Tag: Challenge

Imagine having access to data from over 300,000 books. You need to take action. And you need to do it right away! For instance, learning Flutter and developing an application using this data. In this article, I will discuss creating a challenge to learn a technology (Flutter) and share how I deve...

Have you heard of the Paqui One Chip Challenge? Amplify Snack Brands, an Austin, Texas based subsidiary of the Hershey Company makes and packages a single tortilla chip that’s brushed with the #1 and #6 hottest peppers in the world — the Carolina Reaper and the Naga Viper, r...

No matter how old we are today, we all have a childhood to look back on. This ToT (This or That) childhood challenge focuses on your life between one month and twelve years. 1. Would you rather be born in your decade or ten years later? — Okay, so I hate to say this, but I was born in 197...

Hey everyone! It’s the final countdown for the first month of our themed poetry challenge. All these celestial poems got us contemplating the mysteries of the Universe and reinforced the idea that we’re interconnected! Over the last three weeks I’ve come across some of the most ...

When I tested positive for Covid on Sep 10, I knew I was in for a battle. The infection started with bad bloating and gas pains, which then progressed to a pounding headache. Soon enough, other symptoms like coughing and chills followed suit. The only thing to do was to let my body rest and fight of...

In case you’re not familiar with it, Inktober is an online drawing challenge created by the illustrator Jake Parker. The purpose of this challenge is to create one ink drawing everyday during the month of October. This is not only very fun, but it’s also the perfect opportunity...

As we greet each day we really do have an opportunity to choose our mindset. We can wake up, let every worry and concern flood into our thoughts to be chewed on and worried over the rest of the day. We can also, wake up, put up a mental hand halting those thoughts, sending them into timeout and then...

Guess what? A 90-year-old from Walgrave, Northamptonshire just completed his 500th Parkrun! Can you believe it? Bob Emmerson has been participating in these weekly timed 5km runs for the last 11 years, ever since he heard about it on BBC Radio Northampton. The event takes place at Northampton ...

Figma is a web-based design tool with real-time collaboration. But is Figma only used for UI design? or Prototype? what if we use it for creating illustrations. I started exploring Figma by creating simple, flat, minimal illustration and many more. Getting started It all started when I wa...

Globetrotter’s August challenge has been especially fruitful for me. The topic “street art,” whatever exactly we mean by that term, fits perfectly with how I like to spend my free time: Wandering new and familiar places, camera or smartphone in hand, peering around corners and...

Was it a success? Yes and no, while the game is playable, and you can advance to the next level, and also die. It’s simply just lacking a lot of stuff, I feel like I failed the challenge, but from what I’ve seen on other people who take on the challenge they often go for simpler stuff...

It’s been a long time since I’ve made and published a videogame. So in order to make my ADHD self follow through with developing a playable and publishable game I challenged myself to do it in one week. It’s not impossible nor too hard but it is the firs time I do something like th...

With clans now in Metaverser, it’s a perfect time for clan leaders to team up with their members and face off against other clans in a zombie showdown. The Metaverser Zombie Challenge is an exciting competition that tests strategy and teamwork. In celebration of this being the very f...

If you spend pretty much any time in circles with Pokémon players, you’ve probably heard the term Nuzlocke thrown around, but may not have known what it was or how it related to the game. A Nuzlocke is a player challenge for the main series Pokémon games, created entirely by t...

how are you doing? The job search is mentally tiring, I know trust me. But I’m sure we will pass this. I’m currently on the Data Engineer portfolio building path. I’m also preparing for AWS Data Analytics — Speciality(previously AWS Big Data Certification) to broaden my ex...

In 1971 I had, with other crew members of the Rainbow Warrior, sailed into the port of Amsterdam, a beautiful city, but there are places that are places in the city that are everything I had ever heard about, smelling of sea, sailors, and scurrilously famous for its welcoming scantily clad women sta...

I first tasted Guiness when I was nine years old. Dad said I needed more iron. Dad felt the iron around his head when mum found out! It was too late; I was hooked by the dark magic. However, my son, that’s the handsome beast to the right of me in the photo, tasted his first of this Irish br...

I chose the app Webtoon for my 2nd Ironhack challenge on. Webtoon is an app that allows thousands of creator-owned content to share their comics from all over the world. There is a wide range of genres from romance, comedy, action, fantasy, horror, and many more. It’s free to view and offer...

Whew. Finally, Tokyo’s record-breaking semitropical summer has come to an end. The heatwave lasted the entire summer, from June to August, and lingered into September. Heat-related deaths climbed by over 50%. Train services were delayed or canceled due to track overheating. Yours truly i...

The NASA Space Apps Challenge is more than a hackathon; it’s a celebration of creativity that invites everyone — coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists — to tackle some of the most pressing challenges on Earth and in...

As usual, I like to analyse the image for something to hone in on that will at least give me a clue about the geographical region I’m looking at. The thing that catches my eye here are two elements on the sign on the left. I first read UBC and instantly thought “The University of British...

Many try, and few succeed. The South Beyond 6000 is one of the most demanding and tedious challenges to exist in the hiking community in the U.S. southeast. Comprising of six different regions, and 40 mountains’ summits that this challenge entails, even expert hikers will feel the wrath of ...

The biggest early success with stunt philanthropy online was the ALS ice bucket challenge. People taking the challenge uploaded short videos in which someone dropped a bucket of icy water on their head. They then posted these clips on their social media accounts, tagging others to do the sam...

I showed up for my interview forty minutes before the start time. I was overqualified for the position, but in the long quest for a job I simply wanted to get my foot in the door. My dark skin and long dreads made me stand out in every crowd, especially in the professional sphere.I got called in for...

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Reuters, ²Transport Topics, ³KCRA and ⁴Bloomberg. On Monday, the California Trucking Association (CTA) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California, seeking to blo...

Today was the day, fellas. I got my final exams back. The history exam, for those who don’t know, was divided into Paper 1 and Paper 2. The toughest marks that I hated losing were in Paper 1 because most of them were silly mistakes (e.g., I did not elaborate enough or write enough) Math....

I called the mental health team for help with my son. He was in his twenties at the time and was living in a trailer on his own property. It was a half-acre lot with a house on the other side, but he was no longer living in the larger building. He hadn’t paid the oil or electricity bills in a ...

Hmmm a subject that has been going on for a long time, certainly since the 1960s. I’ve read several articles from friends here in favor of legalizing this drug, it is a drug. I have two young friends, both using MJ. You’d have a real job on your hands convince me it’s not addictive...

Hmmm a subject that has been going on for a long time, certainly since the 1960s. I’ve read several articles from friends here in favor of legalizing this drug, it is a drug. I have two young friends, both using MJ. You’d have a real job on your hands convince me it’s not addictive...

Well, most of us don’t, although we often have bad thoughts about such a person. There are, however, those who react to challenges with violence. What is it that gets in the way of just talking things over? Or make a bet and having a beer while we watch our favorite teams play each other? What...