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Yes, it’s that time again. Black Friday draws near, and as usual we’ll find ourselves swimming in great deals — some of which have already started to appear. We’ve been covering Black Friday deals for more than a decade. As the web design tools and aids become increasingly powerful and sophisticated you find yourself getting…
What is Google BERT Update? Google BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Google BERT is an algorithm that better understands and intuits what users want when they type something into a search engine, like a neural network for the Google search engine that helps power user queries. BERT is a form of open-source…
Web hosting can be tricky. Some web hosts are unacceptably slow, some have unreasonable traffic limits, some are too pricey, and the rest are plain awful with non-existent support. We too have had our fair share of disappointments with web hosting and have changed 5 hosts in the last 10 years. So, when we moved…
Since launching the Distributed podcast, we’ve learned that most distributed companies host in-real-life (IRL) meetups in order to promote social cohesion and a sense of collaboration among colleagues who might not otherwise ever spend time face-to-face. As much as leaders at distributed companies value the many benefits of remote work, they also recognize the importance…
Read more about the Grand Meetup in “The Importance of IRL in a World of Screens.” Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, or wherever you like to listen. On this episode of the Distributed podcast, we get an insider’s look at the Grand Meetup, Automattic’s annual weeklong all-staff event, where employees have an opportunity to…
Learn how to plan, code, and deploy a full stack JavaScript app in only two hours. This video covers: ?? React front end w/ Hooks ?? Simple Node-Express API ?? Cron worker to fetch data ?? Simple filtering algorithm ?? Redis + node-redis ?? Deployment (NGINX on DigitalOcean droplet) ? Code: https://github.com/aj-4/100m-startup ? Deployed and…
Who loves creating root load-sharing mirrors (LS-mirrors) ? If you manage 1 Ontap system with 1 SVM you may enjoy it, but if you manage multiple systems with many SVM’s then you may not enjoy it as much. The above process can become quite repetitive in large environments. In today’s blog post I’m going to…
So, you’ve gotten yourself some mad design skills, but maybe you’re still wondering where your mad money is? Whether you’re new to the field and struggling to pay your bills or an experienced freelancer but not making what you know you’re worth, we’re here to help! We’ve got you covered with our real-talk guide about…
Quincy Larson interviews The Changelog hosts Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo as they celebrate 10 years of open source podcasts. Then they interview him for freeCodeCamp’s 5 year anniversary. Full Timestamps: 0:00 Quincy’s intro ===|freeCodeCamp Interviews The Changelog|=== 3:06 interview starts 4:35 Adam’s journey from a poor town to the military 9:55 Adam joins the…
Design Is […] is a monthly speaker series on the future of design and creativity. Each public talk is centered on a theme, and the series highlights a broad range of perspectives on everything from human-centered design to VR and ethics. Learn more at ? https://goo.gle/2meEcFz Disruption has proved itself an exponential and compounding set…
You’ve probably seen the stats. Stats like: Women in STEM, on average, make $16,000 less than men 1 Only 39% of entry-level jobs in tech are held by women 2 Only 12% of all tech and computer science positions are held by black or Latinx women 3 So obviously there are problems with diversity and…
Learn Tkinter in this full course for beginners. Tkinter is the fastest and easiest way to create the Graphic User Interfaces (GUI applications) with Python. Tkinter comes with Python already, so there’s nothing to install! ?Code: https://github.com/flatplanet/Intro-To-TKinter-Youtube-Course ?Course created by Codemy.com. Check out their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Codemycom Read moreWhat is the difference between shared &…
This is guide with screenshots, howto install Fedora 31 (F31) Desktop using Fedora Netinstall image. This same Fedora Netinstall method works for Fedora server installation too. Server or minimal install is possible select Software Selection step. 1. Before Fedora 31 Installation 1.1 Download Fedora 31 Netinstall Image Download Fedora 31 here. Select Fedora 31 Netinstall…
Project 8 Day 3 Today we will work on an in-browser React Native code editor. See a professional software engineer at work. Unscripted. Mistakes included. Twitter: https://twitter.com/JesseRWeigel Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JesseWeigel29 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesse.weigel/ Read moreWhat is the difference between shared & dedicated hosting?Code Editor: Visual Studio Code VS Code Theme: Seti – Learn to code for free…
For Clark Valberg, the CEO of InVision, the defining space of the modern age is not any specific physical location. It’s the screen. Distributed Podcast: Hear Matt Mullenweg in conversation with Clark Valberg. We spend most of our waking hours looking at screens — mobile devices, TVs, computers. The screen is a layer that sits…
Read more about Clark Valberg in “Building the Tools that Bring the Screen to Life.” Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, or wherever you like to listen. InVision CEO Clark Valberg needed a tool to help his distributed team collaborate on design projects. So he created it — and it became the company’s flagship product,…
A knowledge management system (KMS) is an essential part of almost every successful business. Yet why do many new businesses and startups disregard it as an optional component? The expensive costs of managing a knowledge base and maintaining it regularly are the main reasons. The struggle of updating knowledge articles using complicated tools is another…
Let’s do a mental experiment together. Imagine that you want to design a product or a website for a client and you are at the beginning of the process. What is on your mind? Do you try to figure out what the client likes, immerse in your own creative ideas at once, or rather try…
It’s hard to be creative when you’re worried about money. Running ads on your site helps, but for many creators, ad revenue isn’t enough. Top publishers and creators sustain their businesses by building reliable income streams through ongoing contributions. Our new Recurring Payments feature for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites lets you do just that: it’s…
Github is now the place where programmers and designers work together. They collaborate, contribute, and fix bugs. It also hosts plenty of open source projects and codes of various programming languages. What’s more, Github also released a desktop application for both Windows and macOS that allows anyone to integrate Github within their workflow seamlessly. But,…