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This blog post is a collections of programming books that comes up most often in various discussion on this subject. The data was Scrapped/Polished with LLMs so take it with a grain of salt.
| Rank | Book Title | Authors | Mentions | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | The Pragmatic Programmer | Andrew Hunt, David Thomas | 7 | | 2 | Designing Data-Intensive Applications | Martin Kleppmann | 6 | | 3 | Programming Pearls | Jon Bentley | 6 | | 4 | Clean Architecture | Robert C. Martin | 5 | | 5 | Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software | Eric Evans | 5 | | 6 | Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code | Martin Fowler | 5 | | 7 | Code Complete | Steve McConnell | 5 | | 8 | The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | 5 | | 9 | Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship | Robert C. Martin | 4 | | 10 | The Design of Everyday Things | Don Norman | 4 | | 11 | Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach | John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson | 4 | | 12 | Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams | Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister | 4 | | 13 | Game Programming Patterns | Robert Nystrom | 4 | | 14 | Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces | Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau | 4 | | 15 | The Art of Computer Programming | Donald E. Knuth | 4 | | 16 | Introduction to Algorithms | Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein | 3 | | 17 | Algorithms Unlocked | Thomas H. Cormen | 3 | | 18 | How to Solve It | George Pólya | 3 | | 19 | The Elements of Statistical Learning | Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman | 3 | | 20 | The Programming Brain | Felienne Hermans | 2 | | 21 | The Phoenix Project | Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford | 2 | | 22 | Tidy First! | Kent Beck | 2 | | 23 | C Programming: A Modern Approach | K.N. King | 2 | | 24 | The Little Schemer | Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen | 2 | | 25 | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig | 2 | | 26 | How to Design Programs | Matthias Felleisen et al. | 2 | | 27 | Statistical Rethinking | Richard McElreath | 2 | | 28 | What Is This Thing Called Science? | A. F. Chalmers | 2 |
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Table of Contents* Implementation + 1. Getting OpenAI API Key + 2. Install OpenAI module + 3. Generating the Transcript * Example + Back Story from 2018 + A Speech by Winston Churchill Transcribed * Conclusion
Implementation1. Getting OpenAI API Key1. Navigate to https://platform.openai.com/signup and sign up for an account. 2. Navigate to “Personal” -> “View API Keys” 3. Click on “Create new Secret Key”
- Install OpenAI moduleIn your command line run
pip install openai
3. Generating the TranscriptModify and run the following Python script
import openaiopenai.api_key = <YOUR API KEY HERE>f = open("./your-file-to-transcribe.mp3", "rb")transcript = openai.Audio.transcribe("whisper-1", f)print(transcript['text'])Code language: PHP (php)
ExampleBack Story from 2018In 2018 I wrote a blog post titled Transcribing Speech to Text with Python and Google Cloud Speech API. Back then, the task was complex because the API only accepted audio clips of up to 60 seconds. To work around this, I had to split my audio into smaller files, transcribe them individually, and then combine them into a single text file (making sure to maintain order etc).
Today, OpenAI announced release of Wisper API and I decided to compare it to my results from 2018.
Note: My implementation in 2018 was flawed. For example, I did a hard split by 30 second mark, instead of finding a point of silence. Google gets a lot of credit for having this amazing technology 5 years ago. Google did update their API since then to accept longer files.
This post is not comparing Google to OpenAI. This post is comparing how much developer experience and quality of Audio transcription improved over time.
In 2018 I had 3 types of audio files:
- My wife, a native English speaker, read something out loud as if she was dictating to Siri for about 1.5 minutes, recorded on iPhone 6s.
- A snippet of Sport Radio Station.
- Famous (but very low quality) 1934 speech by Winston Churchill, titled The Threat of Nazi Germany.
My 2018 version did well on the high-quality audio, but struggled with the last speech.
OpenAI excelled with all of the three files.
Furthermore, my 2018 implementation required some engineering. OpenAI version is just a few lines of glue code in Python.
See for yourself.
A Speech by Winston Churchill Transcribed
Many people think that the best way to escape war is to dwell upon its horrors and to imprint them vividly upon the minds of the younger generation. They flaunt the grisly photographs before their eyes. They fill their ears with tales of carnage. They dilate upon the ineptitude of generals and admirals. They denounce the crime and insensate folly of human strife. Now all this teaching ought to be very useful in preventing us from attacking or invading any other country, if anyone outside a madhouse wished to do so. But how would it help us if we were attacked or invaded ourselves? That is the question we have to ask. Would the invaders consent to visit Lord Beaverbrook’s exhibition or listen to the impassioned appeals of Mr. Lloyd George? Would they agree to meet that famous South African, General Smuts, and have their inferiority complex removed in friendly, reasonable debate? I doubt it. I have borne responsibility for the safety of this country in grievous times. I gravely doubt it. But even if they did, I am not so sure we should convince them and persuade them to go back quietly home. They might say, it seems to me, you are rich, we are poor. You seem well fed, we are hungry. You have been victorious, we have been defeated. You have valuable colonies, we have none. You have your navy, where is ours? You have had the past, let us have the future. Above all, I fear, they would say, you are weak and we are strong. After all, my friends, only a few hours away by air there dwells a nation of nearly 70 million of the most educated, industrious, scientific, disciplined people in the world, who are being taught from childhood to think of war as a glorious exercise and death in battle as the noblest fate for man. There is a nation which has abandoned all its liberties in order to augment its collective strength. There is a nation which with all its strength and virtue is in the grip of a group of ruthless men preaching a gospel of intolerance and racial pride, unrestrained by law, by parliament, or by public opinion. In that country all pacifist speeches, all morbid war books are forbidden or suppressed and their authors rigorously imprisoned. From their new table of commandment they have omitted, thou shalt not kill. It is but 20 years since these neighbors of ours fought almost the whole world and almost defeated them. Now they are rearming with the utmost speed. And ready to their hands is this new lamentable weapon of the air, against which our navy is no defense, and before which women and children, the weak and frail, the pacifist and the jingo, the warrior and the civilian, the front-line trenches and the cottage home, all lie in equal and impartial peril. Nay, worse still, for with the new weapon has come a new method, or rather has come back the most brutish methods of ancient barbarism, namely the possibility of compelling the submission of races by terrorizing and torturing their civil population. And worst of all, the more civilized the country is, the larger and more splendid its city, the more intricate the structure of its social and economic life, the more it is vulnerable, the more it is at the mercy of those who may make it their prey. Now these are facts, hard, grim, indisputable facts, and in face of these facts I ask again, what are we to do?
Whisper results in 2023
Diff of Google Cloud API from 2018 vs Whisper in 2023Note: Missing sentences and funny words like DVD on the left and near perfect transcription on the right.
ConclusionThe future is now.
I encourage you to glance through my post from 2018 and compare how much effort it took me to go through a similar exercise back then.
In 2023, this whole exercise and the blog post took me about an hour to complete.
It was a special moment for me to listen to Winston Churchill give his historic speech and follow along, line by line, with a near-perfect transcription generated by OpenAI. The future is now…
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I wrote the following tool to do load test on Google Cloud PubSub. It’s a pretty simple but effective tool to generate a lot of data. This assumes user is using gcloud auth application-default login for credentials. In this particular examples: Every third request is adding a different attribute. Python dict as a payload that […]
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Localize.js is a great service. Gone are the days of having to internationalize your websites by hand. That being said, existing UI has a pretty annoying in my opinion limitation – there is no way to add phrases manually. 99% of the time, Localize.js is able to automatically pick up all of the phrases on […]
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Golang does not have built it sets. Basic functionality can be mimicked using maps with empty struct{}. Another option is to use a Boolean value, but empty struct does not use any space and therefore more efficient. Another benefit of empty struct is that Boolean value can be set to true or false, which could […]
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I recently watched the following speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger: It had a lot of good points, but one quote by Ted Turner really stood out for me: Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise Mr. Schwarzenegger then went on to explain the meaning of the second half of this quote. It’s […]
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Here are the steps that I too to merge multiple GitHub repos into one, while preserving all commit history. The process took about 30 minutes for 5 repos. As a result, I feel like my GitHub page is cleaner and code is actually better organized and easier to find. TLDR: Create new repo (or use […]
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One year ago I decided to stop self-promoting this blog. Previously I would spend a lot of time submitting my links to Social Media sites such as Hacker News and Reddit. It was taking up a lot of my time and attention. I even got a warning from Hacker News admin for repeatedly submitting links […]
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I often find myself with logs in the following format, exported in CSV. First column is timestamp in milliseconds, second column is timing for some request, also in milliseconds. Often I’d like to see the min, max and average request time, group by day and hour. Here is how to get this insight using Pandas […]
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I was investigating a bug that would only happen in production and wanted to attach a debugger to a particular workflow. I could have run the entire application and attached remotely, via: In my case, I wanted to invoke a specific method and see what happens via Scala REPL. Turns out it’s pretty easy to […]
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Update: 2021 I am now happily using new editor I usually update my WordPress as soon as I can for security reasons. I tried WordPress 5 and I did not like it. My main complain is that I write in WordPress using Markdown and it is not well supported in WordPress 5. My posts were […]
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Ammonite is an interactive REPL for Scala, kind of like ipython is for Python. I usually use IntelliJ IDE for Scala (which has a REPL and debugger among other things). Ammonite is great replacement though, when I don’t want to start up full blown IDE. It’s really easy to get started with Ammonite. First it […]
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My wife and I were watching Jack Ryan, where John Krasinski is playing an FBI analyst. I wanted to be like him, so I began to look for things to analyze. In the past I’ve done text analysis for comments left on Mark Zuckerbergs Facebook post, which I described in I Tried To Virtually Stalk […]
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In this episode of tech companies behaving badly, I would like to call out Yelp for forcing users to download their mobile app. I am 90% certain that I was able to get full experience on mobile Yelp in the past. Now it forces me to download a mobile app if I want to view […]
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My work used to be three miles away from my house, which was a huge blessing and my commute was guaranteed to be under 15 minutes. A month ago my work moved… Closer to my house. Now my commute is only 1.3 miles, making it an enjoyable 30 minute walk. I live in San Francisco/Bay […]
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I should be able to lock my phone while using YouTube and still hear the sound in the background. Currently this functionally is only available to YouTube Premium subscribers for $12 a month. This is a bad business practice for YouTube and a bad thing for the world. Bad for Youtube Why is it bad […]
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There are two philosophies when it comes to package installation, global first and local first. Global meaning all applications that rely on a certain package have access to the same copy of the library that was installed once. Local means that each project has its own folder of dependencies installed specifically for this project and […]
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A bit over a year ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project on this site. I have a long history with AMP and at some point I was one of it’s main critics. I’ve since accepted that it has a role to play, with no valid alternative. At the same time, I […]
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As smartphones have become part and parcel of our lives to the extent that they almost have engaged us, it should be made sure that we effectively navigate the perilous minefield known as life. From ensuring that we don’t miss any necessary birthdays, occasions or dinner dates, mobile phones nowadays can also provide you reminders […]
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My company hired a new VP of Engineering. He asked me an interesting question during our one-on-one: “What makes you a good engineer?”. I had to think about it for a second and I realized that it wasn’t technology or knowledge of certain principles. Obviously there are certain skills that one needs to have to […]
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TLDR; Use blue page icon in the title bar (see image bellow) or about:reader?url= in front of your URL to switch to reading mode in Firefox. New FireFox has a “Reader” mode, that you can activate by clicking on the “document” button, highlighted in blue (in the nav bar) in the screenshot above. Part of […]
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I am taking a cyber security class. This week’s assignment had us work on Honeypots. Honeypot is a server that pretends to have a vulnerability of sorts (open ports, old software etc.) and instead collects data on people who are trying to hack it. At the end of the experiment I ended up with some […]
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Here is a simple trick that I used to restart my python script after unhandled exception. Let’s say I have this simple script called test.py that I want to run forever. It will just wait 2 seconds and throw an error. I use the following script called forever in the same directory: It uses python […]
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I am attending a Cyber Security course provided by CodePath and sponsored by Facebook (thank you). During SQL Injection week I found myself very frustrated. I felt like I did not have a process that I followed and instead was copy-pasting various commands in hopes that one will eventually work. I wanted to share the […]
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Update 02/18/2018: – Expected search result is back on Google. Perhaps it was just a bug after all. I use AngularJS (aka Angular 1) in my daily work. When I need to look up documentation for something specific, I just search for it on Google. At least I used to do that. Few days ago […]
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Few weeks ago I decided to take it easy on my Social Media use. Top 3 social media sites that I visited were Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. I miss Reddit the least. I still visit Twitter for direct mentions, but I don’t miss my general feed all that much. I really miss Facebook. Facebook is […]
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I wrote a post 8 months ago titled It’s OK to Still Use Angular 1 in 2017. There are still a lot of companies using Angular 1 in legacy products and it is OK. That being said, some of the arguments that I made in my last post no longer seem valid. I wanted to […]
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This tutorial will walk through using Google Cloud Speech API to transcribe a large audio file. All code and sample files can be found in speech-to-text GitHub repo. Transcribe large audio files using Python & our Cloud Speech API. @akras14 shows how https://t.co/dY56lmE0TD — Google Cloud (@googlecloud) January 11, 2018 View Post Sample Results This […]
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All shared Google Photos are open to the public, even if they were only shared with specific people. This is different from Google Drive, where only people granted permission via the “Share with others” drop-down are able to view the content. Below is a screenshot of my private album (that I shared with one person) […]
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TLDR; Using pandas (pip install pandas) Using native csv.DictReader Reading as a List Let’s say we have the following CSV file, named actors.csv. You can download this file here. The first method demonstrated in Python docs would read the file as follows: Open the file Create a CSV reader Skip first line (header) For every line (row) in […]
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There are many use cases for converting JSON to a dot notation. For example, my current company used Hue to query our log data. Our logs are stored in JSON, and Hue queries expect a dot notation. For example, this JSON file Will look like this, when converted to dot notation: Note, I am starting […]
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Recently I was working on a fun idea, that was going to take me longer than one week to complete. Towards the second week I found myself dreading going back to work on my “fun” project. I wasn’t sure why… Was I no longer excited about the idea? Was I just too tired? Was I […]
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Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index is an attempt to estimates total energy cost of mining Bitcoin. Their methodology is based on the fact that energy needed to mine Bitcoin will increase in response to oversupply of mining resources. To quote the Bitcoin Wikipedia article: Every 2,016 blocks (approximately 14 days at roughly 10 min per block), […]
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Have you heard of Hacker News? It’s a great mini social network dedicated to all things tech. Once a month they post a thread called “Ask HN: Who is hiring?”, where anyone can list their job openings. With hundreds of comments it quickly gets overwhelming. Turns out it’s very easy to get the same data […]
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Bellow is a list of tools that I find helpful as a web developer. Mozilla Developer Network Mozilla Developer Network – MDN is a great HTML/CSS/JavaScript reference. It is sponsored by Mozilla a non-profit behind Firefox, but anyone is welcome to contribute the content. W3schools – Beginner friendly tutorial site. I learned my first HTML, […]
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What does 1 + 2 + 3 equal to? It was 6, not anymore. Apple released its new operating system (iOS 11) for iPhone on September 19, 2017. One of the updates was a redesigned calculator app. Mid October, a post titled “Try quickly typing 1 + 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator. […]
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Background Few years ago I found myself in a bad situation. I accepted a job that was not a good fit. After sixth months I hated my job and was ready to quit. At the same time my wife and I just found out that we were expecting our second child. She asked me to […]
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Two weeks ago Microsoft released a new version of Visual Studio Code (VSCode) which updated their default icon from a blue infinity sign, to something that looks a little strange and very orange. Most people who do not use VSCode will probably fail to see what the big deal is. If anything, it looks much […]
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A lot of people don’t like the New Visual Studio Code (aka VS Code or just Code) icon and they prefer the old icon better. I am one of these people. I was inspired by this comment to bring the old icon back. If you want to do the same on MacOS, you can:Note: For […]
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Chrome Developer Tools have a very useful option that allows to copy any API request as a CURL command. This tool can be used to test APIs without having to rely on the Browser, get access to unofficial APIs, scrape data and many other useful scenarios. Please allow me to demonstrate. In this video, I […]
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Two recent post of mine were ridiculed on r/programmingcirclejerk: Building a Simple Stopwatch App with Electron – Submitted by someone as Building a 100MB stopwatch app. Compile Node.js to Native Binaries – Submitted by me as Making 60Mb ls clone in JavaScript. I submitted my own post, because I enjoyed the humor in those threads. […]
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I’ve recently ran into issue where our projects were expecting to run with SBT version 0.13.12, but the only version that was installing with home-brew via brew install sbt was 1.0.1. Global Setting I’ve Googled and realized that I can install older version with brew install sbt@0.13 but this installed version 0.13.16 which was still […]
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I created a light weight RSS reader for people on poor internet connection to get latest headlines: https://techtldr.com/textnews/ I am kind of away form keyboard, but saw that Tweet from @samccone pointing out that http://lite.cnn.com/ was making users download a lot of JavaScript, … and now it seems down. https://twitter.com/samccone/status/906714941360553986. I wanted to provide a […]
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I’d like to open with the following comment on one of my anti-AMP shares, that I received today. HI I see that you have constant opposition to AMP because it renders badly on iphone. Do you know how expensive is DATA here in 3rd world? Native websites, force people to load trackers + install stupid […]
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Two month ago I wrote at length how Twitter was redirecting links on mobile devices to AMP versions of the content. Served not from AMP Cache, but from actual site’s web servers. Few weeks before that, I wrote an article asking to make AMP links optional in Google search result. Based on how well it […]
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Yesterday, I read an interesting article titled The Why and How of Google AMP at Condé Nast. I’ll let Condé Nast introduce themselves in their own words: Condé Nast is one of the world’s most prestigious publishers. You may recognize some of our brands which include Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, Golf Digest, GQ, Pitchfork, The […]
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At my work we have a Python library that interfaces to all our API micro services (that are written in Java/Scala). It is a very useful tool for debugging and working with our platform, so I spend a lot of my time in a Python REPL. Often times I find myself needing to hit multiple […]
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Recently I had to debug an issue with Xvfb server. It was hard to debug, because I was not able to “see” what was going on. I was able to reproduce and fix one of the issues by mimicking the build server in a Vagrant box. When I tried the fix on the build server, […]
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We run our protractor tests in Chrome instance via xvfb server. Last week after Chrome update to 60.0.3112.90, it began to fail with the following error. The solution was to use an older version of Chrome driver for Selenium, via the following command:
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Sources view in Chrome Developer Tools has a code snippets feature, kind of like a built-in text editor, that allows to write, debug, save and re-use code snippets. Creating a code snippet To get to code snippets: Open the Developer Tools Navigate to Sources at the top menu Select Snippets in the left menu (see […]
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Looks like the recent update to OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6 breaks python installed via homebrew. At least it happened to me both on my work and my home machines. If you are experience the same issue, you may see something that looks as following: Here are the steps that I took to fix […]
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A year and a half ago I Tried To Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg. It was a failed attempted and instead I analyzed comments on one of Mark’s posts. Few days ago I came across a repo/archive of Donald Trump’s Tweets and I thought it would be interesting to run a similar analysis on this data. […]
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Few days ago I decided to find a Stopwatch app for my Mac. I went over to the App Store and noticed that there were no good free options available. I thought to myself, how hard would it be to make one with Electron? Turns out, it was very easy. Getting an Electron shell running […]
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One month ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support on my site. This is a quick follow up on my experience so far and some metrics. In summary, I like it. Proof that it’s gone The following image captured in Google Webmaster’s Search Console indicates that the total count of AMP pages […]
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Introduction I love to write prose. I also love to write code. Different people have different approaches to writing code. I had a co-worker whose criteria for writing good Software was to make sure that one block of code can be read without having to scroll. My criteria for writing good code can be summarized […]
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It appears that Firefox has gone all-in with a new marketing campaign aiming at presenting Google Chrome as a big brother/browser that is watching your every step. They kicked it off with the following billboard posted somewhere in San Francisco. Firefox also appears to be a running ads on various sites targeting similar message. A […]
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Few days ago I disabled AMP support on my site. To disable AMP support, I took the following steps. Log in to my WordPress dashboard Go to Plugins -> Installed Plugins Find “AMP” plugin Click “Deactivate” link under the AMP plugin Click “Delete” link under the AMP plugin That is all I had to do, […]
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I have a long history with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, but yesterday I drew the final straw. I was on Twitter (in Safari on iPhone 6) and I noticed that somebody linked to my site using an AMP link. I replied with a real link, but when I clicked on it, I was […]
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I’ve only been a full time web developer for the past 5 years. It’s barely enough time to start calling myself a “senior” Software Engineer. In that short period of time the web technology stack has evolved tremendously. January 2012 – jQuery In early 2012 I was finishing up my master’s degree and got a […]
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If you don’t yet know who Andrew Ng is, he is the Founder and Lead of Google Brain (Deep Learning) project, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Co-Founder of Coursera and author of one of the best (if not the best) Machine Learning courses. In other words he is to AI, what Justin […]
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I was reading some articles on Hacker News about how we’ve lost the internet to big companies and how we are not doing anything about it and it got me thinking about Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) again. My story with AMP started in early 2016 when I enabled it on this site. It kind […]
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Most people agree that whiteboard interviews suck. They have little co-relation with the job requirements and thousands of great engineers are being rejected every day just because they don’t do well with CS 101 types of questions. On a flip side, the whiteboard interview have been the industry standard for many years and they are […]
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Update Jan 19, 2018: I was wrong, please read It’s NOT OK to Still Use Angular 1 in 2018 instead. I saw an old friend over the weekend, who is a Director of Front End at a local start up. He asked me what framework we were using, and I said, still Angular 1. He […]
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Guillermo Rauch (Socket.io, Mangoose.js, Hyper.js, Now) is the guy to watch, and last night he did not disappoint. The following tweet announced pkg – a simple tool to generate a native executable file from Node.js code targeting Mac, Linux, and Windows. Introducing pkg Single command binary compilation for Node.js pic.twitter.com/Dbe9L1gb0x — ZEIT (@zeithq) April 29, […]
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Introduction I am not an expert on either of the package managers. Contrary, until few days ago I didn’t realize that npm used a local cache. Unaware, I wrote an article titled OMG — NPM clone that finally makes sense and was called out on some of my false assumptions. That feedback forced me to take a […]
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Note: Everything I’ve assumed was wrong, I am keeping track of things as I discover them via the medium post: https://medium.com/@akras14/omg-npm-clone-that-finally-makes-sense-3478588879 I’ll update this post when the dust settles 🙂 Last week I came across a yet another NPM clone, called pnpm, but unlike other clones (cough Yarn) this one is actually interesting! What so […]
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I just saw an articled on Hacker News announcing that Chrome 59 is going to have cross-platform headless support. A lot of people are excited by this announcement, mainly because it will allow them to move away from PhantomJS – a buggy headless browser currently used as a de-facto solution to run unit tests and […]
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I often find myself needing to convert video to a series of images. It’s a great way to look through the content to find some details or identify screenshots that are worth keeping. For example I used this method to look through all talks given at Chrome Dev Summit to supplement my notes. Another use […]
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I use Ammonite and ipython like REPL for Scala. I find it handy to save history to file, so here is how to do it in Ammonite. Ammonite exposes a global object called repl, which has a method called history. The code above converts history to a new line separated string and writes it to […]
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I love Python and ipython, so I often crave similar experience when working with Scala. Scala already has a built in REPL which is a huge plus, however, I wasn’t sure how to copy/paste multi-line text. For example, I had a snippet of code saved somewhere that looked as such: This would work fine if […]
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Two years ago I wrote a blog post on Angular Performance, that remains the most popular post on this site. Even two years ago it seemed like Angular 1 was on it’s way out, so I was surprise to see my Angular 1 post still getting so much traffic. I conducted a poll on Twitter, […]
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With popularity of Github and many other competing offerings, it’s easy to overlook how simple it is to set up (unlimited) private repos on any network connected computer. For example, I run this blog on a cheap instance of Linode, where $5 a month get’s you 20Gb SSD storage. But you don’t have to pay […]
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Four month ago I noticed something weird with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project and wrote a blog post outlining my concerns. I first submitted the post to Reddit where it was not received well. People told me to “Read the Fucking Manual”. I remember telling my wife that I didn’t understand why people on […]
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Introduction Three days ago I wrote about my interview at Uber. I did not think of Uber as a great place to work. People that I’ve met seemed young, smart and overworked to the point of exhaustion. From my conversation with recruiter I took away that Uber had no problem being the lowest bidder and […]
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A little less than a year ago I had the “pleasure” to interview at Uber. I didn’t know much about the company at the time, other than that they were big. I was looking for work already and Uber’s recruiter reached out to me, so I figured to give it a shot. Up to this […]
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Step 1. Find what port Vagrant is connected to by running vagrant port The output Will look as follow: Indicating that Vagrant is running on port 2200 Step 2. Get the absolute path for the file that you want to copy i.e. /vagrant/some-file.txt You can get it by ssh’ing into the machine and locating the […]
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This is another follow up to my 4 Month old blog post – how you may be loosing your mobile traffic to Google AMP pages. Note: AMP stands for Accelerate Mobile Pages – and it’s a roughly year old project from Google that aims to optimize mobile browsing experience by providing a free cache/CDN layer, […]
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Git comes with a very power history viewing command – git log, which supports a number of command line parameters. This options are very powerful, especially when used in combination. Here are the ones that I use the most: --author=“Alex Kras" – Only show commits made by a certain author --name-only – Only show names […]
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I was born in the former Soviet Union in the early 80s. When I was 16, my family immigrated to Israel. A year or so later, my mother won a Green-card. We moved to San Francisco in June of 2001, 2 months before 9/11. Six months after 9/11, I enlisted in the United States Marine […]
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I am by no means a professional writer, but I like to write. I feel like I have something meaningful to say and writing it down is my preferred means of expression. Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.Isaac Asimov Of course, as most writers, I hope that somebody would read what I […]
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For a while now I had a theory that Software Engineers are more likely to have more boys than girls. I know it sounds like a stupid idea, but I had some strong anecdotal evidence to suggest that I might be onto something. Anecdotal Evidence Here is the list of past 3 companies where I […]
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3 Month ago I wrote how you may be loosing your mobile traffic to Google AMP pages, that got some attention. AMP stands for Accelerate Mobile Pages – and it’s a roughly year old project from Google that aims to optimize mobile browsing experience by providing a free cache/CDN layer, as well as a subset […]
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I am currently reading a book by a Russian author – Alexander Nikonov, titled “Upgrade of the Monkey”. I believe it’s only currently available in Russian. It reminds me a lot of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, except it’s much less politically correct. Author opens up with a strong stance against […]
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I wanted to create a simple RSS reader for myself. All I wanted to see was some top headline from top news site (according to Google it’s BBC, CNN and Fox News). No images, no fluff, just a headline and a link. I settled on 7 headline, which provided me a good balance between too […]
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Originally posted on http://www.apixio.com/technical-post/notes-from-the-2016-chrome-dev-summit/ Two weeks ago I got to attend the Chrome Dev Summit, an annual two-day conferencehosted by Google where they announced latest developments relevant to the webtechnology. Here are my full notes from this conference. Since there was somuch information presented, I decided to organize it by subject, instead ofchronological order of […]
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Last week I wanted to scrape my Tweets for the past few days. It was very easy to do with Python. In this tutorial we will explore: How to install Twitter API library in Python How to set up Twitter API authentication How to Search with Twitter API How to Get User Tweets with Twitter […]
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Two weeks ago I wrote a blog post with a controversial title Google may be stealing your mobile traffic, where I outlined some criticism of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project. Shortly after Paul Bakaus (a developer advocate for AMP project) invited me to join him and Malte Ubl (product manager for AMP project) for lunch […]
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Updated in 2020 to work with Python 3. My company uses multiple git repos that all depend on one another. Often I find myself trying to grep through a few of them at the same time. Regular grep works, but it takes a long time and displays a lot of noise. git grep only searches […]
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Update 10/17/2016 6:30pm: You can read a response from the tech lead of the AMP Project for Google, in the comment area. Update 11/01/2016 10:40pm: After learning more about AMP, it became clear that the original title was inaccurate. A better title would have been You may be losing Your Mobile Traffic. Update 11/03/2016 10:30pm: […]
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I couldn’t find a good example online, so here it goes. Hope it helps
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Adding SSL Certificate few years ago was a painful and expensive process. This is no longer the case. Last year Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority came to life and made SSL certificate available to anybody free of charge. It is sponsored by a number of organizations such as Mozilla Foundation, that want to make the web […]
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First, let me establish some credibility. In the past year a few of my posts made it to the front page of Hacker News, including: I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg Git Tips What is the best part about being a Software Engineer? Prior to my first Hacker News (HN) breakthrough, my articles have […]
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My current work requires me to submit weekly reports and so did some other jobs that I’ve had in the past. To help with that task, I wrote the following script that: Goes through every one of my git repos Checks if I’ve made any commits in the past week If I did, prints the […]
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If you’ve never heard of the Debt Snowball approach for getting out of debt created by Dave Ramsey, you may find this term misleading. Tech Debt Snowball may sounds like something suggesting that left unchecked, tech debt will snowball out of control. While I have no doubt that this statement is true, what I mean […]
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Git supports auto-completion when used via the terminal, which includes all basic commands such as git status or git checkout as well as local and remote branch names etc. It comes pre-installed on Ubuntu, but a few simple steps (bellow) have to be followed to get it working on Mac. Open up your terminal app […]
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I tried shell integration for iterm2 and I didn’t like it. I wasn’t sure how to remove it, so I looked into the install script. I am currently using bash, so all they did was to add an entry into my ~/.bash_profile file and download a ~/.iterm2_shell_integration.bash file. All I had to do, is remove […]
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I’ve been cleaning out my old computer and came across a git mind map that I’ve used to put together this Git Cheatsheet. Both are aimed towards beginners. If you are an intermediate Git user, you might find 19 Tips For Everyday Git Use to be more interesting. I’ve thought that some people might prefer […]
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A week ago I saw an article on Hacker News titled – What’s awful about being a {software engineer, tech lead, manager}?. The article was spot on and it got a lot of attention. It also left me feeling depressed about my profession. My great grandmother used to say: “Don’t compare yourself to people who […]
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TLDR; Visit this repo for minimum ES6+ Boilerplate Lately a lot people have been writing about how much they miss the good old days of JavaScript development. Five years ago creating a new web project looked as follows: Create an index.html file. Create a JavaScript file. Require your JavaScript file in your index.html file. Open […]
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A few weeks ago our production code started to throw a weird error, that looked like this: This was very strange, since it was coming from a code that used to work for a long time. The only thing that has changed was the Node version. I’ve tried Googling for the issue, but all I […]
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Part 1. A Naive Dream The Dream In late 2015, I finished reading Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and was very inspired to try to automate something in my life. At the same time, I have been always fascinated by Mark Zuckerberg – the Bill Gates of our time. A lot of people love […]
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Table of Contents Introduction Minimal Theory Step 1. Reproduce and confirm the problem Step 2. Take at least 3 Heap dumps Step 3. Find the problem Step 4. Confirm that the issue is resolved Links to some other resources Summary Something you might want to bookmark: Simple Guide to Finding a JavaScript Memory Leak in […]
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