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March 2019

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The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned – Steven Pressfield

https://stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned/
Nobody wants to read your shit. Let me repeat that. Nobody–not even your dog or your mother–has the slightest interest in your commercial for Rice Krispies or Delco batteries or Preparation H. Nor does anybody care about your one-act play, your Facebook page or your new sesame chicken joint at Canal and Tchopotoulis. It isn’t that people are mean or cruel. They’re just busy.
#creativity #empathy #imported:pinboard #marketing #writing
archive.org #31176

The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned – Steven Pressfield

https://stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned
Nobody wants to read your shit. Let me repeat that. Nobody–not even your dog or your mother–has the slightest interest in your commercial for Rice Krispies or Delco batteries or Preparation H. Nor does anybody care about your one-act play, your Facebook page or your new sesame chicken joint at Canal and Tchopotoulis. It isn’t that people are mean or cruel. They’re just busy.
#creativity #empathy #marketing #writing
archive.org #28132

Every Major Female "Star Trek" Character, Ranked By Lesbianism | Autostraddle

https://www.autostraddle.com/every-major-star-trek-character-ranked-by-lesbianism-452811/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
The lesbian rankings contained herein are based on highly subjective criteria you will undoubtedly disagree with. It includes opinions from esteemed sources like your pal and mine Sally, who has seen all the Star Treks, as well as Autostraddle writers Al(aina), Kayla, and Senior Editor Carmen, the only three Autostraddle team members who wanted to join my Star Trek Slack Channel.
#imported:pinboard #scifi #startrek
archive.org #31177

Every Major Female "Star Trek" Character, Ranked By Lesbianism | Autostraddle

https://www.autostraddle.com/every-major-star-trek-character-ranked-by-lesbianism-452811/amp?__twitter_impression=true
The lesbian rankings contained herein are based on highly subjective criteria you will undoubtedly disagree with. It includes opinions from esteemed sources like your pal and mine Sally, who has seen all the Star Treks, as well as Autostraddle writers Al(aina), Kayla, and Senior Editor Carmen, the only three Autostraddle team members who wanted to join my Star Trek Slack Channel.
#scifi #startrek
archive.org #28131

Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you

https://www.fastcompany.com/40510522/meritocracy-doesnt-exist-and-believing-it-does-is-bad-for-you
Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal. It’s false, and believing in it encourages selfishness, discrimination, and indifference to the plight of the unfortunate.
#imported:pinboard #meritocracy #psychology #society
archive.org #28125

How Inuit Parents Raise Kids Without Yelling — And Teach Them To Control Anger : Goats and Soda : NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger
But if you practice having a different response or a different emotion at times when you're not angry, you'll have a better chance of managing your anger in those hot-button moments
#anger #children #development #emotion #imported:pinboard #parenting #psychology
archive.org #28115

Creating an RSS Reader in Godot Engine (part 1) – Andrew Wooldridge – Medium

https://medium.com/@triptych/creating-an-rss-reader-in-godot-engine-part-1-3abe0068b6b1
This article will discuss my own efforts to create a simple application using Godot Engine — specifically an RSS reader. It’s probably one of the more common simple applications one might create for a given framework — which tests out things like networking, parsing, rendering, and saving preferences.
#gamedev #godot #imported:pinboard #rss #tech #tutorial
archive.org #28112

SAM: Software Automatic Mouth

https://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam
Sam is a very small Text-To-Speech (TTS) program written in C, that runs on most popular platforms. It is an adaption to C of the speech software SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) for the Commodore C64 published in the year 1982 by Don't Ask Software (now SoftVoice, Inc.). It includes a Text-To-Phoneme converter called reciter and a Phoneme-To-Speech routine for the final output. It is so small that it will work also on embedded computers. On my computer it takes less than 39KB (much smaller on embedded devices as the executable-overhead is not necessary) of disk space and is a fully stand alone program.
#c64 #imported:pinboard #retro #sam #speech
archive.org #28105

DRY Switching with CSS Variables: The Difference of One Declaration | CSS-Tricks

https://css-tricks.com/dry-switching-with-css-variables-the-difference-of-one-declaration/?unapproved=1674473&moderation-hash=4e9cb4ef4344732a9e5a5ca87b6d0849#comment-1674473
This is the first post of a two-part series that looks into the way CSS variables can be used to make the code for complex layouts and interactions less difficult to write and a lot easier to maintain. This first installment walks through various use cases where this technique applies.
#css #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #31187

DRY Switching with CSS Variables: The Difference of One Declaration | CSS-Tricks

https://css-tricks.com/dry-switching-with-css-variables-the-difference-of-one-declaration?moderation-hash=4e9cb4ef4344732a9e5a5ca87b6d0849&unapproved=1674473#comment-1674473
This is the first post of a two-part series that looks into the way CSS variables can be used to make the code for complex layouts and interactions less difficult to write and a lot easier to maintain. This first installment walks through various use cases where this technique applies.
#css #webdev
archive.org #28100