It's my last week in Lithuania.After 6 long months, I'm excited to change the environment. First stop – Barcelona.It's a little hectic as I'm trying to manage work, fun and home hunting but these are all good problems to have.Welcome to another edition of Life Designed where I sh … | Continue reading
Welcome to the third issue of Spatial Awareness, a regular editorial focused on the maps and the spatial community. Each issue I’ll highlight the most interesting and inspiring things that I’ve found — cool demos, new tools, tutorials, beautiful maps, interviews, behind-the-scene … | Continue reading
In 9 days, my wife and I are moving to Spain. We'll stay near Barcelona for a week (July 6-12) and then head to Valencia where we're planning to rent an apartment for half a year or so.If you're around and want to have a chat over coffee, respond to this email so we can arrange s … | Continue reading
Welcome to the second issue of Spatial Awareness, a regular editorial focused on the maps and the spatial community. Each issue I’ll highlight the most interesting and inspiring things that I’ve found — cool demos, new tools, tutorials, beautiful maps, interviews, behind-the-scen … | Continue reading
Last weekend I spent hours retouching my blog. I updated fonts, colors, and menus to make it easier for you to navigate and read. What do you think?Thank you for the first paid supporters of Life Designed! With your help, I'll be able to keep pushing this newsletter and helping m … | Continue reading
A regular editorial focused on the maps and the spatial community. Each issue I'll highlight the most interesting and inspiring things that I've found — cool demos, new tools, tutorials, beautiful maps, interviews, behind-the-scenes and more. | Continue reading
The other day, one of my readers, Bruce Layman shared a provoking question that makes the decision-making process easier.Simply ask yourself “Is this (book, movie, TV show, podcast, band, etc.) for me?”If not, it’s okay. Let other people enjoy it and continue consuming the things … | Continue reading
This week I'm reading It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work. A smart business book by the co-founders of a remote software company Basecamp.Oh boy, what a good and awakening read in an ocean full of 24/7 hustlers.The authors start with the following:What’s worse is that long hours, … | Continue reading
On Monday, at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Apple introduced a privacy-focused login tool called "Sign in with Apple." Like similar products from Facebook and Google, Apple's login tool will authenticate you into various apps made my third-party developers. But … | Continue reading
The last couple of weeks I was busy working on some exciting stuff.If you ever wanted to become an author, I have an exclusive all-done-for-you opportunity for you.Get your name on the cover, dedicated chapter, free copies, global digital distribution, email promotion to over 1 m … | Continue reading
The world is changing fast and not all for the better... Our relationship with technology is becoming increasingly characterized by dependency, regret, and loss of control. This fives us digital designers a a growing responsibility.This (beautiful) essay tells this story in a ver … | Continue reading
The world is changing fast and not all for the better... Our relationship with technology is becoming increasingly characterized by dependency, regret, and loss of control. This fives us digital designers a a growing responsibility.This (beautiful) essay tells this story in a ver … | Continue reading
Knowing yourself opens your eyes, it shows the way things, the world, and people are. Whether it’s ugly, beautiful, challenging or enlightening.Self-awareness is the best thing that can happen to you. It allows you to become who you really are, not what your family or society wan … | Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who came to say hi and DevOps Days Austin, great meeting and learning from you folks in person!This is a paper from Eric Hollnagel and David Woods where they are introducing the idea of cognitive systems engineering.It's a really cool look at the field and has … | Continue reading
Happy Wednesday! 🎉Your freedom is independent of my freedom. If I’m free and you’re not, is it freedom? I don’t think it’s a sum game.However, we’re still thinking that we can’t have the freedom to do what we want by not harming others.Is it true? If everyone wants to be … | Continue reading
Hi there, it's Robin. I am happy to see so many people picking up The Road to React || GraphQL || Firebase this year. There are lots of things changing in React at the moment, having React Hooks released, but still waiting for this other feature called React Suspense. Once this m … | Continue reading
Happy Labour Day! 🛠One’s horizon is always different. There are two horizons, actually. First is the visual horizon that limits your vision. When you look at the sea and see a beautiful straight line or look anywhere around you and can’t see past the obstacles, that’s the … | Continue reading
Back with an irregular issue of the newsletter about anything remotely related to the (digital) world. A world we should take care of, find out exactly how much your website contributes to a sustainable world. Never really realised how much 'the web' add to the global problem of … | Continue reading
Back with an irregular issue of the newsletter about anything remotely related to the (digital) world. A world we should take care of, find out exactly how much your website contributes to a sustainable world. Never really realised how much 'the web' add to the global problem of … | Continue reading
Hi folks, Robin here - I am the person behind The Road to learn React and other books/tutorials for JavaScript. Today I am super excited to launch The Road to React with Firebase :-)The book walks you through building a full-blown application with advanced React and Firebase. Fir … | Continue reading
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I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old son, Louie, on the 300th episode of the Recode Decode podcast. To the hundred or so of you who signed up for The Interface seemingly right after listening — welcome! And let me kno … | Continue reading
Just got back from the Usbynight Festival in Antwerp and will share some of the highlights.Absolut highlight on Thursday was David Carson. All-time graphical design hero and still going strong. Especially refreshing to see his work as a contrast between the digital world moving t … | Continue reading
Just got back from the Usbynight Festival in Antwerp and will share some of the highlights.Absolut highlight on Thursday was David Carson. All-time graphical design hero and still going strong. Especially refreshing to see his work as a contrast between the digital world moving t … | Continue reading