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Nudging, steering or shoving people into the big society?
Tags: Design, Leadership, Places, Innovation, Government

Nudging, steering or shoving people into the big society? noelito Follow Aug 26 · 3 min read

How will we be motivated to want to help each other when we are warned that our colleague who’s been laid off or our neighbour who’s disabled and cannot work are not as deserving as us and are becoming a drain on the economy? For those of us out of work, how can we get a job when there aren’t any and when they are hardly any available?

We also know that the biggest costs to public services — i.e. from health to policing and even welfare — are around chronic lifestyle behaviours and conditions.

So could the government be using this “behavioural” approach to welfare reform? They could encourage benefit claimants to be able to do paid volunteering without having their benefits cut through a Community Allowance. This would improve their skills, give them something productive and meaningful to do and increase the likelihood of getting a job. Or should they use a “shove” approach — from shoving them on a bus to go and get a job?

If we reflect on what motivates us to act and think in certain ways, we are often treated as individuals acting in isolation of everything and everyone except the money in our purse. But people influence us, our neighbourhood influence us, things we cannot predict influence us too. Context changes that too, it’s unlikely that the person who encourages you to smoke more is the person who has the greatest influence on how you manage your pension.

If you are trying to nudge the general public into contributing to society, you need to generate a “cascading” of community behaviours. You can only do this if there enough community activists in a particular neighbourhood who are contributing towards the community. This increases the level of “persuadibility” in that neighbourhood of others feeling motivating to participate.

Likewise, if there are enough people in a neighbourhood who don’t work, then the level of “persuadibility” of new entrants to get a job will be much lower and therefore more difficult to get them into work. You could therefore have a “boom to bust” mechanic going on in particular communities, where public services and community groups have been able to support these catalysts and where that support is suddenly withdrawn and in parallel, many people become unemployed, the desire for communities to help each other suddenly fades away and the desire for people to find work also degrades.

We need to give people the tools to understand how their brains, behaviours and environments interact helps them make better decisions and tackle habits such as smoking, binge drinking and overeating.

But where worklessness has been embedded into communities, how can we re-inject that sense of hope and energy?

As @davidwilcox says “if u want people to act, support them. If u want people to talk, listen“
Tilt
By: Farah Egby
Tags: Self Improvement, Poetry, Morality, Self-awareness, Summer

The tilt of the Earth’s axis

Bares the freckled landscape

Against the sun

And while

Wild purple skies

Wick away

Thunder

Leaving blue

And while

Grass grows lushly

Wild meadows

Trimmed lawns

Cow-cropped scrub

And while

Swifts swiftly dart

Magpies scheme

Wrens flit

Between thorns

The tilt of my axis

Bares my motley mores

Against the hurt
Introduction to Sensor Fusion for Self Driving Cars
By: Prateek Sawhney
Tags: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data Science, Self Driving Cars, Artificial Intelligence

RADAR Strengths and Weaknesses

RADAR stands for Radio Detection And Ranging. There are two stereo cameras located & fixed on the self driving car. The two cameras together, work just like our eyes to form a stereo image that allows us to gather both image data, as well as distance information. There is also a camera for the recognition of traffic signals. Often, traffic signals can be located on the other side of an intersection, so usually there is a special lens to give the camera sufficient range to detect the signal from far away. Also, there is a radar, and it sits behind the front bumper. Radars have in automobiles for years. We can find them in systems like adaptive cruise control, blind spot warning, collision warning and collision avoidance. Doppler effec is used by radar to measure the speed directly.

The Doppler effect is based on the fact that whether the object is moving away from us or toward us. Also, it measures the change in frequency of the waves.

This is kind of like how a fire engine siren will sound differently depending on whether the fire engine is moving away from us or toward us. Because radar waves bounce off hard surfaces, they can provide measurements to objects without direct line of flight. Radars can see below vehicles, spot buildings and objects that might be hidden from the field of view. Radar technology is the least affected by weather conditions like rain and fog.

Radars have a low resolution in the vertical direction as compared to the cameras. The lower resolution can cause problems related to reflections.
Sketch Tutorial. A step by step tutorial to discover…
By: Sebastien Gabriel
Tags: Sketch, How To, Design

After a bit more than a month using Sketch 3, I feel confident enough to share a part of my workflow in form of a tutorial. To do so, I’m going to be describing how to create the Colorful switch freebie I made as it uses a lot of interesting features Sketch has to offer and is not extremely long to do.

I want to keep this as simple but thorough as possible. This tutorial is designed for beginners so we’re going to take the time to describe a lot of things you may already know. Here’s the expected result:

Side note: I’m not all knowing and I definitely do not deliver the holy one and only method to design things so if you have feedback or inputs, please feel free to comment on either this Google+ or Facebook post. I’m always interested in learning things as well and it will be beneficial for everybody.

In case you get lost in the steps or if something is unclear there is a half way .sketch file you can download and the final source is also available.

Alright let’s get to it.

01_Installing Sketch

This one is a tough one☺. If you do not already own it, you can download a Free trial or directly buy it from the App Store. Install it and launch it.

When you see the prompt, do not open any specific template and just click “ok” to open a new document. You’ll see this.

02_creating an artboard

Artboards are “work areas” they can be as small as an icon or as big as you like. If you used Illustrator before, it’s the same thing.

Press “A” on your keyboard or hit the “Insert” button at the top left and select artboard(1). As you can see a lot of convenient sizes are now available on the right column. We’re not going to use that. Simply draw your artboard of any size on your canvas. Once this is done, go in you right panel, and under “size”, enter 400x300 (2). This freebies was intended to be a Dribbble shot from the start.

In you artboard/layer panel (left side), double click the “Artboard 1” label and rename it whatever you like. I hesitated between “Glørk the destroyer” or “Colorful switch”, I went for the latter as it was somehow more descriptive(3).
Writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated
Tags: Illumination Curated, Relationships, Writing, Technology, Illumination

Writer Bios

Writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated

Explore accomplished writers from their pen

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Writer bios are useful tools to create visibility and collaboration on Medium.

In the earlier days of ILLUMINATION, Dr Mehmet Yildiz compiled writer bios, and readers enjoyed exploring their favourite writers from this collection.

Many writers use their bios at the end of their stories.

Many writers reported that they received substantial amount of views to their bio stories as they add them to the end of their stories for more information.

Writer bios are excellent tools for writers to give more information about their background to their readers.

Based on feedback from our readers, we decided to collect bios of writers contributing to ILLUMINATION-Curated. We sent an invitation.

Since the invitation by Dr Yildiz, we received several bios. They are interesting, informative, and engaging.

This is a new initiative on ILLUMINATION-Curated.

Now that we invited more writers, we believe many more writers will submit their bios.

We want to introduce our writers to readers.

Writer bios are the unique tools for introduction because the content comes from their creative pen.

Discover writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated

More to be added soon…

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What Copywriters Can Learn From a Good Old-Fashioned Ghost Story
By: Alexander Lewis
Tags: Horror, Copywriter, Halloween, Marketing, Copywriting

What Copywriters Can Learn From a Good Old-Fashioned Ghost Story

Basic human psychology is the foundation of every good advertisement and successful scary story

When Edgar Allan Poe was a child, his family once drove past a cabin with graves in the yard. Seeing the gravestones, young Poe called out, “They will run after us and drag me down!”

Funny, I wonder how many people fear something similar when they see a group of marketers standing by. As the saying goes, marketers ruin everything. So today, let me ruin horror stories by comparing them to marketing copy.

You’re welcome.

In the spirit of Halloween, I purchased my first ghost story in years: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. I was hooked by the first paragraph and finished the book in just two sittings, less than 24 hours after picking it up from Barnes & Noble.

It dawned on me that the best scary stories are like the best ads: you can’t look away.

This comparison begged the questions: what techniques do horror authors use to seize their reader’s attention? Could copywriters borrow some of their writing methods to improve sales?

I’m not suggesting we should scare readers into making purchases — only that we should consider borrowing some of the stylistic choices from horror to make our marketing copy more compelling.

Here are three things copywriters should learn from the craft of ghost story writing.
The best UX and design conferences in 2019 — the definitive guide
By: Fabricio Teixeira
Tags: Design, Product Management, Design Thinking, UX, Product Design

Events about creativity and technology

SXSW Interactive

More than a week of music, film and creativity in one single event • Keynotes, workshops and showcases about cutting-edges technologies and ideas • UXers: keep updated on trends for the year

✈ Location: Austin, TX, USA

99u

Two days of talks from creative visionaries • Focused on idea execution rather than idea generation • UXers: if you dream big, listen from successful people how to become one by doing it

✈ Location: New York, NY, USA

Emerge Conference

Two days of conference about world’s challenges and transformational change • For university students and young professionals • UXers: for the young designers who are willing to change the world

✈ Location: Oxford, UK

Offset

One of the world’s most inspirational, educational and vocational conferences for the design and creative industries.

✈ Location: Dublin, Ireland

Forward

Forward brings together the best international and local creative heads, who provide insights into their success stories in an exciting atmosphere. The conference, the centerpiece of the festival, is accompanied by various side events, such as workshops, live art sessions and networking events.

✈ Location: Hamburg, Germany

Internet of Things Events

Papers, demos and workshops about the new frontiers of the Internet • Cutting-edge researches aiming to change the interaction between humans and objects • UXers: learn about upcoming challenges for designing interaction beyond mobile-tablet-browser

✈ Location: multiple cities

Service Design Network Events

2 days of conference for students and professionals • International speakers and cases • UXers: for those who want to design user experiences holistically

✈ Location: multiple cities

The Feast

A conference about innovation to solve the world’s challenges with big names and big ambition • Talks, workshops, hands-on activities and a global dinner party • UXers: you can join the proposed challenges without leaving your hometown

✈ Location: multiple cities
Environment to get helping hand as Set4Earth launches new platform
By: Monica Sacroug
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Environment, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Token Sale

Environment to get helping hand as Set4Earth launches new platform

Blockchain startup Set4Earth has launched a new platform which encourages community environmental action and provides funds for social enterprises.

The new eco-friendly marketplace enables users to back eco-friendly ideas, projects and products through a Save Environment Token (SET).

“The aim is to create a community of like-minded people who want to protect the earth for future generations,” said Chief Executive of Set4Earth Ravindran Nambiar.

“Funding and promoting environmentally friendly initiatives has typically been through government bodies. SET puts the responsibility of saving the planet directly into the hands of the community.”

The Save Environment Token goes beyond a cryptocurrency, with one of the benefits being that it is a mechanism to reward users for supporting the planet.

Investors can use their SET coins to hire, for example, bikes and in the process reduce their carbon footprint.

Leading parking operator Multic in Poland has given the green light for users to redeem coins for parking.

Other products include anti-pollution devices such as home and car air purifiers, as well as hydrogen water bottles.

In addition to encouraging environmental action, the platform also promotes eco-friendly products to create an R&D fund for social enterprises.

The project, which began eight months ago, is spearheaded by some of the world’s leading Blockchain experts from the United States, India and Australia all with the aim of creating a greener environment.

“This is a team with unrivalled green credentials. Together, we’ve already set up a range of initiatives from fossil fuel reduction and air purification to waste management and renewable energy products,” said Mr Nambiar.

The platform is open anyone to buy, sell or invest. The current token price is US$0.90 with a total of 45 million tokens on offer.
How I Keep Coming Back to Writing
By: Prasanta Banerjee
Tags: Life Lessons, Thoughts And Feelings, Mindset, Writing, Thoughts

How I Keep Coming Back to Writing

Now I can truly say, writing makes me happy.

Photo by Ivan Samkov from Pexels

I know you must be thinking what an idiot. If writing really makes you happy, then why would you keep leaving it in the first place? The answer to that is pretty straightforward — how would I know if this is what truly makes me happy if I didn’t even try something else?

That’s the reason I kept trying — sketching, calligraphy, string art, doodle art, digital marketing, search engine optimization…I know there is no correlation whatsoever. But I had to try. And I did. The conclusion? Although I may live this life working as a digital marketer, some part, some hidden part, maybe even beneath my soul wants to type the letters one by one, form words, develop sentences and write a story. There is no better satisfaction than when I hit the “full stop” at the end of an article, a story, a poem or a blog post.

Finding the truth

Close your eyes and ask, is this something you can do all day long and not get bored of? If yes, then do it and see if you truly are enjoying. I can tell you, trying different things, not liking them, and finally coming back to writing gave me more peace of mind than I expected. Now I don’t even care if I can be successful as a writer or earn enough writing for a living, all these factors don’t make sense. I know I’m willing to fight, to write, to struggle, but stick as a writer because this is what makes me truly happy. Isn’t that the most important factor to live life happy?

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”

― Allen Saunders

Life goes on

At the end of the day, it doesn’t even matter what you do, how you earn, how you live, life will go on. Time can’t be stopped. Time can’t be controlled. It’s our choice how we want to spend the remaining days.

I don’t want to sound depressing rather want to motivate you, encourage you to try different things even if you’re happy with your current life. Move out of your comfort zone and experience. You never know, a Colonel Sanders may be sleeping within you to build the next KFC or something. My point is, you never know from where life can gift you an opportunity of a lifetime. You never know until you have experienced your life, not just in terms of career growth but soul searching.

I’ve found my happiness. I’ve found my calling. Now I can heartily say, “I love writing and I want to be a writer. But can you?
Maybe I Check My Phone Too Much
By: David Milgrim
Tags: Self Improvement, Comics, Social Media, Psychology, Humor

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My Green List
By: Ritwik Dey
Tags: Environment, Reduce, Eco Friendly, Recycle, Consumerism

In the past few years I’ve made several changes to be more ecologically responsible—use less, reduce, reuse, recycle. These seemingly small changes, though relatively easy in a place like New York, took a lot of effort. I want to acknowledge others like myself, battling away silently in homes and offices, and hope to lend them a hand. This list is for them, and those who want to join in, do more.

Guiding principle

Avoid stuff unless it’s absolutely essential, will be used for a long time, replaces one or more items, and can be recycled or reused. Teaching myself to want, and therefore, need less was the hardest part.

The List

Still need help with
All of this election anxiety has ruined my sense of time these days.
By: Nancy Peckenham
Tags: Healthy Living, Retirement, Wellness, Aging, Self Help

All of this election anxiety has ruined my sense of time these days. I’m so ready for us to move on, heal wounds, and try to resolve the gulf that has split America.

I almost forgot to publish all the stories on Crow’s Feet these past ten days and the stories have piled up. I always include every story in the newsletter, but this week I will divide them into Part One and Part Two.

PART ONE

Want to Know the Date of Your Last Day on Earth? Check Out the Death Clock! By Roz Warren

“The Beauty Of Time Itself…” When Goodbye transforms us by Ann Litts

Am I Too Old for This? Why you should stop asking for permission and start living life on your own terms. By Rose Bak

My Father’s Skin. A free-form poem by Dennett

A Penny or a Dime. Braided Generations, a poem by Eileen Vorbach Collins

Pavlov’s Pings? Most of us learned early about Pavlov’s dogs by Nalini MacNab

The End of Life Conversation With My Father. It began three years before he died by Alice Goldbloom.

If Life Is About Timing. . . Maybe your time is now by Max K. Erkiletian

Sorting Through the Bits and Bobs of Life and Loss. My Dad’s garage was full of junk that needed dealing with when death was near by Mary DeVries

How to Give a Good Eulogy. Pulling yourself together to speak meaningfully at a funeral is challenging but worth it by Mary DeVries

Is There a Captivating Tale Hidden in Every Word, Just Waiting for Someone to Ask? Did someone mention the top of my piano? By Jean Anne Feldeisen

Things Are Falling Apart. The fears of the future are coming to pass by Jo Ann Harris

Give a gift filled with ideas about to get the most out of later life, Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age, now in paperback and ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop, where sales benefit your local independent bookseller.
Submission Guidelines
By: Muhammad Nasrullah Khan
Tags: Submission, About, Publication, Writing, Submission Guidelines

Welcome to our publication!

We don’t have hard and fast rules. We just want you to express your love for your city. Our main focus is on the pictorial visit of your city with lovely brief description. Show us your love, memories, and affiliation with the city you were born, spent childhood, or you stayed in any city for some time. We, no doubt, are always in love with cities that give us shelter and pleasures.

Here I want to quote a few lines from Alexander Smith’s poem Glasgow:

“City! I am true son of thine;

Ne’er dwelt I where great mornings shine

Around the bleating pens;

Ne’er by the rivulets I strayed,

And ne’er upon my childhood weighed

The silence of the glens.

Instead of shores where ocean beats,

I hear the ebb and flow of streets. …

Afar, one summer, I was borne;

Through golden vapours of the morn,

I heard the hills of sheep:

I trod with a wild ecstasy

The bright fringe of the living sea:

And on a ruined keep

I sat, and watched an endless plain

Blacken beneath the gloom of rain.

O fair the lightly sprinkled waste,

O’er which a laughing shower has raced!

O fair the April shoots!

O fair the woods on summer days,

While a blue hyacinthine haze

Is dreaming round the roots!

In thee, O city! I discern

Another beauty, sad and stern.

Draw thy fierce streams of blinding ore,

Smite on a thousand anvils, roar

Down to the harbour-bars;

Smoulder in smoky sunsets, flare

On rainy nights, while street and square

Lie empty to the stars.

From terrace proud to alley base,

I know thee as my mother’s face.

When sunset bathes thee in his gold,

In wreaths of bronze thy sides are rolled,

Thy smoke is dusty fire;

And from the glory round thee poured,

A sunbeam like an angel’s sword

Shivers upon a spire.

Thus have I watched thee, Terror! Dream!

While the blue Night crept up the stream…”

So, keeping in mind the above poem, come forward and show your love for your city. I’ve selected a few stories for you to give you the sample stories. Here these are:

We would love to see your city!

Write a comment and let me know if you want to be added as a writer. Simply write: “Add Me” in the comments or email us at :

nasar_peace@hotmail.com

Thanks for following!
Irritability Can Be A Symptom Of Anxiety
By: Scarlett Jess Perrodin
Tags: Awareness, Anxiety, Mental Health, Self Help, Trauma

Irritability Can Be A Symptom Of Anxiety

I’m not just having a bout of PMS

Photo by Thomas Verbruggen on Unsplash

“Wow, are you about to start your period?”

For being a friendly, empathetic human, I cringe when my irritability shows up to the scene. Being asked this single question would send me into a personal crisis about my character and ability to self-regulate. Oops, my humanity is showing.

I tried to track the peaks and troughs of my aggravation. Despite the fact that hormones can cause swings, my bouts of extreme irritability did not parallel with hormone fluctuations.

Come to find out, irritability can be a symptom of anxiety. The American Psychiatric Association cites irritability as a prime factor of anxiety disorders.

With the fight or flight reaction being set off in an anxious mind, the sympathetic nervous system is activated. Irritability is one of the “fight” responses of this physiological reaction.

Hypervigilance and agitation are team players. I become prickly, to myself and the world around me, when my thoughts are racing, feeling a loss of control.

I desperately try to hide those thorny reactions. Because I always want to appear to be a nice person. After all, acting as the accommodating party, a skilled people-pleaser, was one method I used to survive years of abuse. I have overidentified with this reactive role, and surely never considered that Empaths could be cantankerous too.

As referenced by Healthline, a research study done of over 6,000 adults revealed that more than 90% of people diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder reported feeling highly irritable during times when their anxiety was peaking or at its worst.
The Future of Apple & AR
By: Daniel Eckler
Tags: Design, Tech, Augmented Reality, Airpods, Conversational UI

Notoriously secretive, Tim Cook’s recent statements further reveal Apple’s path:

“AR will happen in a big way, and when it does, we will wonder how we ever lived without it. Like we wonder how we lived without our phone today.”

Cook’s comments lay out Apple’s intent to build an augmented future, and the tech embedded within their present lineup of products doubles down on that path.

If AR glasses are going to be a success, they’ll need to tether with a powerful computer (the iPhone), and they’ll need to do so seamlessly while introducing new ways to interface with computers (Airpods + Siri).

Apple is slowly building an ecosystem of products that AR can integrate with to be powerful, immersive, minimal, and consequently, actually work.

Aside from being outrageously dorky, Google Glass lacked the power and wireless integration necessary for an organic, natural experience.

Fortunately a product like the Apple Watch has demonstrated that a great deal of power can fit into a tiny package, and it can tether seamlessly with a variety of devices. While there’s certainly room for Apple’s hardware to grow, a solid foundation has been laid.

This is where Apple’s second brilliant strategic move comes into play.

Over the years personal computers have migrated from desks to our laps, and presently rest in our pockets. As our technology continues to improve, it’s not only shrinking in size, it’s moving closer to our body.

Up to this point, wearable tech has been tough on the eyes (pagers, cell phone belt clips, Bluetooth earphones). Wearing a computer on our face is going to be a challenge.

Who better to face that challenge than Apple?

The aforementioned Apple Watch, however problematic, has taken a step in the right direction. It’s not only powerful, it interacts directly with our skin to monitor bodily functions, and does so unobtrusively.

The equally controversial AirPods are just as impressive: a pair of tiny voice activated computers that switch on the moment they slip inside our ears, they deliver crystal clear audio while maintaining a wireless connection with a smartphone.

What’s more, each pod sits gently inside an orifice with an understatement that borders on invisible. Imagine the computing power of HAL 9000 reduced to the size of a pearl.

Apple has a history of re-thinking nearly every major step in personal computing: the desktop, the mouse, the mp3 player, the laptop, the cell phone.

Next up, Augmented Reality.

If you enjoyed reading this article, please hit the ♥ button in the footer so that more people can appreciate great design!

Hi, I’m Daniel. I’ve founded a few companies including Piccsy (acq. 2014) and EveryGuyed (acq. 2011). I am currently open to new career and consulting opportunities. Get in touch via email.

This article was co-authored by Shaun Roncken.

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Caraku Mempelajari Vue js dan Vuex Dalam 14 Hari
By: Philip Purwoko
Tags: Web Development, Vuex, Vuejs, Programming, Vue

Easy read, easy understanding. A good writing is a writing that can be understood in easy ways

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First Blockfolio Signal
Tags: Storiqa, Cryptocurrency, Stq, Startup, Ecommerce

From now on Storiqa will be presented in Blockfolio Signal app!

How to follow Blockfolio signals:

1) Download the app from Google and App store

2) Add STQ token to your portfolio

You can check STQ price on several exchanges:

Coinbene

CoinFalcon

EtherDelta

Exmo

HitBTC

Hotbit

IDEX

Indodax

KuCoin

Sistemkoin

Tidex

Tokenomy

Wazirx

Briefly, we sum up all latest updates and Storiqa’s achievements in crypto world:

January 2018 — we closed $25 million hardcap

May 2018 — release of beta MVP beta.storiqa.com

June 2018 — release of Wallet prototype and its presentation at RISE

November 2018 — platform test launch and its presentation on Websummit

Add STQ token to your Blockfolio!
What I Wish I Could Tell You About Grief
By: Jacqueline Dooley
Tags: Death, Parenting, Spirituality, Family, Mental Health

What you don’t know about grief is that it’s a living thing. Or maybe you do know this. Maybe you’re shaking your head at my naiveté. Grief has an appetite. It’s insatiable. If I’m not careful, it might replace the person I used to be.

If I wake up one day and there is nothing left of me but the sorrow that sits like a heavy stone in my chest, if the grief consumes — because I let it consume — and I become nothing more than the anguish that lives in my daughter’s absence, would it surprise you? It shouldn’t. Death wears the face of my child.

If I say I’m okay, I’m lying. I’m never okay. This grief is a lot like the cancer that stole Ana’s childhood and then took her completely. How can I be afraid of dying? If I could know the exact day and circumstance of my death, what a gift that would be. In the deepest corner of my grieving heart, I covet a secret that fills me with shame. Sometimes, I want to die.

What I wish I could tell you is that I pictured myself walking out into the snow on a day when it was -7 degrees Fahrenheit and wondered what it would be like to let the cold night take me and my grief away.
How to Implement Your Distributed Filesystem With GlusterFS And Kubernetes
By: Timothy Yalugin
Tags: Kubernetes, DevOps, Containers, Glusterfs, Programming

Deploying Gluster Server and Heketi API

At this point, the hard part is over. All that remains is to configure and deploy the last two components — Gluster Server and Heketi API. Clearly, after all the grind you’ve done in the previous steps, you deserve some kind of uncomplicated, straightforward way to finish things up. And what’s easier than using a preconfigured Helm chart?

There are even some options for this:

Although it may seem like an obvious choice, it’s also worth noting that the second solution is actually far more simple for both understanding and deployment. So once again, I highly recommend doing your own research. Alternatively, you can also check out my own combined solution, which I made as a part of my open-source Kicksware project.

What all of these solutions have in common is that they all use Heketi as a management API, therefore all of them need to be treated with predefined storage nodes topology configuration. And although it might sound a bit overwhelming, this process actually comes down to executing one command and writing down a few IP addresses. Here’s what it looks like:

Storage cluster topology example config for Heketi API

Basically, all you need is each node’s internal IP, name, and storage device name you created in the last step. If you followed the instruction precisely, then the device name would be /dev/disk/gluster-disk .

To get the remaining parts of the puzzle, simply type this command:

$ kubectl get nodes -o wide NAME STATUS AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP kicksware-k8s-3pkt4 Ready 38h v1.18.8 10.114.0.5 kicksware-k8s-3pkt8 Ready 38h v1.18.8 10.114.0.3 kicksware-k8s-3pktw Ready 38h v1.18.8 10.114.0.4

The name of the node is node.hostname.manage and the internal-IP corresponds to node.hostname.storage . Just put this into values.yaml file and use it when performing the deployment of your helm chart of choice.

Also, depending on the chosen method (all besides the IBM one) you may need to manually input Heketi service’s cluster-IP into Storage Class configuration and upgrade chart:

$ kubectl get services -lrelease=<RELEASE_NAME> NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP PORT(S) AGE

gluster-heketi ClusterIP 10.245.189.193 8080/TCP 1m

Once you’ve got your storage class, simply put it in every PersistentVolumeClaim whenever you’re in need of storage provisioning, like so:

GlusterFS PersistentVolumeClaim example config

Didn’t I tell you that in the end, it would be a piece of cake! And now this is finally it. Great job!

One more thing, if you run RBAC-based Kubernetes, please, make sure to provide a proper RoleBinding for the Heketi app. Otherwise, it won’t able to load up topology and you’ll be getting this odd mistake message:

Unable to create node: New Node doesn't have glusterd running

And though it can be caused by some sort of Gluster Client install problem, it’s likely that Heketi just doesn’t have enough rights to access nodes and pods K8s native APIs.
YANA — Your Support System. In indonesia, Based on data from 2018…
Tags: Support System, Mental Health, Mental Health App, Product Management, Project Management

YANA — Your Support System

Safe environment app for people with depression

In indonesia, Based on data from 2018, 28 million people out of 267 million people having mental health disorder. It means 1 out of 10 Indonesian suffer from mental health problem.

So, what is the main problem?

Stigma, Prejudice & Discrimination.

In Indonesia, mental illness is a taboo to talk about, especially when it comes to suicide. For example, if there’s a depressed person wanting to talk with their parents or friends about their mental health issue, there’s a big chance they will be judged and told to pray more. And the truth is… this only can make it worst.

I’ll tell you about my friend, a cheerful and easy going person. He has a lot of friend to hangout with even to talk to.

But guess what? At night, when he is by himself, Or home alone… he just sit crying inside struggling with depression. He is feeling like nothing is even worth it.

He wanted to seek help, but stigma and prejudice make him avoid getting the help he need. Now he doesn’t even know who to trust or who to tell anymore because his support system failing him. Maybe you know somebody like that?
Authors That Helped Cuddle Introversion
By: Diksha Singh
Tags: Books, Authors, Introversion, Introvert

1. Dushka Zapata

I feel immensely grateful for the day I found an answer written by Dushka on Quora. I have been reading her posts perpetually since then. From Quora to Instragam now, I never fail to miss her beautiful outlook on life.

Each and every article of hers has been delightful, comforting, and consoling. In many of her posts, she has elucidated what introversion is, often by recounting her own experiences. Her stories were a start for me to reflect on my life and understand myself.

In my opinion, Dushka’s books are the best enablers of self-reflection and self-love. Her books are a collection of essays from her life. She emphasizes on not giving advice and encourages us to find the answers to our ordeals ourselves. In the books, she’s only letting us know of her experiences and the insights she had afterward, how they helped her in admitting and learning about herself. One of my favourite books, written by Dushka, is described below:

In the book titled, “Love Yourself: And Other Insurgent Acts That Recast Everything”, the essays focus majorly on insecurities and how they can disrupt our view of oneself and others. How easy is it for humans to fog our brains with deprecating and hurting thoughts about oneself. How thoughts are just thoughts, and they do not represent reality. And how important it is to define and lucidly state personal boundaries. How love is not an imposition, but mutual respect for boundaries.

“Boundaries are love.”

My favourite quote would be: “Relinquishing a characteristic that makes you incompatible feels like you are compromising not just your happiness but your identity.” The author never fails to amaze with her freeing perspectives on the ongoings of life. And on embracing introversion!

I would recommend her books to anyone struggling with self-love, and the uncertain trajectories of mind and life, so that we can learn and appreciate the fine nuances of our personalities.
Metrics for the “Now” Normal
By: Harvard Ash Center
Tags: Coronavirus, Crisis Management, Covid 19, Local Government, Cities

Wherever you are in the outbreak locally, the big-picture numbers look bleak at the moment. There is no such thing as a “safe county.” You may reasonably wonder if it is possible to extract a hopeful narrative from a pandemic still in exponential growth, but that is precisely the task before you. The basic elements you will use to construct a narrative of hope are simple. New cases and deaths are just one part of the story. Every day, it is also your responsibility to tell people in plain language:

What we’ve done since yesterday. How are we better prepared to respond to the crisis today than we were at the last briefing?

What we are doing today. What are we doing to help our neighbors right now?

Where we are heading tomorrow. What are the challenges we anticipate and how will we rise to them?

The things you are doing (and have done thus far) to respond are just a piece of the picture you want to draw for the public, however. You also want to remind people of what is not wrong.

Build a “dashboard of hope” that points to the things that are running and functioning well in the “now” normal, for example:

How many volunteers have provided meals for frontline workers?

How many bags of groceries have been delivered to senior citizens?

How many local businesses are hiring?

How much money has your local COVID-19 relief fundraised?

Etc.

This crisis is not just medical, and neither is the response. Work to get an integrated view of what is happening in your city, point people towards opportunities to help, and share the good news along with the bad.

Set the expectation that there won’t be a moment when your city simply switches back on, but rather that you will move forward together in incremental stages.

Invest in a robust public health response that will help ensure a steadier and speedier path forward.

We do not know what the “new normal” will look like, so we have to help our communities and one another live and lean into the “now” normal.
Johnny Depp Is a “Good” Victim. Amber Heard Is Not.
By: Shannon Ashley
Tags: Women, Relationships, Life Lessons, Culture, Mental Health

Yesterday, the world found out that Johnny Depp lost his defamation suit against The Sun. According to the UK courts, The Sun was — and is — at liberty to call Depp a wife beater.

Johnny’s battle isn’t over yet. He’s still got a libel suit to be tried in the US, and many people believe the actor will appeal the UK verdict.

In the court of public opinion, however, Johnny Depp has clearly won. To a certain extent, I don’t believe that Johnny Depp will ever really fall from grace in the bulk of the public’s eye because, collectively, we are so much more invested in the man than his ex-wife Amber Heard.

On some levels, I get that. At almost forty, I grew up with Johnny Depp on the big screen. Films like Edward Scissorhands, Benny & Joon, and Sleepy Hollow helped shaped my early creative life. For decades, Depp’s performances have been so endearing that he was able to survive plenty of bad press for drug abuse, reckless spending, trashed hotel rooms, and assaults on paparazzi.

Simply put, Johnny Depp has long represented our fantasy and fixation for bad boys with a heart of gold. Fans love to point to all of his celebrity support or mild manners in interviews — and who can blame them? Depp has long been typecast as a certain type of hero, often kooky and misunderstood.

Of course, fans say there is no misunderstanding the current situation between Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard. She’s a far lesser-known and deeply disliked actress who’s become the subject of extreme internet scrutiny ever since she was caught on tape with her then-husband.

The tapes are chilling. I don’t know anyone who can listen to Amber Heard berate Johnny and feel good about siding with her. Frankly-I don’t know too many people who side with her at all- and it’s led to an exceptionally tragic and inflamed public narrative.

The narrative goes something like this: The judge was biased. Depp was victimized by Amber Heard, victimized by the media, and now victimized by the UK courts—all because he’s a man. The courts tend to side with women over men, and the injustice against Depp only goes to show just how biased we are about believing men.

And that’s just scratching the surface. Everywhere I go on social media, I am bombarded by people claiming to know that Depp is innocent. They claim it as if they know the man themselves, and as if knowing a man to be good to you (or anyone else) could ever actually be “proof” of his innocence.

Personally, I find this narrative so strange, even though I know it’s unsurprising. In 2020, we’re still talking about the possible loss of a man’s career as the absolute worst thing that can happen. The “wrongly accused man” story is so damn popular that by and large, we are unable to even suggest culpability or accountability for Depp. Most folks feel far more content to call Amber Heard the monster and Depp the dogged down hero.
Building a REST Client with Spring Cloud OpenFeign and Netflix Ribbon
By: Andy Lian
Tags: Spring Boot, API, Spring Cloud, Programming, Microservices

Building a REST Client with Spring Cloud OpenFeign and Netflix Ribbon

Learn how to build a declarative and highly readable REST client without writing boilerplate code to invoke services over HTTP

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

Making HTTP requests between services in Java is quite straightforward. With a number of well-known and open-source HTTP clients available, such as OkHttp and RestTemplate in Spring, choosing a suitable candidate doesn’t seem to be difficult. The real problem is in what lies ahead.

In the increasing numbers of distributed services in the cloud where servers come and go, service endpoints are dynamic and unknown ahead of time. Our REST client needs to integrate to a service registry to lookup for a service endpoint before making a request.

We also need to handle request-and-response serialization and implement load balancing to distribute loads between servers. And then fault tolerance is needed to enable resilience. All of these are a cross-cutting concern in a distributed system.

This is where Spring Cloud OpenFeign steps in. Spring Cloud OpenFeign is not just an HTTP client but a solution to resolve problems surrounding modern REST clients. Spring Cloud OpenFeign provides OpenFeign integrations for Spring Boot through autoconfiguration and binding to the Spring environment.

OpenFeign, originally known as Feign and sponsored by Netflix, is designed to allow developers to use a declarative way to build HTTP clients by means of creating annotated interfaces without writing any boilerplate code. Spring Cloud OpenFeign uses Ribbon to provide client-side load balancing and also to integrates nicely with other cloud services — such as Eureka for service discovery and Hystrix for fault tolerance. These are all provided out of the box without writing any code.

In this article, you’ll learn how to use Spring Cloud OpenFeign to build a declarative and highly readable REST client to invoke services over HTTP. In the later part, you’ll also learn to configure Ribbon with endpoints for load balancing in OpenFeign. And finally, we’ll enable the Eureka client in your Spring REST service to integrate with the Eureka Server.
5 Free Books To Take Your Data Science Skills to The Next Level
By: Kurtis Pykes
Tags: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Towards Data Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence

5 Free Books To Take Your Data Science Skills to The Next Level

Books to Help Level Up Your Data Science Skills

As things stand, I am nowhere near where I aspire to reach as a Data Scientist. In my journey so far, I have met many helpful people and come across various useful resources.

Whilst I pondered on where I have come from and where I am now, I instantly remembered the 4 books that had been revolutionary for my progress as a Data Scientist — Of which I will be sharing with you today.

Updated 06/10/2020: Hands-On Machine Learning With Scikit-Learn And Tensorflow is copyrighted so I’ve added the link to purchase (sincere apologies to the Author). This means there are only 4 free books as things stand. I’ve been reading to see if there is something that can fill in, if you find something please send your suggestions so I may read through (It must be free please).
I Was 47 the First Time I Swallowed
By: Teresa J Conway
Tags: Sexuality, Cheating, Relationships, Dating Advice, Self-awareness

Living My Best Double Life

I Was 47 the First Time I Swallowed

And he tasted good

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

He started thrusting back against my bobbing head; his breath growing ragged. He was close.

“I’m going to cum,” he grunted out, warning me to move.

And I had a problem.

We were in the backseat of my SUV in a Walmart parking lot near midnight.

“Go ahead, it’s ok,” I told him between downstrokes.

I’m sure he liked that, but I had no idea what I was going to do next.

Hubby loves his Audi, so spitting a load on the carpet wasn’t an option. I couldn’t clean it up well enough before he saw it, or explain how it got there.

“Ah….”

His cock pulsated as he exhaled forceful breaths in time with the waves of his orgasm.

And he pulsated.

And pulsated.

Even as my mouth filled with his semen, I wasn’t sure if I was going to hold it. If I could hold it long enough to open the car door I’d be good, but I was filling up fast.

No one other than hubby’s came in my mouth, but I’d never swallowed.

My gagging always stopped that. And I wasn’t a slut!

Thankfully hubby didn’t often come in my mouth. When he did, spitting him out was easy because I was the one cleaning up, so I’d spit on the easiest thing to clean.

Even so, it’d been over ten years since this was even a problem.

And pulsated.

Fuck.

And pulsated.

Where was he hiding it?

And pulsated.

I was running out of options — fast.

I couldn’t keep sucking and hold his cum in my mouth at the same time. It was already starting to drain out the corners of my lips.

Fuck.

The door was behind me, and there was no way I could turn fast enough without ruining his moment or dropping it down the front of my blouse.

Jesus.

Without another thought, I lifted my chin, tilted my head, and gulped him down in two quick swallows.

Whoa.

Maybe I am a slut, I thought, smiling.

“Did you like that?” I looked up.

“God, yes! Thank you,” he said. “Your mouth is so good.”

Running my tongue around my teeth, clearing the rest, I swallowed again.

Considering the texture and taste, now that I had a moment to think, egg whites and a minty aftertaste were the first things that came to mind.

Not bad. Thank god. Wait. Do I like it? Hmmm, I did.

Fixing my lipstick in the makeup mirror I laughed,

“There! Better. I can’t go home looking like I’ve just sucked a cock, now can I?”