Ever since I started using Twitter, I have been on the hunt for the perfect Twitter client. As the Fail Whale started to make fewer appearances, and Twitter finally unveiled what is now dubbedNew Twitter, I found myself gravitating more and more to the web interface and ditching the 3 clients installed on my computer. That said, there are certain features that are lacking in the web interface. When retweeting, I sometimes want to add a comment to my tweet, and have to resort to copy and paste....

How to turn web pages into PDFs with Puppeteer and NodeJS What is Puppeteer, and why is it awesome? In Google’s own words,Puppeteeris, “A Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol.” [Read:Meet the 4 scale-ups using data to save the planet] Set up the project environment You can use Puppeteer on the backend and frontend to generate PDFs. In this tutorial, we are using a Node backend for the task....

How to turn your dog’s nap time into a regularized linear model Overfitting When the model is too complex and triesto encode more patterns from the training data than it’s actually necessary, it will start picking up on noise. Since it’s already going beyond the real patterns of the data, the model isoverfittingthe data. Overfitting usually happens when you have a small training set, too small to showcase all the nuance and patterns in the data....

Let’s get this out of the way: an ebike can neverfullyreplace a car. At least, not in the sense of carrying four passengers and a trunk full of groceries while being shielded from the rain. There will be times where having a car is more convenient. But sometimes bikes are the more convenient vehicle too. As a city-dweller who used to occasionally drive, not having to park and cutting through traffic saves me a bunch of time....

Last week, I was asked to take part in an “Extreme Unboxing” video campaign for smartphone giant Samsung. For this, I travelled to the headquarters ofUltimate High, the British Centre of Aerobatics Excellence, based in Gloucestershire (in the UK), to demonstrate and talk about Samsung’s new Galaxy S II smartphone on camera. Filming the unboxing wouldn’t have been a problem, but it was to be recorded as I was being thrown about at 8,000 feet, being turned upside down, flipped in the air and introduced to forces of 7G at some points during my flight....