This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist knocks you in the pop sockets with head-boppin’ groove tuneage to help propel you through the work week in style. Whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw, or working that 3D geometry all day, consider these fresh tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start things off with “Check the Weather” from Pavo Pavo and work our way through tracks from Goldensuns, Palmas, Nassau, Field Trip, and others before wrapping up with “The Master” from The Undercover Dream Lovers. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want to…

The Alien Facehugger. It seems innocent enough… You know, after it chases you down, wraps its legs around your face, paralyzes you for a few days and falls dead off your swollen gnoggin–after that. We won’t go into the details of what happens next. What’s that? You’ve not seen any of the Alien movies? FOR SHAME. To think you’ve gone so many years without horrible nightmares and the voice of Bill Paxton in your head. “Game Over Man, GAME OVER!” Curtis Socha created the full-size Alien Facehugger as a remix from Julie Sharpe’s adorable mini Facehugger –Seriously, you just want to a keep a couple of those cuties under each armpit don’t you? Mini Facehuggers…

Code. You don’t have to be a computer science hotshot to take the deep dive—heck, some people are up and running with their first project in a matter of weeks. But knowing where and how to enter can be half of the battle. The recently-launched Learn How to Code 2017 Bundle is the perfect entry point and includes over 156 Hours of premium coding instruction, from Python to Ruby & everything in between. Consisting of ten courses in total, the ‘Pay What You Want’ bundle covers not just specific code languages, but also how and why you may decide to choose one over another depending on the project at hand.…

Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Each Monday, we’ll link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.…

Unless you’ve been sporting Apple’s new AirPods, chances are your headphones are taking up a sizable chunk of desk space when not in use. And if you’re not keen on 3D printing your own storage solution, then why not utilize all that glorious space on the underside of your desk? The Anchor is the ‘Original Under-Desk Headphone Stand’ from Elevation Labs and adheres to the bottom side your desk with an industrial-strength adhesive. Featuring hooks for two headphones (or cords/cables), the Anchor makes it dead simple to keep space-hogging peripherals out of sight. And for just $9.99 (50% off), you’ll be thanking yourself for getting a head start on spring…

There are those last few steps the closer you get to the edge. They are the steps where you have to summon all your power, the steps where time slows for a bit, the camera pans around you, sound expands and the glint of the sun catches the edge of your sunglasses just before you kick the melon out of these links. Ha Ko – I’m a pushover for cool world map and game world visuals. Ha Ko seems to be starting out, but gives us a small taste of hopefully many, many more. Waito – Carly Waito created these fabulous geology and geometry inspired oil painting–yes, oil paintings–that look more like…