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Creating an Amazon Neptune database using AWS CDK v2

Provisioning a graph database cluster in AWS using TypeScript.

Implicit functions, differentials, and their geometric interpretation

How to interpret equations with differentials?

Eckher IPA to Speech: Type /həˈloʊ/ and listen

Listen to the sound of IPA with Eckher IPA to Speech.

Internationalized top-level domains

The full list of top-level domains that use the internationalized domain name system.

MAIL FROM and RCPT TO vs. the To and From headers

The difference between the email envelope and message headers when it comes to senders and recipients.

The structure and rendering of multipart emails

How do multipart emails work?

cid URLs for email developers

What are cid URLs and how are they interpreted by email clients?

What are data URLs?

The ins and outs of data URLs.

An introduction to Eckher Semantic Web Browser

Navigating the Semantic Web and retrieving the structured data about entities made easy with Eckher Semantic Web Browser.

What is FHIR and why is it important?

An overview of FHIR and its impact on patient care.

Say "Hello, World!" with Q#

Creating a simple Q# console application.

Microsoft Azure cloud services: The full list

The full list of Azure cloud services.

AstraZeneca's knowledge graph: Drug discovery is a lot about connections

The biomedical knowledge graph built by AstraZeneca helps the company find new drugs and drug targets.

Running Neo4j in Docker with the Graph Data Science library

How to run the official Neo4j Docker image and enable the Graph Data Science library?

A technical introduction to OpenAI's GPT-3 language model

An overview of the groundbreaking GPT-3 language model created by OpenAI.

Amazon EC2 Mac instances: Provisioning macOS compute environments in the AWS cloud

Powered by Apple Mac minis, EC2 Mac instances allow developers to provision macOS-based environments in the cloud and benefit from the pay-as-you-go pricing model.

What does a knowledge engineer do?

An overview of knowledge engineering and the core competencies and responsibilities of a knowledge engineer.

npm exec: A new way to run commands from npm packages

npm v7 has introduced the new npm exec command which, like npx, can be used to run npm scripts "on the fly".

The building blocks of OWL

What makes up OWL ontologies and how do they support logical inference?

Scalable genomic alignment with Progressive Cactus

How progressive alignment makes it possible to efficiently align hundreds to thousands of large genomes.

The ambitious challenge of finishing the human genome

Generating a complete human genome sequence, chromosome by chromosome.

WikiPathways: A Wikipedia for biological pathways

An overview of the collaboratively edited structured pathway encyclopedia.

The RDF model of the Gene Ontology, demystified

An outline of the structure of the Gene Ontology RDF graph and ways to query it.

SVMs in practice

A primer on support vector machines (SVMs) and their applications.

TensorFlow.js and linear regression

Building and training simple linear regression models in JavaScript using TensorFlow.js.

On the nature of the wave function

The wave function is an abstract mathematical concept and cannot be "measured" directly. So what is it then?

The Hadamard gate

The definition of the Hadamard gate and some of its properties.

Dirac notation for quantum states

How to read the bra–ket notation?

An introduction to New Zealand's payments system

The systems, processes, and institutions that make up New Zealand's payments system.

Popular tools for product management

Simplifying processes and driving communication and collaboration.

Bioinformatics and software engineering

Do bioinformatics researchers need software engineering training?

Coloring conventions in molecular modeling

What colors are usually used to represent different elements?

COVID-19 resources for bioinformaticians and data scientists

Resources about coronavirus disease 2019 and the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.

Glossary: Sequence logo

What is a sequence logo?

JSmol

What is JSmol and how to use it?

Machine learning in bioinformatics

How is machine learning used in bioinformatics?

Public sequence data sources

What are the public sources of protein and nucleic acid sequence data?

RDF* and the onset of Linked Data* and the Semantic Web*

The evolution of RDF and the related technologies fuelled by the need to make statements about statements.

Data discovery at Uber: The continued success of Databook

How Uber's in-house platform powers discovery, exploration, and knowledge at scale.

How a custom solution helps Facebook's engineers discover the data they need

The story of Nemo, Facebook's internal data discovery engine.

One schema, one API: Inside the world of Data Commons

Data Commons brings thousands of public datasets together into one data graph to give data analysts and researchers a jump-start on analysing open data.

Harnessing the power of the Oxford English Dictionary for linguistic research and NLP applications

How the OED Text Annotator may help bring text mining and natural language processing technologies to the next level.

A network of drugs: The New Zealand Medicines Terminology

An overview of New Zealand's drug vocabulary.

Linked data for the enterprise: Focus on Bayer's corporate asset register

An overview of COLID, the data asset management platform built using semantic technologies.

A beginner's guide to graph embeddings

Understanding what graph embeddings are and why they are important for graph analytics.

Towards more linked lexicographical data: Lexemes on Wikidata

A glimpse into the meaning and other properties of words described with structured and linked data.

Data exploration on linked COVID-19 datasets

An overview of the available RDF datasets and discovery tools for COVID-19.

Document understanding: Modern techniques and real-world applications

How document understanding helps bring order to unstructured data.

Navigating unstructured data: The rise of question answering

Question answering technologies are key to efficiently dealing with overwhelming amounts of unstructured data.

Let's explore the Nobel Prize dataset

An overview of the official Nobel Prize Linked Data dataset with some example SPARQL queries.

Why federation is a game-changing feature of SPARQL

SPARQL federation is an incredibly useful feature for querying distributed RDF graphs.

Consider these icon libraries for your next project

A selection of the best icon libraries on the web.

Scroll chaining, overscroll glow, and rubberbanding explained

An overview of the scroll-related behaviors and ways to control them using the overscroll-behavior CSS property.

It's official: Moment.js is a "legacy" library

The moment.js project calls the library "legacy" in the new status update. Does it mean this is the end of moment.js?

Emoji 13.1 adds 217 new emoji sequences

Emoji 13.1 is now part of the Unicode Emoji technical standard and adds new emojis and skin tone variants.

Here's the full list of AWS services

A complete list of products and services offered by Amazon Web Services, with the latest additions.

The right way to install Docker on a Mac

Installing Docker Desktop for Mac using the Homebrew package manager.

Safely creating new directories using the Node.js File System API

How to safely create directories using the native file system module in Node.js?

Material Design implementations for the web

Ready-to-use Material Design components.

HTTP headers

The list of commonly used HTTP headers.

Built-in React hooks

The list of built-in React hooks.

Using language codes

Official language codes used on the web.

SSML

What is Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) and how to use it?

UX design and research resources from Google

The list of user experience design and research resources created by Google.

Emoji SVG sources

SVG sources of Google and Twitter emojis.

Wikidata

What is Wikidata?

Markup for multilingual websites

The correct markup for website localization and internationalization.

Declaring custom JSX/HTML attributes in TypeScript

How to specify non-standard JSX/HTML attributes in TypeScript?

Event-driven architecture

What is an event-driven architecture and how is it different from other architectures?

Where to find the list of all emojis?

Finding the most comprehensive list of emoji characters.

How to embed a YouTube video into Markdown?

Ways to insert a YouTube player into a Markdown document.

What is the Google Knowledge Graph?

Is it the world's largest knowledge base?

Introduction to SPARQL

SPARQL is a query language for graph data. The graph model of thinking fits well a lot of use cases.

CSS variables

Using CSS variables.

Line breaks in CSS

How to tune the browser's text wrapping algorithms?

Flow-relative padding and margin

Why is padding-inline-start better than padding-left?

Creating a playlist in React

How to create a playlist in React?

Server-side rendering with code splitting

How to implement server-side rendering with code splitting?

Loading npm dependencies from multiple registries

How to add npm dependencies from multiple package registries?

Creating a JavaScript library with webpack

How to bundle a JavaScript library with webpack?

How to scp?

Using the scp command.

What does a senior developer do?

The difference between an intermediate and senior developer.

Generating data URLs in JavaScript

How to generate data URLs in JavaScript?

amp-script

Using amp-script.

Receiving email with Node.js

How to receive email in Node.js?

Publishing an npm package to GitHub Packages

How to publish an npm package to GitHub Packages?

Asynchronous iteration in JavaScript

Gotchas with asynchronous iteration in JavaScript.

Preloading on hover

Preloading the destination page when the user hovers over a link.

Signed exchanges

What are signed exchanges and how to implement them?

Iterating over Map in JavaScript

Gotchas with iterating over a Map object in JavaScript.

Useful SEO resources

Tools and services for validating SEO.

Article structured data

Article structured data examples.

Working with ChemDraw JS

ChemDraw JS makes it possible to create, view, and edit chemical structures in the browser.

Authenticating to an npm registry

How to authenticate to an npm registry?

Multi-<select> in React

How to implement a controlled multi-<select> in React?

Migrating from Google Cloud Source Repositories to GitHub

How to import a repository from Google Cloud Source to GitHub?

Styling native HTML dropdowns

How to style the native HTML dropdown?

Gatsby vs. Next.js

What is the difference between Gatsby and Next.js?

How to run a JSX script?

Executing .jsx files with command line.

<select> in React

How to implement a controlled <select> in React?

System-wide HTTP requests

Inspecting all HTTP network requests.

Parsing XML in JavaScript

How to parse XML in JavaScript?

Building a DNS server in Node.js

How to build a DNS server in Node.js?

Next.js

Working with Next.js.

Cypress

What is Cypress?

Gatsby

Working with Gatsby.

Accelerated Mobile Pages today

The AMP standard defines how fast pages are to be built.

Guide to Google Data Studio report customization

There are multiple ways in which you can customize your Data Studio reports.

How to find something in the Google Knowledge Graph?

Finding something among over 1 billion entities is hard.

Non-functional requirements: a closer look

What are non-functional requirements?

webpack ecosystem

webpack comes with a lot of supporting libraries that are worth checking out.

What is graphd?

The story of the storage engine behind Freebase.

The new Eckher Simple Text Editor

Meet Eckher Simple Text Editor, a simple app for editing plaintext files.

Google Sans Text

What is Google Sans Text and when was it first released?

The Roboto Flex variable font

With its 13 variation axes, Roboto Flex offers a wide diversity of type styles in a single variable font.

RDAP, the successor to WHOIS

This RDAP protocol allows users to access structured domain registration data.

Names of months in Māori

The list of the names of months in Māori.

Days of the week in Māori

The list of the names of days of the week in Māori.

Meaning of whaka in Māori place names

What does whaka mean in Māori place names?

Country names in te reo Māori

The list of the Māori translations of the names of countries and territories.

Poisson distribution

What is the Poisson distribution?

Country names in Tongan

The list of country names in Tongan.

IPA symbols

The list of International Phonetic Alphabet symbols.

The periodic table

The history and significance of the periodic table of elements.

Eckher Genome Browser

Explore the human genome online.

Eckher Sequence Alignment Viewer

Explore sequence alignments in detail with Eckher Sequence Alignment Viewer.

Eckher Punycode Converter

Convert Punycode-encoded domain names to Unicode and back.

Eckher Text to Speech

Transform your text into speech inside the web browser.

Eckher Mol Viewer

View molecular models in 3D.

Eckher Database for Event Sourcing

A storage for event-sourced systems.

Eckher Messenger

Send messages and make peer-to-peer calls.

Eckher RDF Graph Editor

Author and visualize RDF-based knowledge graphs.

Eckher Math Editor

Create publication-quality formulas in your browser.

Eckher Database for RDF

The service for authoring and querying structured data.

Language matters: Introducing Eckher Dictionary

Meet the new pronunciation dictionary of the English language.

Eckher Compass

Turn your phone into a compass.

Eckher Glossary

Your guide to tech and business terminology and jargon.

Eckher Camera

Turn your browser into a camera.

Eckher Weather

The familiar weather app, available in the browser.

Eckher SMTP Testing Tool

Test SMTP server communication using Eckher's email testing tool.

Eckher IPA Keyboard

Enter IPA characters online.

The world in IPA: Exploring Eckher's phonetic map

Find your way to place name pronunciations with Eckher IPA Map.

What is FASTA and how is it used?

Learn about the FASTA format and its applications.

Eckher Sequence Logo Maker

Create sequence logo diagrams online using Eckher's sequence logo generator

Implementing a FHIR server

Common approaches to implementing a FHIR-compliant server.

AWS Lambda under the hood

A detailed look at the lifecycle of Lambda functions and the underlying infrastructure.

Eckher FHIR Viewer

Connect to and browse FHIR-enabled servers.