Alex 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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more