Daily Bite #28
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Jeff Goins System to Write 5 Books and Over 1,000 Blog Posts – how to be an effective writer, a writer is not limited to just some novel, scifi etc, but it could be a technical writer, guide, howtos, anything.
Jeff Goins wrote how he focus with three bucket for each time he wants to write, one for Ideas, one for Drafts, one for Edits. with this system, we can have as many as writing we could have and write. i need to build a habit of writing, i hope i can write everyday. -
The Difference Between Children’s Books In China And The U.S. – how to plant the idea to children about perseverance, struggle, effort. and not always everything will according to our plan, everything is changeable, not persist.
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Snow in the Sahara – Just like Anggun’ song title, it is possible.
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#learn,
#life,
#hack,
#development
Must have addons for your browser
This is my list of must have extension or addons for my browsers, i’m using quite a lot of browser, mostly for testing, my main browser still Firefox Quantum and Google Chrome, but it can be installed on most major browser, even Brave or Vivaldi can.
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1Password
People forget their password most of the time, using different password for different website is a secure way to protect your account, but to remember all of them is hard, that’s why password management like 1Password come handy, mind you that this is a paid service. but you could install another password management like Lastpass. -
Onetab
This one is a saviour, you browse one website, the hyperlink sends you another one and another one, and you ended up with 32 tabs opened, Onetab will save your opened tab and close it, and you will regain your precious CPU and RAM. -
Privacy Badger
This addons will block ads and invisible trackers, a lot of website have their javascript calls to tracking services, and it will track your behaviour and sell it to advertisers. -
uBlock Origin
Like Privacy Badger, uBlock origin also remove ads from website with less CPU, and quite efective than Adblock Plus or its variant. -
Pocket
I saved a lot of article into my Pocket (formerly Read it later) i curated most of my dailybite or Jenius engineering there.
That’s my five must have extension/addons and most used, there’s quite a lot of other addons that useful for development or productivity out there.
Daily Bite #27
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Meltdown and Spectre Attack new attach on almost all CPU chip, Intel, ARM, AMD, following news AxiosThe Register
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(Why use Debian Stable on the Desktop? — if i’m using a pc laptop, i will use Dell XPS and Debian as its operating system.
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Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8? — a brief history how the legendary photo was taken
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#life,
#hack,
#development
Daily Bite #26
- History of Å – a story about how the Å character created.
- Why sony’s Trinitron tubes were the best – i remember my neighbor have this kinda TV, i still remember the ad for Sony’s Trinitron.
- What sugar does to your brain
sugar and all the bad things it brings to your health, it also can damage your memory, in animal’s brain experiment, they could not create new memory.“We need to eat more to get the same feeling. That’s a classic feature of addiction.”
Dr Zane Andrews - The Root of All Cruelty? – humans
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#development
Podcast
Happy new year!
I love podcast, when podcast got introduced at macworld, people start flocking in and many listener, there’s a lot of channel/network that provide variety of podcast genre, from news, comedy, dramedy, tech, productivty, etc. here are couple podcast that i listened quite often.
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Accidental Tech Podcast
The podcast created by Marco Arment which his blog i subscribed on my feed reader. this podcast will rumbling about tech, sometime about developments. -
The Ruby Rogues
This one self explanatory, tells about Ruby development, sometimes there’s panelist and will talk about how ruby world currently, and tips also trick how things developed, and of course the guest, i loved the episode about string and about Peter Cooper -
Adventures In Finance
I like the finance and all that kinda things, i just loved to see how a company, countries and even personal build and manage their financial life, and how to go thru, and this podcast is kinda like that, with recent development like cryptocurrencies etc. -
Freelancer
This podcast is on the same network with Ruby Rouges, it’s about freelancing and the likes. -
Rework
This podcast hosted by DHH (creator of Ruby on Rails) and Jason Fried, it tell about development, tools, basecamp (their product) and how they run their business.
other mention:
- TED Talks Daily
- Cynical Developer
- Why’d You Push That Button? also The Vergecast from The Verge
- Serial
- Freakonomics
- Radiolab
- StarTalk