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cacooson A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

this is great! I made one for nail-biters: https://github.com/cacoos/trackhands

cacooson How thin is the iPhone Air, really?

I got the link from this tweet: https://x.com/ignaciosoffia/status/1975972645146591726

cacooson Crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012)

I've always wondered why not to use request interceptors, get the html/json/xml/whatever url and then just call them.

If you need cookies/headers, you can always open the browser, log in and then make the same requests in the console, instead of waiting for the browser to load and scrape the UI (by xpath, etc.)

sounds weird going in circles: - SPA call some URL - SPA use the response data to populate the UI - You scrape the UI

instead of just calling the url inside the browser? am i missing something?