Ellen Hendriksen explains how to beat social anxiety in her new book, How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety

LinkedIn Hashtags can help job seekers find companies with desired perks

https://developers.google.com/training/certification/mobile-web-specialist/#content

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/time-to-hello-world-vms-vs-containers-vs-paas-vs-faas

Just made a discovery – Amazon has short videos! Including Argentine tango!

• Forward Ochos
• Grapevine (Giro & Molinete) for the Tango

Well, this looks interesting: Google Mobile Web Specialist Certification

Certification has gotten a bad rap at times, but I think there’s still value in pursuing certification. There’s no substitute for on-the-job experience with technologies, of course, but the curriculum and certification gives one an idea of the skills and knowledge needed in a subject.

Google Codelabs are small projects that provide hands-on experience with various parts of the Google Cloud and other technologies. Some of them look a bit obscure (well, compared to my interests), but a few look like must-sees, like Your First Progressive Web App or YouTube in Your App.

Of course, something that interests me even more than Android development (see the previous post) is Devops

Here are some Devops links:

• Quora article with a good outline for what someone needs to know for Devops
• Google Cloud certification home page
• (more to come…)

First the Apollo archives on Flickr, now all of NASA’s research is available on the web!  Cool!

BoingBoing amusingly introduces a Digg article by Merve Emre by saying

The Myers-Briggs personality test is the internet’s sorting hat, beloved of twittering nerds, Tumblr addicts and Facebook oversharers alike (I’m in House ESFPI)…

Emre’s biggest criticism of the MBTI cult is one I share – the idea that the MBTI type is fixed and immutable, rather than a useful description of your preferences and mindset at the moment you’re taking the test – excuse me, the “indicator”.

Here’s a link that’s been kicking around in my browser for a while, on creating a Pecha Kucha presentation