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How to Extract Images from Word Documents in Java

Word documents often contain images that are useful outside the original file, such as screenshots in technical guides, diagrams in project reports, or product photos in documentation. If you only need one or two images, saving them manually in Microsoft Word is straightforward. But extracting dozens of images from a large document can quickly become tedious. With Java, you can automate this…

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RAG Pipeline Utils v3.8: Testing RAG Answers in TypeScript

v3.8.0 is about testing RAG in TypeScript. The answer matchers now compile with types, and a new guide walks through the whole setup with Vitest, from a unit test to a test set that fails CI when…

  • RAG Pipeline Utils 3.8 introduces TypeScript support for testing RAG answers.
  • New matchers toBeGroundedIn, toCite, and toContainNoPII enable early error detection.
  • Guide provides step-by-step setup using Vitest for unit, answer, and evaluation tests.

The hardest websites to scrape in 2026: what the benchmarks show

Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of ScrapeUnblocker, one of the APIs measured below. Every number here has a public source you can check. A lot of websites are still simple to scrape.

  • Shein, G2, and Hyatt identified as hardest websites to scrape in 2026
  • Success rates of 21.88%, 36.63%, and 43.75% for these sites
  • Established scraping API providers face challenges with protected targets

How I ship a private Android app through Google Play to testers' phones

Some apps have no business being searchable. A tool built for one company, a client demo, a closed beta you want a dozen people to poke at — none of these belong in public Play search.

  • Private Android app shipped via Google Play without public search results
  • App record created on Google Play Console with AAB file upload
  • Testers granted access via opt-in URL with account verification

Testing Broken Access Control Without Guessing

Broken access control has been at or near the top of the OWASP Top 10 for a decade, and it is still the category most automated tools handle worst.

  • Create two accounts, A and B, each owning one object
  • Record stable fingerprint of B's object with B's token
  • Compare fingerprint against response to validate test

How to Keep Product Information in Sync Across a Multilingual Website

1. Sync Is Not “Translating Once” — It Is Managing Three Different Kinds of Drift After turning a website into a multilingual version, the most common complaints are “the specs on the English page are…

  • Single source of truth maintains main language product info
  • Automatic sync ideal for marketing copy, manual sync for structured fields
  • AI website builders vary sync methods, require human oversight

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