Archive of stories published by Scientific breakthrough of the afternoon

Using GraphViz to visualize property graphs

To properly document our new project, I was trying to find a programmatic way to…


Filter specific nodes from Cypher query results and paths

After my woes trying to reinvent the wheel, I dived into modelling our domain with property graphs but of course, creating a model that lends itself to be queried easily and efficiently is just as important as correctly reflecting…


Creating a snapshot of a Firebase Realtime Database path

That is, copying one node under another

We are in the middle of implementing an event store on our Firebase backend (drawing inspiration from Ben Smith’s commanded/eventstore and…


How to create a pausable audio recording app on iOS

or at least, how we did it

Our app allows volunteers to record articles for the blind and for the print-impaired. Using AVAudioRecorder is straightforward¹, it allows pausing as well, but it does…


Properly manage PostgreSQL on Linux distros with systemd

Trying to fire up AgensGraph after install resulted in errors, probably because a PostgreSQL cluster was already running in the background so I needed to look up how to properly stop it without kill -9.

These were the top 10 stories published by Scientific breakthrough of the afternoon; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2017, 2018, and 2019.

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