Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion competitor, in public preview

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’s Bard lags behind GPT-4 and Claude in head-to-head comparison

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

What’s new in TypeScript 5.0

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

Enabling the Inspection of Web Content in Apps

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 API – 101 Tutorial

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

Validate phone numbers in a Google Sheet with Twilio Lookup

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

Node v19.8.1 (Current)

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Build a WhatsApp E-Commerce Chatbot with NLP.js, Twilio Functions, Airtable, and PayPal

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

Node v19.8.0 (Current)

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TypeScript 5.0 rebuilt to use ECMAScript modules

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

Taking control of your application’s title bar

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

Enabling VoIP calls on Twilio Flex

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

Were React Hooks a Mistake?

#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

Vue vs React: Everything You Need To Know

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

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 165

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

Introducing Twilio’s OpenAPI Specification GA

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

Node v18.15.0 (LTS)

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React and React Native – What’s the Biggest Difference?

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

Node v18.15.0 (LTS)

Notable Changes [ 63563f8a7a ] - doc,lib,src,test : rename --test-coverage (Colin Ihrig) #46017 [ 28a775b32f ] - test_runner : add initial code coverage support (Colin Ihrig) #46017 [ 4d50db14b3 ] - (SEMVER-MINOR) test_runner : add reporters (Moshe Atlow) ... more

How to Send a vCard with Twilio SMS and Node.js

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

How to Send a vCard with Twilio WhatsApp and Node.js

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

New JavaScript Incremental Computing Library Delivers Better UX for Single-Page Apps

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

Text an AI Assistant with GPT-3 using AWS Lambda and Twilio

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

React's useEffect swallows async errors [til/javascript]

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 Event-Driven Programming (With Example)

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

Detect the Content Type in the Clipboard

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

Loading a Pretrained TensorFlow Model into TensorFlow Serving

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

Node.js Worker Threads: A Beginner’s Guide

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

Are NFT marketplaces becoming an open sea for creator royalties?

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here . Welcome back to Chain Reaction. PSA: I’ll be at ETH Denver this week, so if you see me, say hi! I’ll have ... more

How To Setup A Static Site CMS With Amplify Studio

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