Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Updating a WordPress website can be more complicated than you’d think. Usually, publishing a new page or post isn’t a problem. But if you’re updating WordPress components or making major design or functionality changes, you run the risk of breaking your website. https://jetpack.com/2022/02/23/create-a-staging-website-on-wordpress/

Learn to code for free. freeCodeCamp’s open source curriculum has helped more than 40,000 people get jobs as developers. Get started https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-custom-dashboard-with-wordpress-apis-and-react/

Visualizing your data can be the key to success in projects because it can reveal hidden insights in the data, and improve understanding. The best way to convince people is by letting them see and interact with their data. https://towardsdatascience.com/creating-beautiful-stand-alone-interactive-d3-charts-with-python-804117cb95a7

When you sign-up for the Power BI service at PowerBI.com (this address redirects to App.PowerBI.com), use establish a tenant for your organization, hosted in the Azure cloud. Even if you setup a 90-day trial account, you have a tenant that you can upgrade later on. https://sqlserverbi.blog/2022/02/06/doing-power-bi-the-right-way-8-delivery-options/

Web Developer. My stack includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, and Ruby on Rails. If you read this far, tweet to the author to show them you care. Tweet a thanks https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-chrome-extension/

Rivers and the water cycle have always been central to human civilisation and were a topic that particularly fascinated me in school. https://towardsdatascience.com/creating-beautiful-river-maps-with-python-37c9b5f5b74c

Smart home products, like dumb ones, fall into a couple different categories: there’s “fun and entertaining” and then there’s “practical.” Fun stuff when made smart tends to offer me the benefit of convenience; for example, I can ask a smart speaker to play my choice of music. https://makezine.com/2020/08/03/set-up-your-own-private-smart-home/

I’ve dipped my toes in ‘smart home’ automation in the past. Typically I approach ‘smart’ and ‘IoT’ devices as a solution to one simple problem, instead of trying to do ‘all the things’. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/home-assistant-yellow-pi-powered-local-automation

In the last years, I wrote several articles about Home Assistant (HA) and the possibility to replace the Zigbee hubs from different companies in your home using Zigbee2MQTT. Some of those articles are listed here (don’t visit the links, they are outdated): https://lemariva.com/blog/2022/01/home-assistant-help-tips-tricks-diy-smart-home

What do you think of when someone mentions smart devices? Smartphones and smart watches are ubiquitous. And then there are smart cars, smart apparel, smart toys, and well, smart toothbrushes as well. https://lifestyle.livemint.com//smart-living/innovation/how-to-build-a-smart-home-from-scratch-111642481226929.html