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Smashing Podcast Episode 47 With Sara Soueidan: Why Does Accessibility Matter? — Smashing Magazine
36 min read Smashing Podcast Share on Twitter, LinkedIn Quick summary ↬ In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask why accessibility really matters and why it is so important to get it right. Smashing’s Vitaly Friedman talks in-depth to Sara Soueidan to find out. In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we ask why accessibility really matters and why it is so important to get it right. Smashing’s Vitaly Friedman talks in-depth to Sara Soueidan to find out.
The Ultimate Free Solo Blog Setup With Ghost And Gatsby — Smashing Magazine
20 min read JavaScript, Gatsby, CMS Share on Twitter, LinkedIn Quick summary ↬ When it comes to tools for publishing a blog, it can seem like there’s never a perfect solution that mixes customization with easy admin. In this article, we will see step-by-step how you can get the best of both worlds by using Ghost as a headless CMS for a Gatsby static site. We will cover all the tricky parts in-depth and show you can do everything for free.
Why I Don’t Launch on Product Hunt
It’s not the be-all, end-all of product success Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash Don’t get me wrong, I like Product Hunt. I scroll sometimes and check out what’s been posted and give an upvote here and there.
Don’t Build a Startup, Build This Instead
Buying into the startup hype when it’s not right for you may not only waste your time, it might kill your business. Do this instead. Photo by Ewan Buck on Unsplash I’m going to say something that I think should be obvious, but really needs to be said: every new business is not a startup. The reason this might not be so obvious is that over the last several years, the definition of a startup according to most people has expanded so much that it seems to cover anything and everything under the sun.
How to Build a Gatsby Static Site Using Ghost as a Headless CMS
@gregdGreg Dickens Self-taught dev, maker, recovering banker, living in Greece. Building affordable digital tools for local news. Photo by Filiberto Santillán on Unsplash In this article, we will go through step-by-step how you can build a Gatsby static site that uses Ghost as a headless CMS. This way you can get the best of both worlds: the great writing experience of Ghost and all of the performance benefits of a Gatsby static-site.
Why I’m Not Afraid to Build Alone: Debunking the Solo-Founder Myth
Photo by Dan Gribbin on Unsplash Recently I decided to be more open about the fact that I’m building my business, Epilocal, by myself. I thought this was the best way to be transparent about my solo-project and to avoid the temptation to “fake it until I make it.” But isn’t this a huge mistake to go it alone? Doesn’t all the startup wisdom say that your founding team is one of the most important things? I’m not so convinced — I’ll tell you why I’m not afraid to build alone.
Entrepreneurial Lessons from 6 Months of Building a Business from Nothing
The most important lessons I’ve learned from bootstrapping my solo-project, Epilocal Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash I’ve been working on my own solo-project (providing tools for small online publishers), Epilocal, since the Fall. About 6 months ago I took the plunge to leave a steady job and focus full-time on trying to bootstrap it into a viable business.
Oliver Walsh of ASYSTEM: Getting An Upgrade; How Anyone Can Build Habits For Optimal Wellness, Performance, & Focus
As a part of our series about “How Anyone Can Build Habits For Optimal Wellness, Performance, & Focus”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Oliver Walsh. Oli Walsh is a seasoned entrepreneur and co-founder of the innovative self-care company, ASYSTEM. Prior to ASYSTEM, he was CMO of the women’s fashion retailer Aritzia, where he helped take the company public. He also co-founded and served as CEO to Wednesday Agency, the pioneering London-NYC creative agency.
Surgical advancement: be ready for the next five years
If you’ll forgive starting an article with wordplay, surgery has always been at the “cutting edge” of medical innovation. Maybe it’s the emergency nature of the needs that sharpens the inventive part of the mind. Maybe we’re just less willing to put up with imperfect systems under the stress of theatre. Whatever the reason, surgical innovation has always moved fast, and the integration of digital technology into the field is poised to make some real changes over the next five years.
Latest Veterinary News, Jobs & Clinical Resources
In the veterinary industry, our diagnostic needs are always changing. We have changing patterns of ownership, changing farming practices and an ever-advancing understanding of non-human pathophysiology, meaning there is always something new to detect. And changing business models, practice guidelines and public attitudes meaning there’s always new constraints on that detection.
Latest Veterinary News, Jobs & Clinical Resources
January 2020 seems like a lifetime ago. A different era. Who’d have thought, back in the golden days of barely eight weeks ago, that health advice would flip from “go outdoors” to “stay inside”, that toilet paper would become a tradeable commodity, or that the RCVS would support remote prescribing of veterinary medications (albeit temporarily)? Like everyone else, veterinary practices have had to rapidly adjust.
For future reference… Pet tech – friend or foe?
If Dr Emmett Brown taught us anything (other than how to properly accessorise a lab coat), it’s that the future is what we make it. For vets in the UK, making our future has always meant streamlining practices and integrating new technology. And, despite our trepidation, the profession has made huge leaps forward. Each time, we overcame our fears and reservations, and reasoned that the risk was worth taking for the tantalising promise of a better future for patient, client or vet.
The death of the career path and how you can survive and thrive without it
I remember when I started my first real banking job almost 10 years ago. One third of the office got laid off within the first month. And this was not some fly by night operation, this was one of the largest banks in the world. Sure, this was a unique period in time as the years immediately following the financial crisis were a time of great instability, especially for the major banks. But still, it’s a tough environment to start your career in.
Fyre Festival achieved perfect product-market fit (and that’s why we should question the Lean…
Photo by Forest Simon on Unsplash Like many people judging by its popularity, I was completely sucked into the recent Netflix documentary about Fyre Festival. Not only does it make for great entertainment, but it has led to a huge amount of articles from people have analyzed it for lessons from everything from marketing, to social media influencers, to the entire Millennial generation.
Corporate Grammar: Passive Voice and the Death of Accountability
If you ever had to say when a startup stops being a startup and turns into any normal corporation, filing for an IPO is a pretty good indication. And with this change comes an adoption of the type of corporate grammar that signals your days of moving fast and “changing the world” are pretty much over. Case in point: check out Uber’s IPO filing from last week which sounds about as corporate as can be.
Distraction disguised as learning: Duolingo, Codeacademy and why you should get back to basics
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash I moved to Greece this past fall after quitting my job in banking. The first thing I wanted to focus on before I got around to all of the project ideas I had in my head was to learn Greek. On the first day I arrived in Athens, I enrolled in a language school close to my apartment and started going to class every day, Monday to Friday. Classes are 4 hours per day, with another 3–4 hours of homework on top of that.
Business Insider ranked the Top 50 banks in Europe. Here are their APIs.
I wrote a piece a little while back about how a new regulation in Europe is forcing banks to share their data through APIs and is opening up a huge wave of opportunity when it comes to developing new digital products on top of this financial data.
The little-known tool that inspired the Lean Startup (and how you should be using it)
Photo by Fancycrave on Unsplash Much of the current way we think about managing start-ups now comes from the Lean Startup. Words like “pivot” and “minimum viable product” have become pretty standard vocabulary for anyone who is trying to get a business off the ground. But something that often gets forgotten, is that in writing the Lean Startup and developing his methodology over the years, author Eric Ries took inspiration from lots of different sources and prior research in the space.
Why we still need banks (for now)
“We need banking. We don’t need banks anymore.” -Bill Gates If you were to guess when Bill Gates said this, I bet that many people would think this could be a quote from last week or last month. But in fact, this quote is over 30 years old. The death of banking by technology has been predicted for a long time but never seems to actually happen.
Neutering of pet rabbits
Neutering of pet rabbits Guen Bradbury and Greg Dickens Innovia Technology, St Andrews House, St Andrew's Road, Cambridge CB4 1DL; e-mail: |oguen.bradbury@innoviatech.com Guen Bradbury and Greg Dickens comment: We agree with the authors of this letter that the best outcome for rabbit welfare would be for all rabbits to be kept in pairs or groups. The authors raise some valid points. We also agree that neutering, over a timescale of more than five years, is …
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