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20 min read
🔭 Building a scalable scraper
My Rust project for (politely) checking thousands of social media pages every day
Hi, I’m Xetera.
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15 min read
🐿 Golang is not a good language
And its creators don't think you're a good developer.
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12 min read
🔑 Building a robust permissions system in TypeScript
Making it impossible to forget permission checks.
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7 min read
😠 Misleading educational videos
Please be more diligent with the information you put online
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18 min read
🏫 Why does school suck so much?
It's ok bro just power through it and you'll be free after you graduate.
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11 min read
🤖 Bot Taxonomy
How do different kinds of automation on the internet coexist?
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9 min read
❄️ Blizzard's Downfall
The company that let all of its fans down.
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10 min read
🚫 India banned my site... I think?
Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India.
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5 min read
📚 Truthiness is not loose equality
if(x) and x == true are entirely different concepts.
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11 min read
🖼️ Optimizing images with WebP in Node.js
Use ffmpeg to improve your images but watch out for one thing...
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4 min read
☄️ Integrating Typescript with Next.js
Get easy type inference from HTTP API responses
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8 min read
💬 Whatsapp doesn't deserve your business
Or at least not mine.
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6 min read
🎥 A night out at the theater
A real life-ish example to help explain how Javascript promises work and why they're necessary.
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8 min read
🤡 Every technology deserves to be memed
Angular sucks but so does every other tool, it's ok to be a carrot farmer.
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7 min read
💀 The terrible fate of reduce
And why Javascript programmers hate it.
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6 min read
🧠 Learning for fun and profit
Your journey through becoming a teacher before becoming a student.
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4 min read
🔎 Asking good questions
If you think it's easy you're probably doing it wrong.