UrlLib3 Version: How To Detect When A Webpage Changes With Python Updated for Python 3 and UrlLib3If you've ever been waiting for a webpage to update then you know how time consuming it can be to constantly have to refresh the page. I had a similar problem right before the Eclipse of 2017. I was
YouTube Master List YouTube is a great place to find great content, unfortunately you have to dig to find it. "Surface" YouTube is a terrible cocktail of reaction videos, clickbait, and low effort content. Luckily I've been able to find a decent number of great
How To Detect When A Webpage Changes With Python python If you've ever been waiting for a webpage to update then you know how time consuming it can be to constantly have to refresh the page. I had a similar
Python: Most Used Words I recently saw a program that gathered the 10 most common words on a webpage and displayed them in a window along with their word count. I decided to build my own using Python and some code I had written before to scrape data
Every topic I've tweeted about this year I decided to go through and list the topics I tweet about so far this year (as of 02/12/2016). I plan on creating a twitter start chart like the one done here: https://www.hella.cheap/twitter-star-chart.html I've redacted some of
Custom New Tab (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE) web If you browse the internet everyday like I do there are a select group of websites you visit almost everyday, so why not make your new tab page have links to these websites to help you save time? Even if you choose not to
Windows 10 nVidia Drivers windows If you have updated to Windows 10 and have an nVidia Graphics Card (in my case, two 970s) and are having issues with installing driver software follow these steps. Before we begin, download the latest drivers from nVidia here, extract them somewhere you can
Google Rewards is an Invasion of Privacy That You Agreed To android Google Rewards is an Android app that pays you to take surveys. Most of the payouts range from $0.05 all the way up to $1.00, just for taking simple surveys. But as the old adage goes, if you're not paying for the
Ghost Tweeter python This post on the Ghost forums ask for a way to automatically, and periodically tweet links to blog posts that are X days old. So, I made one. GhostTweeter, is written in Python and uses tweepy and feedparser to cycle through a Ghost blog's
Adventures In Techland Twitter Account Twitter Adventures in Techland is now on twitter as @AiTechland. Make sure to follow us to keep up-to-date with the latest post.
Awesome Android App: FitNotes android FitNotes is a fitness app aimed at weight lifting/body building. You can track number of reps on individual exercises, view progress graphs, record body weight, even keep notes about the day. FitNotes - Today Custom Exercises One of the great things about FitNotes
Must Have: Mac OS X Applications mac Whether you're a programmer, or just the average user these Mac OS X applications will improve your experience with OS X. Note: Applications are free unless noted otherwise General Browser - Google Chrome, Firefox Text Editor - Sublime Text ($70), Atom Music - Spotify
Intel Compute Stick intel With a world of Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Beaglebones, Banana Pi, and a foray of other SoC's taking over the world it's hard to see how anyone can hope to get a large slice of the... Pi. Enter Intel Intel needs no introduction. The tech
One Server, Multiple Domains web It is possible to have one server host multiple domains, this of course increases the chance of failure (if one server goes down so do ALL of your domains). That being said this saves you tons of money, if uptime is not crucial for
Must Have: Mac OS X Applications review Whether you're a programmer, or just the average user these Mac OS X applications will improve your experience with OS X. Note: Applications are free unless noted otherwise General Browser - Google Chrome, Firefox Text Editor - Sublime Text ($70), Atom Music - Spotify
2015: Learning Every Day web It's 2015 now, a year has gone and went. Every year I tell myself I'm going to sit down and learn XYZ and life gets in the way. I think the largest issue with that is my goals are massive: learn JavaScript, master C+
The Future of Tech future I recently posted on HackerNews asking "Where do you see web and desktop apps in 5 years?". A lot of the responses boiled down to the web overtaking and dominating the standard brick and mortar desktop app. And I would argue it
Must Have Android Apps android Android is great, if you don't like the way a certain app does something, chances are there is an alternative. Here on the my top apps. Some of them replace stock apps and others push the limit of what Android can do. Note: I
Python IRC Bot python I wrote (more of borrowed and molded) an IRC bot in high school and it is a giant piece of crap in terms of code. So recently I condensed it down and decided to redo it all. Here's all of the code, I'll break
A Web Scraper That Sucks Even Less! python I recently wrote a post about using BeautifulSoup and urllib2 to scrape html off webpages and parse it into useful text. The only issue was it was easy to get banned with. This modification to the code does not make you ban proof, and
Python Array Inside An Array python I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not but you can store data in Python with as many arrays inside other arrays as you want. test = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, [9, 10]]] print test[2][2][0] >
The internet was not built for you and me. internet Considering that 60% of the world has never used the internet. For those of us who interact with the internet daily, if not hourly we cannot imagine what that would be like. That means that 40% of the world uses the internet, 40% is
Purdue BoilerMake 2014 school I partook in this years BoilerMake Hackathon here at Purdue. The hackathon runs from October 17 to the 19th. This was my first hackathon and will surly be the first of many for me. I had a great time. I had had little plans
A Web Scraper That Doesn't (Completly) Suck python Python is great for a lot of things. Here's another, web scraping. Web scraping is the act of programmatically grabbing information from webpages. Typically from the HTML returned by a website. NOTE: Web scraping can be abused and in many cases will get you
