2022 Week 4 — Work harder doesn't make you more successful, Color-blindness simulator in Firefox, Art generator, Free resources for developers
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Often I feel low productivity in January, which is in between the Christmas/New year holiday and Luna New Year Holiday. But these weeks my work in the company is unusual busy and almost uses up all my energy. That results in lower writing speed during spare time and I often fell asleep at 9:30pm in the evening. Usually I used that silence time to write when my sons were asleep. Now I fell asleep with them together.
→ Productivity / Working harder doesn't make you more successful
https://justinjackson.ca/work-harder
For me, success has come from “consistently pushing forward, in the right direction.” To make progress, I wake up every day and push the rock a bit further down the road I want to go.
Before you can start taking action, you need to ask yourself:
"Which direction am I headed?"
Most of my direction in business was determined by asking these questions:
How do I want my life to be different?
What do I want my average day to look like?
What kind of freedom do I want?
What are my values?
This aligns with my work done = Energy x Time formula:
Work done = Energy x Time
Work done ≠ Productivity Work done
Work done towards Goal = Productivity Work done
→ Fun / Let’s Settle This
https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/
Let's vote if you pronounce "gif" or "jif" for gif.
→ Generator / Mondriaan meets CSS Grid
https://mondriaanmeetscssgrid.netlify.app/
I can’t stop but keep pressing “Generate new” button
→ Generator / Color Modulation — Generative Snacks!
https://georgefrancis.dev/snacks/color-modulation/
It is more organic to have randomness variants when generating colors.
→ Resource / Free for Developers
https://free-for.dev/
Many resources for developers. Even if those services are not free, this site lists the free usage limits.
→ Accessibility / Color vision simulation
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility_inspector/Simulation
Firefox has a built-in accessibility tool to simulate how color-blindness people see the website.
→ Python / NLP Quickbook
https://github.com/NirantK/NLP_Quickbook
NLP in Python with Deep Learning
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Until next week,
Thomas Mak
