What’s this really?

I hear you. I’m not crazy about it either. I use it at work and I get the point: it’s awkward to make CSS respect the encapsulation of component-based reactive frameworks like Vue or React. Tailwind alleviates that. On the other hand the actual HTML/CSS produced is disregarded by all measures except size maybe. It’s yet another layer of abstraction and its necessity is debatable at best.

You have basically two options: treat HTML as a string or parse it then process it with higher level DOM features.

The problem with the second approach is that HTML may look like an XML dialect but it is actually immensely quirky and tolerant. Moreover the modern web page is crazy bloated, so mass processing pages might be surprisingly demanding. And in the end you still need to do custom code to grab the data you’re after.

On the other hand string searching is as lightweight as it gets and you typically don’t really need to care about document structure as a scraper anyways.

I use syncthing to sync music, notes and pictures between my phone and my PC. It’s ridiculously efficient and it feels like using your devices’ networking features in a reasonable way at last. It’s so simple and feels so good. I fucking love it.

They’re gonna tell not to parse HTML with regular expressions. Heed this warning, and do it anyways.

Time magazine going hard making clear on which side of the class war they stand.

Don’t listen to anyone trying to shame you into agreeing with their view about something so profound. You are entitled to your own philosophy on the matter.

This is an NPM package. I really wish the dev would find it in them to host a little demo page someplace.

It was wrapped in wet underwear though. A completely irrelevant precision, but a precision nonetheless.

And they’ll get AIs to scrape that shit too. And train on it so they can spew higher order nonsense. And so on.

The research paper referred to in the article is from July 2025.

i love stuffing my face in pastry

Bro I don’t even have a thanksgiving.

13’s 💀

Also real programmers have impostor’s syndrome.

Real programmers are language agnostic. Anyways what’s the project?

Is this a reference to a story, or plain surrealism?

I would humbly suggest FP may seem especially natural to you precisely because that’s what you use all day.

not a demon (it’s worse)

I too experienced Kenshi flashbacks from this meme.