The stereotypes that lump IT professionals together are misguided. It's actually the conditions that surround the IT pros that are stereotypical, and the geeks are just reacting to those conditions the way they always react -- logically.

It's all about respect

Few people notice this, but for IT groups respect is the currency of the realm. Those whom they do not believe are worthy of their respect might instead be treated to professional courtesy, a friendly demeanor or the acceptance of authority. The amount of respect an IT pro pays someone is a measure of how tolerable that person is when it comes to getting things done, including the elegance and practicality of his solutions and suggestions. IT pros always and without fail, quietly self-organize around those who make the work easier, while shunning those who make the work harder, independent of the organizational chart.

This self-ordering behavior occurs naturally in the IT world because it is populated by people skilled in creative analysis and ordered reasoning.

While everyone would like to work for a nice person who is always right, IT pros will prefer a jerk who is always right over a nice person who is always wrong. Wrong creates unnecessary work, impossible situations and major failures. Wrong is evil, and it must be defeated. Capacity for technical reasoning trumps all other professional factors, period.

Foundational (bottom-up) respect is not only the largest single determining factor in the success of an IT team, but the most ignored. I believe you can predict success or failure of an IT group simply by assessing the amount of mutual respect within it.

In this post Patrick Dean from NeutralDay.com explores how to use Textures to enhance an image.

Most poker players fold way too often both preflop and postflop. This guide explains why that's wrong and gives you tips for fixing your folding leaks today.

Carlos Welch discusses check-raising the new continuation bet in small stakes poker.

• Check-raising allows me to win a large pot a high percentage of the time, whereas continuation betting allows me to win a small pot a small percentage of the time.
• It Improves my Relative Position
• It sets up a Delayed Continuation Bet

A collaborative collection of resources for creating Front-End Style Guides and Pattern Libraries

noUiSlider is a free and lightweight JavaScript range slider with multi-touch support (iOS, Android, Windows). Great for responsive designs, and no dependencies!

Does your lorem ipsum text long for something a little meatier? Give our generator a try... it's tasty!

Nulla aliqua boudin beef culpa adipisicing. Ut pancetta non pork loin nulla filet mignon. Sint ut ut turkey non. Meatball adipisicing pastrami laborum pork belly spare ribs aliqua laboris veniam jerky. Prosciutto spare ribs andouille, picanha tri-tip irure est aute pork belly in adipisicing esse fatback. Pork chop kevin tail kielbasa. Cow excepteur pork chop pork, veniam deserunt chuck capicola burgdoggen do kielbasa venison nostrud pork belly.

Learn what it takes to ensure your buttons or button-styled links have accessible contrast across all states and surfaces, then use the generator to check and adjust your button palette.

A Free Gallery of Fantastic and Unique CSS Gradients.

Adding animations to web and hybrid apps can be challenging. Aside from choosing technique, you are often left with jank and less than desirable performance ...

A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. Get eot, ttf, svg, woff and woff2 files + CSS snippets!

How’s it going, compadres? This month’s roundup hand-picked from all across the web includes icons, design assets, illustrations, vector artwork, UI kits, some really cool code snippets, fonts, te

Recently I worked on a project at Shyp and realized we didn't have a good resource for creating quick wireframes.

Disney developed 12 Principles of Animation which I find to be so important because of the way they depict realistic movement and emotional engagement.

Feedback

Feedforward

Spatial Awareness

User Focus

Brand Tone of Voice

With meme stocks, on the other hand, that’s exactly what’s happening: The small investors on the r/Wallstreetbets subreddit are taking part in a conscious collective effort to drive the prices of these stocks up.

How are they doing it? By embracing companies that Wall Street, for good reason, hates: beaten-down firms in legacy businesses with weak economic fundamentals. The Redditors don’t love these companies because they think their future prospects are genuinely great, even if in most cases there’s been some catalyst that suggests the underlying business could improve going forward. Instead, what meme stocks all have in common is that they start off with a cheap stock price and a relatively low market cap, and they’re heavily shorted, meaning that hedge-fund managers are betting that these stocks are going to fall. (GameStop, for instance, was and still is one of the most heavily shorted stocks on Wall Street.)

Reading and listening are two fundamentally different modes of learning. Reading is a standalone activity, but it tends to create stronger memories because your brain needs to fill in many gaps that listening pre-populates. What does the setting look like? What do the voices sound like? Reading uses back-tracking eye movements to maximize retention. Turning pages is a built-in break, giving you time to process what you’ve read. Reading also provides structural cues from punctuation, and physical books give you a spatial sense of where you are in the story at all times, both of which help improve your memory.

Listening, on the other hand, is a more social experience. You can glean information from one’s intonation, volume, and speed. Because you can’t rewind a conversation, you tend to focus on extracting the most important points. Listeners thrive on interaction and spontaneity. They love hearing multiple angles until one clicks, and that’s when the words magically roll off their tongue in response.

The biggest difference between the two is that listening still works when you do it passively — you can let the information run over you like a waterfall, and your subconscious will save the most relevant bits as they pass by — while reading requires constant attention. It is entirely active, like a treasure hunt.

2 — Text tooltips

https://codepen.io/beforesemicolon/pen/BaKLeRL

6 — Extend the clickable area

The following example simply extends the type circle dot button click area by 2(two) by positioning a pseudo-element on top and centered.

8 — Frosted glass effect

.container {
   background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .15);
   backdrop-filter: blur(5px);
}

9 — Image grid with random height (Mansory Layout)

This is the famous Pinterest layout that you can use the old column property to accomplish quite easily.

10 — Math with Calc

Nothing in this world requires no math and the CSS calc function is magical.

Mailchimp may have been the 800-pound gorilla in the newsletter ecosystem, but there’s a new silverback that’s about to chop down the whole rainforest.

https://aws.amazon.com/ses/details/

The setup process is absurd. You have to get your web gal to set up an EC2 instance (whatever that is) and find or build a third-party application that lets you self-host it on your website. I literally couldn’t use it without my web team.

https://adamtheautomator.com/send-emails-using-amazon-ses/

If you’re an email marketer, play around with Sendy and MuxMail and get a feel for SES.
And if you’re a coder or programmer, what are you waiting for?!

Build strength with this challenging series of moves.

• Walking Squat to Walking Plank
• Cat-Cow to Bear Plank Shoulder Tap
• Side Plank With Cross-Body Crunch
• Reverse Crunch to Straight-Leg Raise
• Hollow Hold to V-Sit

Paul Lloyd assembles a heavenly host of cherubs to sing the virtues of the Eleventy static site generator. By looking at how it compares to the familiar Ruby-based Jekyll (which we have espoused the virtues of here before), he may have you humming its tune for this season’s holiday projects. But will it put you on cloud eleven?