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So we resolved this by switching away from Cloudflare handling our DNS to revert it back to our domain service provider (Namecheap). This made our site available again.

Now we've switched it back to Cloudflare and still looks up.

So something in changing it seems to have jiggled some bits somewhere.

/ turn it on and off again / I guess

This blog post is a condensation of a conversation we’ve recently had on the Fun Music Place Discord. We’re sharing it primarily to give some insight into our Discord community, the discussions that happen there, and some of the things we’re thinking about.

For the next 6 months, the worker owners of Mirlo proposed to take a 7% cut of transactions conducted on the platform (on top of the percentage taken by our payment processor Stripe).

Here’s what our process looked like

OpenFarm

Learn how you can grow anything, anywhere!

We're hoping to squash some more bugs and issues this month - making our user experience even better.

Additionally, we'd love to hear how you grow some of your crops.

Angular, Ruby on Rails, Design

https://github.com/openfarmcc/OpenFarm/issues?q=is%3Aissue+i...

OpenFarm

Track how your garden's plants are doing, and learn to grow anything.

Monthly Goals: Help our RGSoC interns develop their skillset, redesign our onboarding flow, iron out bugs in our front-end code, get people contributing knowledge.

Skills needed: gardeners, icon and UX designers, Ruby on Rails developers, JavaScript / AngularJS.

Slack: slack.openfarm.cc

GitHub: https://github.com/openfarmcc/OpenFarm/

Live Site: https://openfarm.cc

License: CC0

a more UX-ey take rather than "what's the industry up to:"

kale davis' http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

peter cooper's javascript weekly javascriptweekly.com/

ux weekly: http://uxwkly.com

nickd's semi-weekly dispatch https://draft.nu/

ios dev weekly https://iosdevweekly.com/ (basically just read the design section)

designernews digest, but I feel like I've stopped getting that :(

Developers have completely lost touch with what an average wage is for a single person family.

Here's some of my reasoning for the newsletter, and what's going to happen in the future:

http://piranhabay.co.uk/post/65912038650/ux-weekly-take-2

"The percentage of married households with two earners has hardly changed over the last thirty years"

I wonder if the split across gender lines is still the same.

And even if you don't want to use a dedicate git hosting service, good site hosting platforms (Webfaction) make it incredibly easy to install a git server.

A lot of website use appeals when it has a local flavor. Quora and it's Silicon Valley answerers probably doesn't know how to answer the questions that many Non-US citizens might have. This has a lot to do with user base, and I don't see Quora marketing itself outside of America.

Failure rates that high are normal at many European universities. The idea there often is "let many people in, but let them fail out if they don't make the cut".

Not everyone is suited to some of the rigours of higher education, and when you make it freely available, more people are going to try it out, and more people are going to fail. I wouldn't call a 58% failure rate a bad thing.

"Either I agree with you or I'm part of the problem? And you call me narrow minded!"

Yep. I'm pretty narrow minded when it comes to thinking everyone deserves the same chances as I got.

"Did you even read my comment? I said I'm not spending time pondering why there aren't women in tech, because I don't necessarily want more women in tech. That's, by definition, the opposite of sexist."

Is it? You're letting the status quo be because you don't think it's having an effect on the tech we produce? On the problems we're trying to solve? You think that people not mentioning repression, how they are being made to feel uncomfortable and not at ease, is a great way to produce the best products?

Good job! You've discovered that the problem isn't one of women not getting into colleges.

Edit: I'm not saying it's not part of the problem, but the problem is obviously not just that.

On 3) why is it that in a field where people are lauded (especially here on HN) when they drop out of college or skip college all together and are successful, we continue to come back to the "there are less women graduates" argument?

Imagine how many more problems would be solved or thought about if we were listening to the other 80% of the world's population - not just white men.

Think about all the kids who don't see women in the tech fields and thus don't see it as a viable career path.

The "small pool of women CS graduates" argument is bunkt because CS is a meritocracy - so many men prove themselves through code rather than having gone to a college, and the only reason women don't is because they're discouraged at every turn - upon being hired, in the work place, at social gatherings.

Why does the graduates argument pose a problem for women while its so often celebrated when men skipped college or dropped out of college and became successful within our field?

>Now we're afraid to talk at a conference or at the office. We never make any joke that might be remotely sexual around female coworkers (note that my female friends usually take it really well).

Welcome to how it feels to be a woman, or a person of color, or gay, or any other person who his regularly discriminated against by society and a culture that elevates the white male simply for being white and male.

By ignoring the problem and not talking about it, you're perpetuating it. There is no societal problem that has been solved by not talking about it, and somehow, that is all I ever see people in the tech world suggest we do.

It's sad and narrow minded.

You say that you don't care about the sex about the person in the industry, but sexism isn't a superficial problem person to person - very little people are going to admit to being sexist or even think that they are - it's an institutional problem.

Every time that you don't say something, or you make an argument like this one, you are sending the message to people who are being discriminated against that the people who say something sexist are okay to do so.

So stop saying it's okay to not talk about. Please.

I've created a Medium collection to see how people treat learning and cross subject studies, I would love to hear people's thoughts and ideas.

https://medium.com/how-to-be-a-polymath

I work with a bunch of UX designers, and as the only developer here I'm often confronted with their question of "why can't I just describe what I want done?"

Their apprehension of tackling code is one I don't immediately understand, but I do get that they don't want to think about the how, rather the what. It's a funny parallel.

Here's a great video by Bret Victor who saw this problem, and tried to fix it for animation:

https://vimeo.com/36579366#t=1748

Yeah, that's what we're building at the moment - some way of getting people interested and working together. It's tricky, and one of the directions we're looking into is for the website to be a way of finding people in your area. It's a lot more about creating community, and getting people talking to one another, and personally accomplishing something, than the actual finished product - at least, that's my take on it.

At the same time, I think a month is enough time to get a basic app built on your own. That's why it made sense to do it for an entire month - while it's not easy, it's still a challenge.

Would love to hear what people think of the concept, whether they'd be willing to participate, and definitely if they're willing to help out!