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SLC-2L-15: Cross-Pollination

Lighting with flash can give you more than just the ability to control the quality of your light. With the inherent consistency of light from (manual) flash, you can layer in slices of time as well.  But first, you’ll want to lock down two things: the ambient light portion of your exposure, and your camera’s […]

the memory palace

Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens’: Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of… Source […]

How to save enough money for retirement

article Start early and evaluate your plans regularly to stay on track. (iStock) Americans in their 60s have a median of $172,000 saved for retirement, according to a study by Transamerica. However, workers of all ages estimate they’ll need $1 million stashed away to feel financially comfortable once they leave the workforce. Reaching retirement age […]

CAULIFLOWER BOLOGNESE — Sprouted Kitchen

“I want you to come watch the movie with us ON the couch, not be in the kitchen!” I’ve been filling out this one-question-a-day journals for moms that I received for Christmas. It records a little thought or memory over the last year, and then starts again, so you can see how your answers change […]

Great teams merge fast

One of the many things I was constantly amazed about during my first few weeks at Square/Cash App was seeing how fast this team shipped code. All members of the Android team (and likely other platforms as well) were merging to the main git branch multiple times every day. This was in stark contrast to […]

Before You memo() — overreacted

There are many articles written about React performance optimizations. In general, if some state update is slow, you need to: Verify you’re running a production build. (Development builds are intentionally slower, in extreme cases even by an order of magnitude.) Verify that you didn’t put the state higher in the tree than necessary. (For example, […]