I took a deep dive on freemium pricing and decided to document it in this post. Why freemium? I think it's how the little guys can win against market leaders. Basically, it's how you kill a unicorn. Notion, Figma, Canva, Mailchimp, and Segment. What do all of these platforms have in common, besides being category...

These 23 kettlebell workouts and exercises show how to use the kettlebells in your gym routine to build muscle and improve conditioning.

Makko Ho (真向法) are 4 simple exercises developed in Japan and said to be beneficial for the body. They take 5 minutes to carry out and should be done every day, twice a day. The story behind Makko Ho (真向法) These 4 simple exercises are taught in an old, out-of-print book, called ‘Makko Ho’, which wasContinue reading "Makko Ho (真向法): 4 simple Japanese exercises to regain a loose, flexible, childlike body again"

1. Soccer stretch
2. Straight-leg stretch (60º ankles)
3. Legs spread
4. Heel sit (ankle touching floor, butt on floor)

Repeat exercise 1 to 3 ten times for about thirty seconds. This takes 1 minute and 30 seconds. This is ‘one round’. Then carry out another round of the first three exercises. (3 minutes in total)
Then when performing exercise 4, lean back and stay in the pose fo 1 minute. (In total 4 minutes. There are some additional variations to make it 5 minutes, but they are not necessary for beginners.

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The ultimate combination of the most powerful kettlebell exercise and hardcore strength work. Get ready to be better... at everything!

Use an undulating rep scheme to reach 500 total reps per workout:

• Set 1: 10 reps
• Set 2: 15 reps
• Set 3: 25 reps
• Set 4: 50 reps

You've now completed 100 reps or one cluster. Repeat the cluster 4 more times for a total of 500 swings. Between sets, experienced lifters will add a low-volume strength movement.

After each round of 10, 15, and 25 reps, rest 30-60 seconds. The first cluster will be easy and you can jam through it. In the later clusters, you'll need the full 60 seconds or more for grip strength recovery.

After each set of 50, rest will extend to 3 minutes or more. During this post-50 rest period, perform a "corrective." Stretch anything that needs it, like the hip flexors. Do a mobility movement of choice.

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Simple machine learning software to enlarge images with no quality loss, enhance colors and photo resolution, automatically retouch product photos. Free trial

And if you need a free alternative, you can use Ojoy that allows for 2–4× upscaling and noise reduction. Obviously the result isn't going to be 100% accurate, but usually close enough. Magical? Well, it is at first, but works like a charm once you get used to it. (vf)

https://ojoy.netlify.app/

Of all the varied objects of creation there is, probably, no portion that affords so much gratification and delight to mankind as plants. —Elizabeth Twining
“Who owned nature in the eighteenth century?” asks Londa Schiebinger in Plants and Empire, a study of what the Stanford historian of science calls “colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic World.” The question was largely decided at the time by “heroic voyaging botanists” and “biopirates” who claimed the world’s natural resources as their own.

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I was talking to my grandfather when I brought up how he had pretty good posture and mobility for someone quite old. He’s still walking around, working, climbing stairs, and sitting up straight.

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Lateral Join SQL DB2 for i: not everybody knows about it but it’s very powerful in our queries.
We want to get out one row only for each carmaker with the most sold model.

CROSS JOIN LATERAL:

SELECT a.Brand, Country, Modell, Year, Quantity FROM Faq400.AutoBrands A 
cross JOIN LATERAL 
(SELECT * from faq400.AutoStats stat
WHERE Year=2018 and A.idBrand=stat.IdBrand
order by Quantity desc
FETCH FIRST 1 ROW ONLY
) B ;

An InfoGraphic on how to use The Bucket Strategy to develop a retirement income stream in the "withdrawal phase" (a different approach than "accumulation").

https://www.theretirementmanifesto.com/how-to-build-a-retirement-paycheck/

Current Knowledge is a much better way to think about the problem.

Consistency in design is about making elements uniform—having them look and behave the same way. We often hear designers talk about consistent navigation, consistent page layouts, or consistent control elements.

the right question is, “Will the user’s current knowledge help them understand how to use what I’m designing?”

An easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative PHP tutorials around the Web

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Love the style, symmetry and the colors.

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This introductory computer science course covers algorithms, data structures, resource management, security, software engineering, and web development.

One great, free option is “CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python.” This course recommends CS50x as a pre-requisite, so this is a great next step if you’re interested in AI.

https://cs50.harvard.edu/ai/2020/

In my pursuit to understand Git, it’s been helpful for me to understand it from the bottom
up — rather than look at it only in terms of its high-level commands. And since Git is so beautifully simple when viewed this way, I thought others might be interested to read what I’ve found,
and perhaps avoid the pain I went through finding it.

In these two books, the authors of four dozen open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program's major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development? In answering these questions, the contributors to these books provide unique insights into how they think.

If you are a junior developer, and want to learn how your more experienced colleagues think, these books are the place to start. If you are an intermediate or senior developer, and want to see how your peers have solved hard design problems, these books can help you too.

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.