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Running Go code from Elixir Using Web Assembly

In this article, I will show you how to compile Go code to target WASI and run it from an Elixir host. You will also learn how to pass data to Go and get a response back using pipes.

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How to Use Apple Vision Framework via PyObjC for Text Recognition

Let's learn how to make use of Apple's Vision Framework from Python (via PyObjC) to detect and recognize text in images. Along the way, you will learn quite a bit about how to use PyObjC to interface with different Objective C classes, functions and methods.

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How to Efficiently Reorder or Rerank Items in Database

Ever wondered how Jira and Trello store the order of tasks or issues? How they can effortlessly reorder items in the database even when there are a million items? In this article, you will gain an understanding of reordering and reranking techniques and how to store order information in the database to facilitate efficient reordering.

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Project Write-up: Display Spotify lyrics on external display

I came across a job posting on Upwork where someone was looking for a software that plays the lyrics of a Spotify song on dual screens. I was really intrigued so I decided to give it a go. In this article I am going to talk about the whole thought process I went through while trying to figure out a solution as I think that part is often missing from programming tutorials.

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Setting Up Custom Root Domain using Webflow and Cloudflare

Are you trying to set up a custom root domain with Webflow & Cloudflare but it is not working? I recently did the same and faced some issues. Let me save you some time and show you how to set it up. By the end, you will have working redirection from www subdomain to your root domain.

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Extracting WhatsApp messages from an iOS backup

Have you ever been interested in how Apple saves the iOS backup files and how you can extract particular files from a backup? In this article, I will show you the different encryptions involved in creating an iOS backup, how to decrypt the data, and how to extract WhatsApp chats from an iOS backup.

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Web Automation With Selenium And Python

In this article we will take a look at how we can automate basic web interactions using Selenium. By the end of this article you will have an automated booking bot that can reserve court space for you automatically. You will also learn about XPath and how to traverse an HTML document using Python, LXML and XPath.

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How to get a job in big-tech (Internships/New grads)?

Are you looking to break into big-tech? In this post, I share some tips and tricks that helped me get an internship + job at Microsoft. You don't need to spend every waking minute grinding Leetcode. You can be smart and prepare for the interview a bit more strategically. Read the article to learn more.

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How to web scrape on Schedule using Github Actions?

I recently got to work on a web scraping project that I deployed on GitHub. The scraper runs daily on a schedule and emails the extracted data all for free using GitHub Actions! In this article, I will show you how I developed this project and how you too can make use of GitHub Actions for free.

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Understanding and Generating a UPC-A barcode using Python

I have always been fascinated with barcodes and QR codes. I theoretically knew how barcodes worked but I wanted to solidify my understanding by making one from scratch. In this article, I will take you on a guided tour of how barcodes work and how we can make one from scratch using Python. I will focus on Universal Product Code type A (UPC-A) for this tutorial.

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