I do not condone the use of this information for creating illegal
web crawlers. This was more an informational exercise and I wanted
to share it with others. Another thing to note is that some sites
are able to automatically block IP’s that are Tor exit nodes, so
this may not work for some sites that go to these measures.
In the afternoon I bought "De 'easy' vogel gids van heel Europa", the
Dutch translation of "The Shell Easy Bird Guide", in a second-hand shop.
Cover of "De 'easy' vogel gids van heel Europa".
The book is in an excellent condition and I couldn't resist buying it
for just one euro. The book is written by Rob Hume and illustrated by
Peter Hayman.
In the afternoon a package arrived. It had several bags of Dutch
licorice and two pieces of hardware; gifts from Paul in return for
some Perl programming.
The first piece of hardware is a tiny camera; SQ11 mini DV. I used
VLC to test it after connecting the
camera to my Mac mini, and it works.
Close-up of a NodeMCU V3.
The second piece of hardware is a
NodeMCU V3, an open source
IoT platform. I have to look into how to program / use this little
device.
In this post, I describe 5 common bad coding habits in
JavaScript. And importantly I will present my actionable
recommendations on how to get rid of these habits.
In the evening I read 5 JavaScript bad coding habits to unlearn right
now,
an article by Dmitri Pavlutin. As I use more and more JavaScript in a
large project for a customer I want stay up to date with this language
and of course avoid bad coding habits.
The bone, found in a cave, is the oldest modern human fossil ever
discovered in Europe. It hints that humans began leaving Africa far
earlier than once thought.
if your feel your code is too complex to understand without
comments, your code is probably just bad. Rewrite it until it
doesn't need comments any more. If, at the end of that effort, you
still feel comments are necessary, then by all means, add comments …
carefully.
The above quote comes from an article by Coding Horror's Jeff Atwood;
Coding Without
Comments,
which I read in the evening.
Modifying genes means endless possibilities for cat colors and
patterns. From tabby cats to pointed patterns to tricolors like
calicos, let’s learn more!
As you might have noticed my posts here now and then consist of cat
photos; I love cats. I can't currently keep one, but love to read up on
cats. Hence, in the evening I read Susan Logan McCracken's article
Cat Colors — Get the Fascinating Facts Behind Cat Coats &
Patterns. I
learnt a lot from this great post.
There are over one million
Dockerfiles on
GitHub today, but not all Dockerfiles are created
equally. Efficiency is critical, and this blog series will cover
five areas for Dockerfile best practices to help you write better
Dockerfiles: incremental build time, image size, maintainability,
security and repeatability.
In the evening I read the first in a series of blog posts by Tibor
Vass: Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best
Practices. A great read; I look forward to the rest of the series.
