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Are Software Engineers more likely to have boys?

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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 […]

AMP Toolbar Is Now Scrollable on Mobile Safari

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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 […]

God as a Model of the World

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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 […]

Simple RSS Reader in 85 Lines of PHP

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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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Chrome Dev Summit 2016 Highlights

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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 […]

Git grep multiple repos at once

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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 […]

Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic

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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: […]