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In this blog post we’ll explore three tricks that can be used for data science that helped us solve real problems for our customer support group and our customers. Two for natural language processing in a customer support context and one for identifying attack Internet attack traffic.
Developer Experience¹ is a term² with a self-declaring meaning — the experience of developers — but it eludes definition in the sense that people invoke it at
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This is a guest post by Eunice Do, Data Engineer at TripleLift, a technology company leading the next generation of programmatic advertising. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? The system is the data pipeline at TripleLift. TripleLift is an adtech company, and like most companies in this industry, we deal with high volumes of data on a daily basis. Over the la
How to prioritize tests relative to everything else.
With the right apps, working from home is a blessing for those with a disability. Working from home allows you to attend to your medical needs in ways that might be disruptive in an office, like running a nebulizer or using an IV. Or you may avoid the hassle of navigating a building that’s not truly accessible. In this article, Claudio Luis Vera explains what to keep in mind when choosing between
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Here’s the plan! We’re going to build a styled select element. Not just the outside, but the inside too. Total styling control. Plus we’re going to make it
There are some neat interactive demos in here from Thiru Manikandan. There are a couple of very tricky things with z-index that never fail to confuse. In
Adding Internationalization to your Vue.js application has a lot of use cases and in this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to do this with the Vue I18n plugin and how to set it up in our application.
Six years ago, Cloudflare started Project Galileo to provide free services to vulnerable nonprofits, journalism and independent media voices online who might otherwise be in danger of being silenced by cyberattacks.
Here's a two-second review. If an element has an ID, you can link to it with natural browser behavior. It's great if headings have them, because it's often
A CSS methodology from Andy Bell:
I needed a numbered list of blog posts to be listed with the last/high first and going down from there. Like this:
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Developers write tests to ensure correctness and allow future changes to be made safely. However, as the number of features grows, so does the number of tests. Tests are a double-edged sword. On one hand, well-written ones catch bugs and maintain a program’s stability, but as the code base grows, a high number of tests impedes scalability because they take a long time to run and increase the likel
At Slack, Quality is a shared responsibility. The Quality Engineering team is focused on creating a culture of testing, increasing test coverage, and helping the company ship high-quality features faster. We encourage all our developers to write and own end-to-end (E2E) tests. In turn, Quality Engineering (QE) is responsible for the frameworks used and provides…
In this article, Adeneye David Abiodun explains how to build a facial recognition web app with React by using the Face Recognition API, as well as the Face Detection model and Predict API. The app built in this article is similar to the face detection box on a pop-up camera in a mobile phone — it’s able to detect a human face in any image fetched from the Internet. Please note that you will need t
We own and operate physical infrastructure for our backend services. We need an effective way to route arbitrary TCP and UDP traffic between services and also from outside these data centers.
You can create stripes in CSS. That’s all I thought about in terms of CSS background patterns for a long time. There’s nothing wrong with stripes; stripes are
Šime Vidas with the lowdown on what these pseudo-selectors are and why they will be useful:
Table functions & performance: Solve performance issues related to stored procedures and or a composite data type in PostgreSQL
So far, we have seen how we can create records with Mirage, intercept API requests via route handlers and, last but not least, how the shape of the data returned to us from Mirage is affected. In this third part of Mirage JS Deep Dive series, Kelvin Omereshone will be focusing on using `response`, `timing` and `passthrough` in Mirage for a better handle on simulating an actual backend server. Howe
