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Object-Oriented JavaScript — Class Inheritance
By: John Au-Yeung
Tags: JavaScript, Web Development, Software Development, Technology, Programming

Photo by Matteo Maretto on Unsplash

JavaScript is partly an object-oriented language.

To learn JavaScript, we got to learn the object-oriented parts of JavaScript.

In this article, we’ll look at JavaScript subclasses, mixins, and multiple inheritance.

Subclassing

We can create subclasses from a JavaScript class.

For instance, we can write:

class Animal {

constructor(name) {

this.name = name;

} speak() {

console.log(`${this.name} speaks`);

}

} class Dog extends Animal {

speak() {

console.log(`${this.name} woofs`);

}

} const mary = new Dog('mary');

to create the Animal class.

The speak method is in the Animal class.

We created a subclass of Animal called Dog which also has the speak method.

If we create a Dog instance, then the speak method in Dog will be used.

So if we write:

mary.speak();

We see:

mary woofs

There are several ways to access the superclass of a class.

We can call super() to call the superclass and pass in the arguments of the parent constructor.

Also, we can call super.<parentClassMethod> to call a parent class’s method.

super.<parentClassProp> lets us access the parent class properties.

So if we have:

class Parent {} class Child extends Parent {

constructor(name) {

this.name = name;

}

} const child = new Child('james')

We’ll get the error:

Uncaught ReferenceError: Must call super constructor in derived class before accessing 'this' or returning from derived constructor

this is because we need to call super first to invoke the parent constructor before we can set the properties of this .

This can be done implicitly if we omit the constructor in Child .

If we have:

class Parent {} class Child extends Parent {} const child = new Child()

Then we won’t get an error since a default constructor is provided.

The default is:

constructor(...args) {

super(...args);

}

Mixins

JavaScript only supports single inheritance, so we can’t use the standard JavaScript syntax to inherit properties from multiple classes.

Instead, we have to compose multiple classes into one with functions.

We can write:

class Person {} const BackgroundCheck = Tools => class extends Tools {

check() {}

}; const Onboard = Tools => class extends Tools {

createEmail() {}

}; class Employee extends BackgroundCheck(Onboard(Person)) {}

We have the BackgroundCheck class that returns a subclass of the Tools class.

So Person is Tools in the Onboard function,.

And Onboard(Person) is Tools in the BackgroundCheck function.

This way, we return a class that has both the check and createEmail methods and we can use the resulting class to create the Employee subclass.

Photo by Viacheslav Bublyk on Unsplash

Conclusion

We can create subclasses with the extends keyword.

Also, we can create functions that returns a class and compose them so that we can inherit from multiple classes.
รีวิว Sony TOUGH สุดยอด SD Card ที่ทนทานที่สุดในโลก
By: Tor Chanon
Tags: Sd Card, Tough Sd Card, Tough, Sony, Uhs Ii

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5 Xcode Extensions You Must Have
By: Eric Yang
Tags: Technology, Xcode, iOS, Swift, Programming

Swimat

Quickly formatting a block of messy code might be the most common demand for developers.

Swimat is an Xcode extension to format your Swift code. It supports the latest Xcode 11. The Re-Indent on Xcode works the same as with Swimat , but Swimat is more convenient because it doesn’t need to work with code selection.

To install and enable the extension, we can download the zip file from the GitHub repo and then enable it in the Extensions in System Preferences.

Enable extensions in System Preferences.

After installation, to format the currently active file, click Editor -> Swimat -> Format in the Xcode menu.
Compassion for people in need gives direction to my life
By: Rajat Dangi
Tags: Social Worker, Social Work, Stories, Life, Compassion

Originally written by Shreya Singh.

“Be the change you wish to see in the world” -Mahatma Gandhi

Amidst so many glitches and evils in our society, there is always a ray of hope and optimism which has driven the human race so far. When I think about any term like social service the immediate thought that internment and captures my mind is that whatever change you are up to, whatever change you wish to comprehend in the society, you should start it from yourself. This will have a positive impact on how you perceive things and moreover the way you look at the world. I personally believe that I can find a better version of myself if I can devote my time, energy and efforts in the service of others who genuinely need them. Helping others gives me a direction in my life. Having something more than what others have does not really means that you are blessed or lucky but it brings a sincere responsibility of serving and assisting those in need.

If there are people endorse social stigma in our society then there exist others as well who are working hard to eradicate them.

This stigma is a shame and disgrace not only to our society but the whole mankind. I feel that drawing this line of difference between our communities is something which should be put to a halt. This is one of the major fields in which I always wanted to contribute and bring a change by uplifting the deprived community.

The huge difference between the rich and the poor is weakening the backbone of our country. Not everyone is born with a silver spoon, but what matters the most is that “Are we going to finish strong?” This is the only bitter reality of the world. If you weren’t able to create your identity through your deeds during your lifespan, then your life would have been meaningless and moreover directionless.

Making these people self-sufficient and assisting them when they need makes me complete and satisfied like never before. This interest of mine has facilitated me to pursue “Rural internship for the Enhancement of Quality Education in Rural Areas” and has kept me glued with NGO’s like Atma Vani, Manav Sadhna and even the Rotaract club of Gandhinagar.

I usually find my motivation while thinking of the lines once said by Winston Churchill, that:
The One Way Blockchain could Revolutionize Humanitarian Aid
By: Jon Creasy
Tags: Blockchain, Humanitarian, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Image courtesy of USAID

Fortunately for my bank account, I do more than just write about blockchain. For my full time job, I work for a nonprofit called Accord Network. I get to help humanitarian aid workers figure out how to better help the poor people of the world.

For some humanitarian organizations, a large part of their work comes from “gifts in kind” — referred to as “GIK.” These gifts are non-cash donations, and can come in many different forms:

● Clothing

● Pharmaceuticals

● Food and shelter

You get the picture. The difficulty with GIK for most organizations is correctly tracking these gifts — both their cost and location — and correctly interpreting their effectiveness once they’ve been distributed. This is where blockchain comes in.

Blockchain could revolutionize humanitarian aid by perfectly tracking and measuring the effectiveness of GIK.

Let’s say Emily works for a large humanitarian organization in the US. She has a friend in India who works for Johnson & Johnson, who wants to donate 4 million bottles of body wash to her organization.

Before Emily decided to implement this new blockchain system, she had lots of data points she had to track independently. For example:

How does she measure the “market value” of this gift to report on her organization’s taxes? How would she track where the donation is at all times? Who exactly received the donation? How does she measure and report back to J&J how effective their gift was once it was used?

These are just a few of the many factors Emily had to deal with independently of each other before she started using blockchain. Now all she has to do is enter a few beginning data points, and the system does the rest! This saves Emily’s organization hundreds of hours of time for her employees, precious resources that can be allocated elsewhere, and it eliminates the constant stress of keeping up with hundreds of millions of dollars in GIK.

While Emily’s story was over simplified in all aspects, humanitarian organizations really do struggle to keep up with the many facets of GIK. Are you a blockchain developer who has a heart for the world’s poor? You can make a difference like no one has before. A great place to start is GIK.
Love Is The True Reason For The Season
By: Ravyne Hawke
Tags: Essay, Prompt, Christmas, Spirituality, Winter Solstice

Christmas once brought me mixed feelings. Mom’s health wasn’t all the best and we three children were tasked with taking down all the mundane decorations, packing them away, and then bringing out the spectacular Christmas decorations. This little ritual began the day after Thanksgiving, and we’d spend nearly a week decorating — lights, babbles, angels, Santas, and elves. Our entire home became a Winter Wonderland. However, Jesus — the reason for the season — barely existed, only as a baby in a small manger set under the tree. I didn’t realize this until I was a young teen. We’d been raised as fairly conservative Christians — Southern Baptists — so I was always curious if Mom had kept Jesus out of the scene just for us kids or if she just loved the other decorations more. The lights and babbles did always make her eyes sparkle.

By the time we’d finished all the decorating, I was too exhausted to care about the festivities. I knew that in a few weeks, we’d be taking it all down and replacing it with the mundane again. I found little joy in these tasks. Although I found it all beautiful, I just couldn’t understand why all the fuss. Especially since we were relatively poor and Mom seemed to spend more money on her decorations than on gifts for us; but yes, there were always gifts.

I didn’t care much for the gifting part of Christmas. I rarely received what I’d asked for — books, art supplies, trucks (I was a bit of a tomboy). Instead, I would receive clothes I’d rarely wear, near-duplicate gifts my sister would receive, and a lot of dolls. I didn’t want dolls. I wanted trucks. After a while, I just stopped asking for anything and the random gifts I would receive felt more like afterthoughts than serious gifts.

The only part of Christmas that I did enjoy was the baked goods and homemade candy my mom would make. My mom was a whiz at baking — pies, cakes, cinnamon rolls, different types of cookies, loaves of potato bread and potato dinner rolls. She and one of my aunts would spend days making homemade candy too — rum balls, peanut butter logs, chocolate-covered cherries, mint leaves, peppermint patties, and four types of fudge. All of these would be divided up among our two families, placed in individual tins and given to us on Christmas morning. Overtime, I preferred these treats to store-bought items because I could feel the love and care my mom put into them.
Sleeping Beauty Awake.
By: Kira Dawn
Tags: Poetry, Suicide, Drugs, Fairy Tale, Love

A Writer...memoirs of the journey that has led me to the Gorgeous Mess of Chaos that I am. One with God. I am merely a vessel. I will always be me.

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You Are a Part of Me
By: Meaghan Ward
Tags: Poetry, Poem, Relationships, Love, Breakups

You Are a Part of Me

But this is not the kind of poem I want to be writing.

Photo by Scott Broome on Unsplash

I can’t think

and so I can’t write

about anything but you.

You’re everywhere now.

You’re in my kitchen,

on my couch,

between my sheets,

at my beach,

in my fucking Target.

Twice.

You’re inside of me now.

You’re in my breaths when

our mouths are pressed together,

your fingers wrap perfectly

between mine, and have

since that very first day.

You’ve tangled yourself deep

into a heart I’d kept locked up

before you.

You’re a part of me now.

You’re what I see in my mind

whenever I close my eyes, and

you’re the one I want to lay eyes on

and wake up to every day.

But you’re something else now, my love.

You’re gone.

And I’m left haunted,

surrounded by memories

and all these pictures of you,

Wondering if I’ll ever

look into your eyes and

squeeze your hands again.

You are a part of me.

Removed from me now,

released from me, I think

we raised that white flag together

But that doesn’t make it hurt any less.

To lose a piece of me.
The World of Stablecoins : 스테이블코인 대동여지도 (1)
By: Taegun Charles Kim
Tags: Stablecoin, Tether, Decon, Trusttoken, Cryptocurrency

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Pirate Obituaries
By: Jason Mcbride
Tags: Humor, Satire, Pirates, Haiku, Comics

I recently discovered a treasure trove of pirate obituaries. The strange thing about these death notices was that they were all written in haiku. Who knew buccaneers were such poets?

These 17-syllable obituaries paint a much different picture of pirate life than you may be used to. It turns out there were a lot of ways for a pirate to meet their end.

I have taken the liberty of poorly sketching a few of my favorite pirate obituaries on index cards.

Image by Jason McBride

“Cannon Fodder” Carl

Thought his nickname was bad luck

Turns out — he was right

Image by Jason McBride

Presumed lost at sea

Paul was 4th to the liferaft

Only room for 3

Image by Jason McBride

Some die by the sword

Others perish from gunshots

Thomas choked on lunch

Image by Jason McBride

Zebediah Jones

Only had 1 fault — he snored

Was killed in his sleep

Image by Jason McBride

Bart’s gold talisman

Protected him from Voodoo

But not syphilis
This Key
Tags: Poetry, Self Love Courage

This Key

I struggled to the bed,

with fear.

I struggled to open my eyes,

this morning,

wondering if that fear still had a hold of me.

I easily say, ‘Let it go’, yet what I say is not always easily done.

I sit upright with this morning’s sun.

‘Upright’,

my key to future words,

for how I feel can not lay down.

I have too much to tell,

How life has been served to me.

What has been heaven,

What has been hell.

Why tell?



Every person has felt

Fear.

Every person has felt

Pain.

Every person has felt

Invisible.

Like a single rain drop in hard rain.

Every person has felt

happiness.

Every person has felt

strength.

Every person has felt

capable,

Of going to any length,

To conquer their fears,

To overcome their pain,

To look into their mirror and see they aren’t invisible,

Then begin again.

I have claimed myself perfect.

I have claimed myself strong.

I have claimed myself unstoppable.

Ha! Was I wrong.

For the sky closes in,

And the dark vibrates through me,

Just like every human being,

Human,

I be.

I am upright, though, this morning.

I hold this key. This key. This key.

Written by Nix
One minute meditation
By: Wendy C Turgeon
Tags: Fiction, Poetry

Walking down through the redwoods with Hazel. Hazel is counting puddles and she is up to 129. No puddle too small not to count. No end in sight. To look up is to see towering trees, greeting the rain. To look down is to see the muddy puddles but as beautiful solitary beings, each earning its own number. To look at Hazel is to see childhood attention, fixated and flourishing in the world before her.

Do likewise.
📸 — Amersfoort, Utrecht & Amsterdam, Netherlands
By: Our Little Detour
Tags: Travel

We were talking the other day about how untypical it has been to revisit a country you’ve had the chance to travel before. I mean, there are a few exceptions (for work Maeghan would travel to certain cities each year for conferences) but to visit a city you went to when you were in your 20s and then revisit 7 years later is a pretty cool experience.

Maeghan came to the Netherlands during college and has family scattered across the small country. She remembers having little money and being nervous to travel on her own without some sort of direction. But this time around, we’ve been lucky to make friends while traveling, had the time to mature as travellers and that makes visiting the same places in a totally different mindset is pretty awesome.

After some time in Amersfoort, we visited Utrecht and Amsterdam and got to indulge in some super fun stuff.

Oh, we also learned a lot about the Netherlands. 1) Maeghan was brought up calling it Holland. Turns out, there is an interesting reason why (Watch the CPG grey video to explain) 2) This country is tiny and so easy to get around in comparison to most of the other places we’ve visited 3) Everything and everyone is awesome here. So you should visit ❤
Resorted To Confusion
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Image, Confusion, Indifference, Loneliness

Resorted To Confusion

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

I wasn’t following you

or it wasn’t on purpose

Your bag

stretched out behind you

waving for the next

taxi out

The meat you left

in your mouth

has become a sign

for the rottenness of things

a case for the consumption

of diseased righteousness

I couldn’t follow your

path

anyway; you weren’t going

the same place I was

Somehow

distracted from the simple

part of putting my feet

in front of each other

my eyes glued to your back

And I don’t know

what I’d say

I wouldn’t offer you a poem

or not one of mine

maybe a bite, a bite

into a bit of possibility

just to be able to stare at your

hair

a little longer

A pastime this creeping

this shadowing behaviour

the rhymes

escaping the celebration

that I’m avoiding

in the confusion that comes
Crypto Airdrops Aug 14
By: Atnet, Airdrops, Trading
Tags: Bitfinex, Vaultoro, Crypto Airdrop, Airdrop

Crypto Airdrops Aug 14

One new token drop and one new opportunity✌️

Fetch.ai token DAILY prize pool on Bitfinex

Between 12–17 August 2020

To promote the new launch of Fetch.ai token (FET), Bitfinex opens a daily prize pool of 50 000 FET to traders who deposit FET tokens into their wallets. FET tokens get rewarded to users on the first-come first-served basis.

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Opportunity: Negative Fees on Vaultoro

Since 22nd of July 2020

The gold trading platform Vaultoro is now offering negative fees for market makers. The rebate is 0.05% at any traded volume, however it only applies to crypto markets there — not to gold markets. At least the gold fees got cut back to pre-COVID levels on Vaultoro.

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Detachment
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Musing, Image, Life, Experience

Detachment

A Poem

Photo by Heather Shevlin on Unsplash

I am sitting on a grey leather chair, grey like the fluid in a bison’s eye, and I hear myself say, I feel detached from my life.

It wasn’t unpleasant.

I lifted myself from dreams, from the dirty grey car, from the heap of messages I don’t want to look at; I lift myself off from the rack of my choosing, the soft basement steps onto cold concrete, the living has gone down, and down. I lifted myself from a chronology of hate, from a damned determination, from the outlooks of the poets that I read.

Still, uncomfortable and in need, mad and slightly gifted, portrayals of constant obsession. The minutes tick by, and I continue to watch. This is all in the presence of someone else.

I turn the script onto its back, I scream to myself rather than simply talk, I have drained yet another tin of coffee. Today I wiped the table: two inches of fucking grime. I give over to the needs of the house for once, then sit down to cry for a bit.

I stayed away for sometime. It wasn’t unpleasant. I kind of hope it happens again.
Data in the Post-Viral World
By: Mark Cleverley
Tags: Healthcare, Data Science, Economics

The earth turns, and suddenly everything’s closed. Perhaps you still have to commute, maybe you get some more time at home to examine your life. I don’t aim to understate the severity of a dangerous virus; thousands have died, and odds are many more will follow (pursuant to measures taken).

Yet we still find ourselves looking forward to the future and how it can be improved: it is terribly human to search for the positive in uncertain crisis.

—

I work with data of all sorts (I’m fond of faces and graphs). In response to the growing pandemic, there’s been a tremendous rush of activity from data scientists around the world. Most of it is quite helpful, though some of it may be less so. There’s a very valid argument to be made regarding the signal:noise ratio of a sudden flood of insights (generated with less-than-accurate data) hampering public perception of reality.

But on the whole, I still believe in the spirit of analysis as a valid response to problems on a scale the human brain isn’t designed to perceive. Data science is a fine way of discovering odd, useful relationships about the way things work — given enough information to do so. So before we ask “what can we learn from this”, it’s good to ask “what information are we going to gather?”

The world is off-balance

The Information Age has never dealt with something like this, and that’s interesting.

This pandemic is a wrench hurled into the heart of our globalized, hypercapitalist machine. People can’t work or socialize as normal, and suddenly everything’s up in the air. Politicians and corporate oligarchs generally possess the instinctual self-preservation to understand that a panicked citizen will look out for their own interests, whether that means massive unemployment or refusing to pay rent. You might even find a relief check in your mailbox soon (a pittance compared to the bailouts for the rich).

We’ve had regional wars, recessions, terror attacks and such, but the “modern world” has never dealt with havoc of this magnitude. A delightful axiom I’ve found is that people in trouble have a very good memory. In other words, this chaos is generating a hell of a lot of data.

Moreso, disruption will tend to generate accurate data, because there’s plenty of people whose livelihoods may depend on the accuracy of said data. So in the interest of building a brighter, more capable future, let’s talk about data sources that grow richer with every day of this crisis.
We accept PayPal now!
By: Hash.Pro Cloud Mining
Tags: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Mining

Dear miners!

Since Hash.Pro official website’s release on 2nd August 2018, our 2-year Bitcoin mining contract became popular because of its competitive ROI.

We regret to find that due to cryptocurrency payment threshold, some miners were not able to complete the purchase process. To enhance every customer’s experience, we are pleased to announce that the PayPal has been added as one of our methods of payment.

In view of PayPal’s policy for seller merchants, if you purchase our contract by PayPal, the mining profits will be balanced to your account in 14 days. However, you can immediately check your wallet detail and find that your daily profits are in a “Pending” status.

In addition, since the end of past July, the price of Bitcoin has been highly volatile, oscillating between 5900 to 7000 USD. As early investors in cryptocurrency, we have started mining since 2016 and witnessed a series of major ups and downs of Bitcoin price, we believe that the bull market will return in the near future.

As a new cloud mining platform, we have been bending over backwards to fulfill our engagement with customers by offering high yield product. At this time of crisis, we decided to launch a 2-week special promotional Bitcoin mining contract.

Key details of this contract:

Contract time: 2 years

Price per 1 TH/s: $60

Current daily ROI: around 0.1%

This promotional contract will go on sale from 17th till 31st August, lasting for 2 weeks only. It is obvious to notice that its daily ROI is highly attractive by referring to our homepage .

For more information, please check our website.

Happy mining!

Hash.Pro
Impressions from Google I/O 2019: Android Q — Dark Theme
By: Lauren Yew
Tags: Android App Development, AndroidDev, Android, Dark Theme, Material Design

One of the big changes coming in Android Q is Dark Theme. Not only is Dark Theme a long-requested feature by those who don’t like looking at the bright screen all the time, especially during the night or early morning hours, using Dark theme has been shown to save up to 60% of the phone’s battery. Thus, Android Q will automatically switch to using dark theme in low battery situations to save battery and can also be chosen in the user’s settings.

Updating your app for Dark Theme

Google strongly recommends that apps are updated to support system Dark Theme. In fact, there was a suggestion to have a Dark Theme setting in your own app — useful if your app is used mostly in early morning or at night, so the app can be set on dark theme without a system wide dark setting. In the meantime, to test how your app will look in dark mode, there is a developer option to force the system into Dark Mode.

For Android Q only, you can have the system automatically convert the app to a Dark Theme with Force Dark ( android:forceDarkAllowed="true" https://developer.android.com/preview/features/darktheme).

Force Dark theme vs. Custom theme

This makes it easy to pick out where your app needs work and what it could potentially look like converted to Dark Theme. However, since this change would only apply to Android Q phones, it’s suggested that you use the DayNight (dark) theme in your app to apply to all versions of Android, or customize your own DayNight dark theme. With a custom theme, you would be able to adjust the contrast of colors or make the dark theme closer to your brand’s chosen color scheme.

Design Considerations

Google has updated the Material Design Guidelines for Dark Theme. When converting your app, you need to consider the alternate colors for buttons, selectors, and fonts. Maps also can be updated to include a JSON styling for dark theming. Drawables can be tinted to dark theme colors, and vector colors can be swapped out for dark theme versions.

Notice button / font / graph colors have changed.

It was suggested in the Dark Theme Google I/O talk that developers consider converting SVGs and Drawables into vectors since it’s easier to just provide alternative dark theme colors in vectors rather than trying to re-tint or provide new Dark Theme assets. Since the upcoming version of Android Studio should be able to handle changing SVGs into vectors automatically for you, this should be a relatively easy transition.

Webviews are automatically converted to Dark Theme based on system settings. This may cause more of a product drive for your team to convert your app to Dark Theme (having a webview in Dark Theme for an app that is not Dark Themed would look strange).
Does Toronto Have a Great Crypto Community — or The GREATEST Crypto Community?
Tags: Ecommerce Web Development, Ecommerce, Events, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

OB1 CEO and OpenBazaar Project Lead Brian Hoffman and I (OB1/OpenBazaar Marketing and Community Manager, Jenn Cloud), were pleased to spend some time last week with the excellent crypto community in Toronto, Ontario.

Thanks to a great idea from our Series A leading investor, OMERS Ventures, we hosted an OpenBazaar meetup on Wednesday night at Art Square Gallery across from the Art Gallery of Ontario in the heart of downtown Toronto. We had almost 130 people register for the event and over 70 showed up and packed the space to standing room only!

Brian presented a brief history of OpenBazaar (did you know that the original codebase that was forked to become OpenBazaar was produced in Toronto?), shared the latest feature releases which are cryptocurrency trading and web browsing, and discussed future plans for the network. There was a great question and answer session at the end, people were very interested in the governance structures of the network and our upcoming token release, about which we know we’ve been quiet, but we will have more to share very soon.

Here’s a pro tip for when there is an OpenBazaar event near you: we gave out 3 deluxe swag bags to 3 attendees who had either bought or sold something on the marketplace so make sure you check it out for yourself!

Thanks to Mags for this great tweet! I had the opportunity to meet her and so many great, SMART people including but not at all limited to Ibrahim, Ana, Mike, Brad, Mags, John, OpenBazaar vendor Sanda and a couple from Brazil, Michael and Samara, who helped with the Portuguese translation of OpenBazaar. They even had a photo of the postcard I hand wrote and sent to them with their thank you t-shirts!

This event wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Lukas Royal and his team who located and secured an event space in record time near the OMERS office, set up the event on Meetup and established a Telegram group for community discussion. Special thanks also goes to one of our investors, William Mougayar, who shared this event with his network and created a spike of RSVPs. You all are wonderful and we thank you so much for your support and really making this event a success!
Edie’s Three — Steamy Edition. Top 3 for November 7th
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Top 3, Sex, Sexy, Fantasy, Desire

It’s no secret that sex is enticing. It’s alluring and tempting, and even the more outwardly demure of us sometimes have the most surprising and erotic fantasies. It’s part of our genetic makeup…

Adventure Sex: An Event That Can Take Months to Unravel

By: Louise Sawyer 2.0

This article to me is ground-breaking on the basis that it seems to break the stigma that women who sleep with people they don’t know (or those who have many partners) are to be considered promiscuous. Basically, they’re labeled a slut. A harlot. Slap on that red A on your chest and go about your business. But if a man does it, he’s scoring. He’s a stud, a Casanova. He’s a lady’s man.

Louise makes me extremely jealous in this piece about finding ‘adventure sex’ in the most easy-going and natural way. No inhibitions — that’s the way we should all live our lives. Being our true selves and not care what others think… I want adventure sex with a stranger too (although my husband might have something to say about that! Ha!)

I Want to Complete My Naughty Bucket List

By: Demeter deLune

I think we all have one of these, whether we admit it or not. We all have secret desires and fantasies we would love the chance to explore. It’s refreshing to see something put in writing what I’m sure so many of us wish we could.

Although the things on our lists may differ greatly from one another, we all have things we’re curious about. Life is short, why not have a little sexy fun?

I Want To Be A Good Girl

By: Thelma Dickinson 2.0

Okay, so I don’t know for sure, but I think this is probably something a lot of women dream about ever since the whole ‘Fifty Shades’ trend. How many of us have fantasized about Jamie Dornan? Come on now, don’t be shy!

This was actually a really interesting and enlightening view of the lifestyle portrayed in those books, with more of a ‘real-life’ rawness. Not for the faint of heart or the prudish, but definitely stirring in more ways than one! What are your thoughts on the whole ‘Sub-Dom’ lifestyle? Do you have any real-life experiences to share? …are you a good girl?
The Unravelling of Reality
By: Ronan Colfer
Tags: Poetry, Poem, Poetry On Medium, Time, Space

Photo by Joel Filipe on Unsplash

The unravelling of reality in a heartbeat,

A beat of infinite ticking,

Stacking wave upon wave upon wave,

Past memories in present time

And future visions sitting still before us,

Begging us to keep ticking

By Ronan Colfer
Tutorial on Importing LBTC(Lightning Bitcoin) from Bitpie to LBTC Official Wallet
By: Bitpie Wallet
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Lbtc, Bitpie, Cryptocurrency

Tutorial on Importing LBTC(Lightning Bitcoin) from Bitpie to LBTC Official Wallet

1. Open Bitpie wallet，Select LBTC and click Receive

2. It will display your LBTC Receiving address, then please click the button on right hand corner

3. Select Display Private Key

4. Select Compressed (WIF), then import the private key to LBTC wallet

LBTC wallet by official website：http://lbtc.io/

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Matriarch
By: Tre L. Loadholt
Tags: Poetry, Aging, Love, Family, A Cornered Gurl

I listen as

Her mind cracks

And disappears into the wind.

Losing her independence

To age —

Eighty-two years young,

Fading in the

Arms of dementia.

How do you tell

The head that she is now

The tail?
“GoodPoetry”
By: Teyuna T. Darris
Tags: Literature, Poem, Writer, Poet, Poetry

www.GoodPoetry.org

What are the

prerequisites For good

poetry? Is it the layout

on the page

Or, a pretty word to

calm fears

Or, to stir emotion

Or, to put you in-between?

Does good poetry

sound good?

Are its iambs and pentameters

in perfect mode? (or, is it

form?) Is it a sonnet or a

villanelle?

Does it rhyme or unrhyme,

And can it have the rhythm,

And not have the rhyme?

Is it sexy, seductive, sassy, and sweet?

Or, is it conserve-ed, passive, humble and bleak?

Don’t ask me to define a good poem

For all the world

could not contain its potential

And no author, nor

critic could pen, or contend its true definition.

What is good poetry?

Let the poem decide.

-Teyuna T. Darris
Monthly Wrap Up
By: Jess Kaisk
Tags: Membership, Literally Literary, Ll Letters, Writing Prompt, Community

Happy April readers and writers! I hope that your month is off to a great start, and Saturday’s pranks were not too harsh! I know I am looking forward to some of those Spring thunderstorms! We editors at Literally Literary have a few announcements! Huzzah!

April Theme-Redemption

Our writing theme for April is “Redemption” in all of its many interpretations and imagery! What do you think of when you hear the word redemption? What images, sensations, come to mind? We look forward to seeing what you write up! If you have questions about the submission process, please check our submissions page! Heath Houston, TeriJo, and I are here to help if you have any questions.

New Co-Editor

We would like to welcome our new co-editor TeriJo to our team! We are very excited, and grateful, to have her join us! TeriJo will allow us to keep up with submissions, and bring another point of view! Literally Literary will be publishing three days a week now!

New Layout

Literally Literary has a new layout thanks to the hard work of Heath Houston! Painstakingly he rearranged all the content to flow much more fluidly than it had before, so feel free to check out all the new tabs and sections!

Membership

I know, I know, everyone has done the membership thing, even Medium! This is a matter near and dear to my heart, and I hope you take the chance to be part of a community that we would like to build, and not just another publication. Literally Literary’s goal with our membership is to bring our writers words to life through print! All proceeds go towards creating our very own print publication, and submissions taken right from our writers! While you may be thinking “Print is Dead”, I know it isn’t? My proof? Well, all my research for the past nine months to open a bookstore proved this. If you’re interested in these numbers, I would be happy to share.

Please consider our $1.00 a month membership! Its only $12.00 a year compared to the $120 Medium is asking for. Included is a Slack Channel where you can collaborate with the editors, other writers and readers, and cultivate our Literally Literary community! You also will get first dibs on our podcast! That is right, Heath Houston has convinced me it will be fun, entertaining, and slightly embarrassing (for me) to do a podcast! We will discuss writing, poetry, books, music, and have feature guests from Literally Literary writers, readers, and even across Medium! We hope you decide to join us on the next step of our journey, because we can’t take it without you!

As always, thank you for being part of Literally Literary!

xx

Jess

❤
Coral Protocol and White Rabbit Announce Partnership to Bring Greater Security + Transparency to…
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, ICO, Ethereum, Security

Coral Protocol and White Rabbit Announce Partnership to Bring Greater Security + Transparency to ICO’s Coral Follow Apr 26, 2018 · 3 min read

Anti-phishing protocol Coral is excited to kick off its partnership with ICO discovery platform White Rabbit.

In the blockchain space, there is an overwhelming amount of ICO fraud and phishing scams. According to a recent study conducted by Satis Group LLC, up to 80% of ICOs are scams. In addition to the plethora of scam ICO’s, phishing scams steal nearly $9 million in cryptocurrency every day.

A common way for fraudsters to pull off phishing scams is to send barrages of misleading messages to the social channels of ICO projects, especially Telegram communities, because of Telegram’s open door policy. These phishing messages and fraudulent ICO’s aim to trick crypto holders into sending money to fake projects or fake wallets.

Coral Protocol and White Rabbit are teaming up to stop this epidemic through trust scores and anti-phishing bots.

Coral is a security protocol that integrates into blockchain platforms to combat phishing fraud and increase AML compliance. Coral builds tools to protect companies and communities from scammers.

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White Rabbit is an ICO discovery platform that helps discerning investors choose between ICO projects to invest in. They have a detailed directory of nearly 3000 active and upcoming ICOs. Each ICO has a dedicated page with critical facts and summaries.

And with this new partnership, White Rabbit will be adding on a special new piece of information to an ICO’s profile- a wallet-level trust score. These trust scores will be established by Coral Protocol’s proprietary algorithm that uses predictive analytics and machine learning to analyze the wallet address of the ICO to determine, with relative certainty, whether or not the project is a scam.

On top of the ICO trust score, Coral has developed a free Telegram bot called the PhishNet that plugs into the telegram channels of ICO projects to catch and alert their communities about incoming phishing attempts. An ICO that has established custody of their wallet address with Coral, as well as integrated Coral’s PhishNet bot into their social channels should receive a high trust score on their White Rabbit page.

The PhishNet bot can be easily downloaded from the Telegram bot store here: https://storebot.me/bot/phishnetbot

Coral and White Rabbit coming together represents the future of blockchain we all want to see: bonafide projects partnering up to build trust within the cryptosphere. Coral and White Rabbit’s partnership will help build confidence in legitimate new projects, and weed out bad actors, aiding in the mass adoption of blockchain.
§73 The Guilty in the City
Tags: Urban Life, The Other, Levinas, Fundraising, City Living

Much contemporary literature sees the city-spaces that are not inherently marked by capitalist exchanges as constituting positive forms of social relationality. Such meeting places including old style neighborhood coffee stores, pubs or perhaps libraries are sometimes called ‘third places’ marked by community ethos.

For Emmanuel Levinas, however, cities have characteristics that inherently make ethical relations impossible. In Levinas’s philosophy, a truly ethical relation can only be born from an awe from the infinitude of the Other, thus making all relations based on reciprocity and utility totalizing and ethically unsavory. The anonymity of cities thus erodes the possibility of this encounter with otherness and reduces it to indifference and disconnection. For him a café is a hallmark of casual relations without ethical responsibility, or a ‘non-place for a non-society’. As city dwellers, we thus all live in an implicit ‘half-guilt’, for we find refuge there for our negligence of those in need by constructing rights and disciplinary protection from those who are cast aside. The city enables our freedom, but at the expense of the indifference that makes those in need invisible.

It feels like there has never been so many social causes brought to a pedestrian’s awareness through ‘facers’ on the streets of Helsinki before. Only by hardening yourself and rendering both the ‘facer’ and the cause faceless can one readily walk through a public square in a single go. While the causes are no doubt good insofar as charity goes, it seems to also performs the evaporation of the Other, both in terms of the faciality of the person and the cause. In a Levinasian sense, where the ‘half-guilt’ peeks into the horizon of thought, indifference is reinforced as an outcome of ‘protection’ one expects of walking in the city.

/Joel Hietanen
“Uber employs more than 12,000 drivers in Kenya.
By: Sarah Kessler
Tags: Gig Economy, Tech, Kenya, Uber, Transportation

“Uber employs more than 12,000 drivers in Kenya. All of the more than 80 people who were interviewed expressed distress and said they were barely making ends meet.” Sarah Kessler Dec 1 · 1 min read

By now it’s a familiar story: Uber enters a new market, enticing drivers with big promises and relatively high pay. Drivers base their decisions — like whether to buy a car that meets Uber’s standards — on these initial terms. Then, as more drivers flood the platform, Uber drops rates, in many cases leaving the drivers saddled with debt and no way to pay it off.

In a new report based on interviews with more than 80 current and former Uber drivers, NBC News zooms in on how this pattern played out in Kenya, where Uber cut prices by about 35% after other app-based taxi services launched. In one example cited by the report’s author, Amanda Sperber, the owner of a dealership in the port city of Mombasa said that “while his sales doubled thanks to Uber, repossessions also spiked,” and that sometimes drivers come to him crying.

Read the full story here:
State of mobile app design 2019
By: Martin Wiesemborski
Tags: Product Design, UI, Material Design, Apps, UX

New to animations? Check out the InVision Handbook that focuses on Animation.

The merger of mobile web and app design

With more and more powerful mobile web browsers and frameworks like Progressive Web App (PWA), the gap between mobile web and native applications is shrinking. By blurring the line, it’s making it harder for the average user to distinguish between web and native. Which is a good thing, because why should there be different UX patterns between these two ‘platforms’?

Although many PWAs are still ‘light‘ versions of apps, e.g. Twitter Light or Messenger Light, aimed at users in developing countries where mobile data is not given, it’s not only there that you benefit from fast load times, easy to maintain code and independence from app stores. A great example is lyft’s PWA.

Google adds new features to PWAs at an impressive pace, with push notifications, offline data storage, integrated payment solutions and more now available. Recently, they even announced PWAs for desktop. Apple is slowly but steadily enabling PWAs features with Safari updates on iOS, paving the way for real cross-platform development. And with a potential anti-monopoly lawsuit against the App Store, they might increase their efforts and speed up the process.

So, if you’re thinking of building an app, I think there can be a strong argument for going with a PWA instead of native.

The camera becomes the app

Snap, the company behind Snapchat describes itself as a camera company, not a social network. That‘s weird to think about at first, but it shows the importance of the camera for Snapchat. You open the app and you see the camera screen — and in many cases yourself.

Let’s take a look at how cameras are changing mobile apps.

The rise of video

YouTube and Netflix changed the perception of how and where users are watching videos. Both of them are now reporting more usage on mobile than on desktop or TV and enabled other apps like Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram to put videos front and center of their user experience.

With auto-play on Twitter and Facebook and even product videos instead of photos in e-commerce, videos are everywhere to be found in mobile apps.

The power of the camera

In the fin-tech wold, it has become the standard to use video ident to set up a new bank account. What could only be done face-to-face in e.g. the post office (at least in Germany), is now possible from your living room in a matter of minutes.

Talking of banking: Apps like Deliveroo and Apple Pay started using the camera to scan your credit card, removing the painstaking process of manually entering in every character.
Learn How to Crop and Optimize Your Images With Appwrite, an Open-Source Back-End Server
By: Eldad A. Fux
Tags: Web Development, Front End Development, Reactjs, Frontend

Learn How to Crop and Optimize Your Images With Appwrite, an Open-Source Back-End Server

Delivering better images faster

If you haven’t heard of Appwrite yet, it’s a new web and mobile development, open-source back-end server that abstracts common development tasks to help developers deliver software faster.

Appwrite has many services to help you write code faster. It can help you manage your users’ authentication, persistent database, and file management. One of Appwrite’s coolest features is its ability to help you crop your image files in a way that will help you use optimized images in your app and improve performance.

Appwrite is both cross-platform and framework agnostic, meaning you can use it with any of the available Appwrite SDKs or using the HTTP API directly. You can integrate with the Appwrite API directly from your client app or your back end. It’s up to you to decide how you want to integrate with it based on your specific use-case and needs.
We are going International
Tags: Exchange, India, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash

We started Prandex regional exchange (Version Beta 1.0.0) in India and went live on Feb 2018. We had only INR market and only few trading pairs then. Look at our initial release blog here.Even though there was some traction initially, we really wanted to go global very soon.

On Early May 2018, we successfully released a brand new version of Prandex . We removed the INR market. Prandex is now only crypto-crypto and we have added more markets like BTC, ETH and USDT. We rebranded our website, added more coins/tokens and most importantly we have very high liquidity.

We have more plans for Prandex. We want to add more trading tools to Prandex. Tools to help do trading easier, to help assisting new traders wade waters, to read the market situation more closely and more importantly to monitor your wealth and make trading decisions automatic.

Stay tuned for more news on the new developments in Prandex.