Microsoft Loop, a Notion-like hub for managing tasks and projects that sync across Microsoft 365 apps and services, launched in public preview today. Loop is available to users with a Microsoft Account or Azure Active Directory account. A companion app ... more
Google has taken the wraps off Bard, its conversational AI meant to compete with ChatGPT and other large language models. But after its shaky debut, users may understandably be a bit wary of trusting the system — so we compared it on a few example prompts ... more
TypeScript 5.0, an update to Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, is now available as a production release, Microsoft announced March 16. With the upgrade, TypeScript has been rebuilt to use ECMAScript modules. TypeScript 5.0 also modernizes ... more
Web Inspector is a powerful tool that allows you to debug the layout of web pages, step through JavaScript, read messages logged to the console, and more. In Safari on macOS, you can use Web Inspector to inspect web pages, extensions, and service workers. ... more
OpenAI is a research organization focused on developing advanced artificial intelligence technology, and one way it achieves this is by making its technology available to developers through APIs. This blog post will explore what OpenAI API is and how ... more
If you have phone numbers stored in a Google Sheet, you might want an easy way to validate that those numbers are real. Luckily the Twilio Lookup API has free formatting and validation functionality and can easily integrate with Google Sheets using Google's ... more
Introduction In this tutorial, you will learn how to build and run a serverless e-commerce Whatsapp chatbot application on your local machine that allows users to buy t-shirts in a fictitious virtual store. To build this chatbot application, you will ... more
TypeScript 5.0, due from Microsoft as a production release on March 16, has been restructured around the use of ECMAScript modules, a major infrastructure change for the strongly typed JavaScript variant. Users of TypeScript 5.0, which currently is in ... more
Web technology is a common way to develop desktop applications. A growing number of apps are being built using an open technology stack based solely on web standards. These apps, or PWAs, can be installed from both the Microsoft Edge browser and the Microsoft ... more
As businesses increasingly move towards remote work and virtual collaboration, the ability to make high-quality voice and video calls over the internet is more important than ever. Twilio Flex, a cloud-based contact center platform, offers an intuitive ... more
#397 – March 13, 2023 Were React Hooks a Mistake? People like signals because signal-based components are far more similar to class components than to function components with hooks. Build custom internal tools using code within minutes (sponsor) Airplane ... more
There are plenty of JavaScript frameworks available nowadays. Here, we contrast Vue and React, two of the best options. Continue reading Vue vs React: Everything You Need To Know on SitePoint. ... more
Safari Technology Preview Release 165 is now available for download for macOS Monterey 12.3 or later and macOS Ventura. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update it in the Software Update pane of System Preferences on macOS ... more
Today, we are thrilled to share the news that we have officially open-sourced the OpenAPI specification for every Twilio API. As a commitment to supporting and streamlining the development process for our users, we have long provided helper libraries ... more
My last couple of projects at Atomic Object have used React Native. Prior to those projects, I worked with React for an extended time. A few weeks ago, I was asked what the single biggest difference was between the two. I thought to myself, “They inherently ... more
Enhance your customer's experience by simplifying their contact with your business. Sending a vCard, which is an electronic contact card in a standardized file format known as VCF, is a convenient way to share your business information. With vCards, ... more
Enhance your customers' interactions with your business and improve their overall experience by sending them vCards. vCards are an electronic contact card in the standardized VCF file format. By using vCards, your customers can seamlessly import your ... more
The team behind the collaborative whiteboard tldraw recently published a library that brings incremental computing to JavaScript. Signia seeks to overcome fundamental performance limitations of tldraw’s chosen UI and reactive framework and ultimately ... more
Are you tired of scrolling through countless web pages to find the information you need? Do you wish there was an easier way to access accurate and relevant answers to your questions? Well, look no further! This tutorial shows you how to use Twilio and ... more
I don't particularly use this pattern, but I ran across it recently and it took me a while to work out what was happening (it does make sense if you think about it, but running through code it's not easy to spot). In the following example you won't see ... more
Node.js has an event loop that takes care of the flow of execution of the tasks, and when a task gets executed it fires the corresponding event to perform a specific action. Creating a Node.js program using multiple events makes the program run synchronously ... more
A user’s clipboard is a “catch all” between the operating system and the apps employed on it. When you use a web browser, you can highlight text or right-click an image and select “Copy Image”. That made me think about how developers can detect what ... more
Introduction You are part of a project that will use deep learning to try to identify what is in images - such as cars, ducks, mountains, sky, trees, etc. In this project, two things are important - the first one, is that the deep learning model trains ... more
We know that JavaScript code runs in a single thread meaning that our code can perform only one task at a time. Similarly, Node.js also runs on a single thread and uses a single event loop that runs on the same thread. However, under the hood, Node.js ... more
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Amplify studio is a visual development environment for building full-stack web and mobile applications. One of it's most popular features is data modeling. Powered by our managed GraphQL service AppSync, you can create powerful data models with relationships ... more