Some of our favorite quotes, we hope you enjoy them

• "Trust - It takes a life time to get trust but only a few moments to loose it." - Unknown
• "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." — Albert Einstein
• "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." — Abraham Lincoln
• "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." — Mark Twain
• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." — Martin Luther King Jr.
• "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas A. Edison
• “Come what may, and love it” Clara Tuttle
• "I will go before your face.

Kim Scott shows how “radical candor” can be used in the workplace to give better feedback and meaningful praise and criticism.

You’ll Learn:

1. How to care personally while challenging directly
2. Three important conversations that you should be having at work
3. An approach to giving better feedback to your boss

About Kim

Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing your Humanity, a NYT and WSJ bestseller, published by St Martin’s Press. Kim is also the co-founder and CEO of Candor, Inc., which builds tools to make it easier to follow the advice she offers in the book. She is also the author of three novels and co-host of the Radical Candor podcast.

by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim.

Continuous delivery lets you make changes without disrupting your organization

There are a few golden rules to this. 

The mission of the Food & Care Coalition is to alleviate hunger and diminish the plights of poverty for those who enter our doors. Our primary objectives include finding suitable housing, teaching financial accountability, facilitating an elevation in personal morals and values, and helping each patron achieve their full potential.

To rename all .jpg to prefix*.jpg in the current directory:

In a shell script

for filename in *.jpg; do mv "$filename" "prefix_$filename"; done;
 

You can use rename utility to rename multiple files by a pattern. For example following command will prepend string MyVacation2011_ to all the files with jpg extension.

rename 's/^/MyVacation2011_/g' *.jpg

or

Author: Daniel H. Pink

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink explores how timing can impact our lives and how to use it to be more efficient and productive. The book uses research from psychology, biology, and economics to help people succeed at work, school, and home. 

Pink argues that timing is a science, not an art, and that people experience a regular pattern of peak, trough, and rebound throughout the day. Some insights from the book include:

Describes the country's first President through a biography and a compilation of quotes that cover such topics as John Adams, the American Revolution, liberty, taxation, and foreign relations.

The story of his life is the story of the founding of America. His was the dominant personality in three of the most critical events in that founding: the Revolutionary War, the Constitutional Convention, and the first national administration. Had he not served as America's leader in those three events, all would likely have failed -- and America, as we know it today, would not exist. Why, after two centuries, does George Washington remain one of the most beloved figures in our history? The Real George Washington answers that question by giving us a close look at this man who became the father of our country and the first American President. But rather than focus on the interpretations of historians, much of his exciting story is told in his own words.

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes.

Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the inspiration for the Oscar Award winning–film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Tony Kushner.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.

I found out that there are two main ways of using Python on a Raspberry Pi Pico, MicroPython or CircuitPython.

It is much harder to play a .wav file on a Pico with MicroPython, and I could not find a solution to play MP3 files with MicroPython.  

There are how every serveral simple tutorials with libraries that exist for CircuitPython.  CircuitPython libraries have better support for sensors but you may want to use MicroPython for: Advanced APIs such as interrupts and threading, or existing MicroPython code.

As of now CircuitPython does support the Wifi on the Pico W so I really could not see any reason not to go for it.  According to CircuitPython documentation it is supposed to be simpler to get started with than MicroPython but I did not find it to be so.  For me using MicroPython with Thonny was super easy to get started with.

I tried to get Thonny to work with CircuitPython but finally gave up and started using the Mu Editor with it.

Installing CircuitPython on the Pico

Install CircuitPython by going to: https://circuitpython.org/downloads and downloading the correct version for your Pico either with our without WiFi.