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DevOps Expectations
By: Shift Asia
Tags: Quality Assurance, Software Development, Engineering, Agile, DevOps

Last year, we saw numerous examples of successful DevOps initiatives across large and small enterprises and what should we expect for the rest of 2020 in post COVID economy?

More and more companies are starting to realize the benefits of agile in order to keep up with the mobile application usage, Artificial Intelligence ruling and constantly changing market needs.

Reflecting that, thought leaders and tech startups are arising in the DevOps community, and here we noticed the following trends that shape this year’s technological advancement surrounding the community.

1) Agile will increase collaboration between tech and business functions

We all know that Agile has been adopted in many functions including finance, human resources and procurement, and marketing. However, this doesn’t mean it has helped the tech side join forces with their colleagues in other functions. Because of the pressure digital is putting on organizations, we should see more collaboration across functions this year.

2) Training, learning, and improving DevOps skills is posing challenge

DevOps requires trying and learning new technologies. But, due to budget restraints, not many companies are able to always hire the top notch DevOps engineers every quarter. Some may think nurturing internal resource and making them experts makes sense as it can be difficult to measure DevOps skills. Some others may think it’s more efficient to work with companies specialized in DevOps consulting.

3) DevOps output will become more measurable and better defined

Yes, it’s true, DevOps people have been put in tough position as the whole world was confused about their roles and responsibilities. But a number of research institute has been established with the purpose of launching DevOps metrics that are meant to help both enterprises and individuals to verify their output and make data-driven decisions.

4) AI and ML adoption will rise, and we can’t ignore it

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML) have been numerously rated as the most important technology of the next decade. Are they going to steal our jobs? No, there will always be a need for people who can build, manage, monitor and test new technologies. AIOps is already a thing and it will give DevOps teams the ability and tool to analyze more data faster, essentially allowing them to improve key processes, tasks, and decision making across functions.

SHIFT ASIA surely has its eye on DevOps, we have developed internal automation tools and tested how DevOps can help both our clients and ourselves.

For any questions, please get in touch at sa_cs@shiftasia.com
status.im — June 17, 14:00 GMT
By: Mars Robertson
Tags: Money, Ethereum, ICO, Bitcoin, Blockchain

Real product and real developers: https://github.com/status-im/status-react

Detailed analysis: https://crushcrypto.com/analysis-of-status-im-ico/

Powering ETHEREUM dapps on mobile.

My thoughts on BitcoinTalk:

These guys actually have a product, rather than whitepaperware.

This could become very successful…

Whether to invest in ICO… That’s a freaking game theory, I’m not an expert and I often lose.
How to Debug REST Requests
By: Nassos Michas
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, Front End Development, Programming, API

Level 3: Man-in-the-Middle Proxy

The browser JavaScript console and Network tabs are very convenient when you want to debug browser-generated calls. What if you have a back-end application employing an embedded REST client? Here’s where man-in-the-middle⁶ comes into play.

In cryptography and computer science, man-in-time-middle (MITM) is a term associated with the word attack. It’s used to describe an attack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communications between two parties who believe they’re directly communicating with each other.

For our debugging purposes, we’ll borrow the concept of MITM but not to perform an attack or alter the content of a request — just to record it. By sitting in the middle of the REST client and the REST server, we can observe traffic from both directions and provide insight and logging to third parties.

Let’s see how it works next.

DIRECT request-reply

The simplest DIRECT request-reply sequence involves just the client and the REST server. You make a DIRECT request on the server address and port, and you receive an answer back:

A DIRECT request-reply call (image by author)

There is, obviously, no man-in-the-middle here, so let’s move on to introduce one.

MITM request-reply

In a MITM scenario, we introduce an extra part in the architecture. This is a component sitting between the REST client and the REST endpoint:

A request-reply with a MITM proxy (image by author)

The MITM proxy listens for incoming requests on a specific port and then rerequests all captured requests to a target server and port.

Once the target server provides a reply, the MITM proxy forwards the reply back to the original REST client while locally logging all traffic.

Your client remains unaware of all this taking place behind the scenes, and you don’t need to change any of your code except then introducing the proxy URL. According to the underlying framework and architecture of your application, this might be a command-line option you need to pass or an in-application configuration option.

Using a MITM proxy

You can effortlessly launch your local MITM proxy using an excellent open-source project called mitmproxy. This proxy tool is available for all major OSs — as well as in a Docker image. For this hands-on part, we’ll use the Docker image of mitmproxy , and we’ll also expose its web interface so we can review collected logs using an internet browser.

To start mitmproxy using Docker, you can issue the following command:

docker run --rm -it \

-p 8080:8080 \

-p 8081:8081 \

mitmproxy/mitmproxy mitmweb \

--web-iface 0.0.0.0

This will start the proxy listening on port 8080, exposing its web interface on port 8081. We can now proceed to retry a previous REST request using cURL, this time using the mitmproxy as our proxy server:

Let’s open the web interface of mitmproxy to examine what was captured:

The web interface of mitmproxy (image by author)

On the left, we see the original request captured, and on the right we see the data exchanged for this request.
Así se repartieron los europeos África
By: Pablo Cruz
Tags: Español, Africa, Colonialismo, Politica, Europa

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InfoSec Write-ups
By: Mayur Parmar
Tags: Ctf, Cyber Defecers, Infosec, Tryhackme, Cve 2020 24115

CVE-2020–24115

Use of hardcoded credentials in source code leads to admin panel access

# Exploit Title: Online Book Store 1.0 — Use of Hard-coded Credentials in source code leads to admin panel access

# Date: 2020–07–22

# Exploit Author: Mayur Parmar(th3cyb3rc0p)

# Vendor Homepage: https://projectworlds.in/free-projects/php-projects/online-book-store-project-in-php/

# Software Link: https://github.com/projectworlds32/online-book-store-project-in-php/archive/master.zip

# Version: 1.0

# Tested on Windows10

# CVE: CVE-2020-24115

Hardcoded Credentials:

Hardcoded Passwords, also often referred to as Embedded Credentials, are plain text passwords or other secrets in source code. Password hardcoding refers to the practice of embedding plain text (non-encrypted) passwords and other secrets (SSH Keys, DevOps secrets, etc.) into the source code. Default, hardcoded passwords may be used across many of the same devices, applications, systems, which helps simplify set up at scale, but at the same time, poses a considerable cybersecurity risk.

Attack Vector:

An attacker can gain admin panel access using default credentials and do malicious activities.

Steps to reproduce:

Download source code from https://projectworlds.in/free-projects/php-projects/online-book-store-project-in-php/ Now unzip it and goto the Database folder here we can see one SQL file. Now open that file using Notepad and there we can see admin credentials. but the password is encrypted .from pattern I identified that this is MD5 hash. so we can easily decrypt using crackstation.net or any hash cracker tools like Hashcat, John the ripper.

Credentials

Cracked Credentials

4. Now we have Admin credentials so we can easily log in to the portal.

Admin Login

Mitigation:
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Tags: 完璧主義, Pos, 行動力

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Code checkins from Ethereum devs begin streaming on CoinHub.
By: Raj Kadam
Tags: Ethereum, Crypto, Bitcoin, Github, Blockchain

The last few months have been big for crypto-currencies. Prices and awareness has risen but transparency hasn’t. What a lot of people don’t know is that there is some amazing work going on behind the scenes and some really awesome developers who are solving really difficult problems.

Today, we are launching CoinHub Code Streams. CoinHub Pro users will now be able to look at GitHub code check-ins for each of the currencies we’ve decided to integrate into our terminals.

For Ethereum, CoinHub Pro users will be able to see code checkins from various Ethereum repositories from GitHub. Simply clicking on any checkin will take you to the corresponding commit on GitHub.

CoinHub for iOS is available from here. If you are looking for an Android version, it’s coming soon. You can get on the pre-flight list here.
The Strange Seduction of Bartending
By: Onjuli Datta
Tags: Money, Cocktails, Work, Bartending, Work Life Balance

I came into bar work with an aim to avoid this. I did not want to get attached. I’d seen it happen to my friends, who would work in divey bars for a month and then demand we go there all the time, standing up to the critics with alarming conviction. It didn’t make sense to me; as a waitress I’d gotten used to hating the places I worked, and deriding them with the same fierce passion my friends used to defend their bars. But then, six months in, I caught myself walking 40 minutes across town with my laptop and two bulky textbooks strapped to my back so I could do some studying at work. I told myself it was for the free Wi-Fi — but come on. There’s free Wi-Fi everywhere. When I got there I felt safe and secure, they way I hadn’t in my messy flat or in the clinical university library. It had happened: I was hooked.

It feels cheaper to drink in your own bar; but they key word is ‘feels’, not ‘is’. I worked in one place that gave staff a 50-percent-off discount, but in my experience this generally means that you either drink more, or bring your friends and pay for all their drinks too, spending the same amount you would have anyway.

When you’re on shift there are always freebies, too — misheard drink orders, out-of-date beers, an entitled regular deciding the Birra Moretti tastes different than it did yesterday. Off shift, there is no real excuse. I was paying the same jumped up prices as everyone else there, except I knew how ridiculous the markups were. Adding insult to injury, I was paying for these overpriced drinks with the wages they’d just paid to me for a week’s hard work. I worked at one bar where we were paid £6.70 ($8.53) per hour, and one glass of wine was £6. I should have just gone home, but I didn’t want to leave my bar, and so half a night’s wages went back into the register.

This is the symbiotic relationship between bartender and bar. You work for the wages they pay you, then spend them back into the bar, and then work for them again. We’re back to cycles, and the bartender is very much a part of the machinery.
A Spirit Made Pure
By: Moshe Forman
Tags: Poetry, Fantasy, Love, Mythology, Literally Literary

Inscription: To the thermal nymphs who listened to Andreas, the son of Andreas, and as he was cured he made them a vow.

Water that soothes the weary and lonely,

a harvest of sweat from the Nymphs’ passioned brow,

the sap of your desire washes over battered limbs.

Since ages past, deep cisterns you did fill,

to rise again into the crystalline pool,

where it now caresses my time-blemished skin.

You cleansed the blood-encrusted wounds,

of battle-weary warriors, returned from the war,

seeking your lust to refresh their parched souls.

I too fall into the blessed waters’ depths,

drawn from the pores of your sweating brow,

your liquor’s warm caress upon ancient sores.

Or are the cisterns filled by your warm tears,

as you wait, forlorn, for your lover’s return,

fallen in battle, never again enticed by your kiss?

With your aqueous balm, do you still tempt

the war-wearied flames of unrequited desire,

to the love-forlorn void of your hidden lair?

I, the imposter, take your aqueous gift

of body-warmed tears, my spirit thus calmed,

as war’s stigmata are washed from my palm.

A great cause do you serve, aqueous Nymph,

in fueling men's dreams of a life made pure,

nurtured in your embryonic waters, evermore.
Acceptance is The Secret To Happiness
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Weekly Prompts, Life Lessons, Spirituality, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

Easier it is to judge the mistakes of others,

But, difficult it is to recognize our own.

Easier it is to cover our bare feet with socks,

than wrapping the entire earth with a carpet.

Convenient it is to pass on the blame to others,

But to wear that crown demands courage.

Convenient it is to put on the woolens,

than cursing the cold weather with an abuse.

Favorable it is to dislike and insult others

But it takes tolerance to drink that poison.

Favorable it is to wear sunglasses,

than praying for the clouds to cover the sun.

Easier it is to have an accepting nature,

than to grumble and waste life!
TinkerHub @ IEDC Summit 2019
By: Sreeram Venkitesh
Tags: Events, Startup, Entrepreneurship, Tinkerhub, Community

The story I have to tell starts last week, with a call from Ashfaque, TinkerHub’s Chief Operations Officer. All I knew was that TinkerHub was setting up a stall at the summit. Volunteers were needed. I was glad to skip class on Friday and head to Sahradaya College of Engineering, Kodakara.

Sahrdaya Engineering College

I reached there by around 2 pm and was waiting for the others to arrive. The college was getting ready for the big event tomorrow. All the students and volunteers were already buzzing around. It was an exciting scene!

I later met with the team — Vineeth, Jewel, Vighnesh, Anugeeth, Nishal along with Ashfaque and Kurian leading us. We went to our space, to set everything up for the D-Day. We had spaces in 3 floors, a registration desk cum pavillion in the ground floor, a complete room and two other stations on the first floor, and a hallway on the second floor.

Setting up the banner! #SkillsPayTheBills

The volunteers at Sahrdaya were super helpful. They moved all the tables and chairs into the rooms for us! We then started our job of setting up the learning stations. It was only by this time I had actually got an idea of what was going on, and what the learning stations were. Learning stations were similar to what we had done with learning circles during one of our monthly TinkerDays, but only on the ninth gear this time around!

TIL that I still can’t blow up balloons properly! I settled to tie them together.

The major work we had to do was set up the ambience of the place. Colourful, yet serious. Interesting, yet intriguing. Like a classroom, yet fun and engaging. We had all night to do it, but we had to do it properly. This would be the centre of attraction.

The different tables were allotted for the different fields of study, where mentors and super-mentors will be present to help the incoming students get started with the field. Each topic had two different stations, a beginner and an advanced one.

It’s the vision of such people that keeps us going

The volunteers had moved in all the tables and helped us set up the stalls downstairs, now it was time to get the learning stations up as Kurian and Ashfaque had envisioned. We had used the balloons of yellow, red and blue, the colours from the TinkerHub logo made the entire room stand out.
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Tags: 交易, 香港, Algorithms, 港股, 投資

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The Empty Seat: The Physicist and the Poet
By: Apoorva Mishra Lochan
Tags: Poetry, Trains, Friendship, Physics, Serendipity

A lifetime of friendship

Squeezed into an hour

began with a mundane discussion

of the weather and the late running trains

But still that was normal

until the discussions of time

And how the Physicist and the Poet

Came to sit next to each other

Was it probability or serendipidity

Are they two faces of the same coin

Then all of a sudden

“Well this is my stop” he said

And before he left he peered straight into her soul,

one last and final time even though they had traveled

across space and time to just have this conversation

A minute later, all that remained was the emptiness

of the Seat next to her.
Respire
By: Sydney J. Shipp
Tags: Romance, Poetry, Relationships, Love Poems, Love

Respire

A poem

The very breath of him,

he

who breathes easy and slow

because he knows

the next will come

It will be given to him

But me, I am unsure,

and I would hold mine

just to watch and

hear him

be delivered from

one moment to the next

I know he would not

take

it so I grasp at

the faith he has

in the rise of his chest

after the preceding fall

An exhale then

I stare up

to the ceiling to

borrow

some time before

his next inhale

I pray for the sound

then

turn my eyes down

to watch for

the lift of his chest

and fall of my own

With a brand

new belief I

give back,

return the air

I have used

without fear of no return

I listen to these

transactions that sound

like a part of love

I never understood

before as

music
QSS u saradnji s partnerom IBM, predstavio analitičko rješenje Cloud Pak for Data on Diet
Tags: Ibm Data Science, Software Development, Analytics Platforms, IBM, Ibm Data And Ai

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The Best of Better Programming (November 28–December 4, 2020)
By: Zack Shapiro
Tags: JavaScript, Software Development, Startup, Programming, Python

Exciting Career Opportunities From Better Programming Jobs

post a job for free and promote it to this email list of 75,000+ devs next week for just $100. BetterProgrammingJobs.com continues to grow this week! If you're an employer or your company is hiring, you canand promote it to this email list of 75,000+ devs next week for just $100. Featured Career Opportunities: * Icebreaker is hiring a Full-Stack Product Engineer: Icebreaker is an awesome video chat platform for short, time-based conversations with fun questions to help you get to know the person you're chatting with. Want to help build the future of community, culture, and connection? Want to join a remote team of awesome humans (& some dogs & a cat)? We’re hiring a Full-Stack Product Engineer! Apply to Icebreaker

* Grouparoo is hiring a Senior Full-Stack / Founding Engineer: Grouparoo builds open-source customer data infrastructure tools. We're hiring engineers! We're looking for a senior engineer and a full-stack (mid-level) engineer to join our remote, US-based team. We're a React, Node, Next.js, and TypeScript shop building open source data tools. We'd love to chat! Apply to Grouparoo

* Better Programming is hiring a Part-Time Replacement Editor:

I'm going to be going on paternity leave mid-January through the beginning of March and I'm looking for someone to fill in in my place while I'm spending time with my new family member! Looking for someone with an editorial background as well as recent developer experience. This is a part-time position, likely ~20 hours a week with full support from the Better Programming team. Email me zack+replacementeditor@zackshapiro.com if interested with details about your background.
2021 FLETA Roadmap
By: Fleta Blockchain
Tags: Fleta, Blockchain Project, Cryptocurrency, Roadmaps, Blockchain

We are glad to share FLETA’s roadmap for 2021.

Thank you.

***

About FLETA

FLETA is a blockchain platform that aims to offer infrastructure that can be applied to real-world business models. FLETA has its own core blockchain technologies like Level Tree Validation, Parallel Sharding, Independent multi-chain Structure, Block Redesign, and PoF(Proof-of-Formulation) which is its own consensus algorithm. With them, it aims to solve problems that existing platforms have such as slow speeds, scalability limitation, and excessive fees, and provide a flexible development environment. Moreover, through its Gateway technology, it enhanced its interoperability by allowing projects issuing their tokens through other mainnets to maintain their mainnets while using FLETA chain.

Sendsquare, a foundation that developed FLETA project, was selected as one of the blockchain PoC support projects by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) of the South Korean Government since 2019 and has developed the blockchain-based on-chain clinical data management system (eCRF System) and RWD basic clinical research analysis report platform using blockchain technology.

***

Feel free to join and connect with us through any of our official channels below:

Website: https://fleta.io

FLETA Store: https://fleta.ogn.app/#/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fletachain

Telegram: https://t.me/FLETAofficialGroup

Github: https://github.com/fletaio
SolidStamp x Trivial.co partnership
Tags: Crypto Tokens, Ethereum

So here is what we’ve been up to recently…

One of the reasons why Trivial.co was created is because we couldn’t find a platform that combines on-chain and off-chain data about tokens in an elegant and comprehensive way. We’re putting all this information into the profile of a token, so you don’t have to go on various websites to get the whole picture. Having that in mind we want to keep adding even more data.

Thanks to SolidStamp we can now display :

info if the particular token was audited

link to token’s audit

name&logo of auditor

We hope it will be useful for our audience!
Deploy your excel dashboard on Heroku
By: Pavan Elisetty
Tags: Data Visualization, Data Science, Dashboard, Heroku, Excel

Step 4 :

Now you have two ways to go ahead, one is by directly pushing this repo to Heroku for deploying or the other is to push this repo to GitHub and then link Heroku and Github, then deploy. Either way, it will work!

I choose directly pushing to Heroku.

Since Heroku doesn't accept the files only with static web pages we need to create a false PHP backend. You can also create flask-server backend. But I choose PHP since it is easy to do with minimal steps.

We need to use a trick and tell Heroku that our website is a PHP application. To do this simply copy and paste the following commands in your git bash. composer.json has been included to provide support for PHP application on Heroku. If an app has no composer dependencies, we must include empty composer.json to recognize the PHP application.

echo ‘<?php include_once(“app.htm”); ?>’ > index.php

Note: my HTML source file is named as an app, replace with whatever you named it and please make sure it is htm not HTML in the command

Create a composer file with the command

echo ‘{}’ > composer.json

now again re-run the following commands :

git add . git commit -m “second”

Now initialize Heroku CLI, assuming you have Heroku account and Heroku CLI installed if not you can find in the below link

Note that Heroku is free to use for some extent, and for our project, it will be more than sufficient

Now copy and paste the command and run

heroku login

You will be asked to enter any key for logging in if you enter any key a browser window will pop up for user authentication. After authenticating with it check back with the git bash or terminal that you should be logged in.
JavaScript Essentials: Exploring All the Different Ways to Declare Functions
By: Shilpa Syal
Tags: Nodejs, JavaScript, Front End Development, Programming, Web Development

JavaScript Essentials: Exploring All the Different Ways to Declare Functions

Let’s dive into different ways to declare functions and how to use them

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash

Introduction

In JavaScript, there are several different ways to declare functions, and choosing the appropriate one can sometimes be confusing if you don’t know the difference between them. So let's dive into all the ways to define JavaScript functions.

A function is a block of code designed to perform a particular task and can be called any number of times. It reduces the redundant code in our program. The sequence of statements is called the function body.

Functions are first-class objects

In JavaScript, functions are first-class objects as they can be:

Assigned to variables

Passed as arguments to the function

Returned as values from a function

Used as object properties
What’s Next for Material Design’s Theming Tools
By: Alex Kolundzija
Tags: Material Design, UI, Design, UX

Material Design retired the Material Theme Editor. The Material Plugin will continue to serve as a way to upload and sync Sketch files with Gallery

Since launching Material Theming in 2018, we’ve learned a lot about what designers and developers need in order to customize Material Components’ typography, color, and shape. We’ve heard members of the Material community ask for tools that go beyond Sketch, work on any platform, are more usable for developers, and easily integrate with existing source files.

And that’s what we want to deliver.

On March 19th, we retired the Material Theme Editor in order to focus on building even better theming tools and resources. The Material Plugin will continue to serve as a way to upload and sync Sketch files with Gallery — our collaborative tool for uploading design work, getting feedback, and tracking revisions. We’ve got some exciting updates planned for this plugin, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, here are a few theming resources you can use right now:

Design kits and tutorials

*These files are available under Apache 2.0. By getting these files, you agree to the Google Terms of Service. The Google Privacy Policy describes how data is handled in this service.

Developer tools for building themes

Example apps
31.07.2018: Development Updates
Tags: Loans, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Fintech

The CoinLoan dev team has been working hard over the past week. Even harder than usual!💪

After the platform launch we have rolled out some upgrades for the platform, let’s call them dev updates #1. Check out our latest improvements and visit https://app.coinloan.io to try them out!

What’s done?

You’ve asked to make your applications visible among the others in the Lending Market. Done! Now your lending and borrowing requests are in a general list highlighted in blue, but you can’t accept your own applications for sure.

From now on, you’ll see the monthly repayment amount in the application form. To our opinion, this is much more convenient.

Fees page added. Now all the information about service fees is available in one place: https://app.coinloan.io/fees/.

We offer depositing fiat currency in a convenient way with help of TransferWise — just create an account and deposit your fiat, convert it in Euro and transfer to CoinLoan using SEPA payment method.

We have also put tooltips on each field in application forms with a little clue. So you won’t have to guess what we are asking you to do 🙂.

Also, now you have an opportunity to get the details of pending and cancelled applications.

And, of course, there are tons of different optimizations and bugfixes that can’t be seen with the naked eye.

What’s the plan?

Within next 14 days we’re adding a feature to use TrueUSD stablecoin as a currency for issuing and borrowing a loan along with EUR. So you’ll be able to borrow some money in TUSD and change it into fiat on any exchange.

We’re working on Bitcoin and Litecoin inclusion to the crypto-collateral list. The alternative to Ethereum, therefore, should be available soon!

You are welcome to test the new features and share the experience with CoinLoan team. If you know how to make the CoinLoan platform even more accessible and easy-to-use, don’t hesitate to contact us via support@coinloan.io.

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Political Illusions
Tags: Politics, Progressivism, Poetry, Populism, Resistance Poetry

Political Illusions

The demand for a populist leader

Photo by roya ann miller on Unsplash

Is it not strange how

A political party can present itself

As the party of the downtrodden,

The minority ethnicity and the working class.

Yet still be subservient to the will of the elites.

Wall Street and Silicon Valley donations,

The engine that keeps it running.

I think it is stranger even

When their solution to their base’s problem

Is to try and deceive them,

By making it appear that they are being more progressive,

Installing coloured faces

In some cabinet positions.

Yes, that signals true change is coming.

It is being more progressive,

To diversify political offices,

But I ask does anything really change

When the only thing progressive about them is their skin-tone?

Pro-corporate views define their resume.

I think the populace will see through these distractions,

The illusion that meaningful change is coming

And with time they may lose those voters.

I think what the past four years have shown

Is the desire for a populist leader,

Someone willing to stand up against the ruling powers,

Tax the rich and use the money to pay for healthcare,

More jobs and all the rest of the masses’ wishes.

Is that not what Trump ran on?

Granted he did not come through with many of those promises,

But I think the rift is clearly visible.

That there is a desire for a populist party,

Right or left

Can swing either way.

If this elect administration

Takes this rift for granted,

Their counterparts might jump in and grab it,

For right wing populism is equally as effective.

Tax the rich and build a wall,

Keeping all those immigrants out that will take your jobs.
Because of you
By: Tasneem Kagalwalla
Tags: Heartbreak, Poetry, Relationships, Love, Writing

You may think I write for you

But I don’t

I write because of you

There is a difference.

If you like what u read perhaps u’d like to read more. Support my work here.
What Are the Best Backlog Refinement Techniques?
By: Guneet Singh
Tags: Software Engineering, Agile, Software Development, Scrum

The team backlog must always contain some stories that are ready for implementation without significant risk or surprise. — © Scaled Agile, Inc.

Product Backlog is the collection of items that are important for the coming iterations to complete. It contains user and enabler stories. It may include some of the system improvement stories that developer or tester has found during their sprint execution period.

Backlog Refinement is a technique to rectify the backlog items for an agile team to deliver. It keeps the backlog fresh, update and ready for the team to work on it immediately. It also helps the Product Owner to get ready with the high priority stories which are required to deliver in the next sprints.

In my team, the Product Owner, Steve, comes with the list of backlog items that he wants to prioritize. Also, he was responsible for these tasks during Backlog refinement.

Descope user stories that no longer appear relevant

Creating new user stories if required as part of the discovery

Re-prioritize the stories for the next iteration.

Estimate the stories which are not estimated

Correcting estimates in light of newly discovered information

I, Scrum Master, is facilitating the meeting. I look for the meeting room where backlog refinement happens. I make sure, the meeting should be timeboxed and it should be no longer than 3 hours for the two-weeks sprint. The team was ready with the following tools during the backlog refinement session —

Trello — This is the issue and project tracking tool where the Product Owner maintains the user stories.

PlanItPoker — This tool is used for estimating the user stories.

Steve goes along with the following steps during the meeting:

The Product Owner presents the plan for the meeting. The Product Owner will explain the feature/assorted stories planned to deliver in the coming sprints. The Product Owner also explains the feedback collected from the stakeholders/business from the last sprint review. The Development team provide their technical views on the process improvement. The Product Owner re-prioritize the backlog items. The Development Team discuss each story with the Product Owner and understand the requirement properly. The Development Team estimates the stories using the PlanItPoker tool. The Product Owner and the Development team together refine the highest priority stories for the coming sprint.

Some of the most important questions arise on Backlog Refinement —
Acessibilidade digital: Cores, componentes e ferramentas
By: Hugo Costa
Tags: Inclusão, Acessibilidade, Desenvolvimento Web, UI, Design

Design Tips - Color and Accessibility

This topic has the potential to be a touchy one for marketing departments and designers. There have been plenty of…
Begin Where You Are, You Have Everything You Need
By: Zack Shapiro
Tags: Maker, Software Development, Startup, Work, Programming

Begin Where You Are, You Have Everything You Need

A message to myself for 2021

Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash

Some things happen gradually, then suddenly. Taking in information and advice is one of those things. You can hit a saturation point and then you can just keep going.

Research turns into reading about best practices and absolute shoulds or should-nots…which turns into more research and never sketching, never prototyping, never building, never shipping.

No more.
5 Books Every Woman Should Read
By: Kristina Hemzacek
Tags: Womens History, Womens Health, Book Recommendations, Books, Women

5 Books Every Woman Should Read

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write.” Virginia Woolf

Photo by Aliis Sinisalu on Unsplash

When I was younger, I bought into the idea that feminism was over. Women (in the West) had won all the rights they could possibly need, now all we have to do is work hard. Nothing stands in our way. Right?

Well, as it turns out, no. Not really.

There is still a lot that could at least be improved and we need to continue to raise awareness, to connect our lives to the lives of other women.

Because of how our educational systems and media, from news to films, marginalise women and their stories, young women and girls may still be unaware that the issues they are facing are not their own private issues.

They are very deeply political issues.

The following five books have either opened my eyes to the unfairness that is the “female condition”, expressed what I had already known or suspected more eloquently than I could hope to, and educated me on women’s emancipation, history, and health.
The Four Voices Of You~
By: Anthony Cloe Huie
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Sexuality, Poetry, Lost Love, Missing You

Perfection In Song~

I wish I could write the perfect song

that would make you finally know

in my heart is where you belong.



Un-repairable~

A broken heart is a wound that will never heal

A broken heart is the finest of crystal

broken

and when repaired by the finest artist

a keen eye always know where once it was broken

and the stress lines hidden beneath

serves as a reminder that when next

life demands of us to take a fateful leap

at risk of being exposed

shattering into pieces much smaller

than our first broken romance

we draw the curtains on our own

performance



Dancing with shadows~

Today I dance with the shadow of you

and while the Angels sang the chorus line

we moved to the music written by the divine

For one last moment my bravery was

not in question

My heart was never broken

and you were still here in my arms



Came By Night~

In the darkness of night, you came

I suckled your sweet wine

never again to be another kind

but I always knew

you were never mine

and so in the darkness of night

before the saddest of sunlight

you vanished

like a thief in the night

Now I sit endless passing

daylights with sleepless nights

watching for your star to appear

but the skies are dark

and you are no longer there

@Anthony2020mdh30Vibes
Bridge Academy Spring 2019: Fellowship Program🎖An Open Call 🗣
By: Adam Breckler
Tags: Education, Fellowship, Startup, Bridge Academy, Blockchain

We’re on the lookout for the top rising talent on the bleeding edge of technology development.

We started Bridge Academy in late 2018 as a solution to the problem of the talent and opportunity gaps that exist today specifically within the blockchain industry and on the edge of new technology development more broadly.

We believe that being open to the entire world’s supply of talent is a key to finding the next generation of developers that will push the frontiers of this technology, which is why Bridge allows participation from anywhere.

Today we are announcing a search for the next cohort of Bridge Fellows, who will be given full scholarships to our training programs along with their own personal mentor.
A Truly Elegant Proof
By: Adam Hrankowski
Tags: Mathematics, Math, Mathematics Education

The Folded Paper Pythagoras Proof. Pithy and alliterative.

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A Truly Elegant Proof

There are many Pythagoras Proofs. This one may be the simplest.

The website, Cut The Knot showcases 122 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. I do love the 47th Postulate of Euclid. It serves as a grand finale of Elements, Book I. If you gaze upon the configuration of lines, Pythagoras will emerge. But only if you have absorbed the previous 46 Postulates.

Euclid’s 47th Postulate. If you can look upon this and see Pythagoras you are indeed enlightened.

I am drawn toward what I call the Folded Paper Proof. This proof is endearing in its simplicity and intuitiveness.

Begin with a right triangle, C. Divide into two similar triangles, A and B.

Open A and B and C as if they are attached by hinges to the background.

The total area of the triangles attached to the two shorter sides equals the triangle attached to the hypotenuse.

Squares drawn on each of the sides will have the same proportions as the triangles.

In the above diagram, a²:A as b²:B as c²:C. But since A+B=C, then a²+b²=c². The sum of the squares on the two shorter sides equals the square on the hypotenuse. Isn’t that pretty?

This proof has the bonus of generalization. Attach any similar figures to the two shorter sides. They will equal a similar figure attached to the hypotenuse.

Do you have a favourite Pythagoras proof? Share it in the comments!

Until next time!

— Adam
The Creek — Where The Wise Woman Waits
By: Katie Michaelson
Tags: Poem, Nature, Water, Friendship

Greens dense and dark

there she waits.

Sand and roots give home

to rocks that forever

shore up the land.

I sit upon a nest of

yellow grass as my legs slide

resting on the moist earth

stretched ankles searching

to leave the land.

The shape of a heart

from deep in shadows

upon the water glistens

for the lovely one

who always listens.

A hint.

A movement pulls me in

to see the shapes, and feel the cool awakening

of where I’ve been and what I’ve sought.

Oh, from the gifts of the earth I’ve learned.

Through waters dark and deep

I’ve found my life in this little creek.

Many paths I’ve walked through currents swift

and felt the gentle trickle of waters

and sand and soft living moss on my feet.

The sound of water near and far

a circling pool forming where I

and the wise woman are. And

she speaks,

soft and sweet —

soft and sweet.

And we chat.

We chat about many things

and all that the earth and the waters bring

Safety and comfort there for all to share.

I lift my wet and naked foot

from the rocks I’ve walked

and I step on the edge of dark and light

to the man-made surface bright.

My friend sits and smiles

on a hill of stones

and she laughs.

She laughs for all of life

and gentle kindness.
Our new app, Voice Boloss, is out
By: Julien Chaumond
Tags: Product Hunt, Artificial Intelligence, iOS, Voice Assistant, Robots

Internet Entrepreneur, co-founder at Hugging Face (🤗). Hacker, singularitarian and neopagan; Follow me at @julien_c

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Intro to Modern Web Development
Tags: JavaScript, CSS, Full Stack Developer, HTML, Web Development

Tools to start developing the front-end website

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

It is standard markup language used to design web pages displayed in web browser.html is written in form of basic tags like heading tag(<h1> to <h6>), paragraph tag(p),table tag(<table>),form tag(<form>) e.t.c as shown below

Source:https://images.app.goo.gl/RpTNiyh73bXm3JrQ6

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

It is the language which defines the style of an HTML document and used for designing purpose. It enhances the presentation of the webpage used in better interaction with the user.it includes layout, colours, styling, fonts. The script tag is used to define CSS in HTML file

JS (Javascript)

It is just-in-time compiled programming language well-known to provide the functionality to the content of a webpage. It allows users to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia e.t.c

Source: Google

There are many other libraries/framework to use in front-end like Angular, Vue, React, Ember and more to better manage the codebase.

Tools to Start Developing the Back-End

Node + Express

It is a server-side scripting language used to produce dynamic webpage content before the content is sent to web browser.js in node.js represents javascript code. It allows the creation of web server and networking tools using javascript and other modules like nodemon-npm, express, e.t.c.

Django

It is an open-source python based web framework used for rapid- development and clean design.it is used to program logic to implement fastly and efficiently.it helps a developer to avoid common mistakes.

You may use a flask for the smaller version of Django apps.
The MNODE Whitepaper has been released!
Tags: Blockchain, Masternode, Mnode, Whitepaper, Chainfund

The MNODE Whitepaper has been released!

MNODE Fund — a product of Chainfund, Switzerland, since 2017

MNODE is a zero-fee, close-ended, tokenized Masternode fund that provides investors with diversified exposure to passive coin income. (https://mnode.chainfund.ch/files/MNODE_Whitepaper_21_Aug_2018.pdf)

We are happy to announce that the MNODE Whitepaper has finaly been released!!

This document fully explains all aspects of MNODE Fund: the Masternode market, the Fund'’ portfolio, how it functions and more, simply shows how MNODE will be your best solution for a stable passive income stream.

Read the full document here. We are excited for your feedback! You may forward any further questions and inquiries to our support mail info@chainfund.ch
I’ll Never Make a Living from My Writing
By: Christopher Pierznik
Tags: Money, Publishing, Life, Writers Life, Writing

I’ve also penned books about sports, films, and music, as well as a collection of short stories, and a novel. One of my books has a sentence per page and a picture of urinals on the cover.

We all write for someone and, for the most part, I write for myself. Sometimes it connects with others, sometimes it doesn’t, but it always connects with me.

I have complete freedom.

I don’t need a marketing budget. I post my work on social media and hope people like and share it, but I don’t need to make back an advance or cover my overhead.

Even better, I don’t need to pitch. I despise pitching. It’s not that I’m just not good at it — I don’t do it. At all. My fear of rejection prevented me from ever properly asking a girl out for most of my life and I have the same paralyzing fear when it comes pitching an idea. I have an enormous amount of confidence in my writing, but it all vanishes when it’s time to convince an editor.

I’ve pitched a piece only once — to a friendly owner/editor at a friendly site. He politely declined, but followed it up with the suggestion that I try again.

Nope. That’ll never happen.

I’ll stick with writing for myself and counting the pennies that come from it.
Short Form Stories to Rock Your World
By: Aimée Gramblin
Tags: Music, Culture, Fun, Short Form, Writing

Short Form Stories to Rock Your World

A compilation of all my short form stories for your reading pleasure

Photo by RetroSupply on Unsplash

I’m new to this rodeo and enjoying the heck out of it. Here are my short form stories. Enjoy!
Create GIFs Using Your Xcode Simulator With Mimiq
By: Wendy Liga
Tags: iOS, Xcode, Swift, Programming, Mobile

Create GIFs Using Your Xcode Simulator With Mimiq

An easy, open-source way to share Simulator GIFs with your team

The Mimiq logo

Not all companies have the process of delivering products from development to production, but most of them have a method to showcase what they did and review it together before entering the production. Most companies will use Pull Request or Merge Request as a way to do that. It is known as a code review.

Code reviews are crucial for most teams. They help teams coordinate and streamline code quality across the team.

One thing to make the code review experience better is a pull request that invites peers to review, helping them understand the context of the pull request better. One thing to achieve is using GIFs for context. As an iOS Developer, the GIF will be around what features we work on and how it behaves on the new version.

From the above description, that’s the reason why I created mimiq. Mimiq is an application to help record your Xcode Simulator as a GIF. It’s pretty straightforward. Just select what simulator you want to record, record, and stop it.
Playing Peek-a-boo With a Friend
By: White Feather
Tags: Short Story, Life, Moon, Holidays, Children

Yesterday was a very grueling day at work. Everyone seemed to be in a foul mood. Where was the holiday spirit? My own spirits were in a slow decline but then someone showed up to bring joy to my day.

I was sitting at a computer typing something when I stopped and looked to my left. And there, standing about ten feet away, was my special little friend staring at me.

I don’t even know her name but does that matter? I am guessing that she is probably about two and a half years old. She has extremely curly red/orange hair and she also has Down Syndrome. I have never heard her speak but she sure can giggle.

Whenever her mother comes into the building she will set the girl down on the floor and the girl immediately starts wandering the building looking for me. We’ve been friends for almost a year.

I said hello and we stared at each other for a moment. This little girl has uncanny staring abilities. She can stare seemingly forever and she can go longer without blinking than any human I’ve ever met. Whenever we stare at each other I am always the first to blink and she is always the first to giggle.

After staring for a while I looked back at the computer screen for a moment then I abruptly turned back towards her with a goofy look on my face.

She giggled and danced.

Then I put a manila folder in front of my face for a moment then whisked it away with another goofy grin on my face.

Again the girl giggled and danced.

I could play peek-a-boo with her all day and she would never grow tired of it. That is why she always seeks me out when in the building. Apparently, I’m good for a giggle and a dance. And watching a little girl giggle and dance is definitely good medicine for me.

After about 7 or 8 minutes of giggling, dancing and playing peek-a-boo the mother came by and picked up the girl as she headed for the exit. Looking back over her mother’s shoulder she kept staring at me. I waved good-bye but she did not wave back. Instead she giggled again.

Seeing my special friend was the highlight of the day and my spirits most emphatically rose. But after they left the building I had a sad realization. Since come Sunday (tomorrow) I will be officially and blissfully unemployed, I will no longer be working in that building. I might not ever see my special friend again.