A Year of Mornings - Book Cover

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A Year of Mornings

A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.

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Sajal Choudhary

I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.

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Dyson made a handheld version of its iconic fans by Andrew Liszewski

A brushless 65,000rpm DC motor produces a blast of air at speeds of up to 55mph, but that can be turned down to maximize the HushJet Mini Cool’s battery life and make it run quieter. Dyson says the fan’s 5,000mAh rechargeable battery is good for up to six hours of use, and at its lowest setting it produces 52dBA of noise, which is roughly equivalent to the sound of a floor fan or air conditioner. At its highest setting, in Boost Mode, that jumps to 72.5dBA.

It looks cool.

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Protect Your Shed by Dylan Butler

Earlier in my career, I was new to containerisation and cloud infrastructure, and the learning curve at work was steep. But because I was standing up containerised systems and running them on GCP at home on my own time, the concepts landed faster. I was getting reps in from both sides.

A metaphor.

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Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard? – Unsung by Marcin Wichary

So, pressing the thing next to the left Shift can help Apple understand whether the keyboard is American or Japanese (always Z) or European (something else, but never Z). And pressing the thing next to the right Shift differentiates JIS (where it’s the _ key) from another keyboard (always /).

I did this recently as part of setting up my Nuphy Air 75s.

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Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself - Jason Liu by Jason Liu

In the short term, you would be much happier if you accepted and admitted to yourself that the reason you don't have what you want is simply because you do not want it badly enough. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be. Then the next question is: Do you want to be happy or do you want to achieve what you want? It's not the last question, but it definitely is the next question.

Some wonderful pieces of advice here.

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