Everyone is buzzing about Cyber Monday these days, looking for the best offers to suit their needs. But what about you? What if you could do something different this year... The post 8 Cyber Monday Deals For Designers You Need to Check Out appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Matthias Noback has written up an article where he suggests "being intolerant on your software development" as it relates to being stubborn about the quality/structure/etc. of your project's code. During the holiday I read a book mentioned to me by Pim Elshoff: "Skin in the game", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Discussing this concept of "skin in the game" with Pim had made me curious about the book. [...] Something that's controversial, yet interesting for me as a developer in a team - from Chapter 2, "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority": "Society doesn't evolve by consensus. [...] All one needs is an asymmetric rule somewhere - and someone with soul in the game. And asymmetry is present in about everything." He relates this back to software development, pointing out that many of the important decisions about a project aren't made by committee. Rather they're made by a single source, either a individual on the team or an outside source of "truth". He makes some suggestions as to how this kind of structure can be put in place by doing more than talking and "having skin in the game" as it relates to the impact your decisions make on your software.

This week's Designer News (No 472) includes HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now?, Dad Joke CLI, Professional Programming Resources, Test Driving Programming Fonts, Web Page Usability Matters, The 10 Year Challenge for Popular Websites, Lots of Freebies and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 472 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is arguably the most talked-about technology in the recent decade. While there are still several AI-based solutions still in the development stage, there are several others that are helping businesses, as well as customers, save time, effort, and expenses. In this article, we will discuss some of the solutions powered by AI...

We take a look at how to identify areas of your business that are not doing much for you financially. From there, we examine those areas to see if they should stay or go. The post Dealing with the Low or No-Profit Areas of Your Freelance Web Design Business appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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This article contains a brief introduction to Lighthouse, discusses the advantages of running it programmatically, and walks through a basic configuration.

The minimalist design is extremely attractive and fashionable and can bring many benefits to the owners of such sites. The minimalist design helps the visitors to quickly focus on what they search. Also, a big advantage when using a minimalist theme is that the entire content is easily readable and translated into simple design elements […] The post 25 Minimal WordPress Themes for Simple and Clean Websites appeared first on Line25.

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