thecreativeindependent.comIt really does! The average person will spend over 90,000 hours, or about a third of their lives, at work. With another third of our hours spent sleeping, the time we actually have for “living” seems modest at best.
medium.comWell, what can I say, I’m sick of this trend. I’ve been a skeptic from day one, but what pushed me over the edge was watching one of my senior engineer friends react to this article on the concept.
www.ideo.comThe chaos began the day we moved into our new building. A little plot of land outside was the scene of the terror.
medium.comWe are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google’s effort to create a censored search engine for the Chinese market that enables state surveillance. We are among thousands of employees who have raised our voices for months.
www.bbc.co.ukThe tourist-trap street market is the easiest way for a visiting fan to delve beyond the tribalism of a country’s domestic football scene and identify the real stars of the game.
www.bbc.co.ukThe legacy of an athlete can differ hugely based on who is judging them. Younger football fans might well have a view of Zinedine Zidane as one of the best young managers around, having witnessed his Real Madrid teams dominate the Champions League over the last five seasons.
www.bbc.co.ukIn football, there is a dribbling move known as the 'elastico'. It works by having the attacker push the ball away from themselves with the outside of the foot, in order to sucker a defender into believing they are going to dribble one way.
hackernoon.comHave you ever walked into your favorite restaurant, ignored the menu, and asked the chef to surprise you? What made you trust the chef? Consider how you “do business” with a carpenter, plumber, or car mechanic you’ve come to trust. I love my car mechanic.
medium.freecodecamp.orgThe virtual DOM was a fantastic innovation. It brought about a much more productive way of writing web applications by allowing us to write our views in a declarative manner. This big benefit has little to do with performance of the initial render.
www.theverge.comJust before noon on Monday, every person in the Theodore von Kármán Auditorium at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California sat on the cusps of their seats. They stared straight ahead at a video screen showing a live view from inside JPL’s mission control center.
www.hanselman.comHey friends! This is my FIFTH year doing a list of Great STEM Christmas Toys for Kids! Can you believe it? In case you missed them, here's the previous years' lists! Be aware I use Amazon referral links so I get a little kickback (and you support this blog!) when you use these links.
www.theguardian.comThe UK’s tech startup culture is thriving. According to analysis by the accounting and audit firm RSM, the UK saw a record 10,016 startups launching in 2017. This equals a 59% increase in new companies that specialise in programming or software development.
medium.comIt is no secret that I enjoy working on Side Projects. I probably have more side projects, than people have actual projects. It’s true I have a full time job, I have a family, I love watching sports, I love watch television and movies. Surely that doesn’t leave much time for side projects.
www.bbc.comBig-name retailers have defended selling clothes for £5 or less, saying their ability to sell clothes so cheaply is down to business models. MPs investigating the impact of asked the firms how they could justify such low prices.
www.watershed.co.uk“Watershed feels like a home for all” Sammy Payne, Open Bionics, Pervasive Media Studio resident Created in 1982 as Britain's first Media Centre, over the past twenty years Watershed has continually grown, building a reputation for inclusive talent development, diverse cultural cinema, and in
medium.comHave you read Part 5 of the Making a Side Project series? It has never been a better time to build web applications, but if you’re just getting started, it has never been a more confusing time.
www.bristol247.comArtists and organisations who call Hamilton House home face yet more uncertainty after the building’s owners lost an appeal for permitted development.
www.starlingbank.comInterchange income is a transaction-based revenue that banks, like ours, receive each and (almost) every time you use your card to buy things.
www.bristol247.comPreview Preview: A Haunted Existence, Tobacco Factory Theatres Tom Marshman retraces a disturbing and forgotten true story from the 1950s Find out more Preview Preview: Southville Unexplained Club, Tobacco Factory Theatres Rosa Eaton explores the strange hidden histories of this corner of BS3 Find o
code.visualstudio.comYou might already have heard that the popular event-stream NPM package includes a malicious dependency. The details can be found in the following GitHub issue: https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116.
gomakethings.comRecently, there’s been a handful of articles and recommendations from people about how to use :focus-visible to show :focus styles when someone is using a keyboard but ignore them when the user interacts with a mouse.
www.bristol247.comFrom pigeons to demonstrations, graffiti-strewn phone boxes to incongruously-positioned sofas, the finalists in the Proper Bristol postcard competition have fulfilled the brief to show the city away from the Clifton Suspension Bridge and hot air balloons.
