👋🏻 Hello, Fellow Tech Enthusiasts!
It’s right on time for updates on the tech market and Ralabs‘ journey.
📊 Focus & Insights
- Ralabs co-founder Roman Rodomansky and Head of Engineering, Daniel Niiaziiev will be visiting clients in the USA soon. Follow their LinkedIn profiles for updates and reach out to connect.
- I have been actively sharing industry insights and trends on my personal LinkedIn profile. Recent topics include military trends, large language models, open-source tools and more. Let’s connect to exchange thoughts.
- Our latest publication talks about the critical role of accessibility testing in healthcare and fintech. We believe that accessibility is not merely a compliance issue but a strategic imperative for businesses in these sectors.
- I’ve been actively working on a list of the most essential open-source tools encompassing various AI, ML, and data engineering disciplines to provide a roadmap for navigating the dynamic tech landscape. A downloadable resource will soon be available on our website – Ralabs.org.
👩🏼💼 HR Updates
- 5 new team members joined Ralabs the previous month.
- Our employees recently attended a very interesting talk – “Ensuring Home Continuity: Ways to Set Up an Autonomous Apartment (Electricity, Internet)“. While the recording is in Ukrainian, an automated translation option is available for those interested.
📈 Business Development
- We are excited to announce the upcoming release of a sample report showcasing our new Legacy Audit service. This report will provide a comprehensive overview of the service and its potential benefits. Feel free to reach out to me for more information.
- Our recent case study highlights our successful partnership with Apri Health, a healthcare provider facing challenges with its existing platform. Ralabs delivered a comprehensive front-end overhaul, significantly enhancing user experience and data visualization.
- HeyPuter/Oops.js is a powerful undo/redo library with a powerful name.
- jamonholmgren/qub – Qub is a CLI and QB64 web framework for building websites with QBasic.
- Observable Plot is a JavaScript library for data visualization from the D3 team that looks quite cool!
💻 Coding Insights
- Doggo is a cool and creative name for a good looking and friendly command-line DNS client.
- Proton has just announced a new end-to-end encrypted, collaborative document editor. It’s competing with Google Docs and Microsoft Office, let’s see how it will do – Docs in Proton Drive.
- Comprehensive guide to JavaScript performance analysis using Chrome DevTools.
- Briefer allows you to connect your data sources, query them with SQL, and manipulate results with Python to use query results to create presentable notebooks, dashboards, or data apps.
- According to the new Stack Overflow survey, the majority of developers (80%) hate their jobs. Technical debt is identified as a primary source of frustration and it was not a surprise. While other companies in the industry usually refuse to work with Tech Debt, we prioritize addressing it. Check out our article discussing technical debt, written by our engineers, to find out more.
🤖 AI Developments
- Sakana AI recently announced an AI system called The AI Scientist that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously by using AI language models. Read More here.
- “With Grok’s new AI image generator, X users put Musk’s “freedom of speech” to the test”, says ArsTechnica in their newest article. Have you been using Grok? We have a very nice comparison article talking about Chat GPT, Gemini and Grok. Would love to hear your thoughts!
- getomni-ai/zerox – An open-source project from OmniAI that will OCR your document using GPT 4o mini.
📚 Books and Reading
- August’s book recommendation is ‘Probability: For the Enthusiastic Beginner’ by David Morin, a Lecturer and the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Physics Department at Harvard University.
- This book is designed for readers curious about the underlying mechanics of probability. It delves into the core concepts that shape probabilistic outcomes, providing a comprehensive exploration of combinatorics, probability rules, Bayes’ theorem, expected value, and other fundamental topics.
💡 Thoughts
- Accessibility is a significant business opportunity often overlooked – nearly 96% of websites still fail basic accessibility standards, as revealed in the 2024 WebAIM report. With over 1 billion people globally living with disabilities and a vast majority of websites failing accessibility standards, there’s a substantial untapped market. By prioritizing accessibility, businesses can expand their customer base, improve brand reputation, and comply with regulatory requirements. It’s not just about ethics; it’s a strategic imperative.
🔍 Other Noteworthy Mentions
- A very nice read about 8 practices of reliable software design.
- Found a very nice tool for screen recording – Screen Studio. It can zoom into UI components automatically and allows you to edit the zooms. Shows a very pronounced cursor on screen, tons of editing options, generating screen demos that just look great.
- dessant/buster – Chrome/Firefox extension that solves CAPTCHAs by completing the audio challenges using your on-device speech recognition.
- A good article and explanation of paper released by meta in February (Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models at Meta) available here.
- Target J – A javascript framework that lets you animate anything.
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Lastly, as a company with deep Ukrainian roots, we continue to seek your support for Ukraine during these challenging times. Every contribution makes a difference.
Stay safe and connected,
Best,
Andrew
