I’ve been living in London for 3 weeks now, and it has rained nearly every single day. Wouldn’t summer be so much better if instead of rain, ice cream and sprinklers came falling down to Earth? The only thing that would be better isunicorns pooping marshmallows! Hoping to make all of your childhood dreams come true,Royal College of Artstudent and designer Cathrine Kramer teamed up with nanotechnology artist Zoe Papadopoulou to engineer an ice cream van that would be capable of spraying clouds of ice cream in the air....

How to make your DevOps dollars go further during a crisis It’s not just about cutting costs, it’s about working smart. …and efficiency for all When things are tough, it’s easy to single out things that are going wrong rather than find outwhythey’re going wrong. You’re producing an app and the design team is slow to get something out the door, and they have to keep doing revisions, all because the person writing the copy isn’t getting them everything they need when they need it....

How to manage stress as a developer Social support During periods of stress, youneedto rely on your social environment. Unfortunately, in our field, we have tendency to hide our struggles, especially mental related ones. We don’t speak about it. We don’t want to feel weak, unworthy, and not in control. We pretend to ourselves, and, therefore, to the others, that everything is fine. This is a big mistake. Chronic stress can lead you to dark roads: more serious mental health issues like anxiety and burnout, depression, or hate of your job and everything attached to it....

I need three hours of focused time per day to complete — and feel proud of — my week’s work. It’s just how my brain works. As a coach and facilitator, I’ve become convinced that everyone, regardless of their role, needs uninterrupted work time every day. Engineers need to write code without errors. People managers need to synthesize a day of one-on-one calls. Support and sales roles need to manage their pipeline after a day of context-switching between customers....

How to manage your screen time during the lockdown, according to science Screen time and addiction Digital addiction refers to thecompulsive and excessive use of digital devices. The design of digital platforms themselvescontributes to this addictive use. Notifications, news feeds, likes, and comments have all been shown to contribute towards abattle for your attention, which leads users to increase the time they spend looking at screens. Screen time is an obvious measure of digital addiction, although researchers have noted that there is no simple way to determine how much screen time one can experience before it becomes problematic....