Magical SVG Techniques

Smart SVG techniques, from generative SVG grids to SVG paths with masks, grainy SVG gradients, cut-out effects and fractional SVG stars. Let’s look at some magical SVG techniques that you can use right away.

Building a Threat Intelligence Feed using the Twitter API and a bit of code

The InfoSec community is highly active on Twitter. The platform is, among other things, used is for sharing malware and phishing URLs…

Staticman: Overview

I bring user-generated content to static sites

The rise of ‘bai lan’: why China’s frustrated youth are ready to ‘let it rot’

Phrase bai lan gains popularity as severe competition and social expectations leave many young people despondent

How the revamped Large Hadron Collider will hunt for new physics

Nature - The particle-smashing machine has fired up again — sparking fresh hope it can find unusual results.

42 years ago, the "Mother of Yoda" conquered Hollywood — then she vanished

You might not recognize the name Wendy Froud (née Midener), but in the practical effects world, she’s a legend. Her work even earned her one of pop culture’s greatest monikers: the Mother of Yoda.

How Submarines Regularly ‘Fight To The Death’ Off The Bahamas

Just like how Navy planes have vast instrumented ranges for aerial wargames, submarines have one too, and it is arguably even more impressive.

Giant container ships are ruining everything - FreightWaves

Megaships are helping cause our current supply chain chaos. Big container boats have hampered competition and clogged up ports.

What's the funniest name you've heard someone call an object when they couldn't remember its actual name?

24K votes, 10K comments. 49M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.

This Old Man

“I know how lucky I am, and secretly tap wood, greet the day, and grab a sneaky pleasure from my survival at long odds.”

Loki’s Place in Trickster Mythology

Smithsonian’s James Deutsch says that behind the character in the Marvel Studios series lies the oft-told story of “guile” outsmarting authority.

"Close Enough" Words for Things You Can't Remember

Have you ever had a brain fart and couldn't remember some common word or term that you needed to use? You can often get the point across by using whatever words might be close. That's how a peacock becomes a "disco chicken," or a cow can be called a "moo beast." In an AskReddit…

At Taco Bell, the Drag Brunch Goes Corporate

The glittery live shows have long been a staple in many cities, but the fast-food chain is taking that a step further.

When Major Leaguer Eddie Grant Made the Ultimate Sacrifice

The Harvard-trained lawyer and professional baseball player Eddie Grant volunteered to serve in World War I. He fought as he'd played: selflessly

Ron Cook: Pitt-West Virginia injecting some much-needed bad blood into this

Some people will tell you Pat Narduzzi did his finest work in 2021 when he led Pitt to the ACC championship. It was Pitt’s best season in 40 years....

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The Pricing Model That Increased Our Free Trial Signups by 358% (and Revenue by 25%)

We thought we were being smart with innovative pricing models. We were wrong, but we finally righted the ship.

The Intentional Network Effects of Uber

Few realize that Uber's core network effects aren't as strong as they seem. At this point, we count no less than 9 additional defensibilities Uber is pursuing to reinforce their core network effect.

Bathtub BS and the Great Art of Storytelling

"On December 20 there flitted past us, absolutely without public notice, one of the most important profane anniversaries in American history, to wit, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the introduction of the bathtub into These States. Not a plumber fired a salute or hung out a…

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Getting Started with Google Tag Manager, for Ecommerce

Many websites lose reporting from one of their marketing or analytics platforms. The culprit is usually the removal of tags during updates to the sites. Tags are critical for ecommerce merchants. But they add clutter to websites. That's the purpose of Google Tag Manager — to…

An Entrepreneur’s Guide To Patents: The Basics | TechCrunch

Editor's note: Brad Woodcox is a technical specialist focusing on startup development for Novak Druce + Quigg, an intellectual property super boutique law firm. Patents. A single word that incites a fervor in the online tech blogging realm, perhaps only behind the emotional…

A Brief Guide to Learning Faster (and Better) - Scott H Young

Learning a new thing comes with a lot of challenges. Discover tried and true tactics that can be used to learn anything better.

5 Effective Customer Loyalty Programs for Small Businesses - Help Scout

All you need to know about the benefits of customer loyalty programs for small business + examples of 5 types of programs to consider.

11 Types of Bad Customer Service (and How To Avoid Them) - Help Scout

Read stories of spectacularly bad customer service, plus get some tips for how to keep situations like these from happening at your company.

How to Hire a Product Manager

What makes a great product manager and how do you become one?

Pricing on Purpose (Summary)

getAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes.Ronald J. Baker makes a sound economic case that the traditional method of generating prices by calculating costs and figuring in an acceptable profit is outdated and u...

Pricing Psychology: A List of Tactics

Free Online Guide - Which digits to choose? How high should it be? Should it be rounded or precise? Plus other techniques.

SEO: Product Descriptions Are a Blind Spot for Ecommerce Merchants

Why does the ecommerce community have such a blind spot when it comes to unique product descriptions? Syndicated descriptions produce duplicate content. Why is duplicate product copy accepted so blindly? The answer depends on whether you’re the syndicator or the site using the…

Statistical Significance Calculator - FREE AB Test Calculator

Our A/B test calculator will help you to compare two or three variants to determine which test will be statistically significant.

gztchan/awesome-design: 🌟 Curated design resources from all over the world.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Image Augmentation using Pytorch

A way to increase the amount of data and make the model more robust

A Python Tutorial on Geomapping using Folium and GeoPandas

Maps and geography have been a long passion of mine, especially in my International Relations background. A side goal of mine as I grow as…

Similarity-Based Image Search for Visual Art

Evaluating similarity of visual art from both human perceptual & quantitative judgments

Python's fileinput module makes it easy to write CLI tools that operate on files or as a filter.

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An In-Depth Tutorial to Python Decorators That You Can Actually Use

Going knee-deep into the internals of Python

Ruby Web Scraping

86K subscribers in the ruby community. Celebrate the weird and wonderful Ruby programming language with us!

An in-depth SVG tutorial

SVG is an awesome and incredibly powerful image format. This tutorial gives you an overview of SVG by explaining all you need to know in a simple way

Two Tips for Better UX Storytelling

Effective storytelling involves both engaging the audience and structuring stories in a concise, yet effective manner. You can improve your user stories by taking advantage of the concept of story triangle and of the story-mountain template.

A Taxonomy of Moats

Value is created through innovation, but how much of that value accrues to the innovator depends partly on how quickly their competitors imitate the innovation. Innovators must deter competition to…

Useful Python decorators for Data Scientists

I show toy implementations of Python decorator patterns that may be useful for Data Scientists.

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Learn Street Epistemology To Deal With Difficult People at Work | Code Capsule

Learn the street epistemology conversation technique and how you can apply it at work.

One Line of Code to Accelerate Your Sklearn Algorithms on Big Data

The introduction of the intel sklearn extension. Make your Random Forest even faster than XGBoost.

CatBoost vs. LightGBM vs. XGBoost

Which is the best algorithm?

An SEO guide to audience research and content analysis

Target audience research is crucial for understanding the buying stages of your ideal customers. Here's how to do it.

sqlite-utils: a nice way to import data into SQLite for analysis

43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language

From Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian.

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Does turmeric’s reputation translate into real health benefits?

Clinical trials show that curcumin, present in the spice, may help fight osteoarthritis and other diseases, but there’s a catch – bioavailability, or how to get it into the blood