The path to higher education can be exciting, but it is rarely straightforward. Between standardized testing, essays, recommendation letters, and financial aid forms, the college process often feels overwhelming for both students and their families. The decisions made during this period influence not just where a student studies but also their long-term opportunities and confidence. The post Finding Clarity and Confidence in the College Process appeared first on Mom With Five.| Mom With Five
Over on the Agile in the Ether Slack instance one of the Ethernets recently asked: MoSCoW: Does anybody have a simple way of expl...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
Overview of Local Drug Rehab Options Searching for a drug rehab near me can feel overwhelming, especially when facing the challenges of substance use disorder or supporting someone who is struggling with addiction. For individuals, families, and communities, finding the right treatment facility is an essential first step in addressing substance use and substance abuse. […]| Turning Point of Tampa
The constitutional prohibition on extraterritorial regulation restricts democratic experimentation in the AI era. The post Extraterritorial Limits on States as Laboratories of AI Policy first appeared on The Regulatory Review.| The Regulatory Review
Peter M. Shane discusses recent expansions of presidential power. The post The Uncertain Future of the Separation of Powers first appeared on The Regulatory Review.| The Regulatory Review
Scholar argues that regulation should be thought of as a verb, because regulating well demands dynamic and ongoing effort.| The Regulatory Review
Embarking on the journey of creating your dream custom home is an exciting venture. However, this exhilarating process comes with its own set of challenges, particularly when it comes to aligning design aspirations with the realities of a construction budget. More so than traditional homes, crafting a one-of-a-kind home means that early cost estimates [...]| YR Architecture + Design
Staying on budget in custom residential design is a challenge we understand all too well. It's a topic that resonates with homeowners, builders, and design professionals alike, as the reality of construction costs, especially for unique custom homes, often catches many off guard. The questions are universal: How can one establish a realistic budget [...]| YR Architecture + Design
Embarking on the journey of building a custom home is an exciting endeavor, but it's crucial to strike the right balance between budget and design. While the desire to create a dream home can be compelling, it's essential to approach the process with a realistic understanding of the financial implications. In this blog post, [...]| YR Architecture + Design
Earlier this summer, Stamen collaborated with the team at MetroMatch to update the look and feel of their transit-first navigation tool. MetroMatch is a transit-focused travel planning and discovery site that connects travelers to destinations that are only a short walk from rail stations. MetroMatch’s pilot focuses on Washington, DC, taking advantage of the region’s...| Stamen
The theme at LLEWT this year was Rules and constraints to ensure better quality. My experience report concerned a team I'd been on...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The child adoption tips here help you prepare practically and emotionally for the process. An inspiring mom is what you'll be! 7 Child Adoption Tips to Inspire You appeared first on When Women Inspire| When Women Inspire
A true story of indie app development: why we made the plunge to build our pro video camera app Kino in a few months, its whirlwind development, and many surprise twists.| Lux — iPhone camera apps, camera reviews and more
Recently in one of my online classes for SmArt School, a few students were having trouble creating visual interest in their compositions. The pieces lacked depth. The culprit wasn’t the design of the main elements, but the distribution of values. Generally, the students think of the background as dark, but they also wanted to put their main subject in dark clothing, and all the darks in the subject were the same darks as in the…| Muddy Colors
Howdy folks! Bit of a nuts and bolts post here. I get asked all the time how I go about mounting a drawing I’ve done, to panel. Maybe you’ve done a drawing and you dig it so much you don’t want to paint over it? Maybe you want to have the original drawing available for a collector? Heck, maybe you want to simply paint bigger than your original drawing? I gotcha covered. Plus, I also…| Muddy Colors
This post explains Windows 365 Cloud PC deployment provisioning process. Let's learn how to deploy Windows 365 cloud PC in your organization. This is a SaaS| How to Manage Devices Community Blog Modern Device Management Guides
Two recent Supreme Court decisions identify in which court EPA decisions can be challenged.| The Regulatory Review
President Trump’s latest legislative victory reveals an inefficient approach to deregulating markets.| The Regulatory Review
Share Is your organization exhibiting “AI fever”? “Symptoms” include people asking questions like: “How can our organization take advantage of AI-enabled capabilities?” “Where can we leverage AI to automate our workflows?” “How can we use AI to improve efficiency and reduce costs?” “What happens if our competitors beat us to the market with an AI-based … Continue reading Suffering from AI fever? Here’s why the big picture still matters→ The post Suffering from AI f...| Innovative Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
The company that learns fastest wins. You can’t learn until you ship.| Jim Grey on software management
The satisfaction of rescuing experiences from daunting constraints.| Cloud Four
Lately I’ve been illustrating classic novels for special handmade editions. One publishing house I’ve worked with is Arete Editions in the UK. I’ve worked with the publisher, Marcelo Anciano, for twenty years and we love to discuss books and publishing and writing when working together. It’s from one of those conversations that he offered me the chance to illustrate Stephen King’s mild ghost story, The Life of Chuck. Marcelo also works on books and interior…| Muddy Colors
In 2025, the digital landscape is characterized by rapid development, competition among peers, and a constant push for gainful efficiency. Across the world, businesses are turning to custom software providers to help them gain a competitive advantage, improve operational efficiency, and provide unique customer experiences. The post Top 10 Custom Software Development Companies for 2025 appeared first on lltechnolab.| lltechnolab
Explore the top 10 custom software development companies offering innovative, scalable, and tailored software solutions to drive your business success.| lltechnolab
You’d be hard pressed to find a car on the road that doesn’t have paint chips. Parking lot scratches too! It’s so frustrating! And even the best detailing practices obviously...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
A close up of Villa's feasibility diligence. The post Ride along on a feasibility site visit appeared first on Villa.| Villa
© Catharine Ellis, as posted to the blog: Natural Dye: Experiments and Results Set up a small notebook/logbook for each vat that you make. Record the ingredients included, their amounts, procedure,…| Natural Dye: Experiments and Results
Stamen is officially retiring Map Stack, a platform we previously hosted that gave everyone a straightforward way to mix and modify raster base maps. What was Map Stack? Created in 2013, Map Stack gave you an interface where you could select from a variety of raster base maps, tweak the images that made up the...| Stamen
With the power of AI, I felt myself not enjoying my work as much. So, how did I pull myself back from the brink of AI burnout and bring that joy back?| Revelry
When every dev is just doing the next ticket, who’s steering the ship?| The Cynical Developer
“Signposting: “the act of telling someone which organization they need to go to to find the help they need.” Cambridge Dictionary [1] “‘Signposting’ indicates that the client will not be supported …| Rewriting social care
Express.js has overhauled its vulnerability reporting workflow with a unified process, consolidated documentation, and GitHub Security Advisories enabled across all repositories.| expressjs.com
© Catharine Ellis, as posted to the blog: Natural Dye: Experiments and Results Dyeing The leuco color of the fermentation vat will be green – not the yellow color that the quick reduction vats produce, as referred to this in blog post #3. When dyeing, keep all textiles in the upper portion of the … Continue reading Fermented Indigo Vat: Blog Post #9 Dyeing| Natural Dye: Experiments and Results
Proving Ground has been facilitating the development of digital strategies for architects, engineers, and owners for over 10 years. In this time, we have provided numerous takeaways on this blog on how companies can implement meaningful tactics to support their company’s ability to be more innovative while overcoming important cultural roadblocks that stifle change. In … Continue reading Essential Lessons from Our Recent Digital Strategies The post Essential Lessons from Our Recent Digita...| PROVING GROUND
Corrugated Plate Interceptor Introduction:- The CPI (corrugated plate interceptor) Oil Separator is appropriate for oily wastewater treatment, utilizing the principle of gravity to separate...| Chemical Engineering World
Vacuum Distillation | Vacuum Distillation Process Introduction: Water is available in basically every industrial process; it isn’t just utilized for manufacturing products, but additionally...| Chemical Engineering World
In this article, we'll take a close look at payment capture: what it is, how it works, and how to use this process to your advantage.| Chargebacks911
This post was cross-published from the SIGARCH blog. The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled…| SIGPLAN Blog
© Catharine Ellis, as posted to the blog: Natural Dye: Experiments and Results This recipe can used to make a 1-liter vat or can be scaled up to a larger vat. I typically make a vat that is 50 liters in volume. The recipe is intended as a starting point for the dyer who wishes … Continue reading Fermented Indigo Vat: Blog Post #6 Recipe: Basic Fermentation Vat with Soda Ash or Potash| Natural Dye: Experiments and Results
This article summarizes important contextual characteristics and supporting tactics that make the adoption of AI different than others experienced in the design and construction fields. The post Why is AI adoption different from past digital transformations in design? appeared first on PROVING GROUND.| PROVING GROUND
I've been subscribing to the rss feed of Sekar Writes for a while now – she writes these detailed summaries of books, the kind of summaries I aspire to write myself but I am seldom able to muster the mental capacity to. I don't know how she finds the mental energy to read them and...| Winnie Lim
I recall a time where I was moved to dig up this aphorism and| Hiccupps
AI tools are already delivering measurable productivity gains in software engineering. Here’s how you can unlock those gains on your teams.| Jim Grey on software management
It seems counterintuitive, but having your engineering teams focus together on one thing at a time leads to stronger pace and better quality.| Jim Grey on software management
Engineering delivery pace is more critical than ever. This introductory post outlines a series I am writing to share how to increase that pace.| Jim Grey on software management
© Catharine Ellis, as posted to the blog: Natural Dye: Experiments and Results Fermentation is a biochemical process in which complex organic molecules are broken down into smaller molecules through the action of bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms. In food production, it can broadly refer to any process in which the activity of microorganisms can … Continue reading Fermented Indigo Vat: Blog Post #4: How Does Fermentation Reduce an Indigo Vat?| Natural Dye: Experiments and Results
In vector cartography, the map is only as good as the data that powers it. If we don’t understand what’s going on in the underlying data, we’re pretty limited in our cartographic approach. A major part of this work involves parsing vector tile data, determining how one dataset compares to another, and diagnosing bugs encountered...| Stamen
LunchBox includes Machine Learning components (LunchBoxML) that make Accord.NET and ML.NET workflows accessible within Grasshopper. These components allow users to train, save, and test machine learning models using a variety of algorithms. This example uses LunchBox’s Regression Trainer alongside Ladybug’s environmental modeling tools to predict incident solar radiation for an irregular surface.| PROVING GROUND
One night a week, I bartend. While I can't do any fancy bottle twirls (yet!), I have had the chance to hear my fair share of funny bartending, bar attending, or needing-attending-to-while-in-a-bar stories. Last night, I heard a pretty funny one: a new girl was working behind the counter a few years back, and one of the more experienced bartenders was hanging out and enjoying his employee discount. When a customer ordered a shot of sloe gin, the new girl grabbed the bottle of regular gin and p...| The Art Abyss: Art School Never Prepared You For This
Michal Malewicz explores what happens as AI gets better at core designer skills—not just visuals and words, but taste, experience, and research. He points out that automation tends to devalue the stuff it creates—in both interest and attention. Execution, effort, and craft are what draw interest and create value, he says. Once the thing is machine-made, there’s a brief novelty of automation—and then emotional response falls flat: “The ‘niceness’ of the image is no longer celebra...| Big Medium - Full Feed
Greg Storey exhorts designers to jump gamely into the breach. Design process is leaner, budgets are tighter, and AI is everywhere. There’s no going back, he says—time for reinvention and for curiosity. I don’t have to like it. Neither do you. But the writing is on the wall—and it’s constantly regenerating. We’re not at a crossroads. We’re at the edge of a cliff. And I’m not the only one seeing it. Mike Davidson recently put it plainly: “the future favors the curious.” He...| Big Medium - Full Feed
Robin Rendle challenges designers to step back from rote process and instead consider what will help the end result. Journey maps, personas, wireframes, and the like—they’re only useful if they actually improve the experience that gets to customers. These are only thinking tools—a means to an end—yet they often get treated with the weight of the product itself: So design artifacts are only useful if progress is made but often these assets lead nowhere and waste endless months investig...| Big Medium - Full Feed
“Pathways: Not sure. But modelled on Hampton Court Maze.” Mark Neary [1] In everyday life, pathways meander through parks or fields or forests, offering direction. A route towards a destinati…| Rewriting social care
While the status quo for models might be inconsistent or otherwise messy labeling, a utility in LunchBox can simplify label clean up. This article provides step-by-step instructions for preparing a simple Grasshopper script that will swap out a variety of Revit room names with standard labels. The post Weekly Workflow: Clean Up Revit Room Names with LunchBox appeared first on PROVING GROUND.| PROVING GROUND
In a push system, teams are given tasks to do. In a pull system, teams pull tasks from a backlog or central place. By moving towards a pull system our testers will have more ownership and responsibility over their work.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
... is unique, it is highly-context specific.| Language, Artefacts, Systems, Teams
If you’re a designer who’d like to give in-browser mockups a try in your own work, this could be your starting point.| Cloud Four
I'm trying out a new workflow with Obsidian and Weeknotes, and thought I could automate part of the process. Here are the results.| An Almost Anonymous Blog
Compelling evidence is used by merchants to prove that a chargeback filed against them is invalid and should be overturned. Does it work?| Chargebacks911
In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc…| SIGPLAN Blog
What is the Connection Engine? The Congruence Engine (later renamed Connection Engine) is a three-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in efforts to digitally connect industrial heritage collections across the UK. Using advanced digital tools such as AI, it links museum objects, archives, photographs, and more, enabling historians and curators...| Stamen
Some notes on using nib pens to ink on paper. These are my observations only, and I wouldn’t call them rules, just stuff I’ve found handy. Happy to host more ideas if you can think of any! Fresh nibs need … Continue reading "Pen on paper"| PJ Holden's Blog
What are credit card authorization codes? How do they work? We’ll run down a list of standard credit card approval codes, and explain how to use them properly.| Chargebacks911
An early encounter with a fabricated progress indicator inspired several more honest alternatives.| Cloud Four
Stamen has been working with a team out of UCSF (University of San Francisco) Population Health and Health Equity to create and maintain their Health Atlas since 2019. You can read a bit about the initial launch in our blog post from 2020. In 2024 we had the opportunity to rebuild the Health Atlas and...| Stamen
It can be surprising for new clients to see just how much of our design process happens in HTML, CSS and (light) JavaScript.| Cloud Four
Web design software makers saw the pain caused by the design to developer hand off and built features to help. Unfortunately, these features don’t help as much as the software makers hope. At best, they are unwanted features to be ignored. At worst, they reinforce faulty assumptions that undermine design systems.| Cloud Four
Stamen has had the pleasure of developing Mapping Historical New York with Columbia’s Center for Spatial Research since 2021. We’ve written about it a few times, including most recently last fall, but here we wanted to expand on the technical implementation behind one layer on the map. The map displays census data in New York...| Stamen
So this is fun! A new show! This is the next one that I'm announcing… The Community Show! It's with Courtney Robertson, who knows more about the WordPress community than almost anyone else I can think of. We're going to be doing this show, just like the other ones (stay tuned, I'll announce them soon too) every 3 months or so. That means that our new podcast hosts won't get burn out, but also we'll have plenty to talk about. So what's this new show about… well… the WordPress community, ...| WP Builds
A recent project delay at work put me in mind of this recurring issue I’ve seen with a lot of agile teams. That is, reluctance to call something a blocker. Karthik and I are working on a new revision of … Continue reading →| the agile admin
When applied to the reduction of Iron oxides, the exothermic reaction generates sufficient energy to raise the reaction product temperature to in excess of 3,000°C at which both the metal … Continue reading →|
This year I’m going to run another experimental group with people who want to do Groundhog Day Resolutions with me and other committed folks! For a refresher, Groundhog Day Resolutions (aka GHDR) is a yearly planning ritual with an easy-to-remember schedule. It starts on February 2nd and ends on December 12. There’s a few things I like about this:| DSri Seah
this second article on the UX Playbook (published on productcraft.com), I highlight each of the four Mega-plays and decompose one into its constituent micro-plays. The post Digging Into a Design Thinking Playbook appeared first on Phase II Design.| Phase II Design
COVID and the global pandemic’s impact on working norms continue to raise questions about the nature of work and the “new normal.” How much time should employees be “in the office?” What is the impact of a fully remote workforce on an organization’s productivity, innovation and culture? By shifting work to our homes, how do organizations address employee safety, equity, access and privilege? These are just some of the questions athenahealth (the second largest electronic health re...| Phase II Design
How can UX, Product and Engineering work together better if our frameworks aren't aligned? The post Delivering Better Products Using a Design Thinking Playbook appeared first on Phase II Design.| Phase II Design
In a series of articles I've written for UXMatters, I describe an approach to writing proposals for services that distinguish your value proposition from your competition by leveraging three key principles: 1. Bill by "piece work" 2. Be transparent 3. Put your customer in control of the scope of effort The post Crafting a Transparent Approach to UX Services appeared first on Phase II Design.| Phase II Design
I feel fortunate and grateful to have had plenty of time for ‘just’ being over the last couple of weeks. Getting up when I’m ready rather than when the alarm wakes me. Enjoying time with family and…| Rewriting social care
Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear me-eee, and bloody hell but I am 50 years old today, my friends. 5 decades. Half a century. Where did it all go? I still feel young and exciting, but I must now accept that it’s eighteen years since The Blade Itself was published. […]| Joe Abercrombie
Roadtrip with our team as we bring an ADU home. The post Ride along on an ADU delivery appeared first on Villa.| Villa
A breakdown of manufactured vs stickbuilt homes. The post Why prefab construction just makes sense appeared first on Villa.| Villa
In March 2023, we shared the initial release of a set of global basemaps we designed for Amazon Location Service. In 2024, we undertook a design refresh to improve upon the original release, adding more detail and contrast to the suite of maps Amazon provides. To celebrate the release, we are excited to walk you...| Stamen
A couple of months ago, in Can You Hack It?, I wrote about how I increased the testability of a service by changing it in a way that allowed me to simulate the behaviour of one of its dependencies. With that in place I could force specific code paths to be followed and so explore different scenarios easily.| Hiccupps
Share There’s no question that introducing AI capabilities can have a dramatic impact on IT Service Management (ITSM). Done well, AI adoption will free up ITSM professionals to do the work for which humans are uniquely qualified, like critical thinking, contextual understanding, and creative problem-solving. Furthermore, AI will enable organizations to realize many of the … Continue reading Three AI truths with IT Service Management→ The post Three AI truths with IT Service Management f...| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Recently, we overhauled our shared ESLint config, and I needed to release an alpha version. Thankfully, it turns out to be straightforward, once you know how to do it.| Cloud Four
The post Crafting Your Legacy: Should You Renovate or Build in California’s South Bay? appeared first on White Sands Design/Build.| White Sands Design/Build
Chargeback Time Limits require cardholders, banks, and merchants to respond to different aspects of chargeback disputes within days of receiving requests. Restricting the response time provides a benefit, but it can also make the process more stressful. That's bad enough, but now certain changes within the industry have reduced those time frames even further in some cases ... and the changes are not always consistent.| Chargebacks911
Responsive design sprints are a significantly better way to design and build for today's web than the traditional web design process. We provide the receipts. Unfortunately, not every organization can adopt this responsive design sprints. Why is that and what can be done about it?| Cloud Four
As some of you know, I’ve been working diligently on a big fat book about visual communication. It’s turned into an unusually complex project and it’s taking a long time, so thank you for your patience. Long story short; I set out to catalogue all the fundamental design principles that successful visual communication is built […]| Scott McCloud | Journal
It’s that time again! In February, I’ll be bringing the Two-Day Making Comics Workshop back to The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art for a fifth year. 14 hours of everything I can teach you through lectures and hands-on exercises. An intense look at the art of telling stories visually. The workshops welcome everyone from […]| Scott McCloud | Journal
You Ain't Gonna Need It, YAGNI. A helpful tool to remind us to carefully consider building no more than we need to solve the problem in front of us. I see it mostly applied to software development questions but the same tension between investment cost, flexibility, and eventual value applies elsewhere and it's on my mind because I am thinking about two very different experiences with internal process.Without going into too much depth, there was an ancient process that my team ran infrequently...| Hiccupps
Content in this post comes from our presentation at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) 2024 Annual Meeting last week in Tacoma, WA. Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas visualizes New York City’s transformations during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries both in terms of population and landscape. Drawing on 1850, 1880, 1910, and...| Stamen
A few months ago I stopped having therapy because I felt I had stabilised myself enough to navigate life without it. For the time being, a...| qahiccupps.blogspot.com
The current US political environment is turbulent, but there is rare bi-partisan alignment concerning China’s role in global geopolitics. International policies from both major US parties encourage businesses to relocate operations from China or risk higher tariffs and restrictions. This has left companies across industries wondering where to look for low-cost manufacturing. In a recent […]| Demand Planning, S&OP/ IBP, Supply Planning, Business Forecasting Blog
Many tech companies use a growth framework or a career ladder to aid managers and staff with growth or promotion conversations. You can see many ... Read more The post The Trident Model of Career Development appeared first on patkua.com.| patkua.com
I’m writing this article because I’ve been asked about Generative AI’s impact on development. I’m not sure how or when the impact will be, but ... Read more The post Patterns Mean Progress appeared first on patkua.com.| patkua.com
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There’s no question that introducing AI capabilities can have a dramatic impact on ITSM. But organizations must first consider these three AI truths with IT Service Management.| Service Management Consulting and Training: Tedder Consulting
Hypothesis-Driven Development Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD) is a software development approach rooted in the philosophy of systematically formulating and testing hypotheses to drive decision-making and improvements in a product or system. At its core, HDD seeks The post Hypothesis-Driven Development appeared first on Productfolio.| Productfolio
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We're often asked how we build amazing software development teams that deliver awesome apps and platforms. Our engineering and product leaders explain.| Revelry