million ATMs for withdrawing cash). Ease of use: The process required for exchange and management is already taken care of. Who said a crypto card has to be complicated right?

The process required for exchange and management is already taken care of. Who said a crypto card has to be complicated right? No disruption of service: Funds are available at any time using the mobile application or the website.

Funds are available at any time using the mobile application or the website. Real time governance: The current balance in $, constantly updated, allows to choose the right currency to spend.

The current balance in $, constantly updated, allows to choose the right currency to spend. Low service fees: In comparison with other cryptocurrency cards, MinexPay offers reduced service fees (from 0%), as well as up to 1% cashback.

Doesn’t it sound amazing already? Stay tuned for detailed information about the cards.
Bored of Routine? Try Channeling Chaotic Neutral Energy In Your Daily Life
By: Emery Schindler
Tags: Satire, Humor, Comics, Self, Funny

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Stop Seeking Approval
By: Daniel Morales
Tags: Life Lessons, The Mom Test, Bookcademy, Daily Challenge, Book Summary

Stop Seeking Approval

The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick

Solve challenge here: https://www.bookcademy.com/home/show_daily_challenges/stop-seeking-approval

As we’ve seen, compliments are dangerous and sneaky. So if we can nip them in the bud before they bloom, so much the better. The main source of compliment-creation is seeking approval, either intentionally or inadvertently.

Doing it intentionally is fishing for compliments. You aren’t looking for contradictory information. You’ve already made up your mind, but need someone’s blessing take the leap.

Symptoms of Fishing For Compliments:

“I’m thinking of starting a business… so, do you think it will work?”

“I had an awesome idea for an app — do you like it?”

Accidental approval-seeking is what I call “The Pathos Problem.” It happens when you expose your ego, leading people to feel they ought to protect you by saying nice things.

This comes up when you tell someone about an idea you obviously care about (which is pretty much always, since otherwise you wouldn’t be asking). Even if you give folks permission to be honest and ask for criticism, they’re still going to pull their punches.
The Magic 2020 Ball, a Magic 8 Ball for this year
By: Kiki Schirr
Tags: Humor, Comics, Art, Funny, Magical Realism

Author’s Note:

Hope you all weathered 2020 as best you could! I know the world threw a lot of crap our way this year, but from how I’ve seen my friends and family respond, I’m proud of what we have accomplished despite the unexpected speed bumps in our journey.

This comic is the first in a series, the rest appearing in their own publication on Medium, A Dog Named Karma. This one is in Tech Doodles just to let you know I’m working on this new series I think you might also like.

And, as always, I appreciate hearing from you. My email is in my bio if you want to reach out! Thank you!

— Kiki
A few of my favorite things
By: Eric Saber
Tags: UX Design, UI Design, Product Design, Christmas, Holidays

Photo by Chad Madden on Unsplash

For this week’s design challenge, I thought I’d do something a little whimsical. I decided to create something related to “Favorites” within an app, and naturally the song “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music popped into my head. When I looked up the lyrics, I noticed an article about how the song came to be associated with Christmas, and I knew immediately that this was the right challenge for this week!

I thought it might be fun to use the favorite things that Julie Andrews sings about as inspiration, by displaying all of the “things” in card format, as though they were a user’s collections of favorites on a Pinterest-like platform.

Favorite things! Icons courtesy of Astrit Malsija

I decided to make this fictional app pretty simple — with a clean sans serif for the header and labels, bold icons for navigation and adding new favorites, and an Instagram-style heart for the favorited items. In this design, each photo represents a collection of images that the user can organize and label. Finally, I added subtle drop shadows to the cards, the heart icon and the labels, to create a tiny bit more depth, and to give the white text better legibility.

I love the holiday season and the spirit of ringing in the new year. Even though we can’t all be together to celebrate like we normally would, I hope that everyone takes comfort in their favorite things, whatever they may be.

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies are Primed and Ready for Lift-off.
By: Jon Dicianni
Tags: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Cryptocurrency, Money, Venture Capital

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies are Primed and Ready for Lift-off.

Interesting investing opportunity.

Crypto is back in full-swing.

American equities have been hot, which means, investors are making an absolute killing.

So with new found wealth in their pockets, and the stock market’s wealth being sucked dry, what’s the next play for investors?

Real Estate American Equities Cryptocurrencies

Real Estate will reign supreme (for the forseeable future), and we already discussed American Equities last post.

However, with a little extra capital to invest, a growing network of Blockchain communities, and Coinbase working alongside the SEC — Crypto is set to take off (again).

Just within the last two days, Bitcoin is +$1,000. Litecoin has risen above the $90 (following a large partnership with a German bank) — just to name two.

With delightfully, easy-to-use crypto wallets such as BRD wallet, it’s becoming easier and easier for new coins to increase their transaction rates and grow their respective networks.

You may call bitcoin a fad, comparable to beanie babies, or what have you. But the reality of it is, that Blockchain Technology is here to stay, and I believe Bitcoin will be used in conjunction with the dollar (not outside society’s regulations).

Also, here’s an interesting read on Bitcoin:

Why Bitcoin is Different by Jimmy Song

Thanks for reading.
I Changed My Name to Honor My People
By: Yardena Schwersky
Tags: Names, Culture, Self, Judaism, Identity

I’ve always loved my Hebrew name. Still, until now, I only used it during Jewish ceremonies or in other Jewish settings. When I started writing again this year, though, I decided to use Yardena as my everyday name too. I’m shaking off the name of assimilation and embracing my Judaism in a new way.

I’m not giving up my English name entirely. I love it, just as I love my Hebrew name. It doesn’t feel right to throw it away like it’s meaningless. A lot of people know me as Jordyn; it’s a part of my identity. But while my identity is multifaceted, I am, before anything else, a Jew. Anyone who’s known me for more than five minutes will read this and think, “yeah, duh, you’re super Jewish.” But my goal is to reach the people who don’t know me. I want strangers to look at my byline and know that everything I write, I write through a Jewish lens. I want other Jews to see my name and see that they’re not alone.

Being a Jew in the diaspora can be tricky. I’m Jewish, but I’m also from the American South. I say “oy vey” and “y’all.” The Jewish community where I grew up was small. We made up (and still do today) less than 2% of the county’s population, so I learned at a very young age that I was different. Other kids asked me if I spoke Hanukkah. Teachers gave tests on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, even though the school board said they couldn’t. Even in high school, people told me they’d never met a Jew before they met me. Kids picked on me, made fun of my name, asked me where I hid all my gold. I’m fighting back against those people now by calling myself an even more Jewish name than before.
Codeuino: Linux Foundation Community Bridge Mentorship (Day 11–17) 🧑‍💻
By: Himanshu Singh
Tags: Open Source, Mentorship Program, Codeuino, The Linux Foundation

Introduction 🤓

Hi Readers, I’m Himanshu Singh(@lazycipher ), a Student JavaScript Developer. I’m working on Donut, a social networking project for developers. In this series of blog posts, I’ll be sharing my weekly progress of The Linux Foundation Community Bridge Mentorship program.

This blog contains the details about what I learned and did from day 11th to 17th of my mentorship.

Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash

Read First 10 Days

Timeline 🚩

Day 11–13[Discussion & Testing]

Attended Community Meetings.

Worked on Dashboard page responsiveness.

Made changes after getting a review from the mentor.

Worked on Org Profile for responsiveness.

Learned more about the CSS box model.

Used HashLink to provide a smooth transition in the homepage/login page after getting suggestions from mentors.

Day 14–16 [Coding & Discussion]

Attended community meetings.

Worked on projects page and events page.

Fixed Homepage and all already done above for Tablet version as we decided to move with the mobile version for tablet.

Started working on Profile page responsiveness.

Day 17 [Coding]

Completed work on Project Info, Account settings, Organization Settings responsiveness for mobile and tablet.

Spent time learning the CSS Grid model and making it responsive.

Pushed the code for review.

Started working on the Activities page.

Donut Mobile Version

Next Things To Do 🚀

Complete work of activities page and other remaining pages that aren’t responsive.

Ask for review from mentors and make changes accordingly.

Connect with me:

GitHub: @lazycipher

Twitter: @lazycipher

LinkedIn: @himanshu-singh16

See you all in the next post! 👋
Get over happy endings
By: Harshit Makhija
Tags: Inspirational, Stories, Self Improvement, Life, Moving

Photo by Piron Guillaume on Unsplash

The problem is not the part where you hold on to hope, but the negative belief that things will become the same old fantasy. Most things change for forever. Those times may come back, but they will not be the same. There will always be a time frame of gap that will keep it apart from the older normal. And the countless other things that happen in between. So the first things we need to learn is that, we need to stop holding on to the same energy.

You melt an ice cube. Cool it again. Does it still remain the same ?

Human beings and other things are much more complex than water. It may not sound much comforting but the first step to change is the acceptance that things will be different from now onward.
Summer’s Love in Winter
By: Jane Woodman
Tags: Sonnet, Gardening, Summer, Seasons, Poetry

Summer’s Love in Winter

a gardener’s sonnet

From the author’s gardens

High Summer’s here with strong green growth today,

But even as we harvest now, we know

She never has and never will she stay;

She’ll step aside for Fall and Winter’s snow.

So we gather sweetness, lushness, all

That we can find now in these kinder days,

Always with an eye to early Fall

That’s coming, as this yellowed leaf-fall says.

Though harsher days will come, we’ll burrow in

And warm ourselves with hands and Winter greens

We gather now, for cold will come to thin

The gardens quickly and reduce our means.

These herbs and leaves will then remind us of

The Summer’s beauty like that of our love.
Laugh Harder
By: Scott Leonardi
Tags: Bars, Poetry On Medium, Poetry, Creative Writing, Laughter

Health and Wealth

The big Come Up

Why

with the repetitive

brew haha?

I prefer

the sauced up chuckle

to Webster’s big fuss

Settle down

and read the riddle

at the bottom

of your glass

Your anger is in vain

Your joy

the character of God
Integrate your existing Jenkins Infrastructure with Oracle Developer Cloud
By: Abhishek Gupta
Tags: Devcs, Continuous Integration, Jenkins, DevOps, Oracle Cloud

With Oracle Developer Cloud Service, you can integrate your existing Jenkins setup — whether they are on-premise or cloud based. Currently, there are three different integration points which are enabled using Webhooks. Let’s look at each of these

Jenkins Build notifications

This is made possible by an inbound Webhook which accepts build notifications from a remote Jenkins server

Configuration summary

Create a Webhook in Developer Cloud (type: Jenkins — Notification Plugin )

) Configure your external Jenkins to use the URL provided in the Developer Cloud Service Webhook configuration

Here is snapshot of the configuration in Oracle Developer Cloud

This is how the resulting Activity Stream looks like in Oracle Developer Cloud. Clicking on the hyperlinks available in the Activity Stream will redirect you to artifacts in the remote Jenkins instance e.g. build, commit, git repository etc.

You can refer to this documentation section for more details

Jenkins Build Trigger integration

You can configure an outbound Webhook which triggers a build on a remote Jenkins build server when a Git push occurs in the selected repository in Developer Cloud

Configuration summary

Configure external Jenkins to allow remote invocation of builds

Create a Webhook of type Jenkins — Build Trigger

Provide basic info, configure authentication and trigger

Here is snapshot of the configuration in Oracle Developer Cloud

You can refer to this documentation section for more details.

Jenkins Git Plugin integration

This is another outbound Webhook which can notify another Jenkins build job in response to a Git push in Developer Cloud service. The difference between this and previous Webhook is that this will trigger builds of all the jobs configured for the same Git repository (in Developer Cloud service) as sent in the Webhook payload

Configuration summary

Create a Webhook of type Jenkins Git Plugin

Provide the Git repository details as a part of the external Jenkins configuration and activate SCM polling

You can refer to this documentation section for more details.
100 Words Submission Guidelines
By: Jonica Bradley
Tags: Jonica Bradley, Beingbad, 100 Words, Submission Guidelines, The Bad Influence

100 Words

100 Words Submission Guidelines

Thrifty Words 100 Theme Challenge

Roen in Red by Reuben Salsa

Welcome to THRIFTY WORDS.

TBI aims to provide a home for all microfiction consisting of 100 words and no more.

Tag every story #The Bad Influence AND #100 words as well as other appropriate tags such as #fiction, #satire, #poetry. No #The Bad Influence tag, no play. No #100 words and your story won’t slide into our EXCLUSIVE section. Please add the ‘kicker’ (above the title): 100 WORDS Every story MUST BE exactly 100 words. No exception. Titles and subtitles don’t count. Contractions such as “y’all,” “don’t,” and “can’t” count as one word. Hyphenated words such as “ two-fold” and “merry-go-round” count as one word. You can check the word count by highlighting the story, the word count will appear in the top left corner. Or copy and paste into Word or Google Docs and use their word count tool. You may include an explanation/summary at the end (must add the spacer). TBI will publish one Theme Challenge story per writer per month. You may submit 100 word stories anytime but only the first submission will be in the roundup at the end of the month. No hate of any kind toward individuals or groups. Attack the idea. INCITE and ANTAGONIZE. But never, ever make it personal. We encourage a ‘Call to Action’ at the bottom of your post to previous TBI articles. Feel free to link anywhere inside your article. Your success is our success. Caption and credit every image (even your own). Unsplash makes this very easy as they’re partnered with Medium. There are other open-source image options including, Pixabay. Pexels, and Wikicommons. Check your work. No plagiarism. Decent grammar and SPELL CHECK. If it’s really bad, then we’re sending it back to you for sheer laziness. Use Grammarly. To be added as a new writer, send an email to thebadinstigators@gmail.com and be sure to write ‘ADD ME AS A WRITER’ to your email. Make sure to include your MEDIUM PROFILE or we may never find you!

Once published, we ask you to leave your work in TBI for at least 6 months. We understand the platform and desire to rewrite something. But please wait 6 months, or reach out, before you withdraw your post.

If we’ve stopped posting or responding or updating TBI then it probably means we’ve all been arrested for INCITING CHANGE. Feel free to remove your work and give it to a publication that is still active.

Thank you! We look forward to reading all your bad influences and instigations.

TBI Editorial Staff
DELPHY Monthly Airdrop — June, 2018
By: Ada Gao
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, Prediction Markets, Cryptocurrency

Time flies faster in the Crypto world. It’s almost end of June, and it’s time for the Monthly Delphy Airdrop. If you have been holding DPY (Delphy token) at the moment of snapshot, you will benefit from our Monthly Delphy airdrop. Yes, you heard that right!

We value our community, in fact Delphy promised to give 50% of all DPY tokens, which equals to 50 million DPY tokens in total, to our token holders in a linear distribution way within two years, for free. By end of each month, Delphy will monitor the number of holders and the amount of tokens held by each holder at a randomly picked moment (a snapshot) decided by Delphy. This reward program has started from Oct, 2017, as said before, will last for 2 years.

The total amount DPY token to be awarded to our holders is exactly same amount every month, which is: total of 50 million (DPY) /24 (months) = 2,083,333.33333 (DPY).

For June 2018, the snapshot moment is 18:00 on 29th June, 2018, Beijing Time. The number of tokens to be received by a holder = the amount of token held at snapshot moment/ 32 — transaction fees (which is about 0.5DPY at this moment = Gas price * Gas used/Price of DPY). (Why 32? Because, the total months for airdrop is 24, and till now, 8 airdrops have already happened.) Due to the transaction fees, if the number of DPY tokens you are holding at the moment of snapshot is less than 15.5, you will not be able to receive airdrop.

You can get the airdrop, if you keep your DPY tokens at your exchange account, like gate.io, okex.com, or cybex.io (the decentralized exchange DPY is listed recently). However, the speed at which the tokens are received, may depend on the workflow and workload of the respective exchanges. Therefore, if you would like to get the airdrop immediately, the best option would be to have your DPYs in your wallet.

Thank you for your continued support!

About Delphy

A Decentralized mobile social platform for prediction markets. Delphy is a decentralized, mobile prediction market platform built on Ethereum. The Delphy App is a light Ethereum node running on mobile devices. Delphy uses market incentives to allow participants in a market to communicate, instantly and transparently, their wisdom regarding the outcome of upcoming events, effectively predicting the future. We design Delphy from the start to be decentralized, which makes it difficult to manipulate prediction results.

These are our official social platforms:

Telegram Ann: https://t.me/DelphyANN

Telegram Chat: https://t.me/DelphyCHAT

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Delphy_org

Medium: https://medium.com/delphy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Delphyfoundation/

Discord: https://discord.gg/gjWaS5M

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delphy_org/

Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2046622.0

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Delphy/

The Delphy Team
Almost Didn’t
By: Uchechi Obasi
Tags: Love, Happiness, Poem, Dating, Poetry

Almost Didn’t

A poem

Photo by Alex Blăjan on Unsplash

This madness

I welcome with sculpted arms

It causes my heart to dance

In ways I can’t keep up with.

Panic marries defiance

And bore butterflies

That snuck and settled within me.

Now every day,

I time travel to places

That don’t yet exist.

And mold you with the pieces

Of you you let me hold.

You tell me stories

With alien words I cannot google

I wear my awe for you like a head wrap.

You build,

with your words, your hands too

Tall structures of kinship

We now live in.

You don’t let me decorate it.

Perhaps you fear the flowers will die fast

And the fragrance of death will last long

How can I convince you to take my hand?

These flowers bloom in my garden

If they do die (and they will)

You always will meet fresh ones.

Peonies and lilies,

Roses and sunflowers

Let me bring them in,

They will whither outside

And the fragrance you fear

Will hijack the air inside.

We can decorate together

And take short breaks

To press flowers into books

Create an album of petals

And laugh when we recollect

The days we almost didn’t.
DataCamp vs Educative.io
By: Double Pointer
Tags: Data Science, Technology, Datacamp, Coding, Data Science Courses

Clearly, Educative is more popular than DataCamp just going by Google’s search trends as shown in the screenshot below. Though DataCamp has raised more money than Educative but caters only to the Data Science niche. Educative.io, on the other hand, takes a bold approach and offers courses on its platform covering the entire spectrum of tech. Essentially, both are market places for online courses, some written by independent authors while other written by the platform’s content team.

Educative.io shown in blue vs DataCamp.com in red

Educative.io’s offers diverse courses but lacks the concentration and depth of Data Science content and material available at DataCamp. If you are looking to work in the Data Science field then DataCamp is for you hands-down. However, if you are looking for a broad exposure to emerging technologies or go to reference guides then Educative is your cup of tea. For now, Educative has the following AI/ML/DataScience courses available:

In contrast, DataCamp boasts more than 340+ courses on its platform all within the Data Science niche. However, the one glaring omission DataCamp suffers from is the absence of any interview related content, which Educative.io covers well with its Data Science Interview Handbook course. All in all, it feels much like comparing apples to oranges when comparing Educative vs DataCamp since the goals of both the platforms are different. However, Educative can give DataCamp a run for its money, if it catches-up and offers Data Science course in parity with DataCamp.
Intruder Alert
By: Amy Jasek
Tags: Prompt, Belonging, The Pom, Poetry, Pom Prompt

Poetry

Intruder Alert

POM Prompt #18

Intrepid Camera Large Format Pinhole Image (photo by author)

Interloper

The wrong bag, wrong shoes

The wrong accent, wrong hair, wrong hobbies

The Wrong doesn’t belong

Unwanted

Exclusively unwelcome

Keep those beliefs to yourself

Dare to disagree somewhere else

This mix is fixed

Setting up like cement

Carefully smoothed and guarded

Against outside impressions

Take your different and go

Members only: you’re on your own
Lykke Listing Q&A
Tags: Bitcoin

Before the VALID token starts trading on the Lykke exchange on April 27, the Lykke team took the time to answer questions from the VALID community. You can find the answers below.

Question: Would it make sense that the VALID KYC could also be used to register on the Lykke platform?

Answer from the Lykke Team: As VALID team already pointed out, it would indeed make a lot of sense. But KYC requirements are very strict in order to comply with regulations, specifically when applying for licenses like Lykke does. KYC process is constantly evolving to match new requirements. To quote Dominique “while this is a great use case, it is not as easy to implement as one might think.”

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Question: Regarding trading on Lykke, I would like a guide on how to send valid tokens from my cold wallet to my Lykke trading wallet to be able to trade them.

Answer from the Lykke Team: In case you do not have a Lykke account already:

Download Lykke Wallet mobile application

Complete registration and pass KYC (https://lykkex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004283649-What-are-requirements-for-KYC-)

On the 27th at 9am CEST VLD will appear in your trading wallet. Follow the following step to deposit VLD to your trading wallet : https://lykkex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000732269-How-do-I-deposit-crypto-assets-on-Android-

https://lykkex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000736945-How-do-I-deposit-crypto-assets-on-iOS-

https://lykkex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000736945-How-do-I-deposit-crypto-assets-on-iOS- Once VLD tokens reach your Lykke wallet you’ll be able to trade them against ETH and BTC.

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Question: Is Lykke only tradable on smartphones?

Answer from the Lykke Team: Currently, Lykke full trading experience is available on mobile only. Nevertheless we are currently fine tuning our web platform which will be released in the coming weeks. In the meantime, you can beta test it by registering here: https://goo.gl/forms/X4CAkY1QmQoJurO83

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Question: At what time will VALID be listed?



Answer from the Lykke Team: VALID token will be listed on Lykke at 9am CEST.