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Recently I had to debug an issue with Xvfb server.

We run our protractor tests in Chrome instance via xvfb server.

Sources view in Chrome Developer Tools has a code snippets feature, kind of like a built-in text editor, that allows to write, debug, save and re-use code snippets.

Looks like the recent update to OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6 breaks installed via .

A year and a half ago I Tried To Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg.

Few days ago I decided to find a Stopwatch app for my Mac.

One month ago I decided to disable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support on my site.

I love to write prose.

It appears that Firefox has gone all-in with a new marketing campaign aiming at presenting Google Chrome as a big brother/browser that is watching your every step.

Few days ago I disabled AMP support on my site.

I have a long history with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, but yesterday I drew the final straw.

I’ve only been a full time web developer for the past 5 years.

If you don’t yet know who Andrew Ng is, he is the Founder and Lead of Google Brain (Deep Learning) project, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Co-Founder of Coursera and author of one of the best (if not the best) Machine Learni…

I was reading some articles on Hacker News about how we’ve lost the internet to big companies and how we are not doing anything about it and it got me thinking about Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) again.

Most people agree that whiteboard interviews suck.

Update Jan 19, 2018: I was wrong, please read It’s NOT OK to Still Use Angular 1 in 2018 instead.

Guillermo Rauch (Socket.io, Mangoose.js, Hyper.js, Now) is the guy to watch, and last night he did not disappoint.

I am not an expert on either of the package managers.

Note: Everything I’ve assumed was wrong, I am keeping track of things as I discover them via the medium post: https://medium.com/@akras14/omg-npm-clone-that-finally-makes-sense-3478588879 I’ll update this post when the dust settles Last week I came across…

I just saw an articled on Hacker News announcing that Chrome 59 is going to have cross-platform headless support.

I often find myself needing to convert video to a series of images.

I use Ammonite and ipython like REPL for Scala.

I love Python and ipython, so I often crave similar experience when working with Scala.

Two years ago I wrote a blog post on Angular Performance, that remains the most popular post on this site.

With popularity of Github and many other competing offerings, it’s easy to overlook how simple it is to set up (unlimited) private repos on any network connected computer.

Four month ago I noticed something weird with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project and wrote a blog post outlining my concerns.

Three days ago I wrote about my interview at Uber.

A little less than a year ago I had the “pleasure” to interview at Uber.

Find what port Vagrant is connected to by running The output Will look as follow: Indicating that Vagrant is running on port 2200 Get the absolute path for the file that you want to copy i.e.

This is another follow up to my 4 Month old blog post – how you may be loosing your mobile traffic to Google AMP pages.

Git comes with a very power history viewing command – , which supports a number of command line parameters.

I was born in the former Soviet Union in the early 80s.

I am by no means a professional writer, but I like to write.

3 Month ago I wrote how you may be loosing your mobile traffic to Google AMP pages, that got some attention.

I am currently reading a book by a Russian author – Alexander Nikonov, titled “Upgrade of the Monkey”.

I wanted to create a simple RSS reader for myself.

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 conference hosted by Google where they announced latest developments relevant to the web

Last week I wanted to scrape my Tweets for the past few days.

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.

Updated in 2020 to work with Python 3.

Update 10/17/2016 6:30pm: You can read a response from the tech lead of the AMP Project for Google, in the comment area.

I couldn’t find a good example online, so here it goes.

Adding SSL Certificate few years ago was a painful and expensive process.

First, let me establish some credibility.

My current work requires me to submit weekly reports and so did some other jobs that I’ve had in the past.

If you’ve never heard of the Debt Snowball approach for getting out of debt created by Dave Ramsey, you may find this term misleading.

Git supports auto-completion when used via the terminal, which includes all basic commands such as or as well as local and remote branch names etc.

I tried shell integration for iterm2 and I didn’t like it.

I’ve been cleaning out my old computer and came across a git mind map that I’ve used to put together this Git Cheatsheet.

A week ago I saw an article on Hacker News titled – What’s awful about being a {software engineer, tech lead, manager}?.