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Equality
By: Jane Woodman
Tags: Women, Poetry, Womens Rights, Sonnet, Resistance Poetry

Equality

a sonnet for a reminder

Photo by lucia on Unsplash

So finally the Court has now acknowledged

That love, not bigotry should rule the land –

All families who love well and desire

To marry may now have the lives they planned.

But when you call this The Defining Issue,

This generation’s most defining right,

My head and heart together cry for justice

For those who’ve been much longer in the fight.

Ratification of the E.R .A.

Failed through indifference or through fear — who knows?

But fail it did and you who still ignore that

Sad fact should know your ignorance — it shows.

Over half of each new generation

Still lives as second-class in this great nation.
A Challenge to the Voice Industry
By: Julie Daniel Davis
Tags: Edtech, Distance Learning, Voiceedu, Education, Student Needs

An Educator’s Challenge

I find myself thinking, “Maybe… just maybe… since educating from home is on the news all the time and parents everywhere are seeing the hardships of students being educated this way, someone somewhere will make it their mission to create education technology tools (computers, voice speakers, etc) specifically for the market of preK-12 education. And maybe… just maybe… the current student privacy laws will be updated and adjusted to meet the growing abilities of these technologies. And maybe…just maybe… these large technology businesses will realize that while there might not be a lot of money in education to fund their corporate conglomerations, there is value and benefit to society as a whole to strive to meet the needs of students at such a time as this. The pandemic has all of us rethinking life in general. The pandemic has each of us dreaming, adapting, and adopting new concepts and ideas to best meet our needs.

Hey, voice industry! Now is your time to speak into this unusual period of time where learning is happening from home…in some cases, still very robustly. In other cases, almost nonexistent. I strongly believe there is opportunity for edtech companies to truly make a substantial difference in these times. Are there tools out there that are meeting needs, absolutely! But I also believe it is a great time to rethink and repurpose existing tools to truly benefit our younger generation for the good of educational advancement. (Heavy challenge, I know).
[EDUCATION] Crowd Sourcing your Strategy
By: Pito Salas
Tags: Higher Education, Bureaucracy, Strategy

The other day I referenced an article questioning the motivation and effectiveness of large scale strategic planning exercises in universities today.

In this vein I was interested to see this article describing how certain organizations have totally thrown open the process of developing and communicating strategy by employing some good old crowd sourcing.
At the Supermarket
Tags: Supermarkets, Ice Cream, Food, Short Story, Creative Writing

It was a cool summer night.

John Ehh was getting bored. He was pretty tired of losing to sweats in Arena, and he had had enough. “What can I do now?” he thought.

As he gazed at his cluttered shelf, he saw something. Something special. A coupon. A $1 off coupon for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

John Ehh knew this was his chance. His chance to free himself from the curses of Neo Tilted. “It’s a one way ticket,” he thought, “to get myself out of this sweaty World Cup mess.”

Using his beloved automobile, the 2006 MINI Cooper he had traded for the Eiffel Tower, he scrambled to his local Stop & Shop. After rushing into the store with his trusty coupon, John Ehh realized something.

He forgot his wallet.

After using some, well, colorful language in front of a 3-year-old, John Ehh was kicked out of the store.

He had done it again.

He got ejected.

John Ehh felt a surprising sense of accomplishment, as if he was called to do this. Called to get put on as many national security bulletins as possible. Called to try to scramble through the TSA while on the Do Not Fly list. He was content.

But at the same time, he was hungry.

He was very hungry. Too hungry to return home for his wallet. So he went. He went to McDonald’s. And he bought five Big Macs.

He didn’t have anything to pay with. Or so he thought. That was until a brain wave came to him. He had his priceless antique china set! After negotiating with the McDonald’s cashier, he finally got what he wanted: food.

After taking his first bite into his juicy Big Mac, John Ehh had another brain wave. He couldn’t eat five Big Macs.

So, John Ehh did what any person in such a pickle would do. He gave them back to the McDonald’s cashier in exchange for a penny. One. Single. Penny.

Feeling happy, John Ehh returned, in his 2006 MINI Cooper, to his home. Only then did he hop back onto Fortnite for all of eternity.
Meet the 2019 Venture Madness winners and SaaS competitors!
By: Matt, Meanders
Tags: Yesphx, SaaS, Investors, Arizona, Startup

Congratulations to the winners of Venture Madness 2019 — the southwest’s premier startup pitch event!

RVeloCITY (RVnGO), Scottsdale, consumer division

Digitile, Phoenix, SaaS a.m. division

Qwick, Phoenix, SaaS p.m. division

Lighthouse, Scottsdale, healthcare division

EnPower, Phoenix, hardware division

Homie, South Jordan (Utah), growth division

These companies join previous Venture Madness winners Fullbay, Clean Router, NuvOx Pharma, Campus Logic, Pinnacle Transplant, and others.

Each division winner took home a $10,000 check and all 34 presenting companies gained exposure to 20+ venture capital firms and numerous angel investors in attendance.

With so many great companies presenting, I couldn’t see all the pitches. So, here’s a closer look at 14 Arizona SaaS startups on the verge of big things. Keep reading …

AdaptiveSN founder Scott Ruple make his pitch. Photo courtesy: Kristin Hege.

Meet the Venture Madness SaaS Division!

AdaptiveSN (Fountain Hills)

Digitile (Phoenix)

ICT Tracker (Phoenix)

RexPay (Phoenix)

SimpliBuzz (Fountain Hills)

Symba (Scottsdale)

Attribytes (Chandler)

BrightGuest (Gilbert)

Heads Up Health (Scottsdale)

Persosa (Scottsdale)

Qwick (Phoenix)

SURF (Tempe)

Trainual (Scottsdale)

WeedWare (Mesa)

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Dave Chappelle and the Power of Celebrity
By: Kimberly Thomas
Tags: Dave Chappelle, Covid 19, Storytelling, Race, Celebrity

Dave Chappelle and the Power of Celebrity

Why we pay attention to the rich and famous

Photo by Ema Suriano on Unsplash

Dave Chappelle, in his comedy special, “8:46”, said that no one wanted to hear from celebrities regarding George Floyd’s murder, race relations, or Black Lives Matter. He couldn’t have been more wrong. And he probably was being somewhat facetious. At that point, around June 2020, Americans were looking for leadership. And, in fact, up to that point, we had gotten none. It had gotten so bad that many of us were willing to hear and consider viewpoints from those who — not so long ago — thought race was unimportant and called anyone fighting for Black Lives Matter “liberal snowflakes.”

In this instance, for Chappelle, it was not about being a celebrity, but about being a person.

As a Black man, Mr. Chappelle often shares true, but painful, experiences of discrimination that he has faced as a Black man in America. These are often eye-opening to young people out there.

Not all celebrities are viewed alike, and not all people view celebrities as ‘celebrities’. There are lots of people who identify with them as role models and leaders of industry — individuals whom they admire or want to emulate. People are hungry for leadership. Their disdain for their elected officials is so great that they will literally take a celebrity’s views on life, and advice for what to do, if this is all they can get.

Yes, it’s true the majority of us don’t want to hear from the “lip-service” community. We know who they are. But folks like Trevor Noah, Dave Chappelle, and Oprah Winfrey are the ones we look to when they make social commentary. They are literate, intelligent, and relate their own experiences to the larger historical framework. They provide an analysis on where we’ve been as a society, or as a culture, and where we might be headed in the future. They offer us guidance for creating ways to deal with crises and create opportunities for an alternate viewpoint.

It’s a fact that we pay attention to what some celebrities have to say regardless of their politics.

Is it okay, then, for celebrities to be silent? Yep. Obviously, Madonna made several gaffes in her attempts to speak up, and out, to the public about issues related to racism and COVID-19. The truth is that, for some celebrities, we just look for them to be provocative. So, when they do speak on social issues, to the public, they sound insincere.

Perhaps, we know and understand, that it takes a myriad of voices to speak on issues that matter. And so, we rely on those who have always been sincere in their truth-telling, never wavering in their message. They are the ones whose stories may entertain you, but that’s not necessarily the goal — it’s the by-product. We categorize those celebrities and entertainers we trust to speak the “truth.”
Friends Described as Fruits
By: Kaki Okumura
Tags: Poetry, Life, Love, Relationships, Short Story

Friends Described as Fruits

A poem about a strange fruit basket

We make up a pretty strange fruit basket.

Different colors.

Different backgrounds.

Different interests.

Different tastes.

Well at least we're all fruits.

Illustrations by Kaki Okumura

Blueberry is easily likeable.

She’s vegan, but only sometimes.

Maybe 70% of the time?

She’s adventurous, and many of my favorite memories were her ideas.

She takes all the good photos for the group, and gives the best hugs.

For someone like me who grew up not used to receiving big hugs from anyone besides my parents, she’s made me better at receiving and showing love.

Persimmon is me.

I’m a sensitive softie — empathetic and a listener.

I also set high standards for myself, and so I work with my introversion to be a source of strength, not weakness.

I like to be organized, some might say too much.

I’m bad at telling jokes but I love to make others laugh, so I usually take on an odd sense of humor, though my friends have never made me feel weird about it.

Papaya to me is so funny, but she’d never claim so herself.

She would probably choose beach > mountains 9/10 times and she loves to travel, mostly for the food.

She knows all the best matcha places in Tokyo.

I’ve been friends with her the longest, and she’s seen me grow and change so much.

She usually knows the right answer to my problems, and is one of my biggest supporters.

Tomato, tomato.

She has an infectiously funny laugh, that even over Zoom it makes me crack up.

She sunburns easily and believes that drinking vodka shots will cure the common cold, but has yet to show me any proof.

I’ve learned lots about different cultures through her, and she’s challenged my beliefs about the world in ways she probably doesn’t realize.

Banana is a bit crazy.

She’s embraced her identity as the fruit, and would self-refer to herself as one of those brown, too-ripe bananas.

Probably too much caffeine, and goes to sleep at 6am.

She finds the details interesting, and points out the small things that most people would walk past — a boundless curiosity and rare attentiveness that makes the normal things feel special.

And then there was a crisis.

But crisis has caused us to reconnect.

To reach out and ask each other how we were doing —

"Are you safe?" "Is everyone healthy?" "I love and miss you guys, keep us in the loop!"

On paper we’re a strange combination, but we make a pretty good fruit basket.

It’s made me wonder about the other fruit baskets that exist in the world.

There must be multiple ones as strange as ours.
Des Igual
By: Israel Garcia
Tags: Cortometrajes

No Matter What People Tell You, Words And Ideas Can Change The World.

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Five tips on dating again after a while
By: Alessandra Pereyra
Tags: Short Story, Fiction, Life Lessons

ONE

It’s ok to feel awkward. Relationships are an important part of anyone’s life, and starting anew can feel quite scary. Embrace everything you face as a new experience and try to learn something about yourself in the process!

TWO

Be there on time. Showing respect to a new acquaintance is important to let them know you’re serious and respectful about meeting them.

THREE

Find your common grounds. Get to know whom they like to eat, and which they like to read. Share your own thoughts on topics you love. Beings everywhere feel attracted to passionated souls.

FOUR

Be prepare to try something new! That poisonous fish you’ve been hearing so much? Order one! Haven’t tried carbonara pasta in a while? Ask for one meal to share.

Don’t feel like you have limit yourself to a restaurant, either. Ask around and search for new adventures. The Reckoning is here! Embrace it. Human harvesting on planet Earth is a particularly up-and-coming sport. Invade together a town or two, and get out of your confort zone over those crop fields to sequester a person or two. You can even leave those probes at home (or not, feel the vibe of the night!)

Show them how absorbing the souls of the infidels and non-believers feels like. Take a nice ride alongside the coasts where the Elder Gods awake from their final rest. Ragnarok is also scheduled to happen next weekend, so be sure to there at what photographers call golden hour, supposed to happen after Jörmungandr raises itself out of the sea. Try to meet your lover’s gaze when the moon shines upon the sky and lightens their eyes to create a beautiful moment you both will remember for eons. Be sure to do it before Fenrir breaks out of its chains and eats that pesky satellite!

FIVE

Be courteous and kind and respect your partner limits. Human annihilation is not consent.
TTL: Terrorist Scare in Depok
By: Le Citoyen P C
Tags: Gendarmerie, Indonesia, Photography, Terrorism, Bomb

Rizky Bayuputra for Le Citoyen

Through-the-Lens

Poster design and Portrait courtesy of Rizky Bayuputra.

LE CITOYEN — Recent terrorist attacks throughout Indonesia has hit the public quite hard, and has put many Indonesians on edge, and in a very alert manner especially towards anything that even looks slightly like something related to terrorists. There’s a certain ‘hype’ that is going about, and the same scares took place not far away from where I lived, where on 25 May 2018, around 7 p.m. local time , in Jalan Sawo, Pondok Cina, Depok, in front of one of the laundromats in a student living district known as ‘Barel’, a bag filled with what looked like a makeshift bomb, was discovered. First responders arrived quickly on motorcycles and wearing armoured vests, and not hours later, specialist gendarmerie teams coming from the Indonesian National Police Mobile Brigade (‘BRIMOB’) that brought also with them Explosive Ordnance Device (‘EOD’) Technicians to probe the device and to check whether true or not it was an actual explosive device.

Respect is owed to the police officers who, despite the outcome of the ‘bomb’ of being a leftover electrician’s bag, checked the bomb with dead-meticulous carefulness. Want to see what these brave men and women look like up close, and in action? Check our pictures taken by Rizky Bayuputra below!

FIRST RESPONDERS — one of the earliest officers who arrived at the scene before the arrival of the Gendarmerie. Communicating with the locals, he and several other officers established a secured perimeter around the potential blast radius to ensure the safety of civilians.

PERIMETER — with the perimeter secured, two police officers trail the location around the ‘bomb.’

Member of the Indonesian Gendarmerie, carrying himself a Steyr Aug rifle.

UP CLOSE: The Gendarmerie trooper wears modern equipment, including a ‘FAST’ helmet identical to many special operations forces around the world. A well-equipped and well-trained counterterrorist force is what Indonesian people need these days — and they’ve proven it on that night.
Ways Manipulators Will Trap You In A Relationship
By: Samantha Clarke
Tags: Mental Health, Abuse, Domestic Violence, Relationships, Psychology

Emotional Appeal As A Destructive Device

Psychological manipulators will appeal to your emotions and hijack your logic. They will make you think that they deserve to be a part of your world, often at the price of your own sanity and well-being. Everyone uses manipulation tactics every once in a while in their daily lives, such as in sales, pitches, and other applications of persuasion — that is, not all manipulation is necessarily bad.

However, when someone is using these things to gain clear advantage by harming another person, it becomes a destructive force with malicious intent. They will prey on your ability and willingness to be “human,” including appeal to human emotion that includes evoking feelings of love, hope, guilt, shame, sympathy, fear, or obligation.

Here are some techniques used by manipulators and ways to tell you’re being played by someone in an intimate relationship.
Man establishes his Supremacy over machine in Man Vs Machine debate.
Tags: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Data, Data Science

Man establishes his supremacy over machine in Man Vs Machine debate.

and the good news is Communication, Creativity and Empathy are human forte as highlighted in the article Top skills for 2019
When I Feel My Worst, I Dress My Best
By: Leigh Fisher
Tags: Wellness, Illness, Life Lessons, Health, Work Life Balance

Back when I worked at Johns Hopkins, I was surrounded by an amazing team. I constantly felt the need to be there for my team and justified coming into the office, even when my fever was barely broken, and I felt like grade A crap. There’s just no nice, polite way to describe it.

But here’s the thing; I was surrounded by an amazing team. They could handle things if I was going to suddenly be out of the office for a day.

I always hated to need to use a sick day since I would always overestimate my importance, tell myself I absolutely couldn’t miss whatever meeting or event was happening, but if I had a fever over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and just couldn’t make it, my team could get by without me for a day.

I’m not saying to shove things off on your coworkers, that’s not my point at all. This is advice for the chronic workaholics who truly, truly feel like they can’t miss a day, to the point where it damages your health.

In the end, even workaholics need to take care of themselves.

Look your best — but don’t make getting to that point exhausting.

If you’re not the type to put makeup on every day or the type to dig out that belt, tie, and cuff links every day, then you don’t have to do everything to look your best. Look as great as you can to boost your confidence, but don’t go so far that you’re going to exhaust yourself more when you’re not feeling perfect.

In my case, I’ll dig my nicest clothes out of the closet, but I won’t bother with makeup unless I desperately need to for an event, because that’s just going to slow down my morning routine.

Do what you can to make yourself feel ready for the day without throwing your routine out of whack. We’re creatures of habit, we don’t want to overdo it.

While I won’t dig out makeup, if you are battling a cold and want to keep your face in order, WebMD has a few tips on covering up cold and flu symptoms. If your nose is running away from you at such a pace that your skin is getting dry and raw, invest in those aloe infused tissues and don’t be afraid to put a little moisturizer on to fight back the dry skin.
‘Had I Really Succeeded at Anything Else’
By: Cheney Meaghan
Tags: Mental Health, Work, Writing, Passion, Life Lessons

‘So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.’ – JK Rowling

I saw a clip of JK Rowling giving a commencement speech to Harvard students the other day and this quote jumped out at me.

I looked up the full text of the speech and copied this part down in a bunch of different places, and I’ve been reading it over and over again, getting slightly obsessed.

I haven’t been writing on Medium as much in the past few weeks because depression and apathy are slipping back into me, but I know this isn’t my rock bottom.

At least, it’s not as bad as that time that I actually think was my rock bottom, years ago when I started crying one day and just couldn’t stop, so my mom made me go to the hospital and I did a lot of work on myself after that.

Years go by, and I think the DBT lessons and wisdom from group therapy shares eventually slip slowly away just like all those things I learned in high school that seemed so important at the time.

Like the names for different kind of rocks and the eras of history, and what order they came in, and what strange creatures lived in each period.

I lost, with those important things, the lists I wrote down of the reasons I had to keep living.

It seems I’ve forgotten all of those “personal care” activities and “mindfulness” practices that I am supposed to pay attention to and appreciate, like the smell of a nice candle or the warmth of a hoodie fresh out of the dryer.

I’m not at rock bottom (again) because see?

I’m reminding myself to make more lists. Lists of things to be thankful for, lists of things that make me happy, lists of things to do so that I can cross them off and feel more accomplished, because of course, “be more accomplished” is on one of my lists, somewhere.

Nevertheless, I need to rebuild my life, and this time I don’t want to wait until I actually get to rock bottom to do it.
Top tips to polish a product design case study
By: Shoshana Swell
Tags: Product Design, Case Study, UI, Design, Visual Design

Tell a story

Your story is everything. Every mock, sentence, and header should help tell the story of your user and your problem. Be intentional. Be bold. Be genuine.

Hook! Start your story in the first sentence. Think about the thousands of case studies out there. How can you incorporate your voice (that rocks!) into your work? The language you use can show your passion or excitement around the problem. Focus on improving the language.

Example for the hook:

Could be: Uber is not safe. Users can’t ride alone. Should be: This summer I was living in Cape Town, South Africa for an internship. As an international traveler, I relied on the safest methods of transportation. In Cape Town, the safest form is Uber… or I thought it was.

The final version sets up why this matters to the designer and where the reader is traveling to in order to be in the user’s shoes. In a paragraph, the reader understands this case study will be about safety, Uber, and related to a specific experience in Cape Town, South Africa.
Perfect Peace
By: Michele Thomas
Tags: Poetry, Religion, Self-awareness, Illumination Curated, Creative Writing

POETRY

A poem

Photo by Jordan McQueen on Unsplash

Like a river flowing peacefully

Over shifting coastlands,

Let my inner life reflect this.

Whether blue skies and sunny days

Or stormy with clouds turned gray,

I will meander through life with hope.

Pondering things lovely and true

Gazing out into the earth’s horizon,

With the anticipation of future reward.
6 Months on The Medium
Tags: Adultery, Sex And Relationships, Writing, Affairs, Cheating

6 Months on The Medium

My Stats and My Story

Photo per author

I started 6 months ago on this platform.

I never figured I’d put my “risque” adultery stuff out there for consumption. It’s “too risky” and “too salacious,” I thought.

It still is.

A huge risk.

But, it paid off in some ways — about 32,000 views. More than I ever thought I’d have! And I have loved the writing community as a whole. The support of other writers and readers. The highlights and quotes.

I’m a reader and an observer by nature. I’m at my happiest when puzzling over the flow of words alone in my house at my silver MacBook air. If only writing could be a lifestyle that supports me. It isn’t, though.

It’s a passion like adultery. It breaks my heart, yet I can’t quit it. Writing is the same. I pour my soul on the laptop day after day.

Will anyone want to read this?

As I weigh the madness. Why do I stay married? Should I leave? Could I? Can my lovers patch the emptiness? The moral mathematics. What does that leave me with?

Myself.

I’m figuring it out — word by word.

Thank you for reading. Thank you for accompanying me on my journey.

monalisasmiled@substack.com and monalisalady@protonmail.com
It Was a Kodak Moment
By: V. Plut
Tags: Nature Writing, Poetry, Photography, Free Verse, Poetry On Medium

The Trees

We all stand about with no choice but to watch as the old and infirm ones fall at our feet in a heap of tangled boughs…
In Front Of The Fireplace
By: Anthi Psomiadou
Tags: Behavior, Observation, Fire, Awareness, Self

The fire slowly burns the wood, transforming it

into the warmth I feel in front of the fireplace.

My thoughts slowly burn the seconds, transforming them

into not wasted opportunities.

The fireplace can be very didactic.

It shows me that in order to defeat cold, I have to be close to the fire.

If I go and sit on the other side of the room, I don’t stay warm.

But — in parallel — , if I sit too close when the burning of wood is at its zenith,

I can’t stay long; my skin is overheated.

How do you measure that, then?

What’s the balance point and the appropriate attitude

in front of the …fire?

Oh dear self, you must be worthy of the “fire”, in order to be given its knowledge.

You are an idiot if you go towards it without thinking about it at all.

You are an idiot if you overthink about going towards it.

Fire needs to capture that you are not afraid of it, but you can understand its power; you are not paralyzed by fear in front of it, but you don’t underestimate it either.

I feel some of my senses working loudly.

I smell the burning of that tree trunk’s part.

I hear the sound of it.

I see yellow and orange flames.

Actually, your brain does these, girl.

If you see a mix of yellow and orange in front of you right now, this “decision” hasn’t been made by your eyes. They just receive information and deliver them to …the boss. They don’t see anything!

So, when you don’t …see, don’t waste the time of the ophthalmologist.

There’s nothing wrong with your eyesight.

Just wake up the other eye.

Just use your insight.

-Yeah, yeah… I know, you smart-ass!

I put another piece of wood in the flames.

Come on, zenith of burning! Show me what am I tonight.

I hear the scream of my skin; the warning. But, I stay motionless.

I didn’t think about it at all. I am an idiot. Tonight.

I “see” why I do it. I use my insight. Tonight.
Building a Chat application using Flexbox
By: Daryl Duckmanton
Tags: HTML, Development, CSS, Web Development

Understanding the “why”

So why am I writing about Flexbox and not CSS Grid or something else?

Well I will be honest CSS Grid is the almost the now, but not quite. We still today have concerns about browser support for Internet Explorer. Until this can be eradicated, Flexbox will still be the choice for a lot of developers, for just a little bit longer. However I will be writing articles on how to build this application using CSS Grid in the near future. So also stay tuned for that.

As for all other options such as using floats, positioning and other CSS techniques, they are considered hacks, and always have been, so I’m not going to waste your time and mine demonstrating an anti pattern.

Now I chose a chat application UI because by nature it’s somewhat complex, but not ridiculously complex. It serves as a good enough example to learn Flexbox at a reasonable level. However if do you want a deeper understanding of Flexbox, you can always check out my course here on Udemy for the cost of a few cups of coffee. Also I think building a chat application UI is practical and also fun.

Where is the code?

The code for these articles will all be based on the following Github repository https://github.com/lyraddigital/flexbox-chat-app.

So now we know the what, the why, and where the code is, it’s time to get started. We’ll do that in the next article.

Next Article — Building the chat application shell
Choose the right Mobile Technology for your next application
By: Sandeep Rathore
Tags: Mobile App Development, Mobile App Architecture, Mobile Technology, Flutter, Native Or Cross Platform

Programming Language and Technical Architecture

iOS

iOS Architecture Diagram

Native iOS apps are developed using Objective C or Swift. While Swift is easy to learn and use, the learning curve of Objective C is quite steep. Swift is interoperable with Objective C.

The application code uses the Cocoa Touch Framework which relies on Media layer for Audio, Video, graphics, etc. Core Services provide the foundation and Core OS handles low-level features like partitioning, system configuration, etc. Kernel deals with hardware communication like networking, file system and all.

Android

Android Architecture Diagram

Native Android apps are developed using Java or Kotlin. Java is quite vast whereas Kotlin is easy to learn and use and offer much more in terms of Android app development. Kotlin is interoperable with Java.

The application code depends on Java Framework APIs which provides the View System and various Managers. When the code is compiled, it gets converted to .dex files which are executed by ART. The HAL layer provides interfaces to access the hardware and Linux Kernel takes care of the hardware communication and executing the commands.

ReactNative (RN)

ReactNative Architecture Diagram

RN apps are developed using Javascript and React framework. The JS code runs on Javascript VM and uses Javascript core engine to interact with native components using RN bridge. RN can be considered as a set of React components, where each component represents the corresponding native views and components. A custom protocol is used for message passing.

Flutter

Flutter Architecture Diagram

Flutter uses Dart as a programming language. Dart is not as polished as Java or Kotlin or Swift but it’s evolving at a very fast pace. Dart is also the official language for Fuschia (Google’s new OS).

The Framework layer provides whatever you need to develop an application in Flutter. The Framework layer interacts with Engine (low-level code) which takes care of events, rendering, VM management, etc. Embedder provides Native plugins, event loop handling, threading and packaging while creating applications. Like ReactNative, you get the native apps using Flutter and can be uploaded to the stores.
The 3 Most Important Transaction Logs in Trading
By: The Blockchain
Tags: Trading, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

Transaction log is one of the most powerful tools of traders. Normally all the problems in the trade are stored in a single diary. However, if you want to increase the granularity then you can split into 3 different books as follows.

1. Diary of Transactions

This can be known as the most basic and easy-going journal. All information related to the trades can be saved in this book. Please save as screenshot. Some information related to trades like R: R, TP, SL, market conditions, price model, etc should be included in this screenshot.

In addition to transactions, you can also save information and strategies / methods that are being used or are about to be used. Also do not ignore performance trading information so that every weekend / month / year you will have statistics, comparison.

2. Psychological logs

This kind of diary will be more complicated. With psychology, you can divide each page by day trading, remember not to focus on technology with this book, keep rewriting the most emotionally all the experience.

Even when you’re angry, you also try to turn this notebook to scramble a few lines. This will be extremely valuable material for you to observe the complex psychological evolution of yourself before each event on the chart.

3. Diary of mistakes

This is a very expensive book. Expensive than any book and course. This diary focuses only on mistakes and failures. That could be a lousy hole. Either greed leads to account burn. All the mistakes will be stored in this special diary. They will be the experience to upgrade themselves to a new level.

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Blockchain-based portable KYC solution
By: Rohas Nagpal
Tags: Kyc Platform, Blockchain, Kyc, Primechain, Blockchain Technology

This video explains the Blockchain-based portable KYC (Know Your Customer) solution that is a part of Primechain, the 6-minute blockchain.

For more on Primechain, visit: https://www.primechaintech.com/

To try the Primechain sandbox, please email us on info@primechain.in
Local Nomad Walks on the Wild Side — “Snakechild”
By: Randall Radic
Tags: Snakechild, Music Video, Music, New Music, Local Nomad

Local Nomad

Local Nomad Walks on the Wild Side — “Snakechild”

The alluring temptation of unbridled self-indulgence.

Synth-pop artist Local Nomad, aka Michael Desmond, unveils the music video for “Snakechild,” a song about the ecstasy and ultimate debilitating agony of rampant self-indulgence. This is a steamy, smoldering superb song rife with gooey bluesy energy and alt-rock brawn.

Talking about his pseudonym, Michael Desmond says, “Local Nomad is the resistance of sedentary life. It’s about seeking the strange and embracing the unknown. Wondering. Wandering. Young and Old. Everywhere and Nowhere. As cliche as it may sound — when I pick up a guitar and sing, it’s the only me. I feel at home.”

The tile of the song — “Snakechild” — refers to a real friend of Michael’s, whose life is made up of insensate passion for new sensations and, especially, debauchery. The song embodies myriad nights out on the town, reveling, drinking, dancing, and feeling the thrilling high of living on the edge. Still, when it’s all over, what’s left is a feeling of emptiness and dark depression.

Local Nomad

The video, directed by James Morano and Michael, is a trip akin to wandering through the aftermath of time spent in Kubla Khan’s pleasure dome, where the exit leads to Dante’s circles of hell. The visuals portray Local Nomad roving along empty streets, sitting in the back of a cab, wondering what’s going on and where he is.

Looking like the victim of a brutal assault, unkempt, with cotton shoved in his nose to stem the bleeding, he finally arrives at a tattoo parlor, where he takes a seat and watches as Courtney Raimo, of MTV’s How Far Is Tattoo Far?, works her art on his arm.

Opening on a thin, clanging piano, “Snakechild” proceeds to take on pulsing, writhing muscle as the bassline and drums kick in. Oozing and undulating on treacly textures, the melody, while dark and risky, is simultaneously gripping and full of spectral sensuality, giving the tune wicked beguiling energy, tempting listeners to enter.

Dark and potently imbued with an aura of primal licentiousness, “Snakechild” delivers a chilling, captivating soundscape — one that’s enigmatically appealing.

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SHIKAKAI HAIR WASH
By: Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
Tags: India, Poetry, Hair Care, Hair, Poetry On Medium

MULLING ON SESAME SHIKAKAI SMELLS

SHIKAKAI HAIR WASH

Traditions and memories

If you’re jaded by fancy smells

Your hair has faded, and gels

Don’t help at all, try

This, older than Carnatic music, buy

Yourself some Shikakai.

It is a powder to wash hair with

Take it to the shower, better bear with

Having to mix it in a bowl.

It cleans well, that’s the goal.

The lather also playing a role.

It may drop on the bathroom floor,

Yet it lathers, so it isn’t a chore,

Washing it away, but watch you don’t slip

And fall, or cut your lip

As the shikakai from your hair the oil strips

It feels muddy, yet clean, with water it disappears,

Shikakai cleans well, later I’ve napped

All afternoon. in peace, in covers wrapped

We made shampoos and soaps

All good products, one hopes.

This cousin of theirs isn’t expensive

Even in India, its use isn’t extensive

Hardly anybody uses it now.

In South India there’s a yearly tradition of using

Shikapodi on the occasion of Diwali, musing,

On God and creation, as we anoint our hair with oil

Heads cleaned with the lather that smells of soil

There’s a distinctive muddy, yet clean, smell of the shikakai

Gauri Kalyanam plays, a song I can’t forget if I try.

Sung by Sudha Raghunathan now, when I was a kid it was my mom.

I feel embarrassed to sing it for my kids, it’s bad form

To wake their sleeping North Indian grand parents, it isn’t their norm!

YouTube quietly plays the song

As I oil their hair, it lasts just that long.

We sit our children down… not just the girls, the boys too!

Apply sesame oil, another festive smell to give a happy voice to.

Off they go for a bath with the bowl of shikakai mix.

A drop of Ganges holy river water, in our water bucket

yes we have bucket baths, with a mug to pour water on ourselves…

just kidding, I installed a shower years ago.

Always wondering

if the Puja shop guy conned us,

and sold us tap water instead

That simply doesn’t happen,

anywhere in the world does it

Paying mucho bucks for tap water.

Then come out shivering in the Jamshedpur cold,

after a shikakai head bath…

why was it called a head bath

and not a hair bath?

Shhhh…in Tamil you can use

the word head&knot for hair

but not hair itself,

as hair is a bad word

used only by bad people, you know why! So head bath, ok,

and lets’ not talk about

why head not hair again.

When you are bored or sad

When you are worried or wondering

Think of looking for a simple solution

Like a forgotten smell.

The combination of Shikakai,

sesame oil, Gauri Kalyanam, early mornings and new clothes

On the morning of the festival of Diwali

Always made me feel loved and loving.

Long after Diwali, in the hot summer, shikakai still cools me down,

Makes me feel Corona isn’t to be cured but to be endured.

It costs ₹4, about 5c in your money.

You can try it once, it will make your hair very fluffy.

Or you can hunt in your memory dump

For a smell that calms you down

And tell me about it.

If you liked this article by Dr. Roopa Ramachandran, here’s another one.
Duane Allman’s Thought’s Music
Tags: Interview, Artist, Music, Emotions, Communication

Being a musician is like having a different way to communicate
Soneto a Bezerrillo
By: Miguel Adrover
Tags: Historia, Medium En Español, Poesia, Polyglot Poetry, Colonialism

English translation

May the partridge cross my musket’s view,

Dog signs at her with haughty airs.

— El Alano, XVIIth century anonymous poem.

You don’t need 3 heads to dwell in myths;

A migration from Iran to Spain;

& Molossian phenotypes are enough to

Horrorize…ay, bendito*, the canine horror.

You don’t need the Cynologique seal;

You gnawed taíno bones & nightmares

From The Conquest reverberate in your blood —

The horror…ay, bendito, the canine horror.

You had your fill of human flesh:

Men — women — children…

You were an efficient machine.

They said: “The dog deserves human rations!”

Ponce said: “Canine Piety is not Christian doctrine”.

Your service to The Crown made you legend.
Taking Up Space: Busting Ghosts, the Female Experience, and the Unabashed Queerness of Jillian Holtzmann
By: Kate Skow
Tags: Feminism, Movies, Ghostbusters, LGBTQ, Film

As of this writing, the aggregated ratings of Ghostbusters (Paul Feig, 2016) are “totally out of whack,” thanks to men who down-voted the film before its release.

If you’re panning a movie you haven’t even seen, and it stars four female leads, you’re probably sexist.

If you saw Ghostbusters and didn’t like it, that’s your prerogative. Comedy (especially broad comedy) is subjective, after all. But here are a few things about the remake that should make viewers take notice:

First, it does away with the original romance subplot, which, let’s be honest, was actually more stalking than romance.

Second, the women in the remake are never helpless.

Third, the four women never cater to the male gaze. In fact, Feig’s Ghostbusters actively repels the male gaze — mostly via Kate McKinnon’s character, Jillian Holtzmann, whose costumes include baggy overalls, wide leg trousers, and a jumpsuit. Holtzmann also laughs at their male secretary, Kevin (Chris Hemsworth), and she flirts with Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig).

McKinnon in Ghostbusters. Image: AV Club.

The thing about McKinnon’s Jillian Holtzmann is how different she is in comparison to the other women, particularly Wiig’s Erin and Melissa McCarthy’s Abby Yates.

Holtzmann is what women would be like if we were never conditioned to take up little to no space. (Or at least, she has completely unlearned this behavior.) She dances around her desk, using her whole body — and the whole space. Also, when the ghostbusters visit the Mayor (Andy Garcia), Holtzmann “manspreads,” and then puts her foot on his desk. As well, she “calls dibs” on the entire second floor when the ghostbusters’ office gets an upgrade.

In contrast, Erin begins the movie in a professional skirt suit and high heels, and she’s fighting for tenure at Columbia by kissing “so many different kinds of [male] ass.” Similarly, Abby’s trying to get a proper wonton-to-broth ratio in her lunch order, and while she calls out the delivery guy several times, she’s mostly restrained and polite. Abby’s most hurtful joke is aimed at Erin’s mom, on which Abby backpedals immediately because she thinks the world of her.

Some male viewers will conclude jokes like this one fall flat. This is likely because much of Ghostbusters’ comedy speaks to a female experience. The jokes are about feeling small and spoken over. They’re about the little things women do to ensure they’re seen as nice and acceptable. Women viewers get these jokes because they’re riffing on our everyday lives.
Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher
By: Giulietta Passarelli
Tags: 50 Words, Youth, The Bad Influence, Music, Growing Up

50 Word Microfiction

Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher

Thrifty Words Theme #8: Youth

Photo by Marius Masalar on Unsplash

Music was my salvation. I grew up with ten siblings. There was opera, the 40’s, R&B, Motown artists, & rock ‘n roll.

A collection that spirited my life into a place where I was free.

It was a safe haven where my surroundings became a sea of notes and comfort.
OneLedger v0.6.1 Release
Tags: Blockchain, Ethereum, Technology, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

We’ve released the v0.6.1 version of our OneLedger protocol. For this version, we have rebuilt the underlying serialization code to support polymorphic handling of chains and transactions as well as some code cleanup.

The list of changes includes:

Enhanced serialization/deserialization for polymorphic structs

Better logging and data dumps

Synchronous client transaction handling

Enhanced debugging support

Fixed a bug with balance presentations

For the next scheduled release, we’re expanding the enhancing transaction support, adding fees, integrating scripting, and working on better persistence. We’ve also formalized the development process, since we’ve grown the team considerably, and have planned out all of the sprints leading to the release for the Testnet codebase for mid-December.
React Developer Tooling
By: Bogdan Jiang
Tags: React Native, React Development, React Tool, React

Today I am going to talk about developer tooling to improve these 3 areas.

Write code quickly

Debug code effectively

Update code easily

1. Fast Refresh (write code quickly)

Fast refresh makes your React app reloads slick and painless on code changes and Re-renders only the required React components if a code change is made instead of reloading the entire app.

Is it the same as hot reloading?

The answer is NO. The hot reloading has some limitations.

No function component support (React hook)

No error recovery

Often did not reload after changes

Required brittle code transforms

How is Fast Refresh different?

First class feature for React core team

Built for all renderers

Supports function components and Hooks

Recovers after errors

How does Fast Refresh work?

Decides when to ‘update’ or ‘remount’

Computes a component ‘signature’

What are limitations of Fast Refresh?

Resets class component state

Mixed React and non-React exports

Memoization

When can you use Fast Refresh?

React Native v61+

React DOM (soon)

2. Developer Tools (debug code effectively)

Why rewrite React DevTools?

Better performance

Support new APIs

Add new UX features

What can you do with React DevTools?

Navigate Unfamiliar Projects

Iterate and Test

Profile and Measure Performance

3. Codemods (update code easily)

What is a codemod?

Tool for refactoring large codebase

Like a really smart field find-and-replace

How do codemods work?

It starts by reading Javascript source code from the file. The source code is parsed and converted into an abstract syntax tree or AST for short.

An AST is a tree representation of the structure of a program.

Each node in the tree corresponds to an element in the source code.

The codemod itself is a small Javascript program that modifies this tree. And it can do more complicated edits than find and replace code.

What are codemods good for?

Renaming things

Reordering things

Replacing things(under certain conditions)

What are codemods not good for?

Complex behavioral changes

Fixing bugs

Check React codemods here!

And you can also check the Demo!

That’s it for today.

Stay tuned! Happy coding!
Intro to Computer Vision: Take Your First Steps With OpenCV for Python
By: Juan Cruz Martinez
Tags: Computer Vision, Python, Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science

Loading Videos

OpenCV is great at dealing not only with images but also with videos. The video streams can be loaded from a video file or directly from a video source such as a webcam.

In the next example, we’ll load a video from the webcam and present it in a new window:

import cv2 # Load the video stream

video = cv2.VideoCapture(0) while(True):

# Capture each frame as an image

ret, frame = video.read() # show the image on the screen

cv2.imshow('frame', frame)



# Stop the playback when pressing ‘q’

if cv2.waitKey(1) == ord('q'):

Break # Release the video from memory

video.release() # Clean up

cv2.destroyAllWindows()

The code is self-explanatory, but let’s review it in detail. We use the method VideoCapture to load the video resource. The first argument defines what input we’re reading. By passing a 0 , we’re referring to the main webcam (if existent). In case you have multiple webcams connect, you can use 1 , 2 , etc. If your video is captured and saved in a file, you can pass a string with the path to the file.

Next, we start a loop that’ll only end on user command, but more on that later. What’s important here is what happens inside the loop. The first thing we’re doing is asking our VideoCapture to read a frame of the video. In the case of the camera, it’ll be a snapshot of the camera at that time, and in the case of a video file, it’ll be the current video frame.

Each frame we read from a video load in the same way as an image is crucial because it means we have the entire arsenal of OpenCV functions at our disposal when dealing with videos.

For example, the frame’s output captured with read can be passed to the method imshow exactly as we did in the previous example of working with images.

Beautiful!

Now the video is playing, but there’s no way out of the while loop, so let’s build an exit strategy by detecting if the q key’s been pressed. If it has, then we exit the loop for the cleanup activities.