As a writer, there are two basic instructions I take from the journals:

1) Take long walks. Get out. Try to arrange your life in a way that you can get out for longer than you even think you can.

2) Go home and write in your journal about what you saw and heard and felt and thought about.

The Mellotron, built and sold by Mellotronics, Ltd., was based on an earlier instrument, the Chamberlin MusicMaster, which used recorded notes from members of Lawrence Welk’s band—hardly the hippest sounds on the scene when the Mellotron MK1 debuted in 1963. By the time of the MK2, however, the device developed into a powerful multitimbral machine, with a dual keyboard, “containing more than 70 3/8-inch tape players, a reverb unit, amplifiers and speakers.”

Also:
http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/rick_wakeman_tells_the_story_of_the_mellotron_the_oddball_proto-synthesizer_pioneered_by_the_beatles_.html

As a software developer, I constantly ask myself: what distinguishes an outstanding developer from a mediocre one? From my observation, it has very little to do with formal education, age, gender, and even industry experience. It has a lot to do with mindset.

• Learn how to learn
• Don’t reinvent the wheel
• Small iterations
• Test, test, test
• Apply learned patterns
• Don’t fall in love with your work

The open source solution for cohesive UX/UI across products.

Having created my first app using Flutter, I weigh up the technology’s pros and cons against the other big cross-platform development contender — React Native

The number of museums that have made their collections available online whole, or in part, has grown exponentially and shows no signs of slowing.

Arrow functions (also called “fat arrow functions”) are undoubtedly one of the more popular features of ES6. They introduced a new way of writing concise functions.

Events are the first place you are likely to meet asynchronous functions, but once you have events and an event dispatching system you can't stop there. Any long running function has to be implemented as an asynchronous non-blocking function if the UI is to remain responsive. This causes all sorts of difficulties that go beyond events and event handling.

Here we’ll look at how to create a tribute poster, using typography, colors and grids which are trademarks of the Bauhaus style. This is a great all-round introduction to poster design in InDesign for beginners.

How a new technology is changing layout on the web

We can create grids that better control the placement of elements both vertically and horizontally. All of this brings classic graphic design and art direction approaches back to web design.

via Jean-Michel Verbeeck
https://www.behance.net/gallery/74176939/Birds

Super SloMo fun. Or how you can make awesome YouTube videos with AI

The opportunity to see all of Van Gogh’s bedroom paintings in one place may have passed us by for now—an exhibit in Chicago brought them together in 2016. But we can see the original bedroom at the yellow house in Arles in a virtual space, along with almost 1,000 more Van Gogh paintings and drawings, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam's site. The digitized collection showcases a vast amount of Van Gogh’s work—including not only landscapes, but also his many portraits, self-portraits, drawings, city scenes, and still-lifes.

The String is the most basic and most useful of the native JavaScript data structures. It can also be used as a starting point for, or be incorporated into, many other data structures. Let's see how it all works.

No characteristic better embod­ies the majesty and diversity of birds than their ostentatious display of color.

As a motion enthusiast, there is one question that I have been asked the most:

“How do I start with Motion Design?”

To this, I often reply savagely, “You start with Physics”; scaring away most of the seekers 😂 But here is the thing — someone who is genuinely interested never stops with a single query. They follow up with questions after questions after questions. I love them! ❤️

Resistance bands are the perfect tool for sculpting or toning your muscles on-the-go — whether you’re traveling across the country or just down the road to your local park, says Cris Dobrosielski, a spokesperson for the American Council of Exercise and the owner of Monumental Fitness Results, in San Diego, California. “Doing more reps, say 3 sets of 15 reps, provides a muscular endurance benefit, we well as some amount of hypertrophy, or muscle building,” he says.

Here are some examples of the difference between consuming and creating:

• Refreshing your email inbox and reading the messages that you receive (consume) versus reaching out and getting in touch with people (create)
• Watching entertaining videos (consume) versus brainstorming ideas for a project you’re interested in (create)
• Listening to tutorials and reading guides (consume) versus taking notes and putting them into practice (create)