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In our recent posts, we have already talked about what nodes are and how we can use them for coin mining. Basically, a node is any device with an IP address that participates in a blockchain. Full nodes are online most of the time and store the copy of the whole blockchain, while light ones don’t. It is well known that... | ['Blockchain', 'Node', 'Bitcoin', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Crypto'] |
JavaScript Modules will soon be a reality for Node.js package maintainers.
Edit: It’s now a reality!
This blog post is targeted Node.js package maintainers.
At the end of April 2021, Node.js 10 will be end-of-life, which means that package maintainers can target Node.js 12. This Node.js version has full support for ... | ['JavaScript', 'Node', 'NPM', 'Nodejs', 'Package Management'] |
How often are rewards distributed and who distributes them?
Rewards are distributed daily at about 02:15 UTC time. The distribution is handled by a provably random distribution algorithm, which you can read more about here: https://gogalagames.medium.com/gala-games-nodes-resume-nft-distribution-d5de76d9b75a
A short v... | ['Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Node', 'Blockchain Game', 'Gala Games'] |
Buy and Set Up a Gala node in Just 10-15 Mins!
Introduction
What is a Gala node?
Gala Nodes help to secure the Gala Games network. As a node operator, you will receive points in “Daily Distribution,” which are NFTs, game items and GALA coins which will be added to your treasure chest. This is one of the best ways to... | ['Passive Income', 'Masternodes', 'Node', 'Gala Games', 'Gala'] |
In other words, it can imply that it has become the bridge between Node 15 and the future version of NodeJS, Long term support Release.
If we would have to start with the first update that would be npm V7
npm v7
Npm has gone to some substantial underground improvements to make as a fresh upgrade in Node 16 version.
... | ['Node Js Development', 'Node', 'Node Development', 'Nodejs', 'Nodejs Develop Services'] |
Imagine you have a pile of bricks somewhere. And you want to build a wall with those bricks here. Let’s say you have a friend to help move the bricks. To start building, you now have two options. You can either wait until your friend brings the whole pile of bricks to you, or you can start building as soon as you have ... | ['JavaScript', 'Node', 'Stream', 'Nodejs', 'Node Js Tutorial'] |
Prerequisites
Since we’re going to be creating images with Docker, it will need to be installed first. You can follow Docker’s install guide at https://docs.docker.com/desktop
Getting Started
Let’s start by creating a new Nx workspace, run either one of the following:
npx create-nx-workspace --preset=nest
or
yarn... | ['Node', 'Nx', 'Docker', 'Microservices'] |
The Gala Games Team has been hard at work driving towards ever-greater decentralization of the Gala Games Node Ecosystem. Today, we would like to present a proposal to the community for discussion. This post summarizes the current node reward structure and proposes a change.
TLDR: Below we lay out a potential scenario... | ['Decentralization', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Node', 'Blockchain Technology', 'Gala Games'] |
Since last Wednesday, I’ve been in Covid-19 self-isolation. In addition to the country being in lockdown, there is truly nothing to do. So, I have turned back here to write about my experience at this time.
I am still at school, so I have been continuing to see people despite the nation-wide lockdown. But, I came into... | ['Quarantine', 'Stupid Or Smart', 'Covid 19', 'Isolation', 'Boring'] |
My list of ways to find joy.
The Sitch
When the pandemic began, as a public health professional and trained social worker, I knew in my gut that it would be a long period of time before I would see friends and family again. Three days before that Friday the 13th in March, I had a strong hunch that Governor Newsom was... | ['Loneliness', 'Covid-19', 'Isolation', 'Pandemic', 'Fatigue Management'] |
Photos I can’t post on social media right now.
It’s Sunday. My kids and I watched Sixty Minutes with my mom eating Wegman’s General Tso’s chicken and noodles in her apartment just below mine in the house we share in Brooklyn, NY. A segment called 90+ followed several 90+ year olds around for 6 years to find out how th... | ['Parenting In A Pandemic', 'Depression', 'Isolation', 'Social Media', 'Hello'] |
Coronavirus is taking a mental and physical toll on us. We have been actively disconnecting from our physical social environments. This is necessary, but it is increasing our feeling of loneliness. As we move into winter and Coronavirus continues, isolation and loneliness will have serious short- and long-term effects.... | ['Loneliness', 'Mental Health', 'Covid 19', 'Addiction', 'Isolation'] |
I had a walk last night, just around the house, no place far. It might seem funny, but I have the ability to recognize the whole mood of the avenues right after I step out of the apartment door. I use lights and check their brightness, I guess.
I rambled toward the main street, keeping hands in the jacket’s pocket and... | ['Danial Amari', 'Quarantine Essay', 'Coronavirus', 'Isolation', 'Flaneur'] |
Tommy stood, with the other students on his course, in the vestibule of his form tutor’s study. Tutorials were something he loathed and tried to avoid at any cost. Tommy was different, you see. His mother had once been a Nun that had fallen from God’s grace and had been asked to leave the ‘Mother of St Teresa’s House’ ... | ['Fiction Writing', 'Communication', 'Understanding', 'Isolation', 'Truth Realisation'] |
Thursday 21 January 2021
Covid isolation has pushed us further apart, both physically and politically. Unable to mix with others, it’s easy to imagine that everyone is facing the same challenges. But that’s not the case, and we’re quickly losing our empathy.
Credit: Edward Howell / Unsplash
Paper rounds were once a ... | ['Empathy', 'Covid 19', 'Lockdown', 'Isolation', 'Social Media'] |
The suburb as we’ve come to know and loathe it (I speak for myself, obviously, but feel free to jump on my cranky bandwagon), is a mid-20th century invention. Before that, only farmers and wealthy people populated rural or picturesque areas outside cities.
Yes, I may be exaggerating. There may have been other folks wh... | ['Suburbs', 'Society', 'Conservatism', 'Isolation', 'Family'] |
Mental health is super important at the best of times, but even more so at the worst of times. It’s hard to argue that we are currently going through one of the worst times in recent history, with extended isolation and a lot of uncertainty in many areas (financially, industrially, familial, emotional, etc.), our colle... | ['Remote', 'Mental Health', 'Work', 'Isolation', 'Remote Working'] |
How AIs in Netflix, Youtube, Facebook and others keep you from discovering new content.
This article relies on a basic understanding of how tech companies use bots and algorithms to decide what content you see on their platforms. If you haven’t really thought about it or haven’t been taught about it here is a good pri... | ['Musings', 'Media', 'AI', 'Isolation', 'Machine Learning'] |
I Fancy Myself ‘Pro-Abortion,’ NOT ‘Pro-Choice’
Because young women shouldn’t be isolated during the most stressful time of their lives E.L.Carpenter Feb 2, 2019·5 min read
Courtesy of memecrunch.com
I once saw a news clip of a pro-choice man in a MAGA-hat saying, “any man who calls abortion a women’s issue, is no m... | ['Abortion', 'Culture', 'Polarization', 'Politics', 'Isolation'] |
Has your life gotten to that place where you are feeling depressed, isolated and lost all the time?
Are you feeling hopeless, alone and full of dread and worried about what the future will hold?
If you are, I am so sorry. Being depressedand feeling alone is a horrible place to be!
Fortunately, there are things you c... | ['Situational Depression', 'Depression', 'Alone', 'Clinical Depression', 'Isolation'] |
Photo by Petra Brýdlová on Unsplash
Nothing forces you to not be attached to material things like getting robbed.
Though they didn’t get away with anything important like money or my ID, I still feel violated, like an open wound that still hasn’t scabbed over. I dreaded telling family because they’d either freak out,... | ['Reflection', 'Isolation', 'Theft'] |
“What do people resort to sometimes? They eat, or they smoke — I mean I used to smoke…dance is a bit more positive rather than just eating. So yeah, I’m quite pleased I came”.
In 1985, Valerie, a nurse from Louth, Lincolnshire, is forced to move to London to search for agency work. A year later, she is admitted to hos... | ['Mental Health', 'Elderly', 'Isolation', 'Dance', 'Music'] |
Pear, Pressured
I am 40% Asian, 40% White, 10% Black, 80% misunderstood, and 100% done with giving into social pressures that try to push my life off course. Also, I can math, but this is a metaphor, so just roll with it.
My parents are Chinese-Vietnamese refugees that fled their homeland during the Vietnam war. They... | ['Identity', 'Isolation', 'Conformity', 'Pressure'] |
My name is Mimi Toya Cole, I am 34 years old and I suffer from mental illness. More specifically, I suffer from major depression, bipolar disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, and borderline personality disorder. It’s a handful.
I enjoy writing, or journalling really, it’s very therapeutic and I find it a helpful to... | ['Bipolar Disorder', 'Depression', 'Mental Health', 'Isolation', 'Anxiety'] |
Homogenous Networks
As we seen in Unit 3, the scope of the definition of “friend” has certainly broadened with the advent of digital media and social networking sites (see more on this topic here: “How Social Media is Redefining “Friendship”? ). Now more than ever before, “you are who you associate with.” The irony is... | ['Cognitive Bias', 'Polarization', 'Homophily', 'Isolation', 'Social Media'] |
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: A Sonic Journey through Music, Criticism, and Quarantine Selena Dieringer Jan 17·16 min read
March 29th, 2020. New York City was in a full lockdown due to Covid-19, with most of the USA at a similar standstill. My job duties had dwindled to a state of pointlessness, wit... | ['Rolling Stone Magazine', 'Covid-19', 'Isolation', 'Race Relations', 'Music'] |
The Scrum Artifacts
The first pillar of empirical process control is ‘Transparency’. In order to frequently inspect the progress of your work on a product and make decisions about what (else) is needed, we need to have something we can inspect. By making the work on a product ‘transparent’, we mean making it available... | ['Empiricism', 'Agile Development', 'Scrum', 'Scrum Framework', 'Agile Methodology'] |
Aire’s Agile Coach, Meena, shows how Agile Retrospectives can fuel a culture of continuous improvement at work.
At the heart of our product development work at Aire sit empowered, cross-functional squads. Working in sprints, the squads deliver an increment of the product which they then showcase to their stakeholders ... | ['Startup', 'Retrospectives', 'Work From Home', 'Agile Methodology', 'Agile'] |
by Ken Medley, John Ragozzine, and Margaret Schneider
If you’ve suddenly found yourself working remotely due to COVID-19 precautions, how do you handle all the normal day-to-day things like meetings, tracking tasks, and just accomplishing basic communication? Team norms don’t need to be complicated just because everyo... | ['Scrum', 'Remote Work', 'Agile Methodology', 'Organizational Culture', 'Agile'] |
Zomato is an Indian restaurant aggregator and food delivery. This story talks about the use of agile methodology to builds up new features for the zomato product like rate/review restaurant, filters for search, online ordering, etc.
What is Agile Methodology?
Agile methodology is a practice that follows continuous it... | ['Agile Methodology'] |
by Dwight Kingdon
There are great Scrum Masters and lousy Scrum Masters.
There are also great and lousy managers, developers, testers, salespeople, and neighbors. People are people — no matter what their profession or role in life. Scrum Masters are people too. And just like every profession, most people grow and imp... | ['Agile Methodology', 'Agile Teams', 'Scrum', 'Scrum Master'] |
IR35, Off Payroll Tax and the strategic imperative of developing Agile capabilities within your organisation John McFadyen Mar 11, 2020·7 min read
3 years ago, the ‘impossible’ happened. A referendum, won by the slimmest of margins, set the cat amongst the pigeons in a way that very few people in the UK were prepared ... | ['Ir35', 'Capability Building', 'Agile Methodology', 'Strategy', 'Agile'] |
We have been working on a discovery project to identify an ideal end-to-end user journey for housing repairs services across four local authorities.
Despite being able to report issues online, most council residents continue to report housing by phone which is inefficient, expensive and puts strain on the contact cent... | ['UX Research', 'Discovery', 'Collaboration', 'Agile Methodology', 'Remote Working'] |
One of the most difficult decisions a firm faces while the project implementation process in which development model would be the best for their working? The topic comes with a never-ending discussion and debate. Development models in simple words mean the way of assembling the work while developing software.
The two ... | ['Agile Methodology', 'Software Development', 'Waterfall Methodologies', 'Agile Sprints'] |
(Read up on my lecture “Successful agile projects are only possible with co-location! Yes, but…” at the 20x20 Agile Night on 12.05.2020 in Berlin)
If you read literature and blogs about agile methods and agile software development, you might think that agile work is only possible if the team shares a room or at least ... | ['Agile Teams', 'Agile Testing', 'Software Engineering', 'Agile Methodology', 'Organizational Culture'] |
The first section in my DevOps training workshop is always “Elevator Pitch.” Some young entrepreneurs often get confused about whether this is a technical workshop or a product design workshop.
I make it clear in this article.
DevOps is “HOW”; Product Vision is “WHAT”
DevOps is the methodology and practice to make t... | ['Product Design', 'Devops Training', 'Elevator Pitch', 'C Pop', 'Agile Methodology'] |
Aren’t these ones of the few aspects that we try to address, figure out, and balance while planning for the Release(s) of a product.
Often Agile teams are asked by Business / Client teams to come up with visibility & plans for Milestones and Release(s) for the Product.
The Waterfall model makes it easier to prepare a... | ['Estimations', 'Agile Methodology', 'Agile Transformation', 'Agile', 'Agile Coaching'] |
Recorded By Dave Prior
When we try to explain Agile, many of us begin by trying to describe some of the characteristics of how we approach work. We often talk about things like:
Limiting work in process
Delivering smaller increments of work
Reducing team size and empowering the teams to become cross-functional and ... | ['Business Agility', 'Project Management', 'Agile Methodology', 'Software Development', 'Agile'] |
Back in August, I wrote a blog post on a project to do away with paper forms at the Community Recycling Centres (tips) within the authority and introduce a digital solution.
Recap
The old thing:
Every time someone arrived at a CRC site in a van or with a trailer, they had to fill in a paper declaration to state that... | ['Agile Methodology', 'Service Design', 'Local Government'] |
Though not all developers hate Agile, sometimes, there are scenarios under which the teams practicing it feel intolerable and start probably hating it. When talking about why developers may hate Agile, there is need to examine the situations in which they consider Agile not working to their side. Something to mention h... | ['Agile Methodology', 'Software Developers', 'Agile', 'Hire Software Developer'] |
Scrum in a single sentence
Scrum in the Scrum Guide is defined as follows:
A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.
However it’s difficult to understand. What is a framework? What are complex adaptive p... | ['Scrum', 'Agile Methodology', 'Scrum Master', 'Agile', 'Agile Coaching'] |
Treating Agile as just a method not part of a mindset, or culture, is a common contradiction in orgs trying to become Agile organizations. This approach is like following a recipe for a dish and believing that it makes you a chef. A chef knows the Why of cooking — which ingredients and methods do what, and why. Not gra... | ['Agile Development', 'Transformation', 'Agile Methodology', 'Agile Transformation', 'Agile Coaching'] |
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
The manifesto was done by software people, and every piece of software is a tool!
Also Agilists keep selling you processes!
because tools and processes are AWESOME, until they are not.
We are but the ape that discovered tools first.
Every object around you? Clo... | ['Manifesto', 'Agility', 'Agile Manifesto', 'Agile Methodology', 'Agile'] |
Only your Testers Test
What is a tester? As Joel Spolsky famously wrote, they are cheap resources you hire because you don’t want your developers testing. This opinion is anathema to Agile testing — if you hire cheap resources to ‘test’, you aren’t testing with an Agile mindset.
Testing is not a role, it’s an activit... | ['Software Testing', 'Agile', 'Agile Methodology', 'Software Development', 'Testing'] |
In this post I will argue that engineering teams can make a subtle but invaluable shift in how they think about sprint planning, such that milestones (near term goals) lead the conversation during sprint planning. Stories are still useful for estimates and coordinating work, but they’re a tool, not the point.
“Stories... | ['Product Management', 'Sdlc', 'Leadership', 'Engineering Mangement', 'Agile Methodology'] |
The agile movement revolutionised the way technology companies operated and was a key driving force behind successes like Google, Facebook and Airbnb. But, two decades after it started, the movement is now dead with the final blow dealt by McKinsey recently promoting an “agile transformation office”.
Agile was origina... | ['Agile Methodology', 'Software Development', 'Agile Transformation', 'Agile'] |
The Art of Co-Creating Great User Stories
Create great user stories (copyright — Vishal Soni)
User stories are an integral part of a Product Manager’s life. User stories are a very powerful tool for capturing the customer need, specifying the actors involved, validating the benefits, detailing out the customer journe... | ['Agile Methodology', 'Product Design', 'Product Management', 'Product', 'User Stories'] |
It’s What We Know that Just Ain’t So: Epistemic Failure in Software Engineering
Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash
Introduction
Software engineering is an industry notable for its strongly-held beliefs. Sometimes, we are also noted for our inability to reflect on those beliefs and question whether there is a factua... | ['Cognitive Bias', 'Software', 'Epistemology', 'Thinking', 'Agile Methodology'] |
My best friend has two wheels. Instead of lying, charging, next to my bed it is hanging majestically and colourful on a hook in the other end of my room. I do also have a smartphone; a Samsung Galaxy something smart. Black with a slightly incised screen which emits an annoying amount of light if you look at in the dark... | ['Boredom', 'Effectiveness', 'Cycling'] |
Before I finally worked up the courage to start cycling, I spent a lot of time thinking about what parts of my life might have already prepared me for getting on the road.
Driving was the obvious one. I’d never enjoyed it. An anxious daughter of anxious parents, learning to drive was a hellish experience for all of us... | ['Cycling', 'Feminism', 'Transportation'] |
It’s 2030 and there is no longer any noise coming from traffic in the city of Križevci, no fumes either, because there is no longer any motorised traffic in the city center.
No fear for kids playing outside, toddlers running after a dog or playing with a ball. All I can hear is birds and some voices when people get in... | ['Cycling', 'Croatia', 'Sustainable Mobility', 'Community', 'Nature Based Solutions'] |
Monika made history in 2018 when she became the first woman to ride the entire 3,058km route of the Vuelta a España. Which is know as one of cycling’s toughest grand tours.
Monika started riding every morning at 6 am hours before the men started, she rode the full 21 stages which included a staggering 49,337m of climb... | ['Climbing', 'Podcast', 'Women', 'Cycling', 'Challenge'] |
Learning How To Ride [Episode 1]
Can you become a good, but really good, cyclist when you didn’t start early or have a previous career in ski-jumping. That’s the journey we’re on. Within this series I will write about every step of the way. From being just another semi-in-shape student who rides his bike every once in... | ['Motivation', 'Cycling', 'Training', 'Sports'] |
The Ultimate Guide To Indoor Bike Training — Plus 8 Indoor Workouts For The Pain Cave Chris Allen Nov 23, 2020·39 min read
*Adventure School participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com*
“To Me ... | ['Biking', 'Cycling', 'Mountain Biking', 'Spin', 'Indoor Bike'] |
One of many excellent 3rd places.
NOTE 1: This is my POV on 3rd Places and very much YMMV. I’m NOT telling anybody this is how or what they need to do to be successful, it’s merely ideas you can borrow or steal! So enjoy!
NOTE 2: Yes, this is a long post, get ready for a long haul. However, if you’re looking for idea... | ['Cycling', 'Coding', 'Programming', '3rd Places'] |
More than 30 years ago, the city of Copenhagen implemented a pedestrian initiative, which was highly controversial at the time. Today, the pedestrian sites and bike paths have scaled and fostered a biking culture which has become an integrated part of most Danes’ lifestyle. In fact, biking accounts for a quarter of all... | ['Creative', 'Design', 'Sustainability', 'Cycling', 'Innovation'] |
Tour de France — The Environmental impacts of the ultimate test Callum Jul 15·3 min read
The tour de France is widely regarded as one of the biggest sporting events in the world. The annual tournament is 23 days long and features 21 different races, covering all of France from Brest to Paris. With the scale and hype o... | ['Environmental Impact', 'Cycling', 'Environmental Issues', 'Waste', 'Tour De France'] |
Black Girls Do Bike: How an Introvert Started an Army of Lady Cyclists Connor Grant Follow Jul 15 · 4 min read
By Monica Garrison
Frequently, I ask myself how an eternally introverted, plus-sized, woman of color managed to mobilize a passionate worldwide army of lady cyclists. I have always put cycling in the categor... | ['Cycling', 'Bikes', 'Black Girls'] |
3 Simple Excercise To Make You Fit & Healthy
In these highly modern times, we all want to have a sexy charm outlook, a task that is hard to achieve without having a fit body. But with this much competition & race, life can get busy, and oftentimes we find ourselves in a situation where priorities over health & fitness... | ['Cycling', 'Walking', 'Blogging', 'Swimming', 'Fitness'] |
A day came by when the world stopped without any warning. I was initially happy about the pandemic as there was a lockdown all over the country. There was no school, no tuitions and I had a lot of leisure time to play games, watch movies and eat all day. First two to three weeks were fun but when the lockdown was exten... | ['Bts', 'Cycling', 'Lockdown', 'Pandemic', 'India'] |
While 2020 has had it’s challenges, there’ve been many positives — one being more people cycling. Now I may be biased, but it’s been even better to see many younger athletes get on two wheels. Yet, as it starts to warm up quickly, summer cycling can be a whole new road to navigate. So, it’s helpful for junior cyclists ... | ['Cycling', 'Nutrition App', 'Junior Sport', 'Digital Nutri', 'Sports Nutrition'] |
Thoughts about Habits and Effecting Positive Change
It has been said that a sure sign of insanity is to continuously embrace a specific pattern of behavior with the expectation of achieving a different result. Let me help with some examples (some of which have come from my vast library of personal experiences):
Not i... | ['Health', 'Cycling', 'Coaching', 'Personal Development', 'Positive Thinking'] |
Cycles are an integral part of our daily lives while having a huge impact on the Indian Economy as well as culture and society. Some use it for fitness, some for commuting to work, some to fulfill the need of their lives, and some to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Talking about the Dabbawalas in Mumbai, the iconic... | ['Group Cycling Near Me', 'Cycle Stores In Nagpur', 'Nagpur Cycle Stores', 'Cycling', 'Best Bicycle Service'] |
It was such a beautiful day today, with the summer solstice only 30 hours away. The fading light laid low and soft on the horizon at 7 p.m., an hour or so of it left to go.
A typical night like tonight would have involved a lovely meal and a bottle of wine, or more. As of late, I’ve chosen not to drink for reasons too... | ['Cycling', 'Childhood', 'Reflections', 'Short Story', 'Sobriety'] |
Esports, Gamification and Virtual Reality
Yesterday I went for a 26km cycle through the streets of London with my father 🚲
There was no traffic and the weather was perfect ☀️🛣
We felt the burn on the uphills and on the downhills we cruised 🥵 🚀
We used each other’s slipstream for energy saving and we motivated e... | ['Esports', 'Virtual Reality', 'Sports', 'Cycling', 'Zwift'] |
How to Meet Public Demand for Safe Bikeway Networks — Affordably, Quickly, and Inclusively.
This post was adapted from Alta and CalBike’s Quick-Build Guide
Cycling and walking numbers are up in many communities, as people seek out healthy and safe transportation and recreation. Community members are discovering they ... | ['Bike Lanes', 'Demonstration Projects', 'Cycling', 'Pedestrian Safety', 'Active Transportation'] |
Have you ever dreamt of becoming the first to accomplish some feat in your field? Ayesha McGowan is on a mission to do just that and become the first ever African-American pro female road racer. Ayesha’s incredible work toward this goal is an example to us all of what it takes to accomplish a feat that hasn’t been done... | ['Podcast', 'Women', 'Sports', 'Cycling', 'Motivation'] |
Two-Wheeled Self Discovery
If you’re new, please check out the first post in this series: Prologue — Setting the stage
Hello, and welcome back to the blog!
My name is Aaron, and this is my story…
MEC “The National” prototype touring bicycle
Back in late 2010, after moving to Calgary following my father’s death, I ... | ['Cycle Touring', 'Cycling', 'Canada'] |
Connor Brown in action for the NTT Continental Cycling team. Photo credit: NTT Pro Cycling
Unless it’s a family catch-up, a group Zoom call is never good.
It’s how New Zealand cyclist Connor Brown found out about the future of his Continental team. After six years, Japanese telecommunications company NTT decided they... | ['World Tour', 'Cycling', 'Ntt Cycling', 'Sport', 'Connor Brown'] |
How Learning to Ride a Bike as an Adult Taught Me to be a Better Listener laura alyse Oct 13, 2020·4 min read
“It’s as easy as riding a bike” is an adage we know well. But what if you don’t know how to ride a bike? Is the world daunting and difficult?
My golden bike, down by the water in Brooklyn, NY.
I grew up in t... | ['Communication Skills', 'Pandemic Diaries', 'Cycling', 'Self Help', 'Listening Skills'] |
Go Green Go Cycling — The idea of going green is a way not only to help protect the environment but also to benefit your health and your wallet.
Riding your bicycle protects the environment by removing other pollution producing and traffic congestion-causing vehicles from the road.
Cycling tourism helps you learn mor... | ['Go Green', 'Health', 'Cycling', 'Bicycles', 'Fitness'] |
Links and other updates from Sierra Club Seattle Group
Articles
Talking Headways Podcast: How We’ve Subsidized Driving (and What To Do About It) (Streetsblog)
When an employer cashes out the free parking or a apartment building unbundles the parking, that you get somewhere between a 10 and 30 percent reduction in ca... | ['Driving', 'Cycling', 'Activism', 'Environment', 'Seattle'] |
How to keep fit while go
Do you know what is backbreaking of a healthy excursion? Observing a close eye on your fitness goals and keeping the gym and exercise consistent can be a challenge when moving, especially when your schedule is busy. However, don't forget your strength and fitness even when mobility. Travel is ... | ['Running', 'Cycling', 'Exercise', 'Fitness Tips', 'Fitness'] |
More Than Just Speed — 5 Comfortable Reasons To Wear A Custom Cycling Kit Made Just For Ladies Barnaby Henry Aug 27·3 min read
You probably know about the speed benefits of wearing performance apparel when cycling.
It makes you more aerodynamic, reduces your drag, and you can travel faster.
That’s far from the only ... | ['Apparel', 'Performance', 'Cycling', 'Durable', 'Quality'] |
We get to test this week a nice bottle holder from Lezyne, which turns out to be more than just a bottle holder — the Lezyne Stuff Caddy.
The Lezyne Stuff Caddy allows you to bring along on your bike commutes a bottle holder like the one that I use, a 20 oz 592 ml Klean Kanteen insulated bottle. And items other than a... | ['Cycling'] |
“I think it’s so cool that you enjoy writing for fun.”
We’re in the parking lot after our ride, Anna’s laying across the downed tailgate with her eyes closed, soaking up the warm early spring sun. I’m on my bike with the seat lowered to a nearly BMX position so I can comfortably reach the ground, rolling back and fort... | ['Cycling', 'Mountain Biking', 'Writing'] |
None of my neighbors were out to greet me and I lifted my bicycle up the staircase. Fumbling with the keys as I always did, I found myself inside the sweltering apartment. I quickly turned on the shower, activated all the air conditioning units, and stripped down to inspect the abrasions covering my body. In time each ... | ['Cycling', 'Traveling', 'Saipan', 'Reflections', 'Fitness'] |
In just a few minutes we were making our way through Santa Fe, with Mike starting to fill me in on his background, and how he inherited the century ride that he had been organizing over the last few years. Mike is a self-proclaimed “Los Alamos nerd”, with a graduate degree in music, a deep understanding of cycling scie... | ['Gfny World', 'Cycling', 'Santa Fe', 'Gfny', 'New Mexico'] |
All-season tires have become an excellent solution for those who want to save extra money and not bother with an extra pair of rubber. They were invented in the 50s as a great alternative to winter tires in mild climates. Today, manufacturers are increasingly creating such products, but what are the best all-season tir... | ['All Season Tires', 'Cycling'] |
Garmin GPS device not getting perceived’ is likely the most widely recognized issue a Garmin device holder may have. There can be heaps of explanations behind it, and you can without much of a stretch resolve any such issue inside minutes.
Garmin applicants may go over these Garmin Express connection issues:
Garmin E... | ['Cycling', 'Garmin Map Updates', 'Garmin Gps Support'] |
We’re back with another edition of our Brainiacs Passions series where we peek behind the curtain of our team to discover a little bit more about what they get up to in their free time. We heard murmurs in the office that Artem, our Test Automation Engineer, has a passion for riding his bicycle, but not just any kind o... | ['Off Road Adventures', 'Cycling', 'Team', 'Wearebrain', 'Endurance Racing'] |
The race was the Men’s Scratch Qualifier. A scratch race has a set number of laps to complete and the first one across the finish line wins the race. It’s the simplest race on the track. The top 12 riders from this first heat would make it into the final. Combined with another group of 12 riders from another heat, 24 r... | ['Cycling', 'Velodrome', 'Crash', 'Cyclingmemories', 'Bike Race'] |
It’s the last 12 months of a two-year push to roll-out The Bike Scouts Project at a scale that allows it to do what it was designed for — to give people a place to come together as a community and passionately change the world around them in a very human way.
Starting in 2013 with a crowdsourced idea for a Volunteer B... | ['Cycling', 'Social Good', 'Community', 'Disaster Response', 'Social Media'] |
Intro to my new Rail Trails at the Frontier Series
During the week, I am a PhD student in science and engineering. A crucial aspect of my job is to cultivate comfort at the frontier of knowledge. An experiment might be stubborn for months on end, and it’s not clear whether there’s just a faulty cable somewhere or whet... | ['PhD', 'Cycling', 'Boston', 'Bicycles', 'Travel'] |
The bicycle has for decades mobilised minorities, yet cycling today is a startlingly white sport. Mani Arthur is at the forefront of a movement for change.
When Mani Arthur was seven, his father bought him a bike for his birthday. It was pink and white. In Kumasi, a city in the southern Ashanti region of Ghana, few of... | ['Tour De France', 'Cycling', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'Olympics'] |
Using Your Apple Watch As A Heart Rate Monitor With NordicTrack S22i Tyler Marcus Mar 18·2 min read
NordicTrack s22i with ECHO for Apple Watch.
If you’re anything like me in that you check your Activity Rings more than you check the time each day — you’re probably also exceptionally dissatisfied in Apple Watch’s inab... | ['Cycling', 'Heart Rate Monitor', 'Heart Rate Sensor', 'Nordic Track', 'Apple Watch'] |
I stared into the abyss so you don’t have to.
People online and on talkback radio have been mad about cyclists over the past week. Like, hella mad. Cyclists getting something they wanted is the apparent trigger-point that caused half the population to blame all transport woes on our two-wheeled friends.
Most of these... | ['Cycling', 'Bikenomics', 'Auckland'] |
Previous announcement here (Dec 2019)
Since end of 2019, many things have been accomplished on the Elevate desktop app. But, as you can imagine, some unforeseen issues happened 😊🤫.
This project is still a thing, you will see that below. But amount of work was bigger than I expected comparing to the bandwidth I had ... | ['Strava', 'Elevate', 'Running', 'Cycling', 'Training'] |
Generally, I am not a fan of remakes, but what Joel and Ethan Coen did with True Grit represents powerful filmmaking, not the least of which how they interweave the story’s central theme throughout. Indeed, this theme is revealed in the first few seconds of the movie. Over opening credits in the soundtrack, we hear a p... | ['Screenwriting', 'Writing', 'Screenplay', 'Creative Writing', 'Fiction'] |
“Any physical object which takes on symbolic meaning to a character or characters.”
Harvey Dent’s coin from ‘The Dark Knight,’ an important talisman in the movie.
The definition of talisman is, “An object believed to confer on its bearer supernatural powers or protection.” The word’s roots are Greek: telesma, which m... | ['Screenwriting', 'Writing', 'Screenplay', 'Fiction', 'Writing Tips'] |
Over the years, I have interviewed 50+ Black List screenwriters. Over the next four weeks, I am running a series featuring one topic per week related to the craft of writing.
This week: How do you develop your characters?
Reading through all of the responses was a fascinating exercise. Once again, this group of write... | ['Screenwriting', 'Writing', 'Screenplay', 'Fiction', 'Writing Tips'] |
Read the script for this gripping crime drama featuring a head-turning performance by ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ star Rachel Brosnahan.
Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this bi-weekly series is a deep structural and thematic analysis of each script we read. Our da... | ['Film', 'Screenwriting', 'Screenplay', 'Movies', 'Cinema'] |
It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
As in years past, I will be tracking the year’s movie scripts as links become available.
Current total of 2020 scripts for download: 24. Newly added script (1): Prom.
Antebellum (Lionsgate)
Bora... | ['Film', 'Screenwriting', 'Screenplay', 'Movies', 'Cinema'] |
I will never be pregnant. That seems to go without saying as I am a man. The idea of comparing the writing of a screenplay to a pregnancy seems at best inappropriate and at worst just plain gross. Even the idea of saying writers get a version of postpartum depression after they finish a screenplay is doing a huge disse... | ['Screenplay', 'Screenwriting', 'Writing', 'Script'] |
Read and analyze the script for the hit Marvel superhero movie.
Reading scripts. Absolutely critical to learn the craft of screenwriting. The focus of this bi-weekly series is a deep structural and thematic analysis of each script we read. Our daily schedule:
Monday: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Tuesday: Plot
Wednesday... | ['Film', 'Screenwriting', 'Filmmaking', 'Screenplay', 'Movies'] |
5 questions to ask about a story idea to assess its viability as a scripted project.
If your goal is to traffic in mainstream, commercial movies, I cannot overstate the importance of your spec script’s story concept. As I detailed here, it is critical to the success of your original screenplay.
So let’s say you take ... | ['Screenwriting', 'Writing', 'Screenplay', 'Creative Writing', 'Fiction'] |
This is the 10th year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Last week, I provided a daily explanation about why you should make it a habit to be generating story ideas. This week, I’ll give you some tips on how to come up with stories.
Tip: Look at Craigslist.
Dreamworks bought this pitch based on Craigslist ads.
... | ['Screenwriting', 'Writing', 'Screenplay', 'Creative Writing', 'Storytelling'] |
There are multiple layers to any story. The more you dig, the deeper your understanding.
Cary Grant and friend reading a screenplay.
I can’t remember exactly how this subject came up on the blog, but it did, and when I asked whether people would like to explore how to read and analyze a screenplay, the response was q... | ['Screenwriting', 'Writing', 'Screenplay', 'Creative Writing', 'Writing Tips'] |
You launched your blog about the same time I did some 12 years ago. What inspired you to begin The Bitter Script Reader blog and why your decision to be an anonymous blogger?
This was early 2009. By that point I’d been a reader for three and a half years, plus the two years I worked in development. If memory serves, I... | ['Hollywood', 'Screenwriting', 'Writing', 'Screenplay', 'Business'] |
Screenplay by Drew Goddard, based on the novel by Andy Weir
The movie version of the opening:
Huh. Bold sluglines. I thought was a “no-no.” More notable is this:
The “storm warning” — the key event which jump-starts the plotline and causes Watney to be left behind — happens on P. 3. In other words, the script gets t... | ['Film', 'Screenwriting', 'Filmmaking', 'Screenplay', 'Movies'] |
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