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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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:
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more