Ris Adams

While depression is a severe illness, you can fight back against it and win if you know what to do when it strikes. If your depression is brutal, however, it's vital to seek the advice of a physician. You might also find that depression is a symptom of a broader issue, such as undiagnosed Autism, or a serious illness that you can't control.

Most people with depression, though, have a mild to moderate form; they can do a lot to help themselves. By using some tips and tricks to get through depressive episodes, you can feel better and look forward to life.

The software industry has a diversity problem. Specifically that there isn't much diversity at all. We are also living in a time where we are hearing about project maintainers engaging in targeted harassment against minorities. This is a problem that we need to address. Why do we as a community have to deal with this, and how can we as maintainers help? Trying to fix a broken system is not a solution, but trying to make it better is the first step.

Developing code is not easy. It is a challenge, but it is also a fun thing to do. Maintaining a project, however, is not easy either. It requires a very different skillset and time investment. When I became a maintainer of Selectize, I was able to learn a lot about the project and how to improve it, and I was able to learn so much about how to interact with the community.

How do you handle the excruciating time as you wait for big news? Anxiety and stress are common factors during this waiting game. However, you can take steps to reduce your nervousness.

To become successful at online marketing, one must develop the necessary skills and knowledge to produce the best results.

This will take hard work and patience, but the good news is that you do not need to attend a college or university to get these skills.

In this guide, you’ll discover some methods you can use to learn online marketing at home. In fact, you could become an expert yourself!

Hosting your site on Github Pages is fantastic, easy and inexpensive. Using Jekyll to generate your pages is easy and very configurable. It's the perfect solution for a static site (as well as what I use for this blog). Sometimes, however, you may run into situations where you need to redirect a page to another page, and without access to your backend to use server-side redirects you need to do it manually.

For some, backlinks are the number one ranking factor for their websites. If you employ this strategy, building high-quality backlinks to your website can increase your search engine ranking, but it can also result in an increase in organic traffic.

When configuring a development environment, you can use the PowerShell command to display all environment variables. This can be useful for gathering information about the environment, or for debugging.

Watching your child grow and learn is amazing, but what happens when your child starts to develop negative habits?

Sadly, good or bad, most habits are out of your control. And although you might have shielded them from cultivating these habits at home, school, friends, or other family members are places and people where they can encounter them. There's nothing you can do to change that environment.

You made it past the initial filter — your resume caught their attention, and now you're in the room (virtual or otherwise). This is where the real work begins.

Here's the thing: most candidates treat interviews like pop quizzes they hope to survive. That's the wrong mindset entirely. You've got a few good options here — approach it strategically, and you'll stand out from the pack.

It's easy to get caught up in planning your future. Planning for a secure and happy future is a significant undertaking. However, spending too much attention on unknowns can significantly inhibit your ability to focus on the here and now.

At this very moment, you can begin to enjoy your everyday life that is currently flashing unnoticed right before your eyes. So let the future come naturally and live joyfully and willingly in the present moment!

Thinking hard about a decision is good. Thinking about the same decision for the fourteenth time in three hours? That's a different thing entirely. I've been there. You sit down to plan, and somewhere between "let me consider the options" and "let me consider the options again," planning quietly becomes rumination.

The tricky part is that overthinking feels productive. Your brain is busy, so it must be doing something useful, right? Not always. Sometimes it's just spinning.

It's official: I'm starting a new job with General Dynamics (@GDMS). After nine incredible years at Barkley (@BarkleyUs, @BarkleyREI), it's time to turn the page to a new chapter.

This isn't a decision I made lightly.

Working at home comes with many benefits, like wearing slippers all day and being your boss, but it’s essential to have an effective organizational plan to make it profitable. These strategies for organizing your workday and environment will help you meet your goals.

If you want to win at local search engine optimization (SEO), but you don't want to depend on content marketing, you can do that! There are other techniques you can use to succeed. For instance, you could switch your focus towards usability and building a community.

Job hunting is challenging these days. Employers get flooded with applications for every opening and may spend as little as ten seconds screening each resume.

Here are some suggestions to help your resume stand out from the crowd and ensure that you get called in for an interview.