I started coding about 20 years, about 14 years old, learning HTML & CSS on W3Schools to customize my MySpace. Since then, I've done Android and iOS development, frontend web development (including Javascript), and a hell of a lot of backend web development (with PHP). I've also done some BASH scripting and made several developer tools written in PHP. I've loved programming for a long time. It has felt like a thing that I need to do. Its part passion, part obsession, part I want to make actually useful things. It may just be a slump I'm in, but I feel that fire dying within me. I was working on a tool recently that would help me scrape websites. I have two use-cases in mind. one is to scrape Trackmania track records so that I can see when my Author Times are beaten on maps that I've made, and also to watch for when a streamer plays one of my maps (so I can go watch them discover it). The other use-case is to scrape local news websites to build a search database of just local news. I…
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