As a web developer and CTO with over 15 years of experience, I am passionate about building profitable small SaaS products and pursuing Go-to-Market strategy for them. My areas of expertise include high performance, networking technology and APIs, SRE, automation using Puppeteer.js, web scraping, and SQL databases.
Cheerio is a de-facto standard to parse HTML in a server-side Javascript (Node.js) now. It is a fast, flexible, and lean implementation of jQuery-like syntax designed specifically for the server. Github: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio Stars: 25.8K NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio Cheerio is a
Have you ever wondered what is the best blockchain to send USDT and why Ethereum blockchain is so expensive (is it?) in terms of gas fees, and what is the best alternative? I did. So, this is my new weekend project. It was built using 11ty for landing website, and
Let's say you want to sign some PDF with you "real" human signature. Of course you can draw your signature using your mouse or touchpad, but this "fully digital" signature usually turns out to be really ugly and pale version of your slick signature you are used to write when
This lately became a pretty popular question when scraping with Puppeteer: let's say you want to interact with the page (e.g. click the button) and retrieve the raw ajax response (usually, JSON). Why would you want to do this? This is actually an interesting "hybrid" approach to extracting data
Okay, let's admit it - web scraping via Puppeteer and Playwright is the most versatile and flexible way of web scraping nowadays. Unfortunately it's also the most cumbersome, time consuming way of scraping, and sometimes it feels a little bit like voodoo magic. This is a post about my long
I am an indie hacker and CTO in my mid-thirties, and my life improved so much a few years ago when morning activity magic clicked for me. After a period of burnout, reduced productivity, when I became older, and less excited in tech and programming, this was like a renaissance
