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How to Scrape Websites, Mapping Cities, Hacking Hotel Rooms and More

This week's newsletter explores web scraping, featuring a case study on scraping Southwest Airlines ...

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Real-Time Error Detection, AI Advancements, iOS Store Changes and More

This week's newsletter dives into the tool Sentry, which offers real-time error tracking and detaile...

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Google AI Video Extraction, AI Content Creation, Audio Analysis and More

Google's latest innovation, Gemini Pro 1.5, offers advanced video content analysis. Simon Willison's...

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Exploring User Insights, New AI Developments, Data Breaches and More

Through Hotjar's visual data tools, you gain an unparalleled view into user behavior, empowering you...

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How to Unlock User Insights, Understanding LLMs and More

Explore the latest in user analytics with Mixpanel. This newsletter brings you a blend of in-depth i...

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EOY Hackathon, Creating a HIPAA voice accessible application and more

From a year-end raffle extravaganza that rewards users to a groundbreaking speech-to-text survey for...

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Assemplify Unveiled: A Cutting-Edge Multi-Platform Workflow Software

In a quest to streamline the intricate process of securing skilled labor for commercial furniture pr...

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The new messaging landscape, Bard attempts to beat GPT-4 and more

Imagine having the power of iMessage at your fingertips, much like what Twilio did for messaging ser...

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An SPA problem and a roundabout solution: K-Optional Newsletter

One of our clients runs a financial marketplace single-page application (SPA), hosted on static file...

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Geocoding crowded workout classes: K-Optional Newsletter

In 2019, K-Optional Software partnered with a real estate analytics company in Asia. This firm had a...

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Maximizing Performance in React Native (+ Expo)

React Native and Expo are a powerful duo. Instead of needing to write Java/Kotlin and/or Swift—not t...

Guide

Firebase schedule functions for eLearning platforms

In this guide, we discuss the approach we used to implement “timed exams” on an eLearning platform w...

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Remix.run's fullstack paradigm

Remix has brought the full-stack philosophy back for the first time in ten years. We've discovered t...

Guide

Automating Vuex boilerplate with Hygen

Vuex is a wonderful tool for managing state in Vue applications. Unfortunately, it requires a great ...

Guide

Managing Nested Data Deletion in Firestore

Deleting nested data in Firestore is frustrating. It's somehow unsupported natively, and there doesn...

Guide

Rapid Prototyping - Parse and Vue

This guide is the first part in a series on rapid software development. In this tutorial, we create ...

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Web Scraping Southwest Airlines Flight Data with Puppeteer

Crawling a website- that is, programmatically pulling data from a URL- has millions of applications....

Guide

WaiverStevie - Seamless eSignature for devs

Collecting a physical signature is a clear-cut process: one party presents a document to the other w...

Guide

Rapid Prototyping - Ionic 4 and Wordpress

In this guide, we're going to prototype a mobile application using Ionic 4. We'll be showcasing a ne...

Guide

Launching a Serverless, Fastify App in Five Minutes

Unlike Express, Fastify ships with builtin error handling; that means there's no need to wrap every ...

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Taming the Chaos of Serverless

Take full advantage of all the fruits of serverless. But always exercise a bit more caution. There’s...

Tip

Minimizing Cloud Costs to Almost Zero

Hosting bills, even for small startups, can reach into the thousands of dollars per month.  That's i...

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An Oddity in Stripe Customer Handling

Learn about a potential issue with the Stripe payment system that can affect businesses relying on r...