2019-04-11

After the 2008 financial crisis, a thing called Bitcoin was created. The idea: a way to dodge government/central bank/fed reserve regulation through technology. Basically a giant two-fingered salute to the establishment.

I first came across it in 2013 when a work colleague mentioned...

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2017-05-30

I have decided to learn F#. While searching for sensible starting point, I came across this great video by a guy called Derek Banas.

As I walked through the video, I wrote the code, which was my first time dabbling with F#.

Here's the code on git, along with a few of my own extr...

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2017-04-25

In this article, I will cover what I believe are the most common values you would want to scrape from a website. Think along the lines of:

  • the content of h1, h2, h3 tags etc.
  • anchor tags
  • the links to all of the images
  • the alt tags of images

Tools

In these code examples I wi...

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It's late March 2017, and I have just decided to start this site. Writing demo code and making it public has been on my to-do list for years. Hopefully I will stick at it!

I have plenty ideas of what I want to write about over the next few months, but do get in touch if you've know about an API yo...

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