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Network Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tweets for 2017

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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. […]

One Month Without AMP

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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 […]

Writing Good Code is a lot Like Writing Prose

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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 […]

Firefox Marketing Declares a War on Chrome

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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 […]

How to Disable AMP on WordPress

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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, […]

I decided to disable AMP on my site

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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 […]

JavaScript Fatigue or My History with Web Development

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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 […]

AI is the New Electricity – Andrew Ng – Transcript

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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 […]