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Ccircobitingauchogrid.hashnode.dev·Jun 19 · 8 min readThe Table Extraction Edge Cases That Took Weeks to SolveWhen I started building HTML Table Exporter, I thought table extraction would be straightforward. Iterate through rows, grab cell text, done. Then I encountered real-world tables. Wikipedia tables tha00
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MMarkinmarkdev.hashnode.dev·Jun 9 · 2 min readSmall Web Development Tricks That Make Your Daily Coding Life EasierOver time, I’ve noticed something interesting about web development. It’s not always the big frameworks or advanced architecture that improves productivity. Most of the real improvements come from sma00
PTPralisha Tripathyinpralishablog1.hashnode.dev·Jun 6 · 5 min readPython Doesn't Power LLMs. So What Actually Does?Like many aspiring AI engineers, I spent months building machine learning models in Python. Every tutorial I followed used Python. Every notebook I opened contained Python. Every machine learning proj00
Ccircobitingauchogrid.hashnode.dev·Jun 5 · 5 min readWhy I Chose Vanilla JavaScript for a Chrome Extension (No Framework)When I started building HTML Table Exporter, the default choice would have been React or Vue. Maybe TypeScript for safety. I went with vanilla JavaScript instead. No framework. No build step for the c00
MFMahbod Farajianinm-farajian.hashnode.dev·May 31 · 2 min readPython Port Scanner TutorialBuilding a Simple Port Scanner in Python (For Beginners) In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a simple port scanner using Python. This is a great starting point for understanding network secu00
