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