If you’re reading this article, you probably already know what a software framework is – it’s basically a collection of libraries that speed up development by providing tried and tested solutions to typical problems. However, when it comes to choosing the right framework, this question is far from basic. And choosing the right framework for the right reasons is important. After all, you would not want to build your whole project on the wrong foundation, would you?
How to become an author
WWDC22 hidden gems

For iOS developers, WWDC is always something of a New Year. We are presented with so many new products, and sometimes you can get lost in them. Most of my colleagues are trying to be in touch by watching “Platform State of Union” and all “What’s new” sessions. The event basically provides an opportunity to developers a glimpse of the features to expect from the software part. When Apple has a conference like this one, they want to make sure they have enough time to get everything done. In order to do this, they need to be able to work at their own pace and not worry about how long it will take them to get something done.
This means that if you have a small project, it may not be that important but once you move into larger projects with more people involved, every second saved can be worth several dollars in terms of money saved or profit made by the company. The platform tightly integrates programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Everyone gains when these three complement one another. Customers receive a consistent experience, such as scrolling that feels right every time. And developers may devote more time and attention to what distinguishes the app.
And it’s fine, you don’t need to spend so much time for this other unpopular stuff. However, in these, not-so-popular videos as couple of them may be called as “hidden gems” because of the content or a beautiful presentation/structure. Let me show couple of them!
Startup story — how we pivoted mobile apps and business from «beauty Uber» to «beauty coworking»

Hi everyone! My name is Dmitrii Konstantinov and this is a personal story of experience and growth in a cozy startup. How we made a business pivot and adapted the server and mobile apps for it. What challenges did we face and how did we solve them.
«Look what I have!» — how we made the feature of screen sharing in the mobile video conferencing app

How we listened to the needs of our customers and implemented the feature with the maximum capabilities of the iOS and Android platforms. Then we looked into analytics, added onboarding, and usage grew. At the end of the article there are some cool conclusions and insights. Developing a video conferencing mobile app is fun!
Turning a typewriter into a Linux terminal

Hi everyone, a few months ago I got a Brother AX-25, and since then, I've been working on turning it into a computer. It uses an Arduino to scan the custom mechanical keyboard and control the typewriter, and a Raspberry Pi is connected to the Arduino over serial so I can log into it in headless mode.
Elliptic curves and ECDSA: everything to know to sign a transaction in Bitcoin from scratch

This is the complete crash course on the Elliptic Curves Cryptography used in Bitcoin and other blockchains. With code samples and a live demo from scratch.
Let’s Discuss Relativity of Simultaneity
There is one only too obvious problem with relativity of simultaneity in the way it is normally introduced, and I have never found an answer to it – what’s more, I never read or heard anyone formulate it. I will be grateful for an enlightening discussion.
The framework of the thought experiment introducing relativity of simultaneity is this. Two rays of light travel in opposite directions and reach their destination simultaneously in one frame of reference and at different moments in the other.
For example, in the Wikipedia article on the subject you can read:
‘A flash of light is given off at the center of the traincar just as the two observers pass each other. For the observer on board the train, the front and back of the traincar are at fixed distances from the light source and as such, according to this observer, the light will reach the front and back of the traincar at the same time.
‘For the observer standing on the platform, on the other hand, the rear of the traincar is moving (catching up) toward the point at which the flash was given off, and the front of the traincar is moving away from it. As the speed of light is finite and the same in all directions for all observers, the light headed for the back of the train will have less distance to cover than the light headed for the front. Thus, the flashes of light will strike the ends of the traincar at different times’.
I am always not a little surprised at the modesty displayed by the authors of such illustrations. If we grant the statement ‘the light headed for the back of the train will have less distance to cover than the light headed for the front’ to be true – how then do we evaluate the magnitude of the effect? Or, in other words, how much longer is one distance in comparison to the other?
Color image capturing device with pseudorandom patterns sets

The present invention relates to an analog signal capturing devices generally and monochrome or color image capture sensors, such as a scanner or a Charge-Coupled-Device (“CCD”) for video and photo camera in particular, which are almost free from moiré and aliasing. The present invention relates to methods for enhancing the resolution of an image capture device and device for digital color/grey image displaying also.
Four UX failings that e-commerce can fix with design

On average, online store users make 64 clicks before adding a product to the cart. Some clicks are useful - so-called discovery clicks that help lead to users finding a product they wish to buy, and some are useless that come as the result of poor UX. With great competition for convenience and increasingly reducing attention spans of users, each useless click reduces the number of visitors that will reach checkout.
How I gave my old laptop second life

17-19 min read
Hi y'all, my name is Labertte and I use Arch btw.
Probably like every other Linux user, I'd like to buy a ThinkPad, put some lightweight distribution like Arch or Gentoo on it, and then go to Starbucks, get a soy latte and tell everyone that I use "linux". But I decided to go a little different route and give a chance to my old laptop that I was using about five or seven years ago.
Don’t be a sensitive designer

I know that my article can help a designer who spends a lot of time working and not feeling his or her growth. This article has some tips on how to start building your soft skills.
How we tackled document recognition issues for autonomus and automatic payments using OCR and NER

In this article, I would like to describe how we’ve tackled the named entity recognition (aka NER) issue at Sber with the help of advanced AI techniques. It is one of many natural language processing (NLP) tasks that allows you to automatically extract data from unstructured text. This includes monetary values, dates, or names, surnames and positions.
Just imagine countless textual documents even a medium-sized organisation deals with on a daily basis, let alone huge corporations. Take Sber, for example: it is the largest financial institution in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe that has about 16,500 offices with over 250,000 employees, 137 million retail and 1.1 million corporate clients in 22 countries. As you can imagine, with such an enormous scale, the company collaborates with hundreds of suppliers, contractors and other counterparties, which implies thousands of contracts. For instance, the estimated number of legal documents to be processed in 2022 has been over 65,000, each of them consisting of 30 pages on average. During the lifecycle of a contract, a contract usually updated with 3 to 5 additional agreements. On top of this, a contract is accompanied by various source documents describing transactions. And in the PDF format, too.
Previously, the processing duty befell our service centre’s employees who checked whether payment details in a bill match those in the contract and then sent the document to the Accounting Department where an accountant double-checked everything. This is quite a long journey to a payment, right?
Electron + web camera (cpp-ffmpeg)

An example of using Electron + React JS and a native ffmpeg addon to access a webcamera
This guide may be helpful to someone who is trying to find a way
to work with Electron if they need to use a c++ library or code
I was looking for a more realistic example than a simple 'hello world' and i didn't succeed
Here are the links in advance:
- electron - https://github.com/khomin/electron_camera_ffmpeg
- addon - https://github.com/khomin/electron_ffmpeg_addon_camera
So let me share my experience...
How does Rust treat Strings and Vectors internally

In Rust strings can be represented in two ways:
a) String type
b) String slice
String type:
String type is defined as a struct of the following structure:
Depending on arch (in my case x86 64bit it is 24byte)
{
pointer to the address where string characters are stored (8b)
capacity (8b)
length (8b)
}
Traffic mirroring through HPE Virtual Connect

In this article I'd like to describe different traffic mirroring options for HPE Virtual Connect modules. I try to answer two questions: "What options work and why?" and "How different traffic mirroring cases can be implemented?"
Creating a Weather Predictions App Using Flutter

This article describes how to develop a real-time weather prediction app in Flutter using the Tomorrow.io Weather API. The app consists of a single screen that displays the current weather and a 4-day daily forecast for a specific location. We’re creating this prediction app on Flutter because it is an open-source UI development kit, which means it can be integrated beautifully into desktop and mobile apps across various platforms, making it scalable.
Unity Performance Optimization Ⅵ: Resource Memory Leak

Today, we will share some knowledge points related to resource memory leak. A memory leak is the most common issue that we continuously see and also are afraid of. What is the reason behind it? Because we can’t predict the extent of the leak before we locate the leak bottleneck, we had no idea whether it will burst out at a certain moment on the line. We have received feedback from developers that their players had no problem playing for half an hour, but they would get more and more stuck after 3 to 4 hours of playing, which they never expected before. How can it be solved? Today’s sharing will answer such questions.
UWA’s GOT Online-Assets report has a resource occupancy trend chart. If there is a rising trend like the one below, you must pay special attention.
Windows and Linux (Fedora KDE): difference, configuration, dual-boot

I reinstalled both Windows and Linux (Fedora) recently on a notebook PC, and I decided to write the summary article about my experience with both OS. I'm also going to describe how to configure each OS via command-line and set up a dual-boot system.