I made mine in InDesign-the inside, covers in Photoshop, and I bind them with waxed thread... And it's awesome, I can pick and choose paper weight, colour 👌

So if you have the option, go for it 😁 And of course show the end results

#1 NoCode tool is and will continue to be Excel. That's where lawyers, brokers, mathematicians and business analysts who didn't learn to code write their domain data types, complex data flows and moderately complex queries, without the need for a caste of priests programmers gatekeeping the knowledge of the sacred code and building their tools for them.

The main problem with NoCode is that developers utterly misunderstand what end users need to build digital tools (call them 'apps' if you will), so they keep writing NoCode tools as glorified webforms that still depend on a full-code backend, instead of improving Excel-like environments with all the tools and utilities that developers use for writing robust code (version control, tests, refactoring, automated data persistence, advanced debugging with breakpoint and variable inspectors...), so the apps that end users create become fragile and unmaintainable.

I have high hopes on reactive notepads, they may be the nocode tool that finally closes the gap as the perfect development environment for non-programmers.

Grandma Brown's canned baked beans are available in the northeast USA but not common elsewhere.

1 lb navy beans
1 teaspoon baking soda
water, to cover
1 teaspoon salt
3 ounces ham or 3 ounces cooked bacon
1⁄4 cup dark brown sugar (or molasses?)
1 medium onion, chopped (optional)
1 bay leaf (optional)

Soak beans overnight:

add 1 teaspoon baking soda to 6 cups water.
bring water to a boil.
sort through beans for debris.
add navy beans to water.
boil 10 minutes.
turn off heat.
cover pot.
let sit overnight.

rinse beans well.
add beans and all other ingredients to oven proof pot with tight fitting lid.
stir well.
add water until beans are just covered.
cover pot with lid.
bake 5 to 6 hours at 300°F.
every hour stir and add water to cover if beans are drying out.
final product should be a thick and not runny.

I'm building a desktop application and I'm downloading font ".ttf" files from Google Fonts with the application. I've managed to do that by utilizing the JSON response from the Developer ...

A OpenType/TrueType font file should contain a "name" table, which has an array of so-called "Name Records" that provide all kinds of information like font name, version, creator, copyright, license, etc.

Fore example "Open Sans" has (among others) these two Name Records:

nameId: 13 (License Description)
text: "This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: https://scripts.sil.org/OFL"
nameId: 14 (License Info URL)
text: "http://scripts.sil.org/OFL"

Vanilla Vim statusline generator - customise your statusline without any plugins

Visual frameworks are patterns to help you think creatively, reframe challenging situations, and imagine possible strategies and solutions.

There are three ways to search the library:

You can search by typing in the search bar at the top right of every page.
You can explore the tag cloud to see common themes and questions.
You can search visually. Think of a situation or challenge that’s on your mind right now and click on a visual below.

​ ​ ​ Hey [FIRST NAME GOES HERE], Have you ever noticed how some people seem to get all of the press and attention even when other people have built something similar? It can be...

If you work in a 500-person company, even if you’re junior, you can gain attention by writing. You just need experience and ideas to write about, but you don't need authority or influence. Let your ideas speak for themselves.

Write about what you’re learning or strategies your team can pursue, and share it. People can comment on what’s interesting, or even disagree, but either way, you’ll increase your attention and influence.

Writing automatically elevates you from the sea of other people doing the same thing.

A deep-dive into machine learning embeddings.

We need more of Richard Stallman, not less écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

RMS was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not RMS or FSF. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.

But all this work was ridiculed. Microsoft, through Github, Google and Apple pushed for MIT/BSD licensed software as the open source standard. This allowed them to use open source components within their proprietary closed products.

Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023

Amidst the pandemic, I embraced communism... the communism that the late anthropologist David Graeber proposes is the basis for human social life in his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years.

He calls it “baseline communism,” defining it as:

“[The] understanding that, unless people consider themselves enemies, if the need is considered great enough, or the cost considered reasonable enough, the principle of ‘from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs’ will be assumed to apply.”

If I had to explain why, I’d start by pointing out that if you’re a parent visiting your kid in college, you probably feel immense pride at seeing your kid thriving in an unfamiliar environment. There are many reasons for this, but suffice it to say that the pride you feel doubles as validation; as knowledge that your 50+ years on this earth have produced a human being who is capable not only of providing for themselves, but of providing value to others.

David shares a compilation of the best links from his newsletter Friday Finds. Read here.

The first step in learning a song is to listen to a recording until you can hum the basic melody and feel the rhythm.

Our major scale looks like this: I–ii–iii–IV–V–vi–vii dim. Using this pattern, in the key of G, for example, the chords are: G major–A minor–B minor–C major–D major–E minor–F# diminished.

After you have those chord shapes under your fingers and the sound of the chords in your ears, play each chord starting from the home chord of the key, the I chord. Play I–ii, I–iii, I–IV, I–V, I–vi, I–viidim (C–Dm, C–Em, C–F, C–G, C–Am, C–Bdim). You are now playing the intervals, or distances, from the I chord to the other notes of the scale. Listen closely as you play these chord intervals and record them in your iHead player—these intervals are the building blocks of the songs you want to learn.

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I’m writing this in the hope that I can inspire more people to give their talks this kind of treatment. It’s not a zero amount of work—it takes me 2-3 hours any time I do this—but it greatly increases the longevity of the talk and ensures that the work I’ve already put into it provides maximum value, both to myself (giving talks is partly a selfish act!) and to the people I want to benefit from it.

A summary on how to pass the Amazon leadership principles behavioral interviews, and get a job at Amazon.

It’s somewhat shocking how often people buried in large companies don’t mentally identify their customer as the final external customer. Their customer is their boss, sales, marketing, etc. They are so focused on doing what they’re told, so focused on building what they’re asked, without taking a big step back to understand who uses their product.

A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.

used book search engines: Google Books/find-more-books.com
it’s worth searching the seller to see if they have their own website, which is potentially much cheaper.

Get started with a collection of 460 free and open-source SVG icons compatible with Flowbite and Tailwind CSS based on solid and outline styles with React (JSX) and Figma support.

Darwin learned about logbooks and recordkeeping while aboard the HMS Bounty.

He ought to remember Bacon’s aphorism, that Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man;