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Setup minikube on VirtualBox
By: Privalov Vladimir
Tags: Kubernetes, Docker, Containers, Minikube, Cloud

Recently I have started learning Kubernetes on the main job. I am a newcomer to this topic and I used to learn by practicing. So here I present the first part of my introductional practical guide for setting up and playing with Kubernetes on virtual machine (VM) in VirtualBox.

If you don’t know Kubernetes visit the official page.

My primary goal was to try Kubernetes on VMs the simplest way. I have chosen minimal version of k8s called minikube and used a Virtualbox VM with Ubuntu 16.04. minikube creates a single-node cluster.

There is a problem with minikube on VirtualBox VM: minikube uses VirtualBox hypervisor for virtualization and thus requires VT-X support on host. However VirtualBox doesn’t support VT-X/AMD-v. That could be solved by using vm-driver=none option and Docker on host.

Firstly we need to install Docker following this guide. Install kubectl:

Make kubectl executable and move it to system path:

sudo chmod +x ./kubectl sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Now install minikube:

curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.24.1/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/ minikube version

Start minikube with vm-driver=none:

sudo minikube start --vm-driver=none

Here is an issue: root privileges are required to use minikube and kubectl (‘minikube start’ command outputs “When using the none driver, the kubectl config and credentials generated will be root owned and will appear in the root home directory”). To fix it run:

export CHANGE_MINIKUBE_NONE_USER=true

sudo -E minikube start --vm-driver=none

Let’s make the fix persistent so it will apply on system bootload:

echo ‘export CHANGE_MINIKUBE_NONE_USER=true’ >> ~/.bashrc

Check that everything works properly:

kubectl cluster-info

That’s all for now.

Enjoy the playing with Kubernetes!
Makers
By: Alan Parley Buys
Tags: Poetry, Art, Creativity, Storytelling, Life

Photo by Mike Tinnion on Unsplash

I was told, recently,

Humans evolved as storytellers.

From the mythical to the mundane,

The full span of any life is bound

In the act of transmitting meaning.

Meaning that must be first found

In an indifferent universe.

Humans search, eyes peeled,

For even the slightest shade of purpose.

All is entropy, solution and dissolution,

Change and decay and growth,

Directionless yet uncompromisingly driven,

And we monkeys seek for truth in it.

For beauty and goodness and hope

And right and wrong, opposites

And attractions and distillations

Of order to scrape into some rock

Press into vinyl, encode into a signal

To pass on to some other.

All of us are excited toddlers

Screaming, “Look what I found!”

But we are not explorers,

In these moments of discovery,

Bringing back nuggets or grains

Of a forgotten or not yet uncovered reality

I was told, incorrectly,

Humans evolved as storytellers.

That we find and share

Gifts of truth and meaning and inspiration.

Instead, we are the authors of all things.

The first human to explain to another

The first constellation

Did not take the other’s hand to point out

A pre-existing bear or scorpion

Drawn by the gods or a beautiful accident.

They held the other’s hand,

Forefingers lying gently together,

And applied the first paint brush to the night sky.

Humans searched for meaning

In an indifferent universe

And created it when none was found

To the delight of all.
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Tags: Mac

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Meditation
By: Bernadette Decarlo
Tags: Life Lessons, Spirituality, Méditation, Spiritual Secrets, Promptedpoetry

Meditation

A journey

Photo by Valentina Yoga on Unsplash

Meditation and echoes of astral projection

guide me to other planes

Buzzing sounds in my ears as if I’m in a jet

I arouse to images infused with pure light

and halos of violet on their nondescript face

What plane did I visit while in a meditative state?

I was scared and felt my soul return to my flesh

Feelings of a missed moment,

wishing for another chance

Have I forgotten from where I came?

I enter meditation, asking my Guide

to strengthen my faith and take me home again

In response to the Spiritual Secrets Weekly Prompt: “Meditation” by Darshak Rana
In Numbers: Liberal Bias Among College Professors
Tags: News, Education

by Nadiv Rahman

We’ve talked about this a lot, but a new study, waiting to be published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, and co-authored by a Wharton professor, sheds a little more light on the issue. Bias against conservative thought is prevalent among college professors, and in the words of the authors themselves: ‘”The questions were pretty blatant. We didn’t expect people would give those answers,” said Yoel Inbar.’

The numbers are not an overwhelming majority, but considering the nature of the questions, they’re still alarming. Take a look for yourself: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/08/survey-finds-social-psychologists-admit-anti-conservative-bias#ixzz22zJpUGtt
Learning from Your Failures
By: Dena Write-Solutions
Tags: Inspiration, Entrepreneurship, Writing, Business, Failure

And having the courage to try again

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” J.K. Rowlings

There are always failures on the path to success. The secret is using your failure to help you succeed by learning something from it. Although failure always stings, the only tragedy is in not learning whatever lesson your failure can teach you.

Whatever endeavor did not work, learn why it did not work. Put serious thought into what went wrong, any mistakes you made, and then work on a plan to keep those same mistakes from happening again. If you have not experienced a significant form of failure, then chances are good that you are also never going to see great success.

Failure exposes our weaknesses and can be the biggest driver of innovation and creativity. When we fail we learn what didn’t work and that puts us one step closer to what might work.

The question is how are you using your failures?

Stop expending energy trying to avoid failure and instead focus on what it can teach you. Those who fear failure find themselves avoiding risk and in doing so, closing potential doors to great success.

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.” John Wooden

Take a hard look at your failed endeavors and see if they can be re-purposed into something successful. Think of the iconic silly putty and the slinky. Both were failed attempts to fill military applications, but when re-purposed as toys they went on to make millions. So is there some part of your failure that can be re-purposed into something different? Even if it was not a product, but an idea or a contact that was not successful for the purpose you intended them for, don’t discount them as useless. Let your creativity take over and try to look at them in a new light.

If you cannot see an opportunity to re-purpose a failure, then enlist the help of friends, co-workers and business associates. Often, all that is needed to change failure into success is a fresh perspective. If that is not successful, then change your thinking. Instead of a failure, think of it as a great lesson for future use. It could be that the idea is sound, but the timing is wrong. Today’s failure could be tomorrow’s greatest success.

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you fail above everyone else’s success.” James Cameron

Most of the great names in history have one thing in common: they persevered through great failures to accomplish great success. Remember, it is not their failures, no matter how numerous, that we remember. It is their ultimate success that leaves their mark on the world.
Age Comes, But So Does Wisdom
By: Melissa Raise
Tags: Illumination Curated, Self Love, Midlife, Life

Age Comes, But So Does Wisdom

Learning to love yourself can be a painful process, but worth it

Image by author

I don’t want to admit it, but this year has aged me.

At the same time, miraculously, I feel younger inside. But my DNA ain’t havin’ it. Wrinkles have set up camp. Skin finally got gravity’s memo, sent long ago. Belly fat thinks it’s going to move in for the long haul (sorry, belly fat — you’re not).

I’ve got to be honest, aside from any life challenges that have come up in the last few years, the 40s have been the best decade so far.

I never imagined I’d feel so comfortable in my own skin. Pride in myself has become my new way, my new normal. Whereas before, I thought fairly little of who I was and what I was capable of. Now I know I can accomplish anything…

It has been a methodical 20 years; full of imagining my better self, striving for better, finding new ways to achieve my goals, and learning how to believe in myself. Lots and lots of self-talk…

I’ve gotten here, to this place of pride and self-love, not by walking the comfortable path, but through effort, sweat, cuts, and bruises. Through many phases where I just had to break down and learn how to get up newer and better than before.

This sort of growth makes you stronger. No matter how many times you must break, each breakage brings a more valuable solution, a deeper knowing of self, a more possible YOU.

Don’t lie to yourself and say that becoming your dream-self will be easy. Tell the truth: sometimes you have to come to the brink of your understanding to know there is a field out beyond your imagination…one you want to go to. One where you can create anything you desire. One where you can become someone you love, someone you’re proud of, beyond reckoning.

I’ve seen that field of possibility many times. I’ve walked it. I’m walking it, even now, on both good days and bad. I believe we can all get here. I believe that no matter how much we fail, we will still get up, in the end. I believe that even as time ravages us, the embers within grow hotter and more capable of making things.

You are the future you hope for.

You are the light you’ve been praying for.

You are the strongest self you never thought you’d be.

Now, beautiful, capable human…get up from the floor. Get up and shake off those old excuses and become the fire. Become the person you know, somewhere within you, that you can be.

I believe in you.

Melissa Raise is the owner of Raise the Bar Wellness. She is a Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Health Coach, and Licensed Massage Therapist with 18 years of experience helping people become more comfortable and successful.
Craving Your Taste
Tags: Collaboration, Poetry, Acrostic, Keep Digging Deeper, Golden Shovel

Craving Your Taste

After Heath Houston

Craving your touch, needing the taste of you on my tongue, this

Addiction is like nothing I have ever known. My desire for you is

Never waning in its intensity, requiring only my surrender.

Weary though my heart has been, I find my soul moving, no, racing

Ever closer to you in desperate need to touch you, scent you, taste you, to

Seek the comfort of your skin against mine, belly to belly, searching for the

Unimagined pleasure that coils at my core, my very epicenter

Rocked off kilter in its attempt to become a part of

Vehement denial of past pain and the single minded pursuit of the ecstasy

Ignited by your touch. Allowing myself the vulnerability of trusting

Viscerally in the light and heat you bestow on me, my

Enthrallment is complete. My desire laid bare, naked

Alive in the flames you have ignited in my very being with every touch and

Passion ignited, flames leaping, my body no longer my own, senses spinning

Aroused beyond bearing, the ache at my core in control. All of my senses

Stirred to life. The nectar of my desire raining

Scented droplets

In a desperate attempt to reveal to you the nature of

Obeisance I must demonstrate in deference to this overwhelming passion

No longer in full control of my body and mind. My sweat

Sucked from my skin as your hot mouth, tongue, and teeth attempt to distract me from that

Undertaking with which I am bedeviled. I must taste you

Consume you. Find every nuance of your scent and flavor and lick

Heaven’s tang from

Arcadia. Revel in pleasure given with my lips and tongue. Opened to me

Surrendered to me, your taste fills my senses like

The finest of wines taking hold of my soul in ardored

Heat. Abandoned to the ambrosia of your spice

Intoxicated with scent and sounds of your

Surrender. A sweet ache releases nectar from my lady’s-slipper

Lamenting the absence of her mate, she weeps

Openly, reverently, in complete rapture from

Voluptuous wanton lust, her blush

Escalates, deepens. She is swollen, inviting you with pinkened

Requirements written on her velvet skin
Coffe time
By: Pietro De Grandi
Tags: Short Story, Photography, Blogger, Daily Blog

Today I went to visit my grandparents. They have 190 years combined 😱

A nice afternoon.

That’s it for today, hope you enjoyed! See you tomorrow!

Every day I post at least one photo from my life. Here’s why.
google geçtiğimiz hafta cinsiyetçi açıklamalar içeren bir yazı yazmış olan çalışanını işten…
Tags: Turkish, Ekosistem, Amerika, Podcast, Startup

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years…
Top Five Reasons You Need a Roku.
By: Phil Autelitano
Tags: Television, Roku, Technology, Entertainment, Tech

One price, thousands of channels and unlimited entertainment options forever. You can buy a Roku device for as little as $29, connect it to your TV and enjoy more channels, more TV, more movies, more music, and all sorts of other content — entertaining, educational, etc. — forever. You don’t have to spring the extra $$$ for Netflix or Hulu or other paid apps if you don’t want to, there’s plenty to enjoy for free. All you need is an internet connection. Stream Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Sling, and other apps directly to your TV. No need to watch your favorite shows hunched over your laptop or tablet. You can enjoy your favorite shows and movies on the big screen — from the comfort of your sofa, with your feet up on the ottoman, drinking a Pina Colada, in your underwear. Rent movies directly, on-screen, and earn points towards more movies. Roku’s Fandango Now integration allows you to rent the latest releases without getting up from the couch. No more Red Box, no more waiting for them to show up on Netflix or Hulu — get them NOW. Rentals range from $.99 to $6.99, with the average somewhere around $3.99 or $4.99, but totally worth the time savings. You rent with one click and a password. Every rental earns you rewards points towards more rentals. No one else does that. You can also BUY movies and add them to your Library. View your own media on Roku. Plug in your flash drive, and use apps like Roku Media Player to upload and view your own photos and videos right there on your TV. Bring your favorite entertainment with you. Get a Roku stick and bring it with you when you travel. This allows you to bring your movie library with you along with your favorite channels. If you’re a cable subscriber, or premium channel subscriber, it allows you to bring those with you as well — you can access your Time Warner, Comcast, etc., from your Roku, from any hotel or resort in the world. You can also access your Showtime and HBONow accounts, Sling TV, etc. — so no matter where you go, your favorite shows go with you, and you can still enjoy them WHEN you want. You can also bring your music with you — Pandora, IHeartRadio, Slacker, Amazon Music, etc. are all on Roku now.

While you’re at it, enjoy some of our channels — Whisky a Go Go for hard rock and metal straight from Hollywood’s most famous and notorious music venue, and Where’s The 80’s, a collection of your favorite 80’s music videos and other stuff. Both can be found, prominently, under Roku’s “Music” category. Actively engage or let them play as background music — Roku isn’t just TV, it’s music, too!

— // —

Phil Autelitano is founder/CEO of Mediarazzi, a leading developer of TV channels for Roku and Connected TV platforms. Paula Deen Channel, Oscar de la Hoya’s Ring TV, Whisky a Go Go, Westgate Resorts, and others.

www.mediarazzi.com

@PhilAutelitano
Ranchi Mall FLO Blockchain Contract Report — August 2018
By: Rohit Tripathy
Tags: Blockchain, Ranchi Mall, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Startup

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House: The Complete Collection (1986–1992) • Blu-ray [Arrow Video]
By: Dan Owen
Tags: Movies, Arrow Video, Culture, Review, Film

For instance, Cobb mentions to a realtor that he grew up in his aunt’s home, then flashbacks I presumed were of a young Cobb were actually of his son. So why was he living in his aunt’s house as an adult with his child? And considering his aunt was aware the place was haunted years ago in that same flashback, why does he think it’ll be a great idea to move into the house now? And why did his aunt commit suicide only recently, if she’s supposedly been living with these ghosts for years? Didn’t she grow accustomed to them?

House does a poor job of setting up its simple premise: a horror author suffering post-traumatic stress faces paranormal activity in the home of his late aunt. There are also very random moments that don’t make much sense or suggest intriguing things that are never returned to. I laughed at a moment when a realtor absentmindedly shot a harpoon at Cobb’s head mid-conversation, which embeds itself inches away from his face in a wooden pillar. The realtor’s so nonchalant about almost killing a famous client that it suggests something is very wrong with him, or he’s someone to take note of… but his character’s never seen again! It was just a throwaway gag?

In another moment, Cobb wears army fatigues while arranging a bank of cameras intending to capture a monster lurking in a closet on tape… but when he pulls open the door by tugging on a rope he bolts from the house and runs out into the garden in broad daylight. There was just no need for that reaction. It may sound trivial, but there are too many moments when Cobb does something illogical, so you stop believing in him as a real person. He’s too inconsistent and stupid; a badly written character in an amateurish script that doesn’t know how best to handle a decent premise that marries The Shining to The Evil Dead (1981).
One Command Developers on MacOS Should Run Every Day
By: Nick Prokesch
Tags: Macos, Command Line, Software Development, Terminal, Homebrew

Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash

Staying on top of your development game means keeping good habits. Here is one tip I always tell people on how to keep your development machine up to date with software so that your next install is speedy.

Update Brew

When you need to install something from homebrew and you haven’t updated in a long time, the process can take a long time, sometimes as long as 10 minutes. When I’m pairing with a developer and we need to install something to troubleshoot an issue, like redis-server or openssl , I find myself typing brew install openssl only to watch homebrew look for updates, download updates, and then install out of date decencies for way too long. Here’s how you can avoid that.

Every day, when you open your terminal, or you have access to your terminal, let’s say at the start of a meeting where you won’t need your terminal, run this command:

brew update && brew outdated && brew upgrade && brew cleanup

If you run this daily, it will take only a few minutes if there are updates. Running this incrementally will make the update process very short overall. The next time you need to install software, it will be a very quick installation experience, since there won’t be a long list of updates to install. You also will experience a significantly less buggy development experience, since you will always have the latest stable versions of the software you depend on.

Update Brew Casks

If you install GUI apps with homebrew , like I do, then keeping them up to date with homebrew is a pretty straight forward process. You can run this one liner as well to find updates and install them.

brew update && brew cask reinstall $(brew cask outdated) && brew cleanup

While there's no simple way to update installed casks from one place, this is the closest solution, and it works pretty well. I like it because it keeps the cask-stored version of the app up to date as well, which acts as a universal source of truth.

Install the OhMyZsh plugin
Calm Presence
By: Randy Shingler
Tags: Poetry, Peace, Meditation, Self-awareness, Presence

Absorbing peace in morning stillness

During contemplations, meditations

Quiet calm presence of only myself,

No abrupt intrusions or interruptions

No disturbance of peaceful solitude.

Examining stirrings of my mind

Deep feelings of my inner spirit

Composites that make me whole,

Contemplations on its significance

Thoughts, feelings comprising me.

Watching new sun rising on the horizon

Taking in its spectral multicolored beauty

Acknowledging beginning of present day,

Meditations taken to quieten my mind

Helping body rest in muted calmness.

Enjoying this morning’s solitude

Joyful peace reverberates in me,

Quiet stillness, personal introspection

In quiet calm presence of only myself.
Colorism Impacts The Global Black Community
By: James Woods
Tags: Self Improvement, Discrimination, Self-awareness, Race, BlackLivesMatter

Colorism Impacts The Global Black Community

Lighter-skinned black people benefit from colorism at the expense of their darker-skinned counterparts.

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

A couple of weeks ago I met one of my boyfriend’s cousins and she asked me a question I often get as a biracial person,

What is your racial make up?

The question has come up in Uber rides, being out with friends, and even while grocery shopping, where strangers will wonder if I can have the features I have while being black. Racial ambiguity, the inability to define one’s race, is a common thing for many biracial people.

Instead of answering the question though, I asked one back saying,

I love this question. What do you think it is?

As she looked at my curly hair, caramel skin complexion, and facial features, she confidently said,

Blatino*

*black and Latino

I proceeded to tell her that I was not Latino, just black and white, but conversations like these happen all the time within the black community and often lie within the realm of colorism.
Uploading large files to Oracle Object Storage using a Command Line Interface (CLI)
By: Luca Iannario
Tags: Oracle Cloud, Command Line, Object Storage, Tutorial, Cloud Computing

Install and configure the CLI

The first step to upload large objects to Object Storage using the CLI is to install and configure the CLI itself.

The CLI is built on Python (version 2.7.5 or 3.5 or later), so we need to make sure either of these Python versions is installed on the machine we are uploading the files from.

After opening a terminal, we can run the following command to run the installer and respond to some prompts (defaults are ok):

Upon successful completion of the installation, we need to run a one-time configuration process that will store a config file under the ~/.oci directory. CLI requests are authenticated using API keys, so if you need to generate a key pair it is possible to do so by running oci setup keys first and providing a path to store the generated private and public keys (in this case, do not forget also to upload the generated public key to the User console for the authentication mechanism to work properly).

To start the configuration process we need to run the oci setup config command and follow the prompts. Three parameters will be required:

Tenancy OCID, which can be found in the OCI console under Administration > Tenancy Details User OCID, which can be found in the OCI console under Identity > Users > User > User A Region Name, e.g. eu-frankfurt-1 , if you are using the Frankfurt datacenter

The generated config file will be similar to the one shown in the screenshot below (I have pixelated some parts for security purposes):

The CLI generated configuration file

Generating a random large file

If you don’t have a large file to upload for testing purposes, you can leverage on the following Unix command that generates a ~10 GB random text file:

# Generate a ~10 GB random file

dd if=/dev/urandom of=random_file.txt bs=1048576 count=10000

Uploading a large file

The random text file generated in the previous step can be now uploaded using the oci os object put command:

oci os object put \

-ns <object_storage_namespace> \

-bn <bucket_name> \

--file <file_location> \

--name <object_name> \

--part-size <upload_part_size_in_MB> \

--parallel-upload-count <maximum_number_parallel_uploads>

Let’s quickly review the parameters used by this command:
The Killer Robot
Tags: Microfiction, Storytelling, Flash Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Story

The Killer Robot

Microfiction

She poured petroleum into her hip-port as an automatic teller scanned the bar-code on her soles.

‘You’re one killer robot, miss’ said a voice from behind.

She whipped her head around and took in her new friend, all 6 feet of him. He had a sharp jaw and an intriguing smile, but it was dotted with mayonnaise and he smelled faintly of cabbage.

‘I sure am,’ she purred, shooting him point blank through the temple.
Sunshine After Rain
By: Elise Edmonds
Tags: Weather, Microfiction, Literature, Fiction, Short Story

She took it for granted as a child. Happy moods made the sun shine. Tears brought rain.

Just like TV — where black and white movies showed sad heroines trudging through raindrops, and the sun came out with good news. This was how life worked.

In school, boring lessons meant grey days and detention brought thunderous rumblings.

By now, she’d realised it wasn’t normal. Other people’s sorrows came on bright and dull days alike.

Did her mood match the weather or cause it? She’d toyed with experiments, fearful of the truth. But it was time she knew for sure.

Standing alone on a high hill, she built anger in her bones. Muscles quivered. The sky darkened. Rain began to drizzle, slowly at first. Past wrongs raced through her mind and wind whipped her hair to a frenzy.

Drenched in a downpour, she laughed aloud. Lightning forked from the clouds in a surge of power. Gales battered the hill, growing with her maniacal laughter. It caught her up, crazed with the release of pent-up energy.

She spun and flew with the wind: a new weather god, born in turmoil, a force of nature.
The Trouble with Tritriplicatæ
By: Holly Jahangiri
Tags: Poetry, Writing Poetry, Education, Reading Rhombus, Reading

I feel like the 13th fairy. I took three days off, sneaked away to the beach, and Rasheed Hooda stopped playing “Tag, you’re it!” with me. Just as well; I’m tired after all that sunshine, sand, saltwater, and fresh, fresh outside air. But I’m crashing the party, anyway, because that’s just how I roll.

This seems to have originated with a challenge from Geetika Sethi:

Now, having never heard of a “Tritriplicata,” and being somewhat familiar with formal verse, my curiosity was piqued. The form, itself, has its roots right here on Medium — the invention of Arjan Tupan, who writes:

Later I began to appreciate the poetic forms. Not just as a reader, but also as a poet. The regulated formats force you not just to convey a message, but to do so in a structured and regulated way. You really have to think about which words and images to use. You need to be concise. And by being so, you still could leave room for free interpretation. To me, that’s important, as I believe that the true power of poetry lies in the mind of the reader.

[The Tritriplicata is] a poem that has the number 3 at its core, and the number 9 as a supporting act. Simply because I love these numbers. The poem has a length of 3 to the power of 3 syllables, or 3 times nine, or simply put 27. These syllables are divided in lines of 3, 6, 9, 6, and 3 syllables. Tritriplicatas are like snapshots: they provide an image. They also have a volta, or a turn.

I, too, love the number three — my birthday is 3/3, and the year, a multiple of 3. I’m not into numerology, but I have always loved three and its multiples.

You can be fairly certain that most modern formal verse only superficially skims the surface of the form — this example is no exception. When you hear talk of the volta, the poet is serious about his craft. This “turn” might be considered a “leap of thought” — where one idea bridges to another, or one perspective meanders till the poet hits the reader with a new perspective.

On that note, I give you this poet’s musings on poems and art and bridges:

Unleash your inner child and let your creative light shine.
Holding Pattern or Integration?
By: Nalini Macnab
Tags: Patience, Rest, Wisdom, Listening, Yoga

Photo by Cody Black on Unsplash

Our bodies always know.

Today was an ‘out of sorts’ kind of day. The kind when I’m fairly positive all Sorting Hats have left the country. That makes me giggle through the squirm.

Emails answered, student issues dealt with, logistics not yet possible… then there are those online writing courses… Nope. Not enough bandwidth. Rainbow swirls on every site. So the yoga mat. Body feels better. Check.

Now what? I live in a fairly constant state of meditation, so, while additional meditation is always lovely, it does not necessarily come topside when the irritation hits the fan. Then again, that’s not true, so this must not be irritability either…Hmmm.

Other people’s emotions? Perhaps. And then, as my fingertips screamed as though stung, I listened.

“This only feels like ‘hold.’” My body chimed in, bored and impatient with me.

“Do we need the sorting hat?” I queried, playfully.

Bad decision. Body let me have it. “I. AM. INTEGRATING. Thank you for the yoga and for not pushing…thank you for the halfassed kind of listening that meant we didn’t go out and tackle doing things, today. Oh, and the fifty-something times I suggested we might go lie down? If I explain that there has been big energy running and I. AM. INTEGRATING, will you let me be still?”

“I thought I had been… It was a quiet morning, and I did lie down for a bit this aft….”

“We could have gone back to bed! As in, under the covers, in the jammies, for a good sleep. The full moon kept waking us last night.”

“Yeeeah…I guess we still have some communication issues, don’t we?”

“ISH.”

“Thank you, though, for reminding me about integrating. I do tend not to allow for that…”

“Is this better?” I queried, post-shower, from under the covers.

“Put. the. laptop. away. Why do you think I’ve been making our fingertips sting all day? Write…Later.”

And with that, I promised to fold said laptop, cease and desist…as soon as I hit publish.

Yep. Ish-R-Us.

~ Namaste ~
Warmth
By: Fọlábòmí Àmọ Ó
Tags: Insomnia, Poetry, Night, Love, Dark

A poetry publication brought to you by Assemblage to capture all of your disconnected thoughts and let them find their form.

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Ponder Featured by Hackernoon
Tags: Blockchain, Dating, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Token Sale

Ponder Featured by Hackernoon

The Blockchain Combination: Love, Money and Tech.

From Hackernoon “Since October last year Ponder has had a product in the dating marketplace that has brought high-impact matchmaking into the internet age by homing in on the talents of mutual friends and others.

With 70,000 registered users and rising, the Ponder app is already off to a good start, but it’s much more than just another formulaic dating app. Ponder will leverage the unique decentralising properties of blockchain technology to quantify the value of trust and relationships.”

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Identical types in Go
By: Michał Łowicki
Tags: Golang, Programming, Type Systems

First case of assignability says:

If right’s type is identical to T then assignment is completely valid.

It may sound so obvious to not be even worth to mention but there are couple of subtle points when it goes to identity of types. A deep dive into this topic can also help out with understanding other related basic concepts from the language.

Type declaration

To create new type name there is a special statement using keyword type:

type A struct{ name string }

type B A type (

C string

D map[string]int

)

Underlying type

Each type in Go has something which is called an underlying type. Universe block contains some predeclared identifiers binding to types like boolean, string or numeric. For each predeclared type T its underlaying type is T (no trap here). For type literals it’s exactly the same:

// Sample type literals var (

a [10]int

b struct{ name string }

c *int

d func(p int) (r int)

e interface {

f(int) int

}

f []int

g map[string]int

h chan<- string

)

Type declarations can be “factored” into blocks to avoid repeating var keyword many times. The same method can be applied to type declarations as shown in the first code snippet.

In other cases underlying type of T is the underlying type of type bind through type declaration:

type X string // underlying type of X is string

type Y X // underlying type of Y is string

type Z [10]int // underlying type of Z is [10]int

(un)named types

Named types are new ones specified using type name, optionally prefixed with package name. Package name is used to access name exported from other package (preceded with proper import statement):

package main import “fmt” type T fmt.Formatter // T and fmt.Formatter are named types

Qualified identifiers (the ones with package name prefix) cannot refer to the current package:

package foo type A struct{ name string } type B foo.A // compiler throws "undefined: foo in foo.A"

Unnamed types use type literals while referring to themselves like f.ex.:

map[string]int

chan<- int

[]float32

Type identity

Having some basic concepts grasped it’s easy to understand when two types in Go are identical or different:

two named types are identical if both are created through the same type declaration:

type (

T1 string

T2 string

)

T1 and T1 are identical. T1 and T2 are different as declared using two separate type declarations (even if factored into single block),

2. named and unnamed types are different (no exceptions),

3. unnamed types are identical if corresponding type literals are the same (details of type literals identity are clearly described in language spec).
The Final Hour
By: Anna Rozwadowska
Tags: Space And Time, Poetry, Evolution, Final Hour, Dreamscape

Walk me slowly towards my last breath. In the final hour, Breathe, when it’s time I’ll remember you were my lucid dream.

Ingrained sand stone, you’ve been holding long

Onto the weathering of the past

Look how far you’ve gone

From God’s reveal to the last chapter,

“Catch her!”, words shouted after broken laughter

The hourglass broke. like zero-one, time’s movement begun

the Rising of our final hour

Everything under the sun, wired to fire, from its luminescent shower.

Sleeping limbs, fallen lamb, Swept

under the covers

sunken clouds over the head,

Clovers embedded, in patches

dear hope, from faith, to love, no disaster

when confusion lets go of my dove, nuclear reactor

birds flying in from the horizon; in the hereafter.

I looked away from the light

Had to reimagine the fire,

Broken out of the matrix, all the world’s behavior

I heard the siren, truth’s sailor

The calling of the world’s candor,

Open dreams, pressed reality, Still pictures, I’m not yours.
One-Pager Trailer
By: Mike Gagnon
Tags: Comic Strip, Comic Books, Preview, Comics, Trailers

Bestselling author, graphic novelist and teacher. Founder of My Illuminati Media Inc. #horror #humor #comics Join the Illuminati at: www.my-illuminati.com

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Get Bitcoin for Black Friday!
By: Shane Moser
Tags: Crypto, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Black Friday

We all know that Black Friday is one of the best times of the year to score a deal. Whatever it is you’re looking for, chances are it’s on sale.

With a tsunami of deals rapidly approaching it looks as though Bitcoin has graciously implemented their Black Friday pricing ahead of schedule.

All jokes aside, Bitcoin prices at this current moment in time are perfect for buyers. While bagholders feel the sting of yet another significant drop in price, getting your hands on some Bitcoin now may start a wave of momentum that leads to a hike in value.

When news of a decline in Bitcoin price is popular news, the offset of buyers snatching up cheaper BTC often isn’t, yet these kinds of purchasers add integral support value to Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is counting on the next wave of value to hit Bitcoin and is prepared to handle whatever the increase may be. While business may be down 90% from January for Binance, their capable and robust infrastructure simply lays dormant, waiting for the next surge of value in Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrencies.

In a recent “Crypto Exclusive” with CNBC, Binance CEO shared his perspective on the future explosion of Bitcoin saying “Even if I don’t know what will catalyze a bitcoin bull run, I am certain it will happen.”

Binance isn’t the only exchange out there that is waiting on the eventual boom in cryptocurrency to take place. Erik Vorhees, chief executive at ShapeShift alludes to cryptocurrency playing a major role in the next major financial collapse.

Even though on the surface cryptos seem to be taking hit after hit to their, the infrastructure and companies behind them are still the solid foundations behind the entire market. While things may seem quiet now for these business entities, the future of crypto and perhaps, even more, will rely on their support.
“A Dream Of Tall Grass”
Tags: Poetry, Photography, Photographer, One Line Poetry Prompt, Thesceneandheard

Join the Scene & Heard Online Phoetry Challenge:

Title:

“A Dream Of Tall Grass”

Inspiration provided by Michail Shneider’s photo above.

To participate click on the heart and share your words in the response box below.
Glad To See You
By: Dan Leicht
Tags: Romance, Microfiction, Dating, Fiction, Relationships

David knocked on the door before letting himself in. The inside of her apartment was coated with the smell of apple pie, the scent illuminated in a candle on the counter. He walked towards the flickering flame after removing his shoes and jacket, entranced as he waited for her to finish getting ready.

When she emerged from her room his lips turned into a smirk. She looked beautiful. He felt so lucky.
Listen To Your Heart
By: Ep Mcknight
Tags: Self Improvement, Poetry, Life, Education, Life Lessons

When troubling time derail your thoughts, there is always an answer

Photo by Elias Maurer on Unsplash

“Hear, O my people, and I will speak;…………” (Psalm 50:7).

Listen To Your Heart

Today is a new day in my life.

Yet, today seems very much like yesterday,

the day before and the day before that.

As I look back, all my days resemble.

There has got to be a better day.

As I sit and look at all creation,

I wonder, “what is my purpose?”

A quiet, still, gentle, crystal clear voice spoke to me saying,

“Listen to your heart.”

“Listen to your heart”, I thought.

While pondering and being bewildered,

the same quiet, gentle voice repeated,

“Listen To Your Heart. Allow me to enter.

Do not shut me out.

Rely on me.

All your cares, needs and wants

may be fulfilled but you must first listen to your heart.”

I thought, “Who is that? God is that you?

If it is you, then make this day different from all my other days.”

Then God said, “Listen To Your Heart. I already did

but you must first Listen To Your Heart.”

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Don’t be Afraid to Publish Your Work On Medium
By: Salam Khan
Tags: Self Confidence, Self Improvement, Writing, Confidence, Self

Keep writing

Don’t be Afraid to Publish Your Work On Medium

Do your best, don’t self-doubt, keep calm, and publish on.

I have a friend, let’s call him Paul. Paul is very good at painting. His work mesmerizes me. On the other hand, being a perfectionist, he thinks his art is not good enough. Hence he doesn’t show his work to anyone other than me. But if he did, I’m sure people would love it.

I’m also afraid of not being good enough

Most of my write-ups, I feel, are shit. I write, rewrite, and delete a lot of my work without publishing. Because, naturally I’m afraid of my work going unnoticed, or worse — somebody telling me it’s crap.

So what, I tell myself

Even if that happens, so what? Someone may dislike it, but there might be another person, who may love it.

Take this haiku, I wrote, for example.

In this haiku, I didn’t use any fancy words and delivered a simple message. Because of that simplicity, I thought it’s not good enough.

I self-doubted for many days as this kept sitting in my draft stories. I was going to delete it, but then I told myself: even if it’s not good enough, there is no harm publishing it. If it goes unnoticed, so what. And I did publish it.

Right after publishing it, within first few moments, I’ve had two comments and a few claps. It simply resonated with a few readers. And, within one day, it has more than 10 fans and a few hundred claps!

Even if one person reads it, claps it, or interacts with me, that’s a win.

Take away for you

“It’s not good enough” is just anxiety in your head

What’s not good enough for you may touch someone’s heart

Pour your love into your work

Publish and move on to the next one
“Flutter” x “Firebase” (Authentication)
By: Siratee K.
Tags: Firebaseauthentication, Firebaseauth, Flutter, Firebase, Authentication

Buttons - Sign in with Apple - Human Interface Guidelines - Apple Developer

Apple provides several Sign in with Apple buttons you can use to let people set up an account and sign in. If…
Create a Sidebar Menu in React js
By: Manish Mandal
Tags: Sidebar Menu, Menu, React, JavaScript, Reactjs

Do you need a sidebar navigation menu for your next React.js project? Here I came up with a tutorial on how to create a sidebar menu in React js. Yesterday I was working for one of my clients and his design requires me to create a sidebar navigation menu that can also collapse. So let us see how I created that menu.

Requirements

Create a react project.

npx create-react-app #or yarn create react-app yourprojectname

2. Follow the below diagram to create our folders and file structure.

3. Now open the terminal and install the required modules.

npm i react-pro-sidebar react-icons #or yarn add react-pro-sidebar react-icons

4. Now open the Header.js file and paste the below code.

Note: I have explained everything using javascript comment inside the code. Remove every comment in production.

5. Now it’s time to add some styling to our menu. Paste the below code in the Header.css file.

6. Now import the Header component to your App.js file.

Voilà here is the output

Below I have shared live code and GitHub repository for reference.
European Football And The Black Lives Matter Movement
By: Sylvia Wohlfarth
Tags: Poetry, BlackLivesMatter, Football, Racism, Resistance Poetry

European Football And The Black Lives Matter Movement

A Post Revisited And A Poem Re-written

No more can you endure — nor tolerate

You’ve given your all — you’ve made your score

You hear the chants of abuse and hate

Again and again — Sounds you cannot ignore

Meant for your ears and not your mates

Will it never end? — A racist roar which resonates

You well up feelings of anger and pain

Is it worth all this? — You pause and think

They’re idiots — you know — this said in vain

Aware your team depends on you — your head sinks

Your fans don’t rise to silence your abusers

So, you’ve had enough — You’re not a loser



And though you’re a professional player

The monkey chants of a few

Rattle your whole being — your demeanour

Soul-destroyed, self-destructing this history

Of hurt is a lifetime story, based on the colour

Of your skin — and nothing new

You shoot your second goal

You’ve reached your limit

You don’t want to hate

You’re not one of them

And now you’re done

Done with the scum

You ask God’s forgiveness

And leave the pitch

Game not over

It. is. Never. Ever. Over
7 simple steps to protect yourself and others from COVID-19
By: World Health Organization
Tags: Coronavirus, Health, World Health Organization, Covid 19

Everyone can follow these recommendations, but they are particularly important if you are in an area where people are known to have COVID-19.

1. Wash your hands frequently

Regularly and thoroughly clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water.

Why? We frequently use our hands to touch objects and surfaces that may be contaminated. Without realizing it, we then touch our faces, transferring viruses to our eyes, nose and mouth where they can infect us. Washing your hands with soap and water or using alcohol-based hand rub kills viruses that may be on your hands — including the virus that causes COVID-19.

2. Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth

We often touch our faces without noticing it. Be aware of this, and avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.

Why? Hands touch many surfaces and can pick up viruses. Once contaminated, hands can transfer the virus to your eyes, nose or mouth and can then enter your body and make you sick.

3. Cover your cough

Make sure that you, and the people around you, follow good respiratory hygiene. This means covering your mouth and nose with the bend of your elbow or with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Dispose of the used tissue immediately into a closed bin and wash your hands.

Why? When someone coughs or sneezes they spray small liquid droplets from their nose or mouth which may contain virus. By covering your cough or sneeze you avoid spreading viruses and other germs to other people. By using the bend of your elbow or a tissue and not your hands to cover your cough or sneeze, you avoid transferring contaminated droplets to your hands. This prevents you from contaminating a person or a surface through touching them with your hands.