Outdoor Work: a Designer’s Checklist for Every UX Project.

Using a Query

A CSS pseudo-class is a keyword added to a selector that specifies a special state of the selected element(s). For example, :hover can be used to change a button’s color when the user’s pointer hovers over it.

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Other pseudo-elements and pseudo-class selectors, :not() can be chained with other pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements. For example, the following will add a “New!” word to list items that do not have a .old class name, using the ::after

Trivia & Notes

The :not() selector is chainable with more :not() selectors. For example, the following will match all articles except the one with an ID #featured, and then will filter out the articles with a class name .tutorial:

article:not(#featured):not(.tutorial) {
    /* style the articles that match */
}

Just like other pseudo-elements and pseudo-class selectors, :not() can be chained with other pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements. For example, the following will add a “New!” word to list items that do not have a .old class name, using the ::after pseudo-element:

li:not(.old)::after {
    content: "New!";
    color: deepPink;
}

You can see a live demo in the Live Demo section below.

On the Specificity of Selectors

The specificity of the :not() pseudo-class is the specificity of its argument. The :not() pseudo-class does not add to the selector specificity, unlike other pseudo-classes.

The simple selector that :not() takes as an argument can be any of the following:

  • Type selector (e.g p, span, etc.)
  • Class selector (e.g .element, .sidebar, etc.)
  • ID selector (e.g #header)
  • Pseudo-class selector (e.g :first-child, :last-of-type)

Reference

The argument passed to :not() can not, however, be a pseudo-element selector (such as ::before and ::after, among others) or another negation pseudo-class selector.

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Useful Fallbacks

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Just like other pseudo-elements and pseudo-class selectors, :not() can be chained with other pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements. For example, the following will add a “New!” word to list items that do not have a .old class name, using the ::after pseudo-element:

element:not(.old)::after {
    content: "New!";
    color: deepPink;
}   

You can see a live demo in the Live Demo section below.

Python Programming for Kids and Beginners – Online Training Classes

The goal of this course is to make you comfortable working with Python as quickly as possible so you can build programs like games, data visualizations, and web applications, all this while developing a foundation in programming that will serve you well for the rest of your life.

This course is for people of any age (8+) who have never programmed at all.

This course includes the following modules:

Beginning Python ProgrammingVariables & Data Types
Lists & Dictionaries
if Statements and User Input
Conditonal & Iterative Loops
Functions & Classes
Files & Exceptions
Database Interactions
Data Visualization
Introduction to Python Libraries
Website Development with Django
Practical ProjectsA project based on student’s interest.
“The purpose of this course is to make you a good programmer in general and a good Python programmer in particular. You’ll learn efficiently and adopt good habits as I provide you with a solid foundation in general programming concepts.”

Each topic is bundled with hands-on exercises to help master the concept & develop a mindset of thinking like a programmer.

Why Python?

Python is an excellent language to build the foundation in programming because it helps you to learn to think like a programmer without having to worry a lot about the nitty-gritty of the language.

It is used in fields predicted to rise in 2021, namely machine learning and artificial intelligence. Python is the preferred language for machine learning and data science due to its popular ML libraries such as Pandas and Scikit-learn

Uses of Python

  • build websites and apps like instagram and uber
  • work on large dataset to find medicines and vaccines like how they did for COVID
  • create electronic automation projects, like from automating your home to huge production in factories
  • build robots for fun & work
  • make games and movies
  • build A.I Systems – devices that think and assist you on day to day task
  • the list goes on…
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WordPress Career Paths

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) with the possibility to handle a lot of business case requirements.

There are various levels of expertise you can aim to achieve with the WordPress platform, and this is proportional to what you want to achieve with WordPress for your business or personal goals.

  1. WordPress Webmaster – as a webmaster you will be able to manage a WordPress website, add updates, edit pages, insert images and do everything that’s required for a business on a day-to-day basis.
  2. WordPress Writer / Editor – content drives your web presence, so specializing yourself in skills to use WordPress to effectively present your content, both impressive for human readers and optimized for A.I. search bots.
  3. WordPress Designer – at this skill level you can provision a website for a business from scratch. From identifying the design and look of the website to customizing a template to match the business brand guidelines and further setting up contact forms and landing pages with a call to action.
  4. WordPress Developer – Most businesses don’t hire a Developer, developers have the opportunity with companies that are into developing customized WordPress solutions, or as a developer, you could develop plugins or themes to resell to hundreds of customers.
  5. WordPress Mobile App Developer – at this skill level you can now extend a WordPress website to a mobile app, that is not just a responsible web version, but a native, custom UI UX-based app that extends functionalities to engages with a business’ customers.
  6. WordPress DevOps – while many companies haven’t used the true potential of WordPress to establish their business, there are companies that cater to millions of users using WordPress, and a DevOps role is essential to handle everything from version control, site maintenance, continuous integration/continuous delivery CI/CD, Risk Management, Backups, and Disaster Recovery and everything that ensures scaling and availability of the WordPress website.

If you want to develop your career using WordPress and specialize on one of the above tracks, stay tuned by signing up to my Newsletter to read more about what you need to learn to excel in each role.

I am also offering private and group training, so you can contact me if you are interested in joining one of my sessions.

Free mentoring is provided to students, graduates with gap years or lack of experience to help revamp their skills by working on a WordPress portfolio project or help with their WordPress website for their first client.

Welcome

If you are looking to venture out into the world of E-Commerce, got a startup idea which you are unsure of, or you just want some guidance on digital art and programming skills development, then you can fix up a free session with me and I can help shed some light that may help achieve your objectives.

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WordPress 5: When an administrator can’t update plugins or wordpress.

I came across this issue with one of my WordPress 5 installation. I was not able to update WordPress or find my Add Plugins menu item under the Plugins Menu.

So what do we do? On my search online, I found out that by adding the folloing line of code to your wp-config.php file, you could fix this quickly.

define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS',false);

I am yet to find out what caused this issue in the first place, if someone of you gets to find it, I really like to know.

Xiaomi’s Mi Mix Alpha: Now this is some freshness to phones since iPhone.

Scheduled to release on December 2019 with a price tag of $2,800. This model isn’t going to go on mass production, I guess they are just going to run market response and then decide if it needs to go on mass scale.

For me, this is something that excites me since the first generation iPhone that I had.

I was really captivated by the first video ad I saw about this phone:

To summarize the phone:

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ processor,
Connectivity: 5G connectivity,
Memory : 12GB
Storage: 512GB of storage
Charging: 40W wired fast-charging
Battery: 4,050mAh battery.
Camera Sensor : 108-megapixel camera sensor developed by Samsung and Xiaomi

I really love how it looks when it is charging…ahhh…i love it!!…lol I feel like a kid, noooo!

Mi Mix Alpha – Charging

I mean this phone is described as a Concept Smartphone, and this kind of model will of course have questions about cost, durability, battery life, accidental touch recognition, privacy, and so on. But these experiences only happen at the cost of all these.

Getting hold of Mi Mix Alpha

I wonder when Xiaomi’s Mi Mix Alpha is going to launch in Dubai, or even if it will. Looking at the price tag, getting hold of it looks so far away. But let’s see, it all starts with the desire.

Portraits with A.I

I have always wanted to be an artist. I love what we are able to create from our imagination and the different renderings we are able to present it in using various creative mediums. Its just exciting and awesome what hundreds and thousands of artists are able to do from history unto this point.

But now we have entered an era where art is going to made by A.I.

Well, the question is if A.I. can be called creative or can it be creative? A.I. is not here to replace humans for sure, but yea it can be creative because it can create something abstract or even meaningful by learning on hundreds if not thousands on artforms created by artists over a period of time.

Isn’t it what we humans too do? Aren’t we inspired by Nature, which is the greatest art by an Almighty Artist. Don’t we also get inspired and try to replicate or create our expression of artworks done by other artists from the past? Van Gogh to be one of my favorites!

I have not explored the space of Art Appreciation, but if we enjoy galleries of art by humans, I guess we are entering a period where we are going to spend a lot of time curating Art and Content generated by A.I.

You may not realize but there are many of these already reaching our fingertips already.

Anyways I am not going to write here about startups, innovations or content that’s made by A.I., maybe I will write about in another article

aiportraits.com

I wanted to share portraits of mine which was created by a project that was started by Mauro Martino and Luca Stornaiuolo at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. The site was aiportraits.com, but right now it seems to be down which is sad.

The algorithm doesn’t just copy the lines of your facial features, but it uses them as a base to generate an entirely new portrait.

The site uses an algorithm trained on 45,000 classical portraits to render your face in faux oil, watercolor, or ink. There’s a huge number of styles included in this database, covering artists from Rembrandt to Titian to van Gogh, with each input producing a unique portrait. As the researchers point out, unlike earlier AI methods that created similar AI portraits, the algorithm here is not merely “painting over” your face in a new style. Instead, it uses what’s known as a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate new features from scratch.Certain elements within any selfie may prompt the algorithm to use a specific style. In the images below, for example, researchers say the algorithm “decides upon a Renaissance style, highlighting the elegance of the aquiline nose, the smoothness of the forehead.” If you try a few different selfies, you’ll certainly get different results.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/7/22/20703810/ai-classical-portrait-apps-selfie-web-transformation

You can also read this article by Mauro Martino if you are interested to know more at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-portraits-experience-being-portrayed-algorithm-mauro-martino/

aiportrats.org

I even came across another app called AI Portraits but this was having an app that you can install on your mobile and it was hosted at aiportraits.org, I think this is a different app from the earlier mentioned app. But I was quite interested in the art this app was able to create from my picture in a certain kind of mashup or composite. But it wasn’t able to generate those historical portrait styles as perfect as the aiportraits.com as the ones I have shown above.

Now you decide is A.I can create or can be called Creative 😀

In the meantime, if you want to use A.I. to do this kind of creative stuff, then there is a lot of articles and learning materials out there that teaches you how to do this. You can read a ton of it using this link:

https://www.google.com/search?q=working+with+GAN+to+create+images&oq=working+with+GAN+to+create+images&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2j69i65l2j69i60.4424j0j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I don’t know how many are going to read my article and what all query is going to come to me, but feel free to write to me if you have any open queries and I will try my best to address it or even point you in its direction.

For now this is what I have got to share 😀