280daily: 280 characters to sum up your day

We’vetalked aboutdaily journal apps here on TNW Apps before and surely you know about the idea ofTwournalwhich can take your 140-character shares and print them out for you to enjoy later. Now, roll both of those ideas into one and you have280daily. 280 characters to sum up your day, and soon you’ll have the ability to print out your journal for later reading. The sign-up is simple. Drop your email address and a password and you’re ready to go once you confirm the address....

3 min · 483 words · Eric Mann

3 awesome videos from Burning Man 2011

This year,Burning Man, the epic yearly festival in Black Rock Desert, sold out of tickets for the first time since tickets sales began in 1995. Tickets started at $280 in January, then topped at $360 at which point they sold out. After that point, burners had to get their tickets for up to 5,000 on eBay. Why is Burning Man so amazing? “It’s art meets music meets dirt meets naked meets fucking amazing,”writesGizmodo’s Brent Rose in his epic list of tools to make the event more amazing....

2 min · 341 words · Steven Hines

3 best practices for a hybrid workplace — from someone who’s done it for years

We have to get rid of our past ideas of what a “normal” business office looks like. As lockdowns ease in the future, there will be industries that want to bring everyone back into an office location even as other companies remain in a fully-remote system. But there is another option that is poised to become the standard for business operations in the 21st century: the hybrid workplace. In this type of setting, some workers are based in a physical office, while others work from spaces outside of the physical office and can be located anywhere in the world....

7 min · 1440 words · Kathleen Tyler

3 bets BMW is making to evolve for the future

3 bets BMW is making to evolve for the future The service world Like advanced technologies such as fuel cell electric vehicles or autonomous vehicles, the concept of selling mobility services is one that promises great future potential, but also presents an expensive time of ramp up before it becomes a viable contributor to the bottom line of an auto company. In addition, it the elements of the mobility service business are new ones for an auto company, adding to the initial costs....

3 min · 568 words · Mr. Shane Ellis

3 big mistakes I’ve made in my career as a software engineer

This article was originally published byEmma Bostian on.cult by Honeypot, a Berlin-based community platform for developers. For the latest updates, follow .cult by Honeypot onTwitter,Facebook,Instagram,Linkedin, andYouTube. I vividly remember my first week as a Software Engineer at IBM. I was bright-eyed out of college and slightly egotistical. “I deserve this job,” I thought, “Web development is easy; I’ll get promoted in no time!” And then I made my first huge mistake: I forgot to test my code before merging it to master....

5 min · 1011 words · Nicole Miller
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