2017 was the year I grabbed my comfort zone, shoved it towards a corner and beat the heck out of it.
Indexing PDF For Searching Using Tika, Nokogiri, and Algolia
Easily and quickly getting PDFs searchable with paragraph-level accuracy using Tika and Algolia.
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GraphQL is a query language for your API that makes it easy to fetch many resources in a single request. Think of it as being able to send queries to an API endpoint to fetch exactly what you want.
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I recently migrated everything to a personal G Suite account, and I kept facing issues with Google's services even though I'm in their ecosystem as a paying customer. There are two main and very irritating issues: Removing services and data…
The Case of The Jumping Dot
When you enter the dot/full stop character when typing in English, it just works, and you don’t need to think about it dancing around your words and sentences. This isn’t the case in Arabic.
Improving Algolia’s Ruby Client Deletion Performance
Improving the performance Algolia's client-side deletion methods in Ruby from taking hours to complete to milliseconds.