I’ve been doing web scraping for years. For most projects, I lean on BeautifulSoup, cssselect, and a handful of regex patterns. You know the drill: inspect the page, find the selector, extract the text, clean it up. It works great when every page follows the same template.
Then I hit a project that involved scraping product details from hundreds of small e-commerce sites. Every site had...
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Gemini Model Management: Ending Inefficiency – How Model Registry Tripled Our Cost Tracking Speed
Managing our Gemini model system had become a real headache. Model versioning was a mess, and tracking costs for each AI task was incredibly inefficient. I knew something had to change, so I started looking for ways to improve.
My first th...
Most code health scores are vibes. A number goes up, a number goes down, and nobody checks whether the files it flags are the files that actually break later. I wanted to know if the score I built does better than that, so I ran it against a defect corpus and put it head to head with the leading commercial code-health tool.
On the same 2,770 files across 9 languages, scored at the same ...
Over the last few months I quietly built ZeroServer.tools — a suite of 342 free developer utilities. JSON formatter, Base64 encoder, hashing, JWT decoder, regex tester, image compressor, PDF tools, CSS generators, calculators, convert...
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A hands-on guide to one of the most powerful algorithmic patterns you'll use every week — with real code in Java, Python, and C.
✍️ Written for developers who want to level up · ⏱ ~25 min read
Let me tell you a story I'm mildly embarrassed about. Early in my coding journey, I was given a classic p...