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"Creativity is intelligence having fun" - Albert Einstein
1. I Traded My Sketchpad for a Prompt Box—And Art Will Never Be the Same
AI art, neural networks & creative disruption—explore how a simple apple exposes the edge between human intuition and machine intelligence.
2. The Sandbox: A Decentralized Virtual Gaming World
This article gives you an introduction to The Sandbox ecosystem, the decentralized multi-platform multiplayer virtual gaming world. The article describes the cooperation between players, creators, and artists in The Sandbox, and provides information on how blockchain technology backs up the whole thing.
3. How to Defeat Procrastination via Walking
Integrating walking as a proactive response to procrastination and establishing a routine improves your creative thinking.
4. 5 things I learnt from Steal Like An Artist
Sometime back, I wrote a review of <a href="https://amandeepmittal.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/book-review-steal-like-an-artist-by-austin-kleon/" target="_blank"><strong>Steal Like an Artist</strong></a><strong> by Austin Kleon</strong>. There wasn’t much to write about the book in the review that could satisfy my fascination towards it. Many things had been said by many people on creativity and getting ideas, before <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Kleon </strong></a>came out with his manifesto. Being a writer and an artist he is a keen observer and a participant of the creative economy in this age of digitization. So I believe being a part of creative economy himself, Kleon’s manifesto is a better outcome of his wisdom. Thus, I decided, why not post the top five things from the book that I learnt and I tend to implement in my daily ritual.
5. I Asked AI to Write Poems and Raps – Here Are the Results
I told AI to Write Poems and Raps – Here are The Results of Human-AI collaboration.
6. The Artistic Singularity: How AI Art Redefines Creativity
If art serves to create beauty, evoke emotions or drive narratives, should the matter of how it comes to exist take from or add to its creative essence?
7. 10 Business Models, 10 Companies, 10 New Ways of Working In A Pandemic
Covid-19 has revealed and keeps revealing holes in the economic and healthcare infrastructures worldwide as it spread and invades countries mercilessly. The gap between the rich and poor has become more obvious, especially in well-developed countries. The number of job losses in two weeks exceeded 10 million in the U.S. alone.
8. What it Means to be a Creative Coder
Programmers rarely agree on whether or not coding is a creative profession. My interest in coding always stemmed from what I could create with the code. Seeing an interesting visual result from my efforts is usually the most satisfying part. Most programmers are less concerned with how their app looks and more concerned with the functionality. Usually, as long as the app works the way it is supposed to, most programmers are satisfied.
9. How To Take Notes So Good They Become Your Second Brain
Today, we consume more information per person than at any other time in human history. We are continually reading, observing, monitoring, conversing and mentally trying to build a knowledge of the world we can use in our daily work and lives. The problem? The disparity between the total quantity of human knowledge and our ability to assimilate and filter it grows, unremittingly, by the day.
10. How To Be Authentic
There’s a veneer that people maintain online — and we’ve all done it — showing audiences a polished, glowing side of themselves no matter what else might be going on in their lives.
11. How To Choose Your Next Username: 7 Creative Ways to Hack a Great Handle
If you decide to take your online personas seriously, here are seven fun ways to help answer the question:
12. The TechBeat: Outlier Detection: What You Need to Know (5/7/2024)
5/7/2024: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
13. Stop Paying the Cognitive Switching Tax
Multitasking is a lie. Close your open cognitive loops to reclaim your mental RAM. Use the 4 D's framework to think for yourself and preserve your only remainin
14. Why a Career in Motion Graphics Is a Good Option for Tech Savvy Students in 2023
Today, there’s no shortage of roles in the tech space for young aspiring professionals to pursue. From becoming a coder with a lucrative salary to an app developer with room to grow at a company, there are seemingly endless career options for students interested in technological processes.
15. Rick Rubin and the Human Touch: Can AI Replace Human Instinct?
In a world shaped by AI, can human instinct be replaced by artificial intelligence? Maybe Rick Rubin can teach us something.
16. Creative Automation is Shaking Up the Digital Marketing Game
Creative automation is the idea of using technology to customize video or banner ads into thousands of variations in minutes. It removes repetitive manual work.
17. Speed Is Slowing You Down: How to Outperform Everyone With Effortless Effort (and Overcome Laziness)
Laziness isn’t about doing nothing—it’s about doing the wrong things. Work isn’t about spending more time—it’s about getting the right things done well and fast
18. Is Automation in Web Development Replacing Human Creativity?
As a creative person who values the human touch in my work, I've started to question whether automation in web development is really the best way forward.
19. I Built a Neuralink App Concept After Elon Musk’s Latest Joe Rogan Podcast
I decided to design a Neuralink concept app after watching Elon Musk’s latest chat on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Context: Neuralink is one of the companies Elon Musk works on. They're developing skull implants that connect to the brain to restore certain body functions that were lost through injury or health complications.
20. The Importance of Unlearning
The world of software is constantly changing at a very fast pace. Yesterday’s axioms might be tomorrow’s anti-patterns.
21. Forget What You See on TV: Good Ideas Don’t Come From Brainstorming
The reality of brainstorming sessions is far from the idealized scenes made to entertain us.
22. How I Made a YouTube Video With React
I wanted a good animation for my first YouTube video. But with no experience with tools like After Effects, what can I do? React JS to the rescue!
23. Hydra Tutorial For Live Coding Visuals
In my last post I wrote about the first session of SpacyCloud’s Live Twitch stream from two weeks ago. The twitch stream was an all day event where the first half of the day consisted of a variety of workshops around creative coding topics, while the second half featured performances from various audio visualization artists and creative coders. Unfortunately I could not attend all the events, but I wanted to write in detail about both the Hydra event and P5JS event. You can read the P5JS post here. Now let’s dive into some live coding visuals!
24. Making A Drawing Application on the Desmos Graphing Calculator
Drawing Bowser from Super Mario Bros in the Desmos Graphing Calculator.
25. A Hyper-Connected World
Sometimes, just sometimes, our hyper-connecting mind will lead to astounding discoveries that will forever alter the way we live.
26. 10,000+ Personalized Business Ideas Using Heuristics
Heuristics are used by Nature (and some computer scientists) to solve really difficult problems.
27. How AI is Changing Art, Creativity, and Intellectual Property
As AI keeps advancing, it’s stirring up some thought-provoking about identity, ownership, and the future of human expression.
28. Metaphysics and Mathematics: The Intricate Web Connecting the Two
In this exploration, we will dive into the intricate web connecting Mathematics, Metaphysics, and the computational mindset.
29. The TechBeat: The Internet Is Rigged, Only Decentralization Can Fix It (4/14/2025)
4/14/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
30. How ChatGPT Took Me From Baking Disaster to Masterchef
If ChatGPT can refactor my code, it can surely help improve my cooking. Right?
31. Is ChatGPT Sentient?
While Chat GPT can create pieces of text that sound competent in many fields, its field of know-how only goes as far as its training data set.
32. Unraveling Coco Chanel: Creativity, Resilience, and the Shadows of Mental Health
Explore Coco Chanel's enigmatic life, from fashion revolution to mental health struggles, unraveling the complexities behind the iconic fashion icon.
33. How to be Bored (the Right Way)
Boredom is one of the biggest problems of modernity. Or is it?
34. The Power of Lateral Thinking: Boost Your Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills as a Generalist
Lateral thinking is a framework and a way of thinking that allows you to get unstuck and find unconventional solutions to complex problems.
35. Why You're Not Consistent: the Equation for Consistency, Confidence, Discipline, Self Respect
You said you’d do things and didn’t. You promised yourself you’d get it done, but instead, you slept. You told yourself you'd change, but you didn’t.
36. How To Use The Ikigai Concept to Find Purpose Amidst Chaos
A guide to find meaning and purpose in your life in the most unlikely circumstances, including a global pandemic, through Ikigai.
37. Coding Is More Creative Than You Might Think
38. 7 Most Valuable Soft Skills Of Exceptional Software Engineers
When we think about software engineering, we tend to think about the technical skill set of the professional first. And this makes sense because the skill set defines the quality of work that the software engineer can perform-and make no mistake, quality comes above everything in software development.
39. 5 Quick Hacks for High Converting Landing Pages
I’ve seen quite some landing pages come by on indiehackers.com by now and I noticed that I wanted to give/gave the same tips multiple times. So I thought it would be nice to write a small article about this. These are just tips from my point of view and things I like about a landing page personally.
40. Exploring The 5 Stages of The Design Thinking Process
Companies today have global exposure. Unlike earlier times, where competition among similar brands and businesses was restricted to a certain specific geographical area, competition today is on a global scale.
41. 5 Quick Productivity Tips for Busy Solopreneurs
Not only do these productivity tips work, they also rhyme for easy recall.
42. The TechBeat: Google Gemini vs Anthropic Claude vs OpenAI ChatGPT vs xAI Grok: The Ultimate Comparison (3/15/2026)
3/15/2026: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
43. 5 Strategies for Shifting a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset
How do you approach failures in life?
44. ChatGPT 4.0 Finally Gets a Joke
Reasoning: ChatGPT4.0 got the joke, ChatGPT3.5 did not Creativity: ChatGPT4.0 does a better job. Analytics: ChatGPT4.0 is a better programer than ChatGPT3.5
45. The Internet Was Always Bad at Writing. Now It's Just More Obvious.
The internet was drowning in bad writing long before ChatGPT showed up. Here's why right now is actually the best moment to be a genuinely good writer.
46. The Step-by-step Process to Creating Effective Corporate Explainer Videos
Let’s talk today about "How to Create Effective Explainer Videos". What are the types of explainer videos and how to make them for video marketing
47. The TechBeat: Google Gemini Did Not Disappoint on These Blockchain x AI Use Cases (4/15/2025)
4/15/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
48. Creativity is the Heart of Cybersecurity
Insights from a Q&A with Deflect’s Founder, Kevin Voellmer
49. Create a LEDs-powered Cloud! ☁️⚡️✨
At Prynt, we have creativity days, we work on everything we want for few days. I believe this is really important to have some time you can work on something else for your company. A colleague did some art paint in our office, another create slack emoji of everyone in the company, I decided to create this cloud with the help of some colleagues (by the way, we name it Claudie).
50. The TechBeat: This College Student Wanted Privacy - His College Couldn't Give Him Any (6/24/2025)
6/24/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
51. The Huel-ification of Thinking
We're treating intellectual work like 1800s nutritionists treated food—extracting components without knowing what we're losing.
52. The TechBeat: Hallucinations by Design - (Part 3): Trusting Vectors Without Testing Them (4/18/2025)
4/18/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
53. The TechBeat: INSANE One-click MCP AI Agent Hits the Market (4/19/2025)
4/19/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
54. How to Create Brand Names That Sell With ChatGPT
This article explores how to use AI tools like ChatGPT for generating creative brand names. It outlines a step-by-step process,
55. Ayesha Mubarak Ali: A Pakistani Digital Artist Setting New Horizons with Her Unique Work
Today’s rapidly evolving technological advancements and inventions have given a new meaning to the field of arts.
56. How to Lower Stress and Prevent Creative Burnout
Stress doesn’t always make itself known and it can take the form of an overwhelming feeling that something just isn’t right in your life.
57. How to Find Your Product Market Fit Using Creative Brand Voice – A Guide By Creative Director
Manifesting your community's values and unmet needs through creative brand and product ideas is the secret to product market fit.
58. How to Win Pitch Competitions Against People Using ChatGPT
It’s not surprising that people in the industry are advocating the use of ChatGPT for writing or editing a pitch script.
59. Incorporating Art into Engineering by Introducing the STEAM Approach
There is a perception that science, technology, and the arts are separate vocations. The STEAM approach incorporates the arts and sciences.
60. A Further Exploration of the AGI Delusion
AGI won’t be found in the accumulation of knowledge, but in the architecture of experience.
61. The TechBeat: I Built an AI Copilot That Thinks in Exploits, Not Prompts (7/4/2025)
7/4/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
62. The TechBeat: LangChain Promised an Easy AI Interface for MySQL—Here’s What It Really Took (4/20/2025)
4/20/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
63. Creative Writing VS AI — What's Your Take?
AI-generated content has taken over the world as well as our writing and thinking skills. When was last time you didn't take it's help to write your content?
64. 5 Tech Tools to Sharpen Your Creativity
Creativity is important today because it helps us innovate and think outside the box. Knowing how to use your creativity can open up a world of opportunities, so it's worthwhile taking the time to sharpen these skills with the right tools.
65. The TechBeat: Why Every Front-End Team Needs Storybook (4/17/2025)
4/17/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
66. From Stress to Success: My Journey of Overcoming Burnout
Learn how finding a new hobby, such as music, helped one person recover from burnout and discover the power of creativity in business.
67. The TechBeat: Junior Cybersecurity Roles Are Vanishing—Blame Agentic AI (7/10/2025)
7/10/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
68. The TechBeat: AI Security Posture Management (AISPM): How to Handle AI Agent Security (7/5/2025)
7/5/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
69. The TechBeat: We Timed It: How Long Does It Really Take to Buy Crypto in the Top 5 Wallets? (7/27/2025)
7/27/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
70. The TechBeat: Ignore The Noise: Web3 Gaming Is Making Real Progress (4/16/2025)
4/16/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
71. Generative AI Helps Artists Expand the Boundaries of Their Imagination
Artists in fields ranging from writing and painting to music and interior design are using new AI tools to redefine the whole notion of creativity
72. Sustaining Our Creativity through Managing Multiple Projects
Cross-pollination between projects is a reliable method to recharge our creativity.
73. Creative Applications for Artists: Let's Build More of Them
I’ve been in a creative slump lately. I think this is a common but rarely discussed problem for people who transition from arts careers into programming. On one hand, having a well paying remote job means you don’t have to worry about being a starving artist and probably still have some free time to make art. On the other hand, there can be periods of time where work takes up all your time and you don’t have the energy at the end of the day to make art.
74. Will You Really Let AI Do the Thinking For You?
Learn why active creation is crucial for innovation and personal fulfillment.
75. The TechBeat: Firebase Studio: Everything You Need to Know About (4/21/2025)
4/21/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
76. The TechBeat: A List of Projects Software Engineers Should Undertake to Learn More About LLMs (9/17/2023)
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77. The TechBeat: Coding Rust With Claude Code and Codex (12/28/2025)
12/28/2025: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
78. In the Absence of the NBA, Why Not Compete to Hack a Better Zendesk?
It’s hard to know what to build. If you’re lucky enough to find a good problem, you’re still a long way from your first customer and even longer from success.
79. The TechBeat: The Hidden Cost of AI: Why It’s Making Workers Smarter, but Organisations Dumber (1/3/2026)
1/3/2026: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
80. The TechBeat: Turn GPT-4 Into Your Expert: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models Easily (9/27/2023)
9/27/2023: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
81. From 50 Pages of Handwritten Notes to a Digital Manuscript with Python and AI
Apple's HEIC (High-Efficiency Image Container) is great for saving space, but not so great for compatibility.
82. How a Gift Sparked a Creative Revolution
A look at how a simple tif sparked a creative movement that changed history, giving us several iconic styles and brands.
83. Meet NORN: The AI-Powered Robot Who Can Paint Masterpieces
NORN uses paints, canvases, and brushes, just like the rest of us, to create his works of art. This talented robot was the invention of two data scientists from Moscow and Altai, Russia.
84. School Taught You to Study, Not to Learn - Here’s Why You’re Stuck and How to Fix It
School taught you to memorize and follow rules, not to truly learn. If you're stuck in life despite working hard, the problem isn’t your ability—it’s your appro
85. The TechBeat: I Used AI Agents to Automate My Business — Here’s What Happened (6/27/2025)
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86. Interwoven Realms: The Dance of Reason and Creativity in Human Understanding
Reason and creativity intertwine to shape our understanding and communication, inspired by deep reflections and AI interactions.
87. Breaking Free from the Mundane: A 4-Week Journey to Rediscovering Joy in Life and Work
Follow my 4-week journey to break free from monotony, rediscover joy, and redefine life while balancing a 9-to-5 job.
88. AI + Creativity: Startup Interview with Olof Lindh, Kive.ai Founder
Kive is a smarter way for creatives to automatically organize their libraries and collaborate on the creative process.
89. What Holds Back Innovation?
Many innovations need time to catch on because of our resistance and scepticism to a novel way to accomplish things.
90. The TechBeat: Faster, Fairer Payments for LATAM Creators on Clapper (8/18/2025)
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91. The TechBeat: Federated Learning Reimagined: Advancing Data Privacy in Distributed AI Systems (2/29/2024)
2/29/2024: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
92. The TechBeat: Dealing with Missing Data in Financial Time Series - Recipes and Pitfalls (4/20/2024)
4/20/2024: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!
93. Creativity in Digital Marketing and Technology: How to Stand Out
Everything that involves marketing has to do with how it is being perceived by the consumer. If it is appealing enough to the consumers, you get a click.
94. Amsterdam's Online Corona Exhibition is a Crowdsourced Covid-19 Time Capsule
"An Online Exhibition About Amsterdam in the Age of Corona: In the digital exhibition Corona in the City, the Amsterdam Museum – with many partners – shows the impact of the corona virus on the city of Amsterdam and its inhabitants. Hundreds of Amsterdammers and Amsterdam organisations share their photos, videos, texts and audio fragments about this period in this exhibition. From moving reports of distant visits to loved ones to still photographs of the empty city; from poignant messages from the vital sectors to creative imaginations of life in quarantine."
95. How To Improve Your Concentration and Focus
The World is full of distractions, the more you try to ignore a string of distractions the more you find yourself tangled in those strings of distraction. We are never taught how to manage our time nor our finance. It is the thing that we have to manage or learn on our own. The truth is people actually never learn to manage their time. They just do things whatever they have or according to their priorities. But within these priorities, people tend to get lost in their thoughts, urges, or fictional societies. In between these priorities, it’s really complicated to stay focused and do things. We easily get lost and get distracted. Staying focused for a longer time is tough for your brain. Especially when you are doing intensive work or in short the thing that releases a few dopamines.
96. The TechBeat: From Launch to Exit in 10 Months: Inside Neri Bluman's Bet on Answer Engine Optimization (12/27/2025)
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97. The TechBeat: I Blew €400 on Cursor — Here's What I Learned So You Don't Have To (4/25/2025)
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