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Pantone's Color of the Year Is 'Solid and Dependable' Classic Blue

Some have decried the selection as dull, but Pantone prefers to frame it as "a timeless and enduring hue"

2020 is not only a new year, but a new decade. Classic blue reminds me of a calm and peaceful ocean. May peace find you in this new decade. 

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10 Git Commands You Should Know

Plus tips to save time with Git

Is it weird to get a tattoo of these commands???

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Emulation Is Not a Product Strategy

Copying other successful companies opens up risks that may tank your product — which is exactly what happened to YouTube Premium.

To copy or not to copy, that is the question? Sometimes a strategy that works for one company may not necessarily work for another as the vision for each company, department or even team differs. 

While there is merit in “not recreating the wheel”, we must always be aware of the uniqueness that makes a process or idea successful. 

Please check out this article on “Emulation is not a Strategy” :-)

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How Debugging Can Make You a Better Developer. – The Startup – Medium

Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out.

“When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.”

Best line in this entire article :-)

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One of my joys in life is searching for new fonts. How we apply fonts however, is also quite important.

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Before you can master design, you must first master the fundamentals

Last week, one of my readers sent in a question: How do I become a better visual designer?

Sometimes I like to revisit why good designs work. This article breaks it down like corexit.

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Machine Learning for Anyone who Took Math in 8th Grade

Media and sci-fi tend to hype A.I. as something like human consciousness. But in reality, it’s just math.

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Graphic brutality: posters of Italian brutalist architecture – in pictures

Brutalismo is a poster series of Italian brutalist architecture by London-based graphic designer Peter Chadwick

A close friend of mine with a keen eye on design trends was explaining the concept of brutalism to me. I have seen examples of this design in different aspects throughout the years but I’m sooooooo happy I found this article. 

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FAQs to Bots

Today at work I saw a presentation on converting an FAQ to a bot by using Micrsoft’s QnA Maker - https://qnamaker.ai/

Within the next few weeks, I would be putting this tech to the test and hopefully give an update on it :-) 

Question is, what type of FAQs to I want to feed my bot......

It is definitely a time to call upon the powers of an idle mind :-D

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The Mistakes I Made As a Beginner Programmer – Samer Buna – Medium

Learn to identify them, make habits to avoid them

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Have you ever played around with Google Web Design? Looks like an interesting tool. 

https://www.google.com/webdesigner/ 

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Tips and tricks for AngularJS developers

Because..................it could be a trap sometimes :-) 

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Looking forward to experimenting with some of these concepts. 

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Post from: https://venngage.com/blog/graphic-design-trends/ 

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