Learn about some of the new tools that can make end-to-end testing easier & more accurate, as well as automate anything you can do in a web browser! — Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog Websites have become more complicated than ever. Instead of a single html page, modern sites are often composed of multiple component files that are…

Learn how you can leverage some new API features when syncing your customers with Square’s APIs. — Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog Square customer management can usually meet all your needs, but at times you might need to keep your customer directory in sync with another…

I take my first steps with TensorFlow.js and solve one of the most basic of problems. — Fresh off of the OpenAI Retro contest, I wanted to keep exploring more AI topics. …

All the improvements I was able to make, and the best AI agent team Bobcats 🐯 submitted at the OpenAI Retro Contest end. — With my limited schedule, I focused in trying to get the most from the jerk agent to see if I could get a decent score. I was able to make some meaningful code changes, and do some fine tuning to get a ~15% improvement my submission of the original baseline…

Learn how to use Vue with the Square payment form! — Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog Vue.js is a popular choice when it comes to front-end JavaScript frameworks. It has handy features like data binding and easy rendering control out…

My first foray into “real” machine learning didn’t go so well. Days 38 - 53 of the OpenAI Retro Contest. — I got pretty hung up on the idea of looking at the level like a maze, and exploring it as a means of getting the best score. Without being able to easily locate sonic in the map, I had to think of something else a little more robust. The basic…

Learn how to create a bot to talk to your customers and help make sales! — Heads up, we’ve moved! If you’d like to continue keeping up with the latest technical content from Square please visit us at our new home https://developer.squareup.com/blog Try it out! Text (479)-888–5188 to talk to the bot 📲 From voice commands to chatbots, consumers are engaging with (and buying) things in totally new ways. But this isn’t something only for multi-billion dollar…

Days 26–29 of the OpenAI Retro Contest — With my new deep understanding of the jerk agent, I had a ton of ideas of new agents to try out, but making small code changes and testing them was getting tiring with all the little steps and room for errors, so I decided to spend some time focusing on…

Days 22–25 of the OpenAI Retro Contest — Without a great idea of where to go next, I took a stab at tuning some of the hyper parameters for the PPO2 baseline agent. It didn’t go so well: So I decided to go back to where I last had a good grip of what was going on, the…