The Potential Future of Selfie Photography

Adobe Research: What happens when we tap into the power of artificial intelligence and deep learning to transform bad portrait shots into good ones – all on a smartphone? By combining perspective effect editing, automatic, software-only photo masking, and photo style transfer technology, we’re able to transform a typical selfie into a flattering portrait with …

Lexus Lane Valet

Debuting on the first-ever Lexus LC and all-new LS, Lane Valet is a breakthrough innovation that every driver will appreciate. A visionary semiautonomous passing-lane-assistance technology, it promises to bring us one step closer to a day when vehicles don’t just react to the world around them, they improve it. Making highways safer, vehicles more efficient, …

Next.js 2.0

Next.js is a very slim yet powerful framework. Place React components in a pages directory and running next, and you’ll get automatic code splitting, routing, hot code reloading and universal (server-side and client-side) rendering. Version 2 of Next.js was released earlier today, with server-side and client-side rendering, dynamic routing, component styling, and link pre-fetching. Next.js …

Snapshot testing with PHPUnit

use Spatie\Snapshots\MatchesSnapshots; class OrderTest { use MatchesSnapshot; class test_it_casts_to_json() { $orderId = new Order(1); $this->assertMatchesJsonSnapshot($order->toJson()); } } Again great work by the folks at Spatie: The difference between a classic assertEquals and an assertMatchesSnapshot is that you don’t write the expectation yourself when snapshot testing. When a snapshot assertion happens for the first time, it …

LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack

At work we’ve been using several separate docker images – such as instructure/fake-s3 and airdock/fake-sqs, orchestrated by docker-compose – to run a few of the Amazon Web Services locally. LocalStack provides the whole lot in one: LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications. Currently, the focus is primarily on supporting the AWS …