React Native Basics: Geolocation

I’ve been using the Geolocation API in React Native a fair amount lately. It’s an API that I didn’t realize existed in React Native and definitely didn’t realize how easy it was to actually use.

Poking The Bear: Is TunnelBear’s Client Safe To Use?

“How” ages faster than “Why”

I used to write a lot of Angular back in 2015. But recently, the JS community has largely moved on from Angular 1 to other libraries, and in turn, so have my projects. I always knew in the back of my mind that technology — and the knowledge that goes along with it — becomes…

Scrape any Website/Service/API with a single SQL Select Statement

I love SQL and it never ceases to amaze me what can be accomplished via the power of SQL syntax. In this example, we are going to create a simple wrapper that treats any Web page or HTTP endpoint as a SQL table that…

How Cash on Delivery Fuelled E-Commerce Growth in India

This article was originally published on…

Hemingway 3.0 Now Available!

In life, a few things are guaranteed: death, taxes, confusion about taxes, stress that you accidentally misfiled your taxes, Googling “can I go to jail over a tax mistake,” and awesome Hemingway updates!

Using “Server-less” Architecture to Massively Parallelize DNA Sequence Alignment via StdLib and Node.js

There’s a new flavor of the day in software development, so-called “server-less”, or Function as a Service (FaaS) architecture — and for good reason. It…

News in AI and machine learning

From 22nd November 2016 through January 18 2017

The Day The Internet Stood Still

The Internet is a landscape with an endless horizon. Its vastness of information, ideas, sounds, and…

5 ways to make your Medium technical blog moar awesome

All the ways in which you can embed code projects and content into your blog

I’d definitely say the web is a bad tool for most of the things we use it for. In particular, the technique of using javascript sitting within a document to dynamically edit that document’s structure & CSS attributes is a particularly inefficient way of building a user interface, and without the heavy optimization being done by browser maintainers…

Is Your Website a Sitting Duck for Hackers?

If your website gets hacked, the hackers behind the scenes can wreak all kinds of…

Digital citizens and startup governments

How to hack government and craft better services.

Myth: Workflow automation is a choice for SMBs!

There’s a commonly held notion that, workflow automation is mandatory for enterprises, but, an option for small and medium businesses (SMBs). On the contrary, workflow automation is no more a “nice-to-have” for SMBs.