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tuesday
15 Jun 2021
How to Get Yourself to Do Things raptitude.com

I have a special sympathy for sufferers of a particular human problem, and I get more emails about it than just about any other topic.

The moment you start acting on something, you are at the beginning of the end of the anxiety associated with that thing.

The two most important insights, however, are the first ones:

  • Ignore your “stuff”; focus only on things
  • When you don’t know what to do, get one of your things past the starting point
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How to Get Yourself to Do Things
General
Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room news.ycombinator.com

The rise of online shopping has posed significant challenges for fashion retailers. The lack of ability to try on and visualize outfits has made shopping less interactive, contributing to low conversion rates and high return rates compared to brick-and-mortar shopping. Virtual dressing rooms can recreate the lost experience of trying on clothes in person. There are other companies working on a virtual dressing room. However, the reason why this is not taking off is scalability. Fashion ecommerce platforms have thousands, if not millions of SKUs. Current approaches generally require custom Photoshop work or expensive 3D models which are difficult to scale. In contrast, our solution leverages our machine learning research to automate the entire process, resulting in the first scalable virtual dressing room that can be easily integrated with any large e-commerce platform with millions of SKUs.

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Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room
General
Stripe Identity stripe.com

Stripe Identity lets you programmatically confirm the identity of global users so you can prevent attacks from fraudsters while minimizing friction for legitimate customers.

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Stripe Identity
General
Does the Hamburger Menu Make Mincemeat of UX Design? uxpin.com

The hamburger menu looks as tasty as it sounds. It’s a design-cum-navigation element, now on almost all apps, that comprises three horizontal lines. It looks like a hamburger. Picture something like this:

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Does the Hamburger Menu Make Mincemeat of UX Design?
Design
WordPress 5.8 Introduces Support for WebP Images wptavern.com

WebP support is coming to WordPress 5.8. This modern image file format was created by Google in September 2010, and is now supported by 95% of the web browsers in use worldwide. It has distinct advantages over more commonly used formats, providing both lossless and lossy compression that is 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs and 25-34% smaller than comparable JPEG images.

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WordPress 5.8 Introduces Support for WebP Images
Development
Boost your design using isometric 3D constructor isometrica.xyz

Look how you can create a unique realistic 3D room combining blocks, adding objects and shadows

Realistic shadows that easy to apply

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Boost your design using isometric 3D constructor
Design
sunday
13 Jun 2021
Disasters I've seen in a microservices world world.hey.com

When Martin Fowler's post about microservices came out in 2014, the teams where I worked were already building service-oriented architectures. That post and the subsequent hype made their way into almost every software team in the world. The "Netflix OSS stack" was the coolest thing back then, allowing engineers worldwide to leverage Netflix's lessons in distributed systems. More than six years later, if we look into software engineering jobs right now, most of them talk about a microservices' architecture.

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Disasters I've seen in a microservices world
Development
Glue: the Dark Matter of Software blog.metaobject.com

"Software seems 'large' and 'complicated' for what it does". I keep coming back to this quote by Alan Kay.

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Development
18 Pure CSS Animated Page Loaders csshint.com

Latest Collection of hand-picked Pure CSS Animated Page Loaders examples code and download Zip.

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18 Pure CSS Animated Page Loaders
Design
Perfection in Design: Why It’s a Bad Idea hongkiat.com

If you are a designer or a developer, you’d probably know that trying to make your project perfect can extend the time needed to complete the project-even several times. There’s always that one last element you want to improve quickly before sending it. But in my opinion Perfection is equal to fascism.

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Perfection in Design: Why It’s a Bad Idea
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