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I think he means it the other way around. You have a Single page application with routing based on #someRoute, then someone tries to share some link with the #targetText=... which will lead to an invalid route. Or am I missunderstanding something?

As a UX Designer with limited coding abilities this looks very interesting. I tried to describe a little feature that we will need to build soon. That was pretty straightforward, but I also felt very limited as there was no way to comment anything in the spec.

But it can be really helpful to think through all the states that the application can be in, something I often neglect. Not sure if I will automatically think through the non-happy paths, but it might help.

With a more fleshed out syntax, I could very well see myself using this. But I don't see myself using the Javascript / prototype part, if I actually to that I could probably just create a prototype in Vue.js, which then also would describe all the states. I would focus on the spec part and make that more powerful.

There is a company in Switzerland that is trying to get companies stop having their own offices, instead offer to employees the possibility to work in their local town / village in coworking spaces that they connect to the network.

To work at home is not for everyone, it can be lonely, you might not have an extra rooms to use as an office. So with their still the employer paying for your office and for all the infrastructure you need.

http://www.villageoffice.ch/en/the-coworking-network/

Truly impressive is https://www.gov.uk/

A government site, lightning fast, try the search! No bullshit design.

I am currently learning with the odin project. I see most of the discussion so far focused on whether ruby is right language. I think the project is very valuable not for its choice of language but for its overall excellent content and approach. A few examples

- When doing my first lessons on ruby you are asked to read several tutorials. I thought, well I already learned that, but in every article I managed to find something new.

- It uses a multitude of other learning sources, does not even try to cover too much themselves. So you get to learn in very different ways. Reading good articles, watching some talks, downloading a repo where you need to write the code to make the test run successfully. Overall I feel, I get the best content, not because they write the best content (who could do that for all the subjects?), but it points you to great content.

- Contrary to many online tools, it forces you to work on your own system, which is a good thing.

- It often forces you to define the problem you are solving yourself. Many online courses make it too easy, you just learn coding. You don't learn to structure the problem.

- It also tries to give you a solid programming knowledge before going into web development. I really appreciate that. It's so easy to learn some angular or vue.js, then you... just need to fetch some data, ah how do I store data, oh and authentication and authorization, oh and... and quickly you get lost. I think it's is very beneficial to first get some solid programming knowledge before diving into the whole server / db / frontend stack.

So I can highly recommend this approach. BTW: even the creators are thinking of driving the course more towards JS (https://github.com/TheOdinProject/curriculum/issues/5633)

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There are now several competing nice services, that give you and your customer a UI to edit your static site with a webtool.

https://cloudcannon.com / https://forestry.io/ / https://www.siteleaf.com/

With all of them you can set up nice content type templates and get your client to put structured content.

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The author assumes that this was stealing. I doubt that, housing.com visual identity is very different:

different color scheme / different spelling LookUp vs. LOOK UP / different font /different relative positioning

Basically all they share is the "caret up" symbol and the words Look Up. Both are very common and hardly unique. It can happen that people independently get similar ideas.

We actually once designed a logo after we had redesigned an app. And the logo drew from the app design. We found out a few months later, that there was a hungarian company that had the same name, same concept for logo (which was typography only), very similar font and almost identical color scheme. It can happen. In our case you could blame us for not researching it, but similarities hardly mean stealing, especially if there are no really unique attributes...

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The Swiss Post Bank allows me to withdraw from ATM all over the world without any fees. But I have to have an overall minimal balance of 25K USD or I have to pay a monthly fee of 12 USD. I can actually have an infinite number of different accounts with different currencies. But these conditions are only available for Swiss citizens. For foreigner additional fees apply per account (5-10 USD). And yeah, Americans have a hard time getting an account here. Actually a friend told me, that you even have a hard time keeping your Swiss accounts if you move as a Swiss citizen to the United States.