@matigo For me, more the whole network of Apple devices tracking and pinging…
It's going to be a very busy weekend.
Ordered a new SSD and some RAM for the ageing Mac Pro and planning to install from scratch for the first time since 2006. Need to get a bash script written to do the hard work.
Day 1 of revision week (for which I took a week off from work): procrastination is very real. I'm halfway into the lengthiest analysis of a poem I've written since secondary school.
Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" [rpo.library.utoronto.ca] is a beautiful one though.
Hmm. Took me 5 minutes to realise I was referencing the wrong variable. Too much whisky?
MVP achieved for the scraper anyway. Commit done and time for bed….
Looks like, with this site, I won't even have to use Selenium with chromedriver to bypass bot protection — curl alone seems to do the job. Just a matter of extracting the json and parsing it.
Was going to go to bed, but I don't think I'll be able to sleep until I have a nice glass of whisky and a few lines (literally) of Python committed.
@matigo If you don't execute a line of code, it can't fail, and statistically one could argue that most code written shouldn't be executed, so your earlier post was accurate, in a way.
Or something.
It looks like a lot of sites that normally hide product reviews behind a paywall nevertheless manage to reveal their content in full thanks to Google's ld+json structured data format [developers.google.com].
Which basically makes scraping these websites ridiculously easy.
And there I was thinking only one site (for whose JSON I've already written a parser) made things so simple….
Spent 2 hours today investigating how to insert a table into an HTML email in ActiveCampaign's WYSIWYG editor such that it would have a non-responsive layout on mobile devices.
Raised a ticket and their official support said:
- ActiveCampaign only supports adding tables via custom HTML.
- Their support does not cover custom HTML.
- The best alternative way to add a table is to embed it as an image.
As it turns out, it's a problem with their WYSIWYG template: you can't turn responsive design off. I went into my old raw-HTML template, where I have full visibility and control of things, and got it done in 2 minutes.
Unfortunately, the "visual editor" and the "HTML editor" sides of ActiveCampaign can't talk to each other: you use one or the other, but you can't start something in the visual editor and then polish it up in the HTML editor.
- Why I used the WYSIWYG editor at all: I had to set up the template so others in the team could send their own email campaigns, and never made the time to update my raw-HTML template after that.
- I think we're getting to the point where software is being dumbed down too much — web apps are particularly bad. In fact, we may have been at that point for quite a few years now and I've just been too comfortable in my non-shared setup to notice. Power users lose out big time.