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.
I develop all my new projects on a remote Hetzner Cloud machine, using wonderful and almost too-good-to-be-true VS Code Remote. I recommend this setup for everyone who does not like spinning fans of their Macbooks - and I really prefer Ubuntu and real Linux environment to brew when I setup
In 2018, I've written an article about Clickhouse, this piece of content is still pretty popular across the internet, and even was translated a few times. More than two years have passed since, and the pace of Clickhouse development is not slowing down: 800 merged PRs just during last month!
For one of my projects, I needed a widget which would render posts from an Instagram hashtag. It turned out to be very cumbersome to implement nowadays, because Instagram shut down its legacy API in 2020 and now the developer needs to go through a real nightmare to get approved
During my development career I used a lot of different solutions to daemonize processes (mostly, node.js scripts), and I decided to do a quick writeup with very short description of each approach to help fellow developers to choose. 1. Forever URL: https://github.com/foreversd/forever Github stars: 13.
![[DISCONTINUED] Scraping Instagram in 2021: avoiding 302 and 429 errors](/blog/content/images/size/w720/2021/01/IMG_20210112_114636.jpg)
Disclaimer: I don't do Instagram scraping anymore, and none of the approaches mentioned below are working reliably now, I think. Instagram is a tough target for scraping. For one of my side projects, I needed to get information from several public accounts, on a daily basis – for example, their followers
I've just started building a dashboard for my new project, which is an opionated Node.js API gateway (still in its infancy), with Clickhouse for logging: https://github.com/restyler/api-gateway. Here is what I'm telling you: in case you forgot, frontend world is full of bloat. Transpilers, bundlers, and
