https://yasha.solutions/ Recent content on Yasha Solutions https://yasha.solutions/cover-site.png https://yasha.solutions/cover-site.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/service/cto/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/service/cto/ 20 years of experience in marketing, product and technology to help develop your startup’s technology infrastructure https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-10-27-how-to-list-the-content-of-google-drive-folder/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-10-27-how-to-list-the-content-of-google-drive-folder/ Learn how to list files in a public Google Drive folder using Python without authentication https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-10-24-how-to-download-google-spreadsheet-as-a-csv-from-a-public-url/ Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-10-24-how-to-download-google-spreadsheet-as-a-csv-from-a-public-url/ Learn how to download public Google Spreadsheets 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https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-09-introduction-to-no-code-tools-review/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-09-introduction-to-no-code-tools-review/ A comprehensive review of popular no-code tools and an exploration of what no-code development is, where it excels, and when to use it for prototyping and production. https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-09-content-as-infrastructure/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-09-content-as-infrastructure/ Exploring how content can serve as foundational infrastructure that supports entire digital ecosystems, moving beyond traditional publishing to create interconnected assets. https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-01-introduction-to-proxmox-virtualization/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:30:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-01-introduction-to-proxmox-virtualization/ A comprehensive guide to Proxmox Virtual Environment, comparing it with KVM/QEMU/libvirt and Incus, and exploring its key features for enterprise virtualization. https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-01-download-videos-from-google-drive-python/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-01-download-videos-from-google-drive-python/ A step-by-step tutorial on downloading video files from publicly accessible Google Drive links using Python with proper error handling and progress tracking. https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-01-google-android-app-installation-limits/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-09-01-google-android-app-installation-limits/ Examining how Google’s restrictions on Android app installations strategically reinforce its monopoly position and what this means for digital freedom. https://yasha.solutions/posts/post-yasha-about-vpns/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/post-yasha-about-vpns/ VPN cool insights https://yasha.solutions/posts/maintainable-reactjs/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/maintainable-reactjs/ Make react a tad more maintainable https://yasha.solutions/posts/appflow-is-closing/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/appflow-is-closing/ The end of an era https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-my-favourite-extensions-for-ff/ Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/2025-my-favourite-extensions-for-ff/ list of firefox extension you should probably consider https://yasha.solutions/posts/strategy-in-7-words/ Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/strategy-in-7-words/ When crafting a successful strategy, asking the right questions is key to achieving clarity, alignment, and purpose. 7 foundational questions — Why, What, How, Who, Where, When, and What Next https://yasha.solutions/posts/hacker-style-commands/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/hacker-style-commands/ How to use Linux tools, terminal commands, and customizations to emulate the aesthetic and experience of a stereotypical “hacker,” focusing on flashy interfaces, command-line tricks, and role-play setups for fun or learning purposes. https://yasha.solutions/posts/who_are_the_main_cloud_ai_services/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/who_are_the_main_cloud_ai_services/ Several major technology companies provide cloud AI services, offering a range of tools and platforms for developing, deploying, and managing AI applications. Here are some of the most popular vendors of cloud AI. https://yasha.solutions/posts/20240531145945-what_is_a_loss_function_in_machine_learning/ Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/20240531145945-what_is_a_loss_function_in_machine_learning/ A loss function, also known as a cost function or objective function, is a critical component in training machine learning models, particularly in neural networks and deep learning… https://yasha.solutions/posts/20240531135855-what_is_going_on_in_ai/ Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/20240531135855-what_is_going_on_in_ai/ what is going on in AI recently, what to pay attention to https://yasha.solutions/posts/20240313031756-what_is_inertiajs/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/20240313031756-what_is_inertiajs/ the JavaScript apps the monolith way. https://yasha.solutions/posts/20240309120003-ansible_config_bastion/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/20240309120003-ansible_config_bastion/ bastion jumping and key management fun with ansible https://yasha.solutions/posts/working-feature-flags/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/working-feature-flags/ some notes about feature flags benefits and implementation https://yasha.solutions/posts/datatables-for-vanilla-js/ Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/datatables-for-vanilla-js/ JS Libraries for working with datatable with as little depencies as possible https://yasha.solutions/posts/web-of-solutions-june-2023/ Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/web-of-solutions-june-2023/ Algorithms Archive, Architecture of OSS, Pod vs containers, Piano practice and more https://yasha.solutions/posts/lean-javascript-libraries/ Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/lean-javascript-libraries/ Javascript, with no build step, that you can learn in an afternoon and with which you can build some relatively complex websites while keeping the dev process as simple as possible . https://yasha.solutions/posts/cut-video-with-ffmpeg/ Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/cut-video-with-ffmpeg/ Just a quick snippet reminding how to cut a video with ffmpeg https://yasha.solutions/posts/keycloak-overview/ Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/keycloak-overview/ Series of keynotes to get accointed with how keycloak is working https://yasha.solutions/posts/connecting-vpn-to-openvpn-onarch/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/connecting-vpn-to-openvpn-onarch/ VPN on arch linux https://yasha.solutions/posts/sealedsecret-kubernetes-quick-intro/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/sealedsecret-kubernetes-quick-intro/ Sealed Secrets on Kubernetes, a quick intro and description of most useful command https://yasha.solutions/posts/we-focus-on-lossess/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/we-focus-on-lossess/ We focus on losses https://yasha.solutions/posts/subtitle-editing-translating-dubbing-srt/ Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/subtitle-editing-translating-dubbing-srt/ Subtitle Editing, translating, dubbing https://yasha.solutions/posts/blogging-instead-of-tweeting/ Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/blogging-instead-of-tweeting/ Blogging or twitting, here is the question https://yasha.solutions/posts/cookiecutter-and-alternatives/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/cookiecutter-and-alternatives/ Starting a new project can be quite repetitive task. Fortunately, automating repetitive task is what programming is good at, right? So you’d expect to find plenty of options spitting boilerplate code around, removing the tedious setup, giving us more time for the fun stuff. Funny enough they are not that many options around (I mean there is some choice but if you want to know how many is too many option, try to count how many implementation of the ls command, if you can… and then get back to me…) https://yasha.solutions/posts/mu4e-snippet-add-bookmark/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/mu4e-snippet-add-bookmark/ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (eval-after-load 'mu4e '(progn (add-to-list 'mu4e-bookmarks '( :name "All Inboxes Today" :query "(maildir:/my/Inbox or maildir:/myother/Inbox) and date:today..now" :key ?i)) )) https://yasha.solutions/posts/list-of-government-design-systems/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/list-of-government-design-systems/ Wait, what’s a design system A Design System is like a reusable library of components, visuals and principles. Through composition, the system can scale to offer a path for to create a coherent UX for designers and developers of digital products and services. The construction of a Design system offers many advantages. This solution makes it possible in particular to facilitate the work of the teams and to reduce the “design debt” and the “technical debt”. https://yasha.solutions/posts/degree-accreditation-in-europe/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 03:54:25 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/degree-accreditation-in-europe/ FAQs - Recognition of academic diplomas Recognition of academic diplomas European Agency for Higher Education & Accreditation Wikipedia - higher education accreditation organizations Eurydice EUA https://yasha.solutions/posts/content-automation-api-generation/ Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/content-automation-api-generation/ Images & social media Service Focus Pricing Bannerbear Template base generated Image and video $49/$149/$299 Synthesia AI talking head video generation $30/Sales API teamplate io Image generation API 0/29/69/139 dinapictures image generation api 0/39/99/++ plainonlyvideos video automation api templates 59/249/599 pixelixe image generation api 9/49/99/249 Glitterly image & video templates based 0/15/39 https://yasha.solutions/posts/basics-of-an-emacs-package/ Mon, 23 May 2022 01:46:15 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/basics-of-an-emacs-package/ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ;;; dummy.el --- just a dummy package ;; Author: Y.S ;; Version: 0.1 ;; Keywords: orgmode, gitlab ;;; Code: (require 'cl-lib) ;;hello: is staying hello (defun ol-hello () "Say hello." (interactive) (insert "Hello")) ;;; Commentary: ;; Sync org mode file with gitlab (provide 'orglab) ;;; orglab ends here https://yasha.solutions/posts/workmusic/ Mon, 23 May 2022 01:46:08 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/workmusic/ Work music sources https://poolsuite.net/ https://somafm.com/ https://www.lofi.cafe/ https://plaza.one/ http://echoesofbluemars.org/ https://lofi.limo/ https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/ https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/ https://yasha.solutions/key/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:20:09 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/key/ 1 ssh-rsa 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 ys@publickey https://yasha.solutions/posts/emacs-magit-useful-commands/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/emacs-magit-useful-commands/ Magit is the famous git client for emacs. Like many tools in emacs, it is very versatile and can do more than one thing. Here is a list of some useful command that can save time on a daily basis. Commit history Direct command M-x magit-log-current Status Buffer l l Commit history for other branch Direct command M-x magit-log-other Status Buffer l o Create new branch from changes Useful when you forgot to switch branches before commiting your work https://yasha.solutions/meet/ Sat, 26 Feb 2022 14:48:37 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/meet/ Hi! My favourite way to meet is to schedule a time to meet is over Zoom. My timezone is CET / Paris Time (Time Zone Converter) You can schedule a time below. Book a Time https://yasha.solutions/posts/random-02-maths-devops-covid/ Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/random-02-maths-devops-covid/ Learning Maths Where can you learn math Math Foundations from Scratch is part of a large course on AI, but nice and concise Robotics 501: Mathematics for Robotics for a more unexplored area of maths applied to robotics The Book of Proof - I love this one. If you ever want to understand maths at its roots, I would advise you to read this one. It’s a back to fundamentals where you demonstrate what is a multiplication using set theory and other fun stuff. https://yasha.solutions/posts/bash-stuff/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 05:37:42 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/bash-stuff/ Bourne Again Shell is born again :) Pure Bash Bible Open source book on pure bash solutions. Link on Github: Pure Bash Bible ShellCheck Finds bugs in your shell scripts A linter for bash scripts https://www.shellcheck.net/ Bash Guide - Best Practices Because you don’t want people to bash your work wink Bash Guide: Best Practices Bash Pitfall The pitfall guide for bash is really good. https://yasha.solutions/posts/is-google-analytics-illegal-in-europe/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/is-google-analytics-illegal-in-europe/ In France, recent news are interesting to say the least. The CNIL is the french body on protection of privacy, which is regulating most of the online activities concerning data management. They have recently issue a ruling that practically forbid the use the of Google Analytics. Google Analytics and Data Transfers to the US FR- GDPR - CNIL to forbid a website to use google analytics From their press release: https://yasha.solutions/posts/google-calendar-emacs-integration/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/google-calendar-emacs-integration/ There are multiple way to work with Google Calendar. I choose to not work with the private key thing for now. Instead I will try to use the option working with the .ics format. This should give a relatively universal solution for all kind of calendars. I don’t want a locked-in solution that would work only for Google. (Not that this would very surprising if in the end we find out we have to do something custom because it’s google) https://yasha.solutions/posts/setting-up-katex-maths-in-hugo/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/setting-up-katex-maths-in-hugo/ So, i had this planned for a while to add some more math content to this blog. Mostly for the content I do in french, where I do a lot of school related content for the kids but also for here, in english, where I will likely need it later when adding content about recommender system and other ML topics. Anyway, figured out that Latex is the way to go usually when you want to do some maths in a paper, and well, turns out there is a library for this name Katex and it’s super simple to integrate in Hugo. https://yasha.solutions/posts/zen-of-python/ Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/zen-of-python/ A known thing - I am just posting this here as a reference Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. https://yasha.solutions/posts/python-keeping-secrets/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100 https://yasha.solutions/posts/python-keeping-secrets/ Keeping Secrets Secret in Python Based on an article by originally published by Jason Goldberger but unfortunately the original is not online anymore so I have rewritten a short version, since this is something I have been looking for a while. Fernet has one classmethod called generate_key() and two instance methods encrypt(plaintext_binary) and decrypt(cipher_binary). Step 1 : Generate a key Generate a key and save it to the OS’s environment variables: https://yasha.solutions/posts/remove-traefik-from-k3s/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/remove-traefik-from-k3s/ When you install k3s it automatically come with Traefik installed. Traefik is great but if you need to work with an other ingress, you might want to remove it. Here is how: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 # Remove traefik helm chart resource sudo kubectl -n kube-system delete helmcharts.helm.cattle.io traefik # Stop the k3s service sudo service k3s stop # add option to add to ExecStart "--no-deploy traefik \" sudo echo '--no-deploy traefik \' >> /etc/systemd/system/k3s. https://yasha.solutions/posts/kubernetes-building-blocks/ Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/kubernetes-building-blocks/ Kubernetes has multiple moving parts. Here is an short article aiming at mapping all this to create some clarity. Some Basic Vocabulary Nothing fancy but let’s get this out of the way. Nodes A node can be a physical machine or a virtual machine. Cluster A cluster is a group of nodes Container runtime Docker (or runC) Pod A pod is a group of containers - that together form a logical application. https://yasha.solutions/posts/golang-pretty-print/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/golang-pretty-print/ A quick snippet to get some nicer debug of json and other mapped values. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 //PrettyPrint print any interface func PrettyPrint(data interface{}) (err error) { indentedData, err := json.MarshalIndent(data, "", " ") if err == nil { fmt.Println(string(indentedData)) } return } https://yasha.solutions/posts/a-web-of-solutions-october-2021/ Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/a-web-of-solutions-october-2021/ A refactored digest of my reading of the month. A short introduction to give a bit of context : I have been looking for a way to share on a regular basis some of my learnings. I tend to go through a pretty large amount of content as part of my work and in general. So here I will try to provide it as a structured digest. The goal is to provide an interesting selection of content both practical and conceptual to help advancing how to use tech to solve real problems. https://yasha.solutions/posts/startup-financing-advice-from-a-lawyer/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/startup-financing-advice-from-a-lawyer/ Startup financing from a lawyer https://yasha.solutions/posts/printers-business/ Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/printers-business/ We have a bone to pick with the printer industry. Today, you can litteraly print anything… … as long as it is not on paper. You can 3D print your own laptop parts or even a 3D chocolate cake. But If you dare to print a black and white A4, then, it’s suddenly it’s super high tech… Ink Cartridges Are A Scam An ink cartridge cost about 1$ but is sold up to 100 time its original cost. https://yasha.solutions/posts/python-and-combinatory-py-oncall-team/ Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/python-and-combinatory-py-oncall-team/ Problem Find all the combination of two in a team Solution 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 from itertools import combinations team = ["john", "joe", "bob", "al", "tony", "mark"] comb = combinations(team, 2) for i in list(comb): print(i) Result: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ('john', 'joe') ('john', 'bob') ('john', 'al') ('john', 'tony') ('john', 'mark') ('joe', 'bob') ('joe', 'al') ('joe', 'tony') ('joe', 'mark') ('bob', 'al') ('bob', 'tony') ('bob', 'mark') ('al', 'tony') ('al', 'mark') ('tony', 'mark') Let’s up the game now we want to arrange the combinations results in a way that none of these guys are on call twice in a row https://yasha.solutions/posts/wr-education-unboxed-google-jupyter-sap-fow-et-al/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/wr-education-unboxed-google-jupyter-sap-fow-et-al/ Ok this is an experimental post. I realised I collect a lot of information during the week. I don’t have the time to make sense of it immediately, in a way that would be deep, and reasonate with the global zeigest… So, instead of pilling drafts on my drive, I decided to publish it as a weekly review of the stuff I collect. and will later, if time allow, get back to it. https://yasha.solutions/posts/command-line-app-python/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/command-line-app-python/ Goal Setup a basic command line package in python. Package Git: https://github.com/pallets/click/ Doc: https://click.palletsprojects.com/ Let’s get to it Create a virtual environnement. 1 2 python -m venv my_env . my_env/bin/activate Then the setup.py file: (require setuptools) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 from setuptools import setup setup( name='myapp', version='1.0', py_modules=['myapp'], install_requires=[ 'Click', ], entry_points=""" [console_scripts] myapp=myapp:cli """, ) and the myapp. https://yasha.solutions/posts/using-python-with-orgmode-gitlab-part1/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/using-python-with-orgmode-gitlab-part1/ Since I moved to orgmode I have been trying to make this work with most of my environnment. Since I work with gitlab on a daily basis I thought I would start there first. Libraries Org Parse Git Repo: https://github.com/karlicoss/orgparse Docs : https://orgparse.readthedocs.io/ Org Format Git: https://github.com/novoid/orgformat Convert stuff : pypandoc Git : https://github.com/NicklasTegner/pypandoc Python for Gitlab Git Repo : https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab Doc : https://python-gitlab. https://yasha.solutions/posts/the-1-thing-youneedtomakeyourmarketingwork/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:38:02 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/the-1-thing-youneedtomakeyourmarketingwork/ Patience. Grit. Perseverance. Borderline Stubbornness. The number one reason people failed, especially when it comes to content marketing and organic reach, is a lack of patience and will try one more time. Statistics will be your first enemy The beauty of digital marketing is that it brings you statistics, and you know pretty much what’s happening with your content, which at the beginning, is not much. It is very tempting to let it go, drop the pace slowly, miss a few milestones until your plans to post daily on your blog are gone, or you let your twitter engagement running at an all time low. https://yasha.solutions/posts/golang-how-to-write-to-a-spreadsheet/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/golang-how-to-write-to-a-spreadsheet/ Golang - how to connect to google spreadsheet? Credentials You need to set up Google Credentials for your app. This part is a tad annoying. Mostly due to the UX of the Google Cloud Plateform. Let’s hope this will once be fixed. Since it may be changing, I suggest you check the docs on Google. At the time of writing of this short tutorial, we need to: Go to Google Cloud Console Create Project if needed. https://yasha.solutions/broken-femur-civilisation-creative-brief/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/broken-femur-civilisation-creative-brief/ Margaret Mead was a controversial anthropologist from the 60’s in america. One thing not controversial though, and maybe that has made more famous recently than any of her research or publications - is the story of a short annecdote, which has become viral all over the internet. The story goes like this: “A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. https://yasha.solutions/rethinking-education-3-talks-to-watch/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/rethinking-education-3-talks-to-watch/ If you are not familiar with these 3 speakers and their thesis about education, time to catch up! Entertaining and well-articulated, they will help you understand where the current education system migh be falling short. Ken Robinson is more focused on the what, Seth on the why and Sugata Mitra is looking for an alternative approach (hint: it involves the Internet). Ken Robinson: School kills creativity I am not sure how much Ken Robinson still need an introduction by now, but his was a reknown thinker on creativity and innovation. https://yasha.solutions/bullshit-jobs-to-basic-income-redesigning-economic-rewards/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/bullshit-jobs-to-basic-income-redesigning-economic-rewards/ Bullshit Job : not what you think David Graeber has turned what would have happily stayed a colourful expression of our daily lives into an actual concept. In his book Bullshit Jobs - A Theory published fairly recently in 2018, he expands on the concept : A bullshit job is one that even the person doing it secretly believes need not, or should not, exist. That if the job, or even the whole industry, were to vanish, either it would make no difference to anyone, or the world might even be a slightly better place. https://yasha.solutions/adapting-learning-systems-to-todays-world/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/adapting-learning-systems-to-todays-world/ Covid-19 has forced us into a reality where colocallity can only be virtual. While the press, inspired by the promises from some Silicon Valley giants, has tried to forecast how and when humanity would become a remote-first society, nobody came up with the creative scenario where a pandemic would be the trigger for global digital transformation. In this new reality, schools and universities need to adapat. Beyond the Zoom-Classroom experience. https://yasha.solutions/posts/sugata-mitra-the-hole-in-the-wall/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0200 https://yasha.solutions/posts/sugata-mitra-the-hole-in-the-wall/ The saying goes it takes a village to raise a kid. But what if you leave a computer in the village? That’s more or less what the idea Mitra has been developping for many years, as part of an experiment aiming at testing the principles that Mitra named Minimally invasive education. The project started in 1999 (20+ years ago). Kalkaji, New Delhi The story is best told by Mitra himself in one of his many TED talks, but the TLDR version is pretty simple: https://yasha.solutions/rethinking-education-3-interesting-approaches/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/rethinking-education-3-interesting-approaches/ Education is hard. Creating a learning process where you transfer experience to one person to an other is no trivial task. If it was, learning would be more like this  But, since it is not, we will have to find other ways to go about it. Here are some interesting approaches, I have stumbled upon, which are really worth having a look at: Mike Fairclough - the badass The guy is headmaster of the West Rise School. https://yasha.solutions/online-js-editor/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/online-js-editor/ We need a better online editing experience Blog writing should be about writing and not about trying to figure out how your web text editor is working. One of the reason why Medium was so successful was the user experience of the editor. Editor JS https://editorjs.io/ Simple, straight forward, very light Interesting features with close to 20 plugins extending base functionalities. Headings Paragraph Tables Images Code snippets Lists Audio quote etc. https://yasha.solutions/content-creation-is-key-for-growth/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/content-creation-is-key-for-growth/ Content creation is key for growth To grow you need to create content. To grow as a business, as an individual, as a community. All is a function of how much content you manage to put out first. Writing is the first thing we learn in school - and somehow the cheapest way to create content. Yet it is also what look like the less approachable. Here is a few tips I hope you find useful to improve your content creation https://yasha.solutions/installing-keycloack-with-docker/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/installing-keycloack-with-docker/ Installing keycloak Keycloak is a redhat (and therefore now IBM) product for Identity and Access Management, so you can add authentication to applications and secure services. It’s all available out of the box. If you need an auth service for your app, Keycloak is a perfect candidate. Docker compose I like docker compose, so here is how I do it using official example from their repo: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 version: '3' volumes: postgres_data: driver: local services: postgres: image: postgres volumes: - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data environment: POSTGRES_DB: dbname POSTGRES_USER: dbuser POSTGRES_PASSWORD: dbpassword keycloak: image: jboss/keycloak environment: DB_VENDOR: POSTGRES DB_ADDR: postgres DB_DATABASE: dbname DB_USER: dbuser DB_PASSWORD: dbpassword KEYCLOAK_USER: admin KEYCLOAK_PASSWORD: adminpwd ports: - 26000:8080 depends_on: - postgres Alternative local installation You can also run the simplest script to get it run in docker mode for local dev. https://yasha.solutions/linux-text-expander/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/linux-text-expander/ The quest for Text Expander - but for linux If you come from the world of mac or windows, you probably heard and used Text Expander but unfortunately, there is no version of it for Linux and anyway it is not open source. So here are my 2 findings: Ulauncher Extension Text Expander Source : Github LeehBlue Text expander for linux Source : GitHub I personnaly now use the second one (combined with a shortcut with Ulauncher) - works perfect! https://yasha.solutions/webcam-config-frequency-logitech/ Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/webcam-config-frequency-logitech/ v4l-utils v4l-utils is a series tools on Linux to manage your media devices (webcam, IR devices, etc.) We are gonna need v4l2-ctl Install it first : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 #Install sudo apt-get install v4l-utils #List devices v4l2-ctl --list-devices #Check your device v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 --list-ctrls #Modifiy frequency # power_line_frequency=1 50Hz # power_line_frequency=2 60Hz v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 --set-ctrl=power_line_frequency=1 https://yasha.solutions/reverse-interview-questions/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/reverse-interview-questions/ Reverse interview Fond this online but cannot remember where… when I find I’ll add ref. here Expected usage Check which questions are interesting for you specifically Check which answers you can find yourself online Otherwise ask Definitely don’t try to ask everything from the list. Remember that things tend to be fluid, re-organizations happens often. Having a bug tracking system doesn’t make bug handling efficient and CI/CD doesn’t mean your time to deliver is necessarily short. https://yasha.solutions/git-good-practices/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/git-good-practices/ Do you git it? Learn Git Interactively GitHub resources Free Code Camp - Git Git in 20 min (Video) Git bless you How to Write a Git Commit Message A successful Git branching model Using git-flow to automate your git branching workflow One flow Pull it together Better Pull Requests Great Pull Requests Code Review BP Tooling git GUI clients Gitflow AVH Magit (emacs) tig git for windows (if you have too…) Git Ops General resources GitOps GitLab view on GitOps https://yasha.solutions/wordpress-with-composer-part1/ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/wordpress-with-composer-part1/ https://davidwinter.dev/install-and-manage-wordpress-with-composer/ This is the killer workflow for WordPress, or at least the key element to build one. Part 1: Composer and WordPress Part 2 (in the work): WordPress and Git 1. What is Composer Composer is a great tool to manage your PHP dependencies. You probably already know about it if you are used to working with PHP. Composer is to PHP what npm is to javascript or pip is to Python. https://yasha.solutions/creating-a-wordpress-staging-for-a-wordpress-multisite/ Sat, 03 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/creating-a-wordpress-staging-for-a-wordpress-multisite/ A quick intro In this article, we will delve into the specifics of turning a running WordPress Multisite in production into a well organised, development-ready, version control, dev/staging environnment, as well as the deployment process (not automatic for now). Context Recently, I had to create a local/staging/production environnement for a rather large WordPress Multisite instance. The process was not that obvious at first so I created documention for it here, for my future self, as well as for probably other people in similar situations. https://yasha.solutions/list-of-libraries-to-build-cool-NodeJS-command-lines-apps/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/list-of-libraries-to-build-cool-NodeJS-command-lines-apps/ 1. Chalk Chalk is styling for the command line - add cool color and stuff. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 const chalk = require('chalk'); const log = console.log; log(chalk.blue('Hello') + ' World' + chalk.red('!')); log(chalk.green( 'I am a green line ' + chalk.blue.underline.bold('with a blue substring') + ' that becomes green again!' )); 2. Clear Clear the terminal screen if possible https://yasha.solutions/forms-in-react-with-formik/ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/forms-in-react-with-formik/ In react, forms are quite a verbose and painful thing to write. https://yasha.solutions/designing-forms-ux/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/designing-forms-ux/ Forms are the main tool through which you have a conversation with your users. If you fail at them, you fail to have a good conversation with your users Forms are central to: Registrations : Having more users Revenue : Having more money Data input : Having more data Tasks and interactions : Actually do something useful Guiding principles Reduce cognitive load Help prevent errors Make it human In practice this means : https://yasha.solutions/draft/gitlab-ci-gatsby-deploy-to-scaleway/ Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/draft/gitlab-ci-gatsby-deploy-to-scaleway/ Steps Set up user for gatsby site Set up rights for directory Create a key for gitlab Create a private / public key to ssh on server Add private key to protected variable Add key to authorized key Run scaleway special script Write gitlab ci Git commit Watch pipeline https://yasha.solutions/what-happens-when-people-sign-up-for-your-stuff/ Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/what-happens-when-people-sign-up-for-your-stuff/ So you have this book that you wrote. This newsletter you so carefully crafted. This course you designed with attention and love. …. You are ready for launch. The world is waiting for you …. …. well …. NOPE. No one is waiting for you. Not even the people who registered for (tick the right answer): your newsletter your course your e-book. — > But they signed up, right? https://yasha.solutions/design-like-you-care/ Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/design-like-you-care/ Design is at the core of everything you do. The piece of hardware you are using to read this post has been designed. The website you read is the result of a design process.   Design is about creating the experience that will allow your audience to enjoy from what you want to give them.  As a kid you’ve designed carefully this present for your mum on mother’s day. https://yasha.solutions/tools-dont-matter/ Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/tools-dont-matter/ Can you design iOS with Microsoft Word? Well maybe you never thought it was possible, have a look at the video and then let’s talk… When you know what you want to create, when you have a clear vision of the result then tools are merely a way to get there and you will get to the result you want. In the video above, you can see a perfect execution of someone executing the iOS design into Microsoft Word. https://yasha.solutions/how-do-you-stay-motivated/ Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/how-do-you-stay-motivated/ The short answer is : you don’t. There is no such thing as “staying” motivated. Instead you need to cultivate necessity. Necessity You know this feeling you get when you’re getting dangerously close to a deadline. Like you have to get that shit done. Now. Err.. actually yesterday, but yeah, now. And you get full power into your essay/project/report. That feel like motivation, right? So now the question is more how do I stay motivated all the time? https://yasha.solutions/do-the-work-what-for/ Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/do-the-work-what-for/ You know it is true. You know it is right. Yet, you do not get to do it. Too busy? Too lazy? Maybe you are just unclear with your goals. Humans are goal-driven animals. We just cannot move our little finger if we do not have a reason for it. It may be a primal instinct that drive you toward action, and skip the rationalisation altogether, or it may be a cold rationalised series of strategic moves, or a mix of both. https://yasha.solutions/germany-industrial-map/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 03:11:55 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/germany-industrial-map/ https://yasha.solutions/evolutions-of-education-humor/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:51:27 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/evolutions-of-education-humor/ https://yasha.solutions/youtube-channels-recommended/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:45:35 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/youtube-channels-recommended/ Coding & tech Coding Tech The best of all tech conferences currated for you in one youtube channel. High quality content on all kind of computing topics. Traversy Media One of the best individuals producing coding tutorials on trending stacks. FreeCodeCamp.org The best free academy for coding. I shall make a post just dedicated to this project. Fireship https://yasha.solutions/engagement-gamification-and-monetisation/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 21:35:09 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/engagement-gamification-and-monetisation/ Gamification for engagement and monetisation engagement and monetisation are nearly two aspects of the same thing. The user want to use to your app and is ready to invest more time or more money for it. Examples: Reddit : gamified status. Paid for social status using credits Audible : subscription earn you points, with points you can gain option to download books. Stop your sub and you lose all your points. https://yasha.solutions/rtmp-restream-with-ffmpeg/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:42:45 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/rtmp-restream-with-ffmpeg/ here is how you can restream a source video from one RTMP to Facebook live 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ffmpeg -i "rtmp://yourInputStream.stream" \ -r 30 \ -ar 44100 \ -s 1280x720 \ -c:a libfdk_aac -b:a 90k \ -movflags +faststart \ -preset veryfast -crf 28 \ -tune zerolatency \ -profile:v baseline \ -maxrate 1000k \ -vcodec libx264 \ -bufsize 10000k \ -g 60 \ -max muxing_queue_size 1024 \ -f flv "rtmp://live-api-s. https://yasha.solutions/build-a-reactjs-version-of-medium/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 03:30:48 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/build-a-reactjs-version-of-medium/ https://yasha.solutions/agile-product-development/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 04:16:55 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/agile-product-development/ https://yasha.solutions/recommendation-engines/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 04:02:30 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/recommendation-engines/ https://yasha.solutions/json-manipulations-in-javascript/ Sat, 02 Feb 2019 02:48:31 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/json-manipulations-in-javascript/ https://yasha.solutions/reactjs-material-tables-datatables/ Fri, 01 Feb 2019 02:46:59 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/reactjs-material-tables-datatables/ https://yasha.solutions/forms-in-react/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 04:25:28 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/forms-in-react/ https://yasha.solutions/examples-of-react-projects/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 04:11:32 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/examples-of-react-projects/ https://yasha.solutions/recharts-reactjs-d3/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 01:58:53 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/recharts-reactjs-d3/ Recharts is a chart library built on React and D3. Focus on simplicity, native SVG support, lightweight, and declarative components. Source: https://github.com/recharts/recharts Site: http://recharts.org/  Line Charts   Area Charts    Bar Charts  Composed Chart  Scatter Chart    Radar Chart    https://yasha.solutions/reactjs-video-players/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:42:46 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/reactjs-video-players/ https://yasha.solutions/artificial-way-to-limit-user-churn/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:16:11 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/artificial-way-to-limit-user-churn/ https://yasha.solutions/various-starting-point-for-express-api/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:12:55 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/various-starting-point-for-express-api/ https://yasha.solutions/design-sprint-coding-sprint-sprint-everything/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 04:42:26 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/design-sprint-coding-sprint-sprint-everything/ https://yasha.solutions/universal-react-ssr-apps/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:46:44 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/universal-react-ssr-apps/ https://yasha.solutions/play-live-video-from-linux-command-line/ Tue, 15 Jan 2019 04:41:48 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/play-live-video-from-linux-command-line/ https://yasha.solutions/virtual-webcam-on-linux/ Mon, 14 Jan 2019 03:28:06 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/virtual-webcam-on-linux/ https://yasha.solutions/mysql-mockdata/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:09:20 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/mysql-mockdata/ https://yasha.solutions/create-a-google-spreadsheet-add-on/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:54:15 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/create-a-google-spreadsheet-add-on/ https://yasha.solutions/jan003-dailypost/ Thu, 03 Jan 2019 19:36:23 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/jan003-dailypost/ Failing to keep a routine does not mean you cannot fix it the day after. https://yasha.solutions/redefine-overdeliver/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 20:08:58 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/redefine-overdeliver/ Should always strive to deliver – even if less than anticipated than delaying to try to over deliver. IE : you deliver more often – not just more quality – and more often is a more sure way to reach more quality than delaying delivery https://yasha.solutions/print-your-shoes/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 04:10:13 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/print-your-shoes/ Because why not.Source : https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:285404 Supplies : https://www.gearbest.com/3d-printer-supplies/pp_919228.html?wid=1433363&lkid=15674036 https://yasha.solutions/expressjs-dynamic-routing-reading-list/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:48:44 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/expressjs-dynamic-routing-reading-list/ http://expressjs.com/en/guide/routing.html https://alexanderzeitler.com/articles/expressjs-dynamic-runtime-routing/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19096453/convert-object-to-express-dynamic-routes https://github.com/OneOfOne/dynamic-routes https://yasha.solutions/how-to-cut-video-using-nodejs-and-ffmpeg/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:40:46 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/how-to-cut-video-using-nodejs-and-ffmpeg/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31046930/how-to-cut-a-video-in-specific-start-end-time-in-ffmpeg-by-node-js#31050135 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18444194/cutting-the-videos-based-on-start-and-end-time-using-ffmpeg?rq=1 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40454172/ffmpeg-cut-video-and-include-ending-video-image?rq=1 https://superuser.com/questions/138331/using-ffmpeg-to-cut-up-video#704118 https://medium.com/@brianshaler/on-the-fly-video-rendering-with-node-js-and-ffmpeg-165590314f2 https://yasha.solutions/mongodb-reference-or-embed/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:37:07 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/mongodb-reference-or-embed/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5373198/mongodb-relationships-embed-or-reference https://www.tutorialspoint.com/mongodb/mongodb_relationships.htm https://www.studytonight.com/mongodb/relationships-in-mongodb https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/applications/data-models-relationships/ http://blog.markstarkman.com/blog/2011/09/15/mongodb-many-to-many-relationship-data-modeling/ https://yasha.solutions/shitty-time-reset-procedure-src-twitter/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:21:18 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/shitty-time-reset-procedure-src-twitter/ source NB: take with a grain of salt – but still some interesting tips. posted for reference #thread start: if you’re having a shitty time with your mental health and are low functioning i feel u & sympathise. here’s a list of potential actions for u to take to feel better/exist through it. try to pick a few & do them, but if you can’t : that’s valid too. let’s go https://yasha.solutions/set-up-a-different-an-ssh-key-for-git-push-for-a-give-repository/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:08:29 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/set-up-a-different-an-ssh-key-for-git-push-for-a-give-repository/ ok so I add the following problem to deal with. Posted here for reference. Source Even if the user and host are the same, they can still be distinguished in ~/.ssh/config. For example, if your configuration looks like this: Then you just use gitolite-as-alice and gitolite-as-bob instead of the hostname in your URL: https://yasha.solutions/ux-challenges-7-rapid-prototypinng/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:05:11 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/ux-challenges-7-rapid-prototypinng/ Rapid prototyping exercices Exercise 1: Mobile TV programs dashboard Scenario: when users login on the app what will they see, what can they do Goals: Engagement Exercise 2: Rapid prototyping of a live class Scenario: User is watch a live class – with interactive features Goals: interactivity with the teacher and / or other studens, accessibility, access to materials Exercise 3: A memo card : scenario: User selected to watch a series of random memo cards goals: Fun, Interactive Exercise 4: Collaborative social media publishing https://yasha.solutions/3-weird-old-fashion-websites-still-alive-today/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 05:17:33 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/3-weird-old-fashion-websites-still-alive-today/ Yes, once this was the internet Internet Explorer is EVIL! http://toastytech.com/evil/ ARNGREN – ecommerce from hell http://www.arngren.net/ LingsCar – UK best car shop https://www.lingscars.com/ https://yasha.solutions/webrtc-janus-cpu-intensive/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 05:03:20 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/webrtc-janus-cpu-intensive/ WebRTC is great Janus is a cool library (link if you never heard of it : github and good intro link) But boy is it CPU intensive. here are some links for the case you are looking for ways to lower the damage Client CPU benchmark and how to improve it https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/meetecho-janus/ydGcbMt7IX0/LOGVIA6yjkAJ Performance analysis of the Janus WebRTC gateway Link To Research Gate Article WebRTC and CPU reduction, settings to tweak https://yasha.solutions/5-talks-to-get-up-to-speed-on-the-jamstack/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:52:09 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/5-talks-to-get-up-to-speed-on-the-jamstack/ Never heard of the JAMStack? Maybe not directly – but if you are doing web dev you have for sure heard of some of the players in this field, like Jekyll, Hugo, Jigsaw or GatsbyJS just to name a few. Indeed monoliths CMS like WordPress or Drupal (just to name these two but Wikipedia list easily a few dozen of major players across all stacks and companies) are often being criticised for being slow at scale or hard to customise and the overhead of growing beyond a certain point start to become ROI negative due to the heavy lifting you need to deploy to get the CMS to do what you want. https://yasha.solutions/srs-server-what-it-is-and-install/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:52:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/srs-server-what-it-is-and-install/ What is it? source code on github From the website : SRS delivers rtmp/hls/http/hds live on x86/x64/arm/mips linux/osx, supports origin/edge/vhost and transcode/ingest and dvr/forward and http-api/http-callback/reload, introduces tracable session-oriented log, exports client srs-librtmp, with stream caster to push MPEGTS-over-UDP/RTSP to SRS, provides EN/CN wiki and the most simple architecture. Basically it is a simple way to set up and get going with an RTMP server. How to Create an SRS Server I obsviously still need to test it live. https://yasha.solutions/how-to-setup-obs-with-nginx-on-windows-for-rtmp-streaming-vps-hosted-by-amazon-aws/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:43:40 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/how-to-setup-obs-with-nginx-on-windows-for-rtmp-streaming-vps-hosted-by-amazon-aws/ https://yasha.solutions/rtmp-transcoding/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:24:57 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/rtmp-transcoding/ Some research I have made recently while working on a broadcasting module of an app. Just saving here some of the best link I have found – as backup and maybe of interest for some people. Obviously if you are looking for a super structured article – I am far from it at this point – but that’s still the filtered version of a few hours of research to find the relevant and usable stuff – and it is practically what I have used to get to the point of a transcoding version of ffmpeg with facebook live (next step is to turn it into a nodejs microservice) https://yasha.solutions/cicada-3301-an-internet-mystery/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 05:02:16 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/cicada-3301-an-internet-mystery/ Cicada 3301 is an organization who used puzzles to possibly recruit codebreakers/linguists from the public. The first internet puzzle started on January 4, 2012, and ran for approximately one month. A second round began one year later on January 4, 2013, and a third round following the confirmation of a fresh clue posted on Twitter on January 4, 2014. https://yasha.solutions/mongodb-schema-design/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 04:55:57 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/mongodb-schema-design/ MongoDB Schema Design – Many small documents or fewer large documents? Source : Stackoverflow Modeling One-to-Few An example of “one-to-few” might be the addresses for a person. This is a good use case for embedding – you’d put the addresses in an array inside of your Person object. One-to-Many An example of “one-to-many” might be parts for a product in a replacement parts ordering system. Each product may have up to several hundred replacement parts, but never more than a couple thousand or so. https://yasha.solutions/facebook-live-using-ffmpeg-and-nodejs/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:38:13 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/facebook-live-using-ffmpeg-and-nodejs/ Facebook Live using FFmpeg Play h.264 video stream in html page FFmpeg-based Live stream via Python PyLivestream https://yasha.solutions/exploring-calendar-booking-apps-in-reactjs/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:06:28 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/exploring-calendar-booking-apps-in-reactjs/ Looking to build a calendar app in React. You are not alone. I did some research to see what the world published on this so far, and here is what I have found. Room Booking System A room booking system built with MongoDB, Express, Node.js and ReactJS. This one has a lot going on. But it’s interesting to have a look at it. It seems like it’s a uni project or something… at least it’s organised as such. https://yasha.solutions/open-source-ui-kits-themed-frontend-for-the-web/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 08:49:53 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/open-source-ui-kits-themed-frontend-for-the-web/ UI Kit Site: https://getuikit.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/uikit/uikit Stream Ui Kit Site: https://htmlstream.com/templates/stream-ui-kit Basé sur Bootstrap. One Nexus Site: http://www.onenexus.io/ Basé sur Synergy, un framework front-end pour la génération de composant UI et Kayzen, un systeme de grille CSS – tous réalisé par la même équipe. Milligram Simple Juste 2kb https://milligram.io/ Tabler Un des meilleurs UI de dashboard Open Source. Basé sur Bootstrap Le code est clean La logique est claire et bien conçue. https://yasha.solutions/open-source-ui-kits-themed-frontend-for-the-web/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 08:26:36 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/open-source-ui-kits-themed-frontend-for-the-web/ Sleek Dashboard  Demo: Sleek Demo site/ GitHub: https://github.com/tafcoder/sleek-dashboard  Bootstrap 4 Admin Dashboard Template and UI Kit – and yeah sleeeeek indeed – like I really love it. Great work by tafcoder.  UI Kit Site: https://getuikit.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/uikit/uikit A lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces. Well suited for website, landing pages etc. Simple, straightforward. Also, nice extra: Autocomplete plugins for both Atom and Sublime Text 3. https://yasha.solutions/install-docker-on-debian-with-ansible/ Sat, 29 Sep 2018 05:59:28 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/install-docker-on-debian-with-ansible/ Here is a playbook for Ansible to install Docker and Docker Compose on Debian. You can of course, use a role from Galaxy. You have Gerling’s version or Debops (Ansible stack for Debian). But here I wanted to implement the install guide from Docker – and translate this into an Ansible playbook (which then should be turn into a custom role for more reusability). The official guide give use the following install steps: https://yasha.solutions/empathy-is-the-new-black/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:08:24 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/empathy-is-the-new-black/ For what it’s worth, I have been noticing a raising interest for empathy in the past few years. It’s been popping everywhere from a variety of fields, either in business and entrepreneurship, human resources and management to more more remote fields like design and product development as well as the obvious therapy and education fields. Science seems to have discovered a couple of years ago that we are wired for it:but science isn’t really everything there is to it – I mean look at this article about this lady being a lead researcher on empathy, and she still managed to bullied colleagues and staff. https://yasha.solutions/stop-and-remove-all-docker-containers/ Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:59:33 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/stop-and-remove-all-docker-containers/ Simple. You can make an alias and it to your bash profile : https://yasha.solutions/what-is-school-for-and-other-unconventional-opinions-on-school/ Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:36:59 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/what-is-school-for-and-other-unconventional-opinions-on-school/ I am not bashing school – but I think we need more conversations on this topic. Here are a couple of videos which I think raise some interesting points to think about. Don’t Stay in School A rap video that went viral a few years ago, from And the follow up video, addressing comments:What is school for? A more recent video from Prince EA Teachers React to original video on school from Prince EA https://yasha.solutions/woocommerce-and-russia/ Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:33:53 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/woocommerce-and-russia/ Here is a little research project I did at request to figure out all the gateways, if you want to sell stuff in russian speaking countries – turns out Stripe or Paypal are not exactly going to cover all your needs. So here is the results of my research on the topic. Feel free to add in the comments if you have some extra input on the topic. Yandex Money / Kassa The first plugin is from Dayes Design : https://yasha.solutions/lean-impact-ngo-business-model-the-smart-way/ Sat, 08 Sep 2018 19:30:10 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/lean-impact-ngo-business-model-the-smart-way/ Couple of notes : Impact is a the third parameter to be added to the traditional Growth / Value focus Separate end users and funders. Change the funding models to facilitate experimentatino on the early stage Scaling to early also happen to the non-profit – with similar issues are the in the traditional business Separate end users and funders. https://yasha.solutions/douglas-adams-3-rules-of-innovation/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 11:07:21 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/douglas-adams-3-rules-of-innovation/ Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. https://yasha.solutions/3-interesting-read-on-innovation/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 17:11:27 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/3-interesting-read-on-innovation/ [Why You Don’t Understand “Disruption” ]1 by Bill Barnett where you learn that Kodak invented Instagram in the 90’s. What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like where Steve Blank share some knowledge on innovation processes inside an organisation Optimize when you can, standardize if you must. Not 100% on innovation but still important to understand how to approach these two parameters of every technological project https://yasha.solutions/marketing-101-1-markets-are-conversations/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 11:14:27 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/marketing-101-1-markets-are-conversations/ Ok so you want to up your marketing game and you are looking for recommendations where to start. Here is the first post of a serie where I share with you what I think are the best references and guiding principles in marketing. This is stuff I have collected, read and applied over the course of more than 10 years and I will probably keep updating it as time pass. https://yasha.solutions/data-warehouse-vs-data-lake/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 08:30:24 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/data-warehouse-vs-data-lake/ https://yasha.solutions/the-principal-agent-problem-hayeks-knowledge-problem/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 08:29:52 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/the-principal-agent-problem-hayeks-knowledge-problem/ The Principal Agent Problem The Principal Agent Problem occurs when one person (the agent) is allowed to make decisions on behalf of another person (the principal). In this situation, there are issues of moral hazard and conflicts of interest. The Principal Agent ProblemHayek’s Knowledge problem Frequently mentioned as the most important essays in the history of economic thought, Hayek’s essay “The Use of Knowledge in Society” question the fundamental problem that economics exists to solve? https://yasha.solutions/self-publishing-vs-publisher/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 05:25:50 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/self-publishing-vs-publisher/ Also read this piece by tim ferris : How to Write a Bestselling Book This Year — The Definitive Resource List and How-To Guide https://yasha.solutions/designers-eyes-problem/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 03:30:14 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/designers-eyes-problem/ https://yasha.solutions/page-builders-and-wyiwyg-in-javascript-reactjs-vuejs/ Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:34:03 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/page-builders-and-wyiwyg-in-javascript-reactjs-vuejs/ Gramateria https://www.gramateria.com/GrapeJS https://grapesjs.com/GrapesJS is a multi-purpose, Web Builder Framework. It can be used to create web pages, Newsletters, Native Mobile Applications, Native Desktop Applications (eg. Vuido), PDFs (eg. React PDF), etc. DanteII https://michelson.github.io/dante2/“Just” another medium clone built on top of DraftJs – in React SlateJs https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slateReact Draft WYSIWYG Just a react editor https://github.com/jpuri/react-draft-wysiwygFroala A multi framework editor Warning : not free. Cost minimum 144 dollars and up to 1800 / year. https://yasha.solutions/the-digital-transformation-done-right-a-conceptual-case-study/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:22:53 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/the-digital-transformation-done-right-a-conceptual-case-study/ Source: Podcast with Adams Jacob from ChefRight now, the most common line of thinking – when it comes to digital transformation – is we will take some large enterprise, like Procter and Gamble, and we’re going to rewrite Procter and Gamble so that it works the way Google works. So, if Google had built Procter and Gamble, what would Google have done? And that’s our strategy. The big plot is to take the entirety of your business, burn it to the ground, and then rebuild it as if they were another organisation they have never seen before, in a pattern they’ve never seen? https://yasha.solutions/hr-mumbo-jumbo-in-ads-sorry/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:35:28 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/hr-mumbo-jumbo-in-ads-sorry/ The ad At LinkedIn, we are transforming the way organisations attract talent. Join us in changing the way the world works. The SMB Solutions team is looking for a French-speaking Media Solutions Manager to drive success with our campaign media customers. Using your analytical, influencing and relationship building skills, you will act as a business partner to the French and German SMB market, partnering with the sales team and our clients to ensure talent attraction and business development campaigns are utilised and optimised, and to ensure our customers come back for more! https://yasha.solutions/quantifying-qualitative-research-by-leisa-reichelt-at-mind-the-product-san-francisco-2018/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:51:06 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/quantifying-qualitative-research-by-leisa-reichelt-at-mind-the-product-san-francisco-2018/ Must watch : About surveys : 18min47 Note to self : must do a summary of this awesome talk https://yasha.solutions/ux-heuristics/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:06:31 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/ux-heuristics/ Heuristic Evaluation A heuristic evaluation is a usability inspection method for computer software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface (UI) design. It specifically involves evaluators examining the interface and judging its compliance with recognized usability principles (the “heuristics”). These evaluation methods are now widely taught and practiced in the new media sector, where UIs are often designed in a short space of time on a budget that may restrict the amount of money available to provide for other types of interface testing. https://yasha.solutions/exploring-user-offboarding-ux-reading-list/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:50:25 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/exploring-user-offboarding-ux-reading-list/ Designing Friction For A Better User Experience Offboarding — The Way to Say Goodbye to Your Users Design Pleasant Cancellation Experience and Improve Retention Offboard as a designer Offboarding: How and How Not to End Relationships with Users https://yasha.solutions/are-all-photos-the-same-on-instagram/ Sat, 18 Aug 2018 14:06:11 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/are-all-photos-the-same-on-instagram/ InstaRepeat the account that gather insta gram photos who look alike. Very surprising. Check out the account InstaRepeat https://yasha.solutions/ssh-configuration-tips-for-basic-server-security/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:30:07 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/ssh-configuration-tips-for-basic-server-security/ Don’t run the internet facing SSH on an IP used by a key application. Use a dedicated host acting as a jump box. Use port knocking. Use key pairs. Use fail2ban. Don’t allow root logins. Restrict access to a named group. Don’t use shared logins. Don’t allow direct access below the presentation tier. Have more ? Ping me in the comment or in twitter and I’ll add them here. https://yasha.solutions/simple-design-is-hard/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:15:29 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/simple-design-is-hard/ It’s a complex thing to make things simple. The main reason is you need to make a choice on what is the one or two thing you want to put forth.To make the right choice your idea need to prioritise what matter most to solve the solution at hand in a elegant way. The problem is that elegant is sure enough not understood the same by two people the same way. https://yasha.solutions/internet-doesnt-mean-freedom/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:15:23 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/internet-doesnt-mean-freedom/ Internet is for many the symbol of freedom. So were books. Tools are just that tools. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for freedom. But realize that self-education is the real freedom. Because the fuel to self-education is the search for truth. Without truth there is no Freedom Just non-obvious choices between various lies.   https://yasha.solutions/please-carry-water-with-you-at-all-time/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:57:56 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/please-carry-water-with-you-at-all-time/ Whoever wrote that rock! https://yasha.solutions/toi-moi-et-vous/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:54:06 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/toi-moi-et-vous/ https://yasha.solutions/the-phone-is-the-end-of-social-life/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:35:29 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/the-phone-is-the-end-of-social-life/ https://yasha.solutions/how-to-use-the-internet-safely/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:33:37 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/how-to-use-the-internet-safely/ https://yasha.solutions/just-your-regular-laptop-in-the-50s/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:29:49 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/just-your-regular-laptop-in-the-50s/ btw, if somebody have context on this popular image, I’d love to hear about it https://yasha.solutions/html-vs-css/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:27:52 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/html-vs-css/ https://yasha.solutions/todo-done/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:26:45 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/todo-done/ By Monkeyuser https://yasha.solutions/cheap-vs-fast-vs-good/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:20:58 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/cheap-vs-fast-vs-good/ Because you cannot have it all https://yasha.solutions/automating-the-bad-things-dont-make-them-any-better/ Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:14:27 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/automating-the-bad-things-dont-make-them-any-better/ #automation #tech #goodone   https://yasha.solutions/secure-your-linux-server-with-these-tools/ Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:40:40 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/secure-your-linux-server-with-these-tools/ As much for you as for myself, here is a list of tools you might want to have in mind :  Software you can install to avoid issues ClamAv(Antivirus) chkrootkit(Check for Root kits) Maldet or LMD(Linux Malware Detection) Ispprotect (commercial 90$ a year)  Commands you can run to check for issues netstat –an Displays the network connections and generic statistics  ps –ef Lists every currently running process https://yasha.solutions/braininstorm-with-myself-on-content-planning/ Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:29:37 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/braininstorm-with-myself-on-content-planning/ Branding – who are you? Brand is your voice Why do you need a brand Your brand does not need a name What makes you special? Why do you do what you do? Some schemas Structure Logo / Copy / Brand Manager Chill and don’t over try to be “onbrand” Membership and boxes Some explaination on the box business Examples Subscription business model https://yasha.solutions/task-list-team-management-for-german-speakers-smb/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 21:26:18 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/task-list-team-management-for-german-speakers-smb/ ok, before you ask, my german sucks – like really I am not good at it. However, I sent this to a friend in Austria the other day, and I thought it might be of benefit to others, so I am sharing this here. So, if you need a way to manage errands and task and keep track of what’s going on in your company (less than 10 people) and you need an interface in german, here are some stuff you might find useful: https://yasha.solutions/quotes-to-remember-on-gloomy-days/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:11:42 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/quotes-to-remember-on-gloomy-days/ The way get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney  People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. – Rob Siltanen  Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford  Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein  You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. https://yasha.solutions/no-backend-frontend-first-tools/ Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:31:25 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/no-backend-frontend-first-tools/ Traditionnaly – when you build an app – you go from the backend first, i.e – the data model, the database, the API and then only you add the frontend layout talking to you backend. Problems that come with this approach are basically Longer time before client can see anything You don’t build with user scenarios in mind but with database and programming scenario in mind. Some people though to reverse the whole dev cycle and start with frontend first. https://yasha.solutions/logo-brief-tips/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:04:15 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/logo-brief-tips/ https://yasha.solutions/sound-video-for-youtube-2-intro-videos/ Sat, 16 Jun 2018 10:06:45 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/sound-video-for-youtube-2-intro-videos/ Camcorder VS. DSLR for Video, YouTube and Vlogging?  Quick and Easy super effective DIY acoustic treatment panels for voiceover https://yasha.solutions/3-talks-about-hr-and-company-culture/ Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:28:05 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/3-talks-about-hr-and-company-culture/ Leo Widrich (Buffer) – Building Company Culture: Radical Transparency & Experiments Lear Widrich is a the CEO of buffer. Buffer – if you have never heard – is a SaaS product that help you manage your social media publications. They have a pretty aggressively open culture of sharing with the world how they work and this is a really interesting talk, where you will hear about important things from a practitioner. https://yasha.solutions/creating-a-user-persona-in-a-lean-development-context/ Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:09:02 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/creating-a-user-persona-in-a-lean-development-context/ Awesome talk. I’ll add some organised notes in there later. Meanwhile just watch the talk. (Speaker is Adrian Howard)<div class=‘avia-video avia-video-16-9 av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed ' itemprop=“video” itemtype=“https://schema.org/VideoObject" data-original_url=‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_XFltujnkE’ >  Just some quick notes while listening: WAP used to be a thing. I forgot about that. You are not the only one who produced made-up persona (you know, when you don’t talk to a customer before you do the persona – happens a lot especially when surrounded by the marketing folks) https://yasha.solutions/twitter-roast-burger-king-pancake-edition/ Wed, 13 Jun 2018 07:27:40 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/twitter-roast-burger-king-pancake-edition/ I just woke to a post in some fb group with a mashup of the latest Burger King twitter roast and thought I should start documenting these… so I downloaded that… Enjoy! When Burger King become Pancake King Whataburger is not having it Chili's siding with Whataburger https://yasha.solutions/3-not-very-well-known-site-for-free-resources/ Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:43:46 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/3-not-very-well-known-site-for-free-resources/ I always see the same sites used and quotes for free stuff (unsplash, pexels, freepics, etc.) and that’s cool because these are awesome resources anyways, but today I just wanted to feature 3 places I recently discovered and I haven’t seen quoted or talked about in many places. Resource Cards Growing list of free resources aimed to help creatives with their projects. By Stelianand Sergiu Firez   Web: https://resourcecards.com/. https://yasha.solutions/what-if-whatsapp-snapchat-and-amazon-launched-in-the-80s/ Sun, 03 Jun 2018 12:02:39 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/what-if-whatsapp-snapchat-and-amazon-launched-in-the-80s/ Ok, let’s chill for a sec. If you don’t know about Jo Luijten, he is a Dutch video artist & video game developer based in LA, and beside his impressive portfolio, he also feed a youtube channel name Squirrel Monkeywith some funny retro videos. I stumbled upon his creations the other day and had to share some here. Check his channel if you want more vids (got on Siri, Tinder, Insta, Bitcoin and more). https://yasha.solutions/how-to-connect-to-nextcloud-using-webdav-flysystem-and-laravel/ Thu, 31 May 2018 09:18:55 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/how-to-connect-to-nextcloud-using-webdav-flysystem-and-laravel/ Ok…. title of this post is a tad specific but I have wasted so much time trying to piece all together all the elements of this short post that I thought it will be probably useful for a few other people out there.  so what are we talking about anyway. On one side of the ring we have Nextcloud– the evolution of owncloud, forked by its own founder to ensure this project remain opensource forever (full story here). https://yasha.solutions/vuejs-and-jquery-a-digest/ Fri, 25 May 2018 18:57:31 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/vuejs-and-jquery-a-digest/ TL;DR: Really, vuejs could totally replace jquery if it wasn’t for some of jquery plugins. But really as time goes, I am sure we can expect it will come. Comparing vuejs and jqueryReplace jquery with VueJSIf you are not that much of a jquery person anyway, this article should be a good intro for you : A Vue.js introduction for people who know just enough jQuery to get by https://yasha.solutions/when-money-isnt-real-the-10000-experiment/ Thu, 17 May 2018 22:26:58 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/when-money-isnt-real-the-10000-experiment/ Adam Carroll talks about his $10,000 Monopoly game with his kids and how to teach finance management in a cashless society. Adam Carroll is quickly being recognized as one of the top transformational trainers in the country. Having presented at over 500 colleges and Universities nationwide, hundreds of leadership symposiums, and countless local and regional organizations, Adam Carroll’s message of Building A Bigger Life, Not a Bigger Lifestyle has been heard by over 200,000+ people. https://yasha.solutions/camera-basics-iso-aperture-shutter-speed/ Fri, 11 May 2018 21:35:38 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/camera-basics-iso-aperture-shutter-speed/ Shutter Speed The time the shutter is open to expose light into the sensor. Typically measured in fractions of a second. Slow shutter speeds means more light into the sensor Examples of shutter speeds: 1/15 (1/15th of a second), 1/30, 1/60, 1/125. Aperture How big the hole of the lens is open. The larger the hole, the more light. Aperture also controls the depth of field. Small aperture = large depth of field https://yasha.solutions/some-interesting-vuejs-projects/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:02:53 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/some-interesting-vuejs-projects/ VueJS wordpress theme starter VueRouter integrated Vuex integrated (with sample WordPress-centric modules) jQuery integrated, if that’s your thing Firebase support and sample config Axios for API requests Follows the development guidelines/structure set forth by Vuejs Bare essentials needed for a functional WordPress theme All requests are redirected back to the index.php so your Vue routing is respected. SCSS support Bootstrap-Vue integrated Voten.co It is like Reddit but in VueJS https://yasha.solutions/wordpress-and-redis/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:49:39 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/wordpress-and-redis/ Ludicrous Speed: WordPress Caching with RedisHow To Configure Redis Caching to Speed Up WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04WP Rediswp-redis-cache by Benjamin Adams How to Drastically Speed Up WordPress with Redis How to load WordPress in a few milliseconds using Redis Lightning Fast WordPress with Nginx + Redis https://yasha.solutions/why-do-i-write-var-log/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:14:44 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/why-do-i-write-var-log/ Most post in this category are unfinished, imperfect, lack the polish a proper blog article should have, very often they have typos and even some time unfinished sentences. So why even bother? Well, because life isn’t perfect, and most imperfect. But it is important to get going anyway. It is important to persist. I know as I keep doing it it helps me shape my thinking. Mostly I avoid accumulating ideas in my head. https://yasha.solutions/cool-video-editing-technics/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:05:34 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/cool-video-editing-technics/ https://yasha.solutions/seo-on-a-budget/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:11:55 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/seo-on-a-budget/ SEO isn’t hard you need good content and good link. That’s kind of all. But when you cannot do any of these or you want to accelerate the process, might be worth thinking how you’re gonna optimise that process. Finding good content on this is pretty hard. This video however is really a neat finding. So enjoy ! https://yasha.solutions/vue-component-layout/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:04:21 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/vue-component-layout/ https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar https://github.com/vuetifyjs/vuetify https://vuematerial.io/ https://github.com/buefy/buefy https://at-ui.github.io/at-ui/#/en http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US   https://yasha.solutions/should-everybody-learn-to-code/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:10:39 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/should-everybody-learn-to-code/ Given the over enthusiasm for programming This is a pretty refreshing take. https://yasha.solutions/nextcloud-what-to-do-when-sync-fail/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:48:19 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/nextcloud-what-to-do-when-sync-fail/ Just try these steps   occ ‘files:scan –all’ occ ‘files:cleanup’ if already solved stop where, if not proceed with step 4 occ ‘maintenance:mode –on’ sign in to your mysql db and run: “delete from oc_file_locks where 1;” occ ‘maintenance:mode –off’ https://yasha.solutions/ux-design-improve-yourself/ Sun, 22 Apr 2018 17:06:01 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/ux-design-improve-yourself/ Practice makes perfect. Or at least, it does help improve your skills. It does make you a better designer. A better problem solver. A better engineer. A better maker. Just better. Here are some resources to up your game. 1. Designercize Fancy designing a sortable list view for a habit-tracking app to help film snobs? Or how about designin dashboard for a smart home watering system, to help social media managers? https://yasha.solutions/design-process-content-strategy-3-talks-to-watch/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:04:25 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/design-process-content-strategy-3-talks-to-watch/ Content is critical. Here are three talks where you can think about to think about the thinking that goes into writing how you think. (I might have overdone that one…)  Anyway… here it is. Content Strategy in a Zombie Apocalypse, Karen McGrane at USI UX Content Strategy w/ Karen McGrane How to Write Content for Web https://yasha.solutions/design-process-the-user-research-research-notes/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 01:34:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/design-process-the-user-research-research-notes/ User Research Appear in the early design process. Not always full fledged process is deployed obviously – depend on the focus of the project, on its complexity and on its budget.   Focus on: User research main focus is on: user behaviors user needs motivations  Why you need it To deliver a service that meets your users’ needs, you have to understand: who your likely users are what they’re trying to do how they’re trying to do it now how their life or work influences what they do and how how they use and experience existing services   They said Mike Kuniaysky defines it as : “the process of understanding the impact of design on an audience. https://yasha.solutions/right-to-repair-4-videos-to-make-you-think/ Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:14:10 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/right-to-repair-4-videos-to-make-you-think/ more people should be talking about this Apple is working to prevent people from repairing the iphone they bought. This is a 15 min video on a legal case where Apple lost – and is very well explained.kudos to @RossmannGroupfor it For the record, #apple is not the only one doing that Car companies are too. Check this one :Sony as well who sued George Hotz for playing around with his Playstation: In a world where electronics are gonna be more and more fundamentals elements of our day to day life – it makes sense we pay attention that the stuff we buy belong to us (AKA the people who buy it) and not to the manufacturer. https://yasha.solutions/research-notes-design-for-trust/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 11:46:21 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/research-notes-design-for-trust/ So, here are some of my notes on designing for trust. It is more and more important to look at design beyong its usability function and start to think about the emotional state of the user. (Funny enough I just found a video from a designer talking about that 8 years ago… so yeah… it is really time then…) As I was working on design principles for a projectthe other day – I started to dig into this concept of trust and design. https://yasha.solutions/machine-learning-digging-into-recommendation-system/ Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:43:05 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/machine-learning-digging-into-recommendation-system/ Gotta build on of these for a complex and content rich elearning site. So did some research. Here are some of my findings. Here is a good start : How to Build a Recommender Systemby Martin KihnThe Components of a Recommender Systemon a site with quite some articles on the topic – like this one on Impression DiscountingOr this one : Beginners Guide to learn about Content Based Recommender Engineswhich is from 2015 but still cover the general basis. https://yasha.solutions/js-tooling/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:01:50 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/js-tooling/ The web is evolving. Here are some element to catch up on VueJs and NodeJS  Building a RESTful API with Node.jsNodeJS Shopping CartVue.js 2 – Getting StartedBuild a Chat Room from scratch (vuejs, nodejs, socket.io)Full Stack Web App using Vue.js & Express.jsHotel system in Vue.jsVue.js 2 & Vuex (Basics) https://yasha.solutions/site-map-vs-content-architecture-content-map-ia/ Sun, 01 Apr 2018 15:35:09 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/site-map-vs-content-architecture-content-map-ia/ IA – information architecture “Structural design of shared information environments” example: Site map “A site map is a list of pages of a web site.”Source for images https://yasha.solutions/fundamental-of-experience-design/ Sun, 01 Apr 2018 12:21:59 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/fundamental-of-experience-design/ > Todo : Add summary of the illustration Source link : http://www.poetpainter.com/thoughts/article/ia-summit-2009-the-fundamentals-of-experience-design- https://yasha.solutions/make-your-own-operating-system/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 22:00:27 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/make-your-own-operating-system/ Writing your own OS – nobody does that. That’s why it is interesting 🙂  Reference post for later.  OS general intro – pretty good.<div class=‘avia-video avia-video-16-9 av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed ' itemprop=“video” itemtype=“https://schema.org/VideoObject" data-original_url=‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GDX-IyZ_C8’ >  Tutorial – Step by step  References:  From the guy who did the 1h tutorial. http://wyoos.org/ Full list : http://wyoos.org/Videos/index.php A pretty interesting book on lecture from Birmingham university on the topic here. https://yasha.solutions/design-is-at-the-crossroad-of-business-technology-and-art/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 21:19:11 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/design-is-at-the-crossroad-of-business-technology-and-art/ I look at design as a univeral tool for problem solving. However most people and client I meet seem to see design only as the visual aspect of the solution. The “How it looks” versus being the “how it works“. So I decided to make a visual represention of it. Design is everywhere Design sit really at the crossroad of three fields – Art, Business and tech Art, most often is the one it is associated with – in a world view where designers are just artists-for-hire to prettify the stuff the developpers/engineers do. https://yasha.solutions/startup-culture-or-hr-marketing-scam/ Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:45:17 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/startup-culture-or-hr-marketing-scam/ Just watch the following talk… Trends sell. Sometime they sell bulshit. Startup culture and entrepreneurship is trendy now. But now always for good reasons… https://yasha.solutions/cofounding-and-company-ownership-over-time/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:25:26 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/cofounding-and-company-ownership-over-time/ Very good talk about how company founders should think about equity and capital shares.“Founders, don’t fuck up your cap tables!” by Oussama, Founder @The Family https://yasha.solutions/selling-strategy-with-chris-do/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:58:06 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/selling-strategy-with-chris-do/ Strategy is everything. But it is not always understood this way – and can be a tough sell sometime.  Here is an interesting discussion around the topic: Part 1: Part 2: Enjoy! https://yasha.solutions/kids-dont-break-your-computer/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:26:54 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/kids-dont-break-your-computer/ Kids dont break your computer. Just broke mine. It’s a pain. If you break stuff however, I found an awesome channel to learn about computer repair. Louis RossmannCheck it out. https://yasha.solutions/pet-project-litterally-rasperry-cats/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:43:33 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/pet-project-litterally-rasperry-cats/ Pet project – literally – as the kids want a cat – and we are ok – just we need a solution for when we travel and are not home for a few days up to 10 days max. So we need to get the cat to be able to eat and to take care of its basic needs without destroying the flat. Here is what I found: Input Food Simple version 1:Simple version 2:Simple version 3:Advanced v1:Advanced v2:Water Output More complex to handle https://yasha.solutions/open-conversations-outline/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:09:25 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/open-conversations-outline/ Introduction – where we tie everything together in a sales pitch Every conversation is an opportunity – where we understand how exchange & communication is a requirement for mankind Internet – starting the global conversation – where conversation happens – and censorship – and fakes news – all core element of human nature – but also where learning, innovation and connecting the world is taking place Bitcoin – Money & markets https://yasha.solutions/wordpress-plugins-ai-machine-learning/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 10:28:28 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/wordpress-plugins-ai-machine-learning/ Just a list of plugin I am considering using as a base for further developments: Kindred PostsKindred Posts uses artificial intelligence to learn how your website visitors use your site and recommends content based on their interests.(not maintained anymore but developper actively asked for people to join and keep maintaining the project… might do that… we’ll see) WordLift – AI powered SEOWordLift helps you organize posts and pages adding facts, links and media to build websites. https://yasha.solutions/wordpress-and-machine-learning/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:21:25 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/wordpress-and-machine-learning/ I have been working on an idea for a LMS project I am involved with.  The general problem we are trying to solve is to provide a customise learning path for users  Here are some of the videos I found relevant and quick research notes.  #Machine Learning with WordPress(not as much about wordpress as I thought it would be but a nice intro)  #Building a Machine Learning Platform at QuoraVery good consideration – must relisten to it again. https://yasha.solutions/technical-debt-compilation/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:21:29 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/technical-debt-compilation/ Technical debt is the cost of your management shortcuts compounded with interest. It is a fancy term to try to explain to the management that bad long term technical decisions were made and that now they need to bank for it. Often management is responsible for the technical debt, sometime it is a shared responsibility with the technical staff sometime it is a mix of both – in any case – whatever this is – it will always have a cost to fix it – and a cost to not fix it – which is greater is really the main question. https://yasha.solutions/gaming-lets-playyyy-coding-resource/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:29:29 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/gaming-lets-playyyy-coding-resource/ Bunch of resources for side project on gaming. (got 2 boys at home who have their eyes locked on mario – so I just want to use that to open their eyes on it works and make some mods and some cool evolution of the game with them…) here is what I have found that look like the more promising for quick development of 2D arcade games: Enchant JS Seems like a basic library for simple games. https://yasha.solutions/john-perry-barlow-a-declaration-of-the-independence-of-cyberspace/ Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:21:45 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/john-perry-barlow-a-declaration-of-the-independence-of-cyberspace/ Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. https://yasha.solutions/whats-up-with-google-amp-pages-anyway/ Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:17:40 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/whats-up-with-google-amp-pages-anyway/ TL;DR:  AMP is Google tech for loading pages quickly on mobile. Basically AMP is the Google version of Facebook Instant Articles. Google is pushing this tech as a mean to increase the overall volume of mobile Ad inventory – essentially more page views means more revenues for publishers and Google via DoubleClick. Solving page load issues can be done without AMP and should be probably done without it.  Google tech selling page for AMPIn short: “AMP provides a great user experience across many platforms” – all the rest is just how to implement it. https://yasha.solutions/ccc-stuff-to-watch/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:12:04 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/ccc-stuff-to-watch/ Making Experts Makers and Makers Experts Gamified Control? China’s Social Credit Systems https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8874-gamified_control  Demystifying Network Cards Things you always wanted to know about NIC drivers https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9159-demystifying_network_cards  Everything you want to know about x86 microcode, but might have been afraid to ask An introduction into reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it yourself https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9058-everything_you_want_to_know_about_x86_microcode_but_might_have_been_afraid_to_ask  Protecting Your Privacy at the Border Traveling with Digital Devices in the Golden Age of Surveillance https://yasha.solutions/slaughterbots-ai-military/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:59:28 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/slaughterbots-ai-military/ Watch this video:  <div class=‘avia-video avia-video-16-9 av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed ' itemprop=“video” itemtype=“https://schema.org/VideoObject" data-original_url=‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw’ >  None of the technologies involved in this video are too far away from what is available today.  When you think about all the data available from face recognition, and geo-localisation – available from all major corporation – from Google to Apple including Facebook or Amazon – just to name the big ones – it does make you think. https://yasha.solutions/a-new-thing-in-my-bucket-list-building-a-custom-mechanical-keyboard/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:08:57 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/a-new-thing-in-my-bucket-list-building-a-custom-mechanical-keyboard/ Literally Probably wont do that for now – that’s like super expensive for what it is – meaning just a keyboard – but would really be a great stuff to build. I mean I checked this site : KBDfanswhich is referred in the video – and yeah.. what can I say these mechanical keyboards parts are freaking awesome! Any of you out there did that already? https://yasha.solutions/not-quitting/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 08:18:13 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/not-quitting/ so yeah… I know it was supposed to post everyday. Well, it is apparently not 100% there yet. I know it is coming so I am not too worried. Maybe a bit disappointed with myself. The whole idea of /var/log was to create a space online where I could somehow journal my work, my research, my idea, draft my articles without holding it all either on my computer or in my head… https://yasha.solutions/thoughts-on-organisations-portal/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 07:18:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/thoughts-on-organisations-portal/ Some elements on thoughts on designing / building a company’s web portal.  – is dependant on the internal business process – can help cut from 30% to 60% inefficiencies – Requires good collaboration between designers and client – is a thing since the 90’s – today you can basically integrate both and ERP / Mobile App / CRM / CMS to deliver a 360 integration of the business needs and customer needs https://yasha.solutions/a-quick-one-about-the-designers-struggle-with-clients/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:29:39 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/a-quick-one-about-the-designers-struggle-with-clients/ Yesterday I had a conversation with a designer who made a career change to become a real-estate sales person.  yep – you heard well.  From panda-hat pencil-in-hand graphic artist and logo designer, he went to sell cinderblocks lots…  What happened? well, unsurprisingly – he got sick of clients – he got tired of not getting paid – and he got tired of having the very people who hired him for a job starting to tell him how he should do his job. https://yasha.solutions/some-days-just-suck-shit/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:02:47 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/some-days-just-suck-shit/ Mondays don’t have to suck but sometime they do… which I guess is fine and was to be expected. Yet – when you didn’t sleep overnight and still have to break your head over tons of things… some days are just not easy. The secret – is to zoom out. When I manage to zoom out on the scale of a decade – then the fact the tramway was late or that I couldnt get a coffee in the morning, or this bug in the code is become such a tiny ridicule element that can easily be overcome. https://yasha.solutions/sunday-watch-list/ Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:37:30 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/sunday-watch-list/ Research notes / Watchlist for later review on infosec and privacy and anonymity – note that these two are different.  #Tor Developer Isis Lovecruft lectures on anonymity systems at Radboud Universiteit https://youtu.be/xGIE7KTJiBY #Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA – Tom Lowenthal  #DEFCON 14: How to Create an Anonymous Identity  #DEFCON 20: Can You Track Me Now? Government And Corporate Surveillance Of Mobile Geo-Location Data https://yasha.solutions/just-ship/ Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:23:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/just-ship/ I am very good at starting things. It wasn’t always true – I used to waste a lot of time to ponder and get to work – now in the past decade I think I have brought my capacity to set up a new project to a real good level – and kickstarting things into motions. Now – I need to move to the next level – which is perfecting the finish. https://yasha.solutions/build-worflows/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:14:16 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/build-worflows/ Resistance and friction is what make the daily grind hard. Let your creativity flow more easily by removing all the block from the roads so you can focus on the journey and not on perpetually cleaning up the mess that getting in your way. Writing : How I write I use Notational Velocity (Windows / Linux equivalent) – Publishing – DeskPM but also setting up a place like /var/log on my site has remove a bunch of psychological road blocks that were getting in the way. https://yasha.solutions/making-some-changes/ Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:54:42 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/making-some-changes/ ok, inspired by a friend, I have decided to make some changes in the way i organise my content on this blog. Separating pure content (in depth article, how-tos, reference post) from the blog in a more casual sense of word. In a follow up to post “We have stopped blogging” – I want to get back to some regular writing. Less formal, more personal, maybe informative maybe not – I don’t know yet, what I know is I want it to be place where I can share with you an open conversation. https://yasha.solutions/we-have-stopped-blogging/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:09:45 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/we-have-stopped-blogging/ We have stopped blogging Once blogging was a thing Not a thing to talk about business But a place where people would share ideas thoughts moments emotions stories with each others. I think we should do more of that We should start blogging again. We should bring this conversation back. We left to the Facebooks and the Twitters take the control of the conversations (and no, I am not ranting against these platforms, for a change… see, I actually think Facebook and Twitter and social media as a whole has enabled a lot more people to get in touch with each other… the fact that they do other very bad thing is a different story, but fundamentally, as a conversational platform, they are pretty good…) https://yasha.solutions/server-security-scan-manpage/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/server-security-scan-manpage/ chkrootkit – Linux rootkit scanner What it does : Find rootkits Where to find it : in your distribution – or on chkrootkit.org Malware protection Option 1: ISPProtect – 90 euro / year but worth it. Where to find it : ispprotect.com Step #1: Get a licence Step #2: Download and install and run Then indicate your key number or trial if you want a trial version. Indicate /var/www to start the scan on the web installs. https://yasha.solutions/voice-iot/ Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/voice-iot/ Voice and IOT Amazon Echo, Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomePod and Siri (and Microsoft Cortana) are all fighting to control the voice market. While they get full respect for doing so, I am not gonna say I am particularly trusting any of these companies to provide us with the best level of privacy, service and control over what we do with our devices and how is the data used. Therefore I am compiling here some resources which I’ll probably update as we go on interesting DIY tools to build similar devices. https://yasha.solutions/be-interesting-to-somebody/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/be-interesting-to-somebody/ Not to anybody. You cannot be interesting to anybody. Whatever medium you are using to express yourself – it won’t work with every human being. So instead of trying to please the world – go make sure the people your information is intended to reach – actually catch their attention. If you don’t know – just pick one and go with it. You will have an other opportunity tomorrow to write for the other crowd you have ignored today. https://yasha.solutions/newsletter-email-confirmation-nextcloud-justanexample/ Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/newsletter-email-confirmation-nextcloud-justanexample/ Nextcloud is an awesome solution to create and manage your own cloud you should really check them out if you have never heard of them. Here we have a quick look at the newsletter confirmation – an always challenging issue for open rate and engagement with your users. I found this one pretty good – so I have added it here. Why is it good? It gets personal It gets personnal real quick – which force you to care about that guy who is writing to you. https://yasha.solutions/are-you-a-robot/ Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/are-you-a-robot/ Automation is coming. It is affecting nearly all industries. And it would be stupid to ignore it. But aren’t we taking the frenzy a tad too far? (Disclaimer: This article is a bit messy – I have tried my best to give it a decent shape – but if we are to be honnest, it needs some serious re-writing – which I will probably do – but I wanted to get this out now anyway – so take it as a work in progress with maybe a few unfinished thoughts / sentence here and there…) https://yasha.solutions/50-shades-of-truth/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/50-shades-of-truth/ Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. (R. Anthony) Certainty is cool. We love when we can feel confident. It makes our world emotionaly safer.  Also – we hate it when we have to issue a correction about a statement we made that turned out wrong.  Certainty is a certain form of safety.  Complexity leads to mistakes – which leads to lack of certainty… https://yasha.solutions/how-to-post-with-wp-cli/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/how-to-post-with-wp-cli/ Right, so this is probably not for everyone – but I just wanted to share.   Vim plugin – not this time Before you just say – “hey there is a plugin for that” – (If you don’t know, Vim as a bunch of plugin and I would advise you check VimAwesome to get an idea of how many things you can do with this tiny piece of software.) So obviously among all the plugins, there are a few dedicated to manage your WordPress blog directly in VIM. https://yasha.solutions/laravel-dashboards/ Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/laravel-dashboards/ 1. LaraAdmin GitHub : https://github.com/dwijitsolutions/laraadmin Website: http://laraadmin.com/ 2. Backpack https://backpackforlaravel.com/ 3. Voyager https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager Website: https://laravelvoyager.com/ 4. CRUD Booster http://crudbooster.com/ 5. Quick Admin https://github.com/LaravelDaily/quickadmin 6. Z-Song https://github.com/z-song/laravel-admin 7. appzcoder https://github.com/appzcoder/crud-generator 8. SleepingOwlAdmin https://github.com/LaravelRUS/SleepingOwlAdmin  On Code Canyon – Paid stuff https://codecanyon.net/item/laravel-crud-cms-sximo-5-lts/11893533?ref=ericbarnes https://codecanyon.net/item/josh-laravel-admin-template-front-end-crud/8754542?ref=ericbarnes https://codecanyon.net/item/admin-architect-administration-framework-for-laravel/13528564?ref=ericbarnes https://codecanyon.net/item/plmb-powerful-laravel-crud-generator-package-builder-dynamic-report-builder-admin-template/17314714   https://yasha.solutions/waiting-screenmediatempleuxjustanexample/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/waiting-screenmediatempleuxjustanexample/ justSomeUX is a series where I share some interesting UX / UI and smart copy for your inspiration (and my archive of references).  Media Temple is a web hosting company – at the high-end spectrum – I mean they are pretty good – both in service and in functionalities and options for hosting your site. But… I just created a site on it the other day and they had a super cool UX trick for their waiting screen. https://yasha.solutions/adot-campaign-words-kills-war-adspiration/ Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/adot-campaign-words-kills-war-adspiration/ adspiration is a series of post where I store interesting ads campaign for the purpose of documenting and referencing how we communicate ideas and concepts       https://yasha.solutions/if-it-is-free-you-are-not-the-product/ Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/if-it-is-free-you-are-not-the-product/ _“If it is free, you are the product” _ This statement is an easy shot. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are free because they use our data. Therefore we are bound to agree to this fact or simply close our social account and disconnect from the rest of the world.But is it really true? Can we never see anything offered for free that is not perverted at its core? It is not what you think The usual argument says : “Free for the users, means that you have to pay with your privacy and the reason for it is that since you are not willing to pay for the service, then somebody has to – hence advertisers“. https://yasha.solutions/vintage-ads-facebook-youtube-adspiration/ Sat, 03 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/vintage-ads-facebook-youtube-adspiration/ adspiration is a series of post where I store interesting ads campaign for the purpose of documenting and referencing how we communicate ideas and concepts The following is an a series of print ads realised for Maxi Media – around the topic – “everything age fast” Youtube Vintage Ad  Skype Vintage Ad  Twitter Vintage Ad  Facebook Vintage ad     https://yasha.solutions/e-estonia-is-the-digital-utopia-for-real/ Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/e-estonia-is-the-digital-utopia-for-real/ Eesti Vabariik – the Republic of Estonia 45,339 Km2 and a population 1.3 M people which like a ten time less than Paris or London. They have a complex and interesting history (actually most countries have an interesting history – but maybe it is a personal taste.)  But what is really interesting is how Estonia use the digital to organise their society. E-residency E-voting E-school E-police E-etc.  It looks quite a digital utopia… https://yasha.solutions/10-laws-of-project-management/ Mon, 22 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/10-laws-of-project-management/ Augustine’s Law A bad idea executed to perfection is still a bad idea Corollary: A good idea poorly executed is of no use to anyone  Lakein’s Law Failing to plan is planning to fail Eisenhower’s corollary : Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.  Fitzgerald’s Law There are two states to any large project : too early to tell and too late to stop Corollary: Projects have momentum, once started they become increasingly difficult to stop https://yasha.solutions/3-elearning-platform-you-probably-never-heard-of/ Mon, 22 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/3-elearning-platform-you-probably-never-heard-of/ We always talk about elearning through the lense of MOOCs and self-study management. WordPress (Sensei, Learndash, LeanPress, WP-Courseware), Moodle, edX, Blackboard, Canvas, Sakai and others come out as the solutions mentioned over and over again.  Here I wanted to show you three different directions for education and elearning needs.  HR Driven: JollyDeck JollyDeckis an HR driven elearning platform to help managers and training departments develop and deploy internal learning strategies. https://yasha.solutions/justanexample-donation-options-the-canary/ Sun, 21 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/justanexample-donation-options-the-canary/ justSomeUX is a series where I share some interesting UX / UI and smart copy for your inspiration (and my archive of references). Asking for donations is never easy. Well, the Canary found a nice way to phrase it. >Interesting Donation UX Why is good? It gives perspective Make you realise that spend money more on dumb stuff so you might as well give them so of it https://yasha.solutions/finish-your-ideas/ Sun, 21 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/finish-your-ideas/ We all have ideas. Sometime we don’t even realise we do, as we don’t always pay attention to the flow of our mind. Some ideas come and pass and never come back. Some stick around. Sometime we turn these ideas into action. But even then we seldom finish them.  Parkinson’s law Parkinson’s law is a project-management rule of thumb stating that : “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” https://yasha.solutions/how-big-is-google/ Sun, 21 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/how-big-is-google/ I was working earlier on a post on privacy, then realised I cannot even start to give a proper introduction to it without laying down some facts first. So, there will be no jumping straight into the subject of privacy, centralisation of the internet, and how politics is affecting the internet as a whole. Instead, we will take a couple of posts to really define the current state of the internet, also give an historical perspective, before diving into the core of the subject. https://yasha.solutions/everything-is-a-remix/ Sat, 20 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/everything-is-a-remix/ The quote above is a funny, yet very accurate introduction to the topic developed in the documentary by Kirby Ferguson : Everything is a Remix. (side note: If you care who said this quote go check this link to figure out why nobody really knows.) Everything is a remix explores the concept of originality in creativity.  Never heard of it? Please, take the time to watch it below. https://yasha.solutions/do-what-you-cant/ Wed, 17 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/do-what-you-cant/ They did not know it was impossible so they did it — Mark Twain  Rules, somehow, always, seems to be a barrier to innovation.   Status-quo is cultural protectionism The status-quo creates artificial scarcity. Because it promotes the lack of initiative It supports business as usual. The status-quo is opposed to disruption, to change, to innovation. It is opposed to improvement. It is the systemic manifestation of the resistance. https://yasha.solutions/milgram-experiment-company-culture-work-ethics/ Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/milgram-experiment-company-culture-work-ethics/ Or why “do as you are told” is a bad idea. In 1964, Stanley Milgram back then a young researcher at Yale University, published the resultsa famous experiment known to this day as the Milgram Experiment. The set up is simple: The subject of the experiment takes part himself in a (staged) experiment supposed to study the impact of pain on memory and learning. For this, he is asked by the experimenter to administer increasingly strong electric shocks to a test subject for every wrong answer. https://yasha.solutions/millennials-are-a-myth/ Sun, 14 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/millennials-are-a-myth/ Millenials (people born after 1980 and before 2000) are defined as : lazy entitled unattached not motivated by money want more holidays more horseshit The point of this post is to share a truth more and more commonly agreed upon: Millenials are not real. “Millennials” as a concept is mainly a huge pile of crap. And I just stumbled upon wonderful talk by Adam Conover, and I think he made the point pretty brilliantly so please what the talk down there. https://yasha.solutions/just-an-example-newsletter-email-confirmation-powazek/ Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/just-an-example-newsletter-email-confirmation-powazek/ justAnExample is a series where I share some interesting UX / UI and smart copy for your inspiration (and my archive of references). Here today we have a newsletter done by Derek Powazek– veteran startup guy now growing vegetables in a farm.       Why this is good : Transparency Empathy Humor  Transparency Sharing his lack of clarity, being very honest from the beginning is a good way to get your people to trust you. https://yasha.solutions/the-elearning-revolution/ Wed, 03 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/the-elearning-revolution/ Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education The lady from Courseratells you how it is done and what they have learned. Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education The guy who founded the Khan Academytalks to you about what online video can do for schooling and education. https://yasha.solutions/a-fews-things-to-pay-attention-to-on-linkedin/ Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/a-fews-things-to-pay-attention-to-on-linkedin/ #1 – Pay attention to your photo Your profile is 21 times more likely to be viewed if you have a profile photo. That’s also the first thing people will use to get a first understanding of who you are. So, make sure your photo is clean and broadcast the kind of feeling your want – not just the photo you had available while doing your account. #2 – Pay attention to your headline Your LinkedIn headline matters because : https://yasha.solutions/beer-conversation-and-bridging-the-opinion-gap/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/beer-conversation-and-bridging-the-opinion-gap/ We are all different. Color, Race, Religions. Different brands of toothpaste. Different opinions. Lately, having different opinions is starting to turn into a real issue.  Up to a point where people can’t even have a conversation about it. (Arguably, this was always the case, just that now, it seems it is getting harder to just ignore others’ opinions)  It is not always easy to to discuss. Open conversations are hard. https://yasha.solutions/constraints-creativity-startups-funding/ Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/constraints-creativity-startups-funding/ When options are limited, people produce more solutions – not less. When people are limited they try to improve and optimise.  The opposite is true. It is known as Parkinson’s Law : “Work expands so as to fill the time available for it’s completion”  Well, seems like what is true for time budget is also true for financial budget. The more money there is available the more money you will use for your project. https://yasha.solutions/linkedin-social-media-101/ Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/linkedin-social-media-101/ Everyone knows LinkedIn – yet not everybody use it to its full power (and I totally include myself in this “everybody”). Linkedin has a lot of potential and here are some interesting tips I would suggest you have a look at. Some history & stats Founded in Dec, 2002 (When Windows XP was still at the top of its hype) Launched in May, 2003 (yes, you were a couple of years younger…) https://yasha.solutions/up-your-linkedin-skills-with-3-talks-on-linkedin-strategy/ Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/up-your-linkedin-skills-with-3-talks-on-linkedin-strategy/ Paul Copcutt: LinkedIn -Where your sales and marketing meet And also how can piñada and LinkedIn help to sell accounting services… Become a LinkedIn Search Ninja Spend 3 days to find valuable information on LinkedIn search. Found it. Social Selling by LinkedIn with LinkedIn This lady kicks ass. Very good video on social selling. https://yasha.solutions/art-is-about-creating-perspective/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/art-is-about-creating-perspective/ Design is about solving problem Art is about creating perspective Both place the human dimension at the center of their craft It is never about the tool or the medium per se It is always about the experience Imagination is the trigger Pulling the trigger take you out of this world Use text – images – sound – video – animation – sculpture – theatre – anything. Take the weapon of your choice. https://yasha.solutions/the-dystopian-ar-vr/ Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/the-dystopian-ar-vr/ I am a big believer that technology is neither bad nor good. Technology is just a tool than enable our capacity to be more of what we are already. We can use technology to solve problems. Potentially, we can create a better society. But it is not up to technology but how we use it.  Recently – Virtual Reality (VR) Augmented Reality (AR) are more and more trendy. Everyone is super excited about where all this is going. https://yasha.solutions/make-shit-happen/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/make-shit-happen/ #Make shit happen Get out and shout your truth to the world You might be wrong but you will never know until you get it out Breaking news: the world will go on with or without you – so better you become an active part of it. #Just do it Just move on and create. Make new things happen. Try out. Produce. Experiment. Throw things out to the world and see what sticks. https://yasha.solutions/make-your-own-iphone-a-crazy-and-fascinating-experiment/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/make-your-own-iphone-a-crazy-and-fascinating-experiment/ Ever wonder if you can build your own phone? Well this guy did. Last time I checked how to make a phone myself, the only thing I could find always seemed very hard and not very practical (just have a look at this DIY Smartphonebased on a rasperry-pi) But the Strange Parts’s project is really impressive and give plenty of hopes for a different future of DIY-phones. While I am probably not going to that myself, it is still rather instructive and inspiring. https://yasha.solutions/wtf-is-shenzhen/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/wtf-is-shenzhen/ Ok, if you have never heard of Shenzhen, China you might want to get yourself up to date with this quick article – because really, it is getting more and more attention lately, as it has turned into a major platform of electronic hardware manufacturing of the past 15 years.  Located north of Hong Kong, Shenzen is the center of the supply chain hub for electronics. All of the major contract manufacturers working for Apple, HP, Microsoft and all the big guys all are there. https://yasha.solutions/mastodon-a-lightweight-that-can-weight-a-lot/ Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/mastodon-a-lightweight-that-can-weight-a-lot/ So, the news broke. It’s all over the Internet. Mastodonis the new cool kid on the block. It came out on my radars a few months ago on ProductHunt, but now it’s “officially” a serious project : At least most of the major media outlets like for instance : Mashable: Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon.Mic: What is Mastodon? Everything to know about new social network**Yahoo: **Mastodon, the new alternative to Twitter**The Verge: **Mastodon. https://yasha.solutions/the-cloud-is-dead-long-live-the-cloud/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/the-cloud-is-dead-long-live-the-cloud/ Edit: looking back at this post from a few years back, it does look incredibly naive but still leaving this up - still a a few good links Back in the (not-so-distant) days, if you wanted to have some online software — to manage your invoices or your customers — or any kind of business management solution — you had to have your own servers for your company and install-and-configure the hell out of it. https://yasha.solutions/why-should-you-give-a-damn-about-the-internet/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/why-should-you-give-a-damn-about-the-internet/ When I talk to people about the Internet – the first reaction is always : “Yes! Today you have no choice”. Then when I dig a little deeper – you hear the real stories. The “Yes… but…” – not in our industry – people are not buying online really – the market is not ready – it is still early So first, who is connected? Look, in case you haven’t noticed but everyone is. https://yasha.solutions/diy-tracing-lightbox-project-resources/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/diy-tracing-lightbox-project-resources/ For a project I am working on I had to find a way to build some lightpad on the cheap. Lightpad or Tracing lights – and I found these 3 different ways to go at it.  Walmart-style DIY lightpad Not much building-welding-connecting involved. Just buy 20 euros of office supplies and you are done. I might go with that one. Thanks   Makerspace-style lightbox From Instructables, I found this interesting under 30 dollars version. https://yasha.solutions/content-is-king/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/content-is-king/ That’s not new. That’s also not something people pay enough attention to. Content is king for a reason. Content is the expression of your knowledge. Content is what help you communicate your brand. Content is what define if you exist or not on the internet. Content is what connect people with each other. Content is what make your voice meaningful. Content is what help you make a difference For all these reasons and many others, content is king. https://yasha.solutions/the-cult-of-done-manifesto/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/the-cult-of-done-manifesto/ It is an original piece from Bre Pettis and Kio Stark – under Creative Common. For me it is a reminder that done is better than perfect, and no matter how creative you want to be there is a point where actual delivery matter more than potential awesomeness . Here it is:      https://yasha.solutions/remote-preparation-for-your-next-networking-travel-hustle-hacks-101/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/remote-preparation-for-your-next-networking-travel-hustle-hacks-101/ So you want to grow your network and are prepared to travel for it – or the other way around – you are travelling to a remote place and you see this as an opportunity to network and grow your base. You will be town for a day or two, maybe a week maximum, and you want to see how to find the right people and the right event to get on your agenda and make the best out of your trip. https://yasha.solutions/make-your-meetings-more-efficient/ Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/make-your-meetings-more-efficient/ Meetings can suck your time and your life. But… that is still also one of the best way we know to actually coordinate with each other and make sure agreements flows into an organisation. Yet, when you call for a meeting you can still make sure your time will be well used by creating a frame within which the conversation will happen. What do you need this meeting for? A meeting about a topic in general is not good enough for people to really prepareto your meeting (we assume people want to come prepared to your meeting). https://yasha.solutions/3-myths-about-wordpress/ Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/3-myths-about-wordpress/ Here are three myths about WordPress that really annoy the sh*t out of me because they are just so outrageously outdated and so misinformed that it 100% piss me off to still hear such BS said in meetings – especially when it comes from the IT guy in a company. However, I know it is counter-productive to shout at people for things they do not know, especially when they act out of lack of knowledge and are just repeating what some other uninformed person told them – so I thought it would be better for me to write about it and email it calmly to people (while pressing that “Send” button with rage…) https://yasha.solutions/time-management-hustle-hack-101/ Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/time-management-hustle-hack-101/ Yes, procrastination sucks, but it is part of life, stop complaining about it and do something about it. Here are some tips I am using myself or have used at some point and have helped me along the way. Start somewhere with a schedule for your days with objectives Achieving your goals assumes you have defined some, and if your day is not going as you want, probably worth thinking what was that you wanted on the first place, what were you goals for the day, and what did you plan to achieve that you didn’t do. https://yasha.solutions/so-you-want-to-sell-stuff-online/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/so-you-want-to-sell-stuff-online/ Selling online has the highest profit margin. It’s also one of the cheapest way to sell direct to consumer at scale. That’s also why it is growing rapidly over the past 5 years, and it will keep growing as the world is going increasingly digital. So, if you want to make the jump to ecommerce and sell online, let’s have a look at what you want to consider before you build anything. https://yasha.solutions/colinpowel-13-rules-of-leadership/ Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/colinpowel-13-rules-of-leadership/ “It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” “Get mad, then get over it.” “Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.” “It can be done.” “Be careful what you choose: You may get it.” “Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.” “You can’t make someone else’s decisions. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours. https://yasha.solutions/so-you-want-to-change-the-world-change-how-you-communicate/ Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/so-you-want-to-change-the-world-change-how-you-communicate/ Communication is at the heart of human relationships. Human relationships is what allow us to build a common future. If you want to change this common future you need to learn how to communicate about the future you want and why it should matter to others humans. If they know why it matters, they will be more encline to listen how to get there. Then, you will be able to tell them what to do to make this a reality. https://yasha.solutions/laziness-is-unconscious-incompetence/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/laziness-is-unconscious-incompetence/ I stumbled upon this video the other day. Some ex navy seal guy, they do army-style training programs for people who like to get their butt kicked. But also, they happen to have very good content on psychology of motivation (which actually make sense given what they do as a job.) The following video is about the reasons behind lack of motivation, lazy-style, I’ll do it tomorrow approach. TL;DW: Lazy is incompetence-driven. https://yasha.solutions/the-resistance/ Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/the-resistance/ Steven Pressfield has really coined the term *resistance in his famous book The War of Art amongts some other books he dedicated to it, and his words are so accurate that it is a must read for everyone in the business of making shit happen. TL;DR The resistance is a phenomenon well known to creative people, entrepreneurs and anybody trying to make something different and/or new happen – to some extent it is like a force of nature that manifest itself against our will to improve, our desire to advance. https://yasha.solutions/the-org-chart-of-a-dying-organisation/ Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/the-org-chart-of-a-dying-organisation/ If this look like the org. chart of the place you work at, you might want to consider thinking to go somewhere else.  No organisation ever started to end up like this, but it usually happen when you do not ingrain a culture of learning into your people and your organisation. This happen when you put people who are just about the how, without understanding the why. The moment people stop caring where the company is going, and just care about their “job” you know things will turn bad. https://yasha.solutions/posts/oldgatsby/drafts/18next-html-in-strings/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/posts/oldgatsby/drafts/18next-html-in-strings/ React-i18next https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16038458/html-tags-in-i18next-translation https://yasha.solutions/URL-NAME/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://yasha.solutions/URL-NAME/ Place your content here Better Wordpress Development not your typical guide to build a theme or plugin but more how to to build a solid worflow to keep your data safe and avoid bad surprises. plugin updates in production working multiple developpers ensure testing work with version control add automation to your wokflow Wordpress is just one specific way to get data into and out of a database, display it as HTML, and link up your CSS/JS.