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Published in Python in Plain English

·Jan 12, 2022

Scraping the Web: Requests

Part 1: Requests — the most important part of Web Scraping! — Most tutorials about web scraping nowadays jump straight into code, teaching you how to grab a web page with Python and parse it all out with BeautifulSoup. If that’s what you’re here for… I’m sorry. But I promise what we discuss here will be helpful down the road, so stick…

Web Scraping

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Scraping the Web: Requests
Scraping the Web: Requests
Web Scraping

9 min read


Nov 11, 2021

How to change your website’s address bar color in Safari 15

I might be late to the party on this one, but I recently upgraded to the new 14" M1 Pro MacBook, and with it came all the software updates I’d been ignoring on my old MacBook. PS: if you’re thinking about upgrading to M1 Pro or M1 Max, especially coming…

Safari

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How to change your website’s address bar color in Safari 15
How to change your website’s address bar color in Safari 15
Safari

3 min read


Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Jul 24, 2021

Getting Started with Socket.IO

For years I’ve had my web apps poll various endpoints when I needed “real-time” updates… honestly just because I didn’t know any better. As you might imagine, this created tons of issues as time went on. My servers were getting a crazy number of unnecessary requests, and every now and…

JavaScript

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Getting Started with Socket.IO
Getting Started with Socket.IO
JavaScript

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Sep 30, 2020

Build a Simple Referral System With Node.js and MySQL

Get more signups on your next project with a referral program — Referral programs are everywhere. Just about any time you sign up for a new SaaS product or subscribe to a hot new email newsletter, you’re given a referral link you can share with others for a special bonus. Creating a referral program is an incredible way to get social proof…

Nodejs

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Build a Simple Referral System With Node.js and MySQL
Build a Simple Referral System With Node.js and MySQL
Nodejs

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Sep 27, 2020

Using Duckling to Extract Dates and Times in Your Rasa Chatbot

It’s easy, I promise! I recently started using Rasa to create a chatbot for my job. Rasa is an extremely powerful open source conversational AI for building contextual assistants (or, chatbots). There are so many use-cases for Rasa, including personal assistants, FAQ chatbots, customer support bots, and more. …

Chatbots

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Using Duckling to Extract Dates and Times in Your Rasa Chatbot
Using Duckling to Extract Dates and Times in Your Rasa Chatbot
Chatbots

4 min read


Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Sep 23, 2020

Creating a simple time tracker with watchOS Shortcuts and Node.js

Tracking time easier than ever with a quick tap on my Apple Watch. — If you just wanna check out the code for this project, click here for the GitHub repo! Feel free to clone it & make it your own. For the past few months, all of my work has been on an hourly basis, either part-time or contract. In the beginning, I…

Apple Watch

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Creating a simple time tracker with watchOS Shortcuts and Node.js
Creating a simple time tracker with watchOS Shortcuts and Node.js
Apple Watch

6 min read


Jun 10, 2018

How I built my first web app (and why you should too)

I had been studying computer science for about 2 years, but beyond my GitHub profile full of half-complete side projects, I had nothing to show for it. I knew I needed to do something, but what? My roommate and I were brainstorming fun projects I could code, and we decided…

Side Project

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How I built my first web app (and why you should too)
How I built my first web app (and why you should too)
Side Project

3 min read

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