Lazy Nezumi – draw smooth, beautiful lines in Photoshop and other packages
/ software

Lazy Nezumi Pro is a Windows app that helps you draw smooth, beautiful lines, with your mouse or pen tablet.

It adds stabilizers, rulers, and scripting to your favorite art programs, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Clip Studio, SAI, and many others.

lazynezumi.com/

Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
/ ves

www.bbc.com/news/technology-54063648

Netflix’s chairman has said working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder.

But Reed Hastings, who founded the platform, also said its 8,600 employees would not have to return to the office until most of them had received an approved coronavirus vaccine.

And he predicted most people would continue to work from home on one day a week even after the pandemic was over.

VIM – the fastest way to interact with the biggest BIM projects
/ production, software

www.vimaec.com/

 

VIM is a real-time 3D file format purpose built for AEC’s modern demands.

 

VIM offers a modern, efficient, and compact 3D data interchange open format to quickly transport design data and geometry from Revit and other BIM sources such as real-time engines and 3D editors.

 

 

Tails – Portable Live Operating System – Pipeline
/ software

tails.boum.org/

To use Tails, shut down the computer and start on your Tails USB stick instead of starting on Windows, macOS, or Linux.

You can temporarily turn your own computer into a secure machine. You can also stay safe while using the computer of somebody else.

Tails is a 1.2 GB download and takes ½ hour to install. Tails can be installed on any USB stick of 8 GB minimum. Tails works on most computers less than 10 years old. You can start again on the other operating system after you shut down Tails.

Cloud computing – AWS vs AZURE vs GOOGLE
/ hardware, production

www.otava.com/reference/aws-vs-azure-key-differences/

 

www.edureka.co/blog/aws-vs-azure/

 

www.quora.com/What-are-the-major-differences-between-AWS-Azure-and-Google-Cloud

 

Google usually gives the biggest bang for your buck, but is not strong in all fields.
Azure will probably fit best if you are already using a lot of Microsoft products and Windows.
AWS is most mature, has the most flexibility, the best console, but it’s VM’s are less powerful or just more expensive

 

Amazon AWS

– Offers the most infrastructure as a service offerings such as low level computing (EC2), storage (S3), VPC (networking), database (RDS) with support for various operating systems (Windows, Many Linux flavors) with a vast 3rd party marketplace called AWS Marketplace where vendors provide their add-ons.
– Pioneer for serverless computing with Lambda, and now Fargate/Elastic Kubernetes Service.
– While Amazon has more product and feature offerings, it requires professional setup to operate & maintain. AWS gives you building blocks, it is up to you to build it together.
– According to Marketing Intelligence for Cloud Service Providers | Intricately there are over 1MM customers making it one of the most popular computing platforms to date: Intricately
– Price is similar to Microsoft

 

Microsoft AZURE

– Supports both Windows & Linux workloads, with a very deep integration into Microsoft’s developer ecosystem with Visual Studio, .NET etc. If you are an MSFT developer, Azure is an easy way to get your application deployed.
– Price is similar to AWS

 

Google

– The newest entrant to the market, offers mostly Platform as Service offerings like Machine Learning as a Service, Kubernetes as a Service etc. However, Google does not offer as many product offerings.
– Google pioneered Kubernetes and is the leader in terms of delivering a truly managed Kubernetes experience
– Price can be cheaper than AWS and Microsoft due to the PaaS nature of the product, may require less building.

 

Google Blocky educational visual programming for Python, Javascript, PHP, LUA, Dart
/ python, software

Blockly is a client-side library for the programming language JavaScript for creating block-based visual programming languages (VPLs) and editors. It is a project of Google and is free and open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0.

developers.google.com/blockly/guides/overview

developers.google.com/blockly

A career in Feature Film production
/ production

 

 

https://nofilmschool.com/film-crew-jobs

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin Hale from Y Combinator – How to Evaluate Startup Ideas
/ ves

Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started.

Proposing to solve PROBLEMS which are :
– Popular
– Growing
– Urgent
– Expensive
– Mandatory
– Frequent

Using a SOLUTION :
– Which is dedicated to the solve a known Problem

Making sure you have a unique INSIGHT :
– you are a Founder
– you have an ever growing Market
– you have a special Product
– you are able to grow and natively sustain your customer Acquisition
– you have a sustainable Monopoly

All these using a winning formula :
BEHAVIOR = MOTIVATION + ABILITY + TRIGGER