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🔗 You can create a great looking website while sucking at design

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you don’t have to be an amazing designer. You just have to be resourceful and understand a couple of simple design tips. The internet is full of free tools and resources to supplement your lack of design skills.

I’m going to show you how to take advantage of those resources to create something that you can be proud of.

This guide will cover the tools, techniques, and resources I use for designing websites. It is not the end all be all but it is a great guideline for people who struggle with design. We are going to build an application called DesignDo. It will be a collection of design tips and resources (so meta!). Everything we use will be 100% free. To keep our focus on …

🔗 Magic-Wormhole

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a command-line tool named wormhole, which makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another. The two endpoints are identified by using identical “wormhole codes”: in general, the sending machine generates and displays the code, which must then be typed into the receiving machine.

🔗 Pelican Documentation

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python. Highlights include:

Write your content directly with your editor of choice in reStructuredText or Markdown formats
Includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate your site
Easy to interface with distributed version control systems and web hooks
Completely static output is easy to host anywhere

Ready to get started? Check out the Quickstart guide.

🔗 Racemic Ketamine as an Alternative to Electroconvulsive Therapy for Unipolar Depression: A Randomized, Open-Label, Non-Inferiority Trial (KetECT)

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''Abstract''

''Background''

Ketamine has emerged as a fast-acting and powerful antidepressant, but no head to head trial has been performed, Here, ketamine is compared with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the most effective therapy for depression.

''Methods''

Hospitalized patients with unipolar depression were randomized (1:1) to thrice-weekly racemic ketamine (0.5 mg/kg) infusions or ECT in a parallel, open-label, non-inferiority study. The primary outcome was remission (Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale score ≤10). Secondary outcomes included adverse events (AEs), time to remission, and relapse. Treatment sessions (maximum of 12) were administered until remission or maximal effect was achieved. Remitters were followed for 12 months after the final treatment session.

''Results''

In total 186 inpatients were included and received treatment. Among patients receiving ECT, 63% remitted compared with 46 …

🔗 How Does Perspective Work in Pictures?

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Making my own pictures led me down a road to understanding how wrong these views are. There is no such thing as correct perspective; all choices of perspective have advantages and disadvantages. It is impossible to accurately portray everything about 3D space in a 2D picture, so artists must make choices, and linear perspective is just one option.