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Twilio has decided to shut down its Programmable Video SDK. This decision, while understandable, may leave many developers wondering about the future of their video-based applications.

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In this tutorial, learn the fundamentals of WebRTC to build a React Native video calling application that can be implemented on iOS or Android.

arjunkavaon Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript

As I said licence is non-exclusive so anyone can use it but it was mentioned that adobe used Content Aware Scaling.

arjunkavaon Nobody is joining Google's FLoC

This is actual blog by google https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/2021-01-privacy-sa...

and it says "eliminate third-party cookies by replacing them with viable privacy-first alternatives, developed alongside ecosystem partners, that will help publishers and advertisers succeed while also protecting people’s privacy as they move across the web."

Am I the only guy who is distracted by the blog which uses 13 third party cookies on the same page? Interesting!

arjunkavaon Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript

One of the good explanation of seam carving, but there are other facts as well.

1. It was first developed by Shai Avidan at MERL.

2. Then introduced in paper by Vidya Setlur, Saeko Takage, Ramesh Raskar, Michael Gleicher and Bruce Gooch in 2005 which won 10-year impact award in 2015.

3. Adobe Systems acquired a non-exclusive license to seam carving technology from MERL and implemented in Photoshop CS4.

arjunkavaon Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems [pdf]

May be I've written something that really does not make any sense. I should have understand the blog in the first place.

arjunkavaon Why has no one made a better Goodreads

It is already doing what need to be done and you know what over innovation kill the simplicity of the product. Goodreads is pretty simple and great part is it is not suggesting me someone to follow based on books I've read. That is innovation for all the current social app and it sucks.

arjunkavaon Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years

I really liked the presentation of the blog, it is actually making me uncomfortable and guilty.

arjunkavaon Our plans for PeerTube v4

PeerTube is something which can change the fundamentals of media communication itself. Loved the project.

arjunkavaon The first 18 months of a startup

The important part in startup plan is to listen, nothing else. A master plan can make you slave if you don't listen to the facts.

arjunkavaon Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems [pdf]

This is something informative but python is the list of bad type safe.