kaelscion

kaelscion @kaelscion

About: I'm Jake Cahill: Lifetime Pythonista, web scraping, cloud computing, and automation expert. Enjoy books. Love my wife, dog, and cat, and think AI and Rust are pretty nifty

Location:
Massachusetts, USA
Joined:
Sep 6, 2018

kaelscion
articles - 33 total

VIDEO 📺 📽️ Practical Web Scraping | Auto-Upload to DEV | Part 2 - Pushing a Blog Post

The next chapter in the Auto-Upload to Dev series! By the end of this video, you'll be able to upload blog posts to Dev with the simple running of a script!

Learn More 8 0Aug 2 '19

I Passed 3,000 Follows on Dev! 🎉🙌🎊🙌🏿🎆🙌🏾

Thank you so much for all of your support and kindness on this journey!!

Learn More 18 10Jul 28 '19

VIDEO 📺📹 Practical Web Scraping | Auto-Upload to DEV | Part 1 - Logging In

Web Scraping is not just for people to collect email addresses and spam you. In fact, many of our favorite services rely on it! But why should you care? What can you do with web scraping that will have any actual impact on your life? In this series, we aim to find out!

Learn More 13 3Jul 20 '19

Best Answers to "Loaded" Interview Questions?

What are some of your favorite stories of great answers to the types of interview questions even the interviewers don't know the point of

Learn More 11 8Jul 19 '19

VIDEO 🎉📺 |Bye Bye 403 | Building a Filter Resistant Web Crawler in Python | Part IV - Ethics and Throttling

What are the ethics of web scraping? Why do Crawler bots have a bad reputation, and how to not be "part of the problem

Learn More 8 3Jul 17 '19

Attention Web Scrapers and Pen Testers: Slither is now a PyPI package! 🎉

The Slither web-scraping proxy IP and User Agent cycling library is available on pip!

Learn More 12 4Jul 12 '19

I Guess I Kinda Get it...: The Prime Generator Story

A clarification on prime number generators, everybody's favorite topic to almost understand.

Learn More 9 0Jun 13 '19

Dynamically Filling in a CSS Grid with JavaScript

Fill a grid of variable size with dynamically sized blocks

Learn More 36 2May 17 '19

Help Testing "Sentinel": A Real-Time Proxy Bot Filter for the Web

Would any devvers be interested in helping me test functionality?

Learn More 4 0Apr 1 '19

Introducing Slither: Adding anonymous proxy IPs and randomized User Agents to Scraping Projects

My first Open Sourced passion project hits the web!

Learn More 43 3Mar 31 '19

Bye Bye 403 - Building a Filter Resistant Web Crawler Part III: User Agents

Disguising not only our IP but our browser?

Learn More 8 2Mar 7 '19

Life Can Be Tough, But We Are DAMN Good at What We Do!

We are problem solvers, thinkers, tinkers, and dreamers. Personal challenges, no matter how severe, can NEVER take that away

Learn More 66 8Feb 8 '19

I'm Sorry, Did The Flow of Time Suddenly Become Negotiable?

What are some of your stories of customers trying to negotiate non-negotiable things?

Learn More 10 3Jan 12 '19

Testing Different Fibonacci Generator Techniques in Python

Different methods for performing generating and printing the 200,000th number in the Fibonacci sequence

Learn More 13 5Dec 19 '18

Recursion Algorithm Practice: Fibonacci Sequence Generator

Trying to make an efficient Fibonacci sequencer in Python

Learn More 40 19Dec 19 '18

Authentication Hashing in SQLAlchemy

How to Create DB Tables and Hash Passwords in Python

Learn More 18 0Dec 15 '18

Leadership: That Concept that Actually *Doesn't* Mean That You're In Charge

What a true leader is, and why so many today are leaders in name only

Learn More 10 3Dec 13 '18

Context: Social Media’s Most Tragic Victim

The end of informed personal opinion and what, if anything, can be done about it

Learn More 12 5Dec 10 '18

December Project Accountability: Rizzo's Alpine-Python Containers

Week 1 Goals Complete!

Learn More 7 0Dec 7 '18

Programming "Flavors of the Month": Why I feel We Need Them

Why, for better or worse, we need to be annoyed by "the new hotness" on a daily basis.

Learn More 10 0Dec 6 '18

Bye Bye 403: Building a Filter Resistant Web Crawler Part II: Building a Proxy List

Building a proxy list for a nearly limitless supply of disposable IP Addresses!

Learn More 19 2Dec 5 '18

December Project Accountability: Rizzo

A post to keep me from procrastinating and getting up after a knockdown.

Learn More 9 5Dec 3 '18

Py in 5: Decorators

What are decorators and why should I care?

Learn More 17 5Nov 15 '18

How Do You Drive Attention and Traffic?

Getting people to care about your products/services

Learn More 15 16Nov 14 '18

The Depression and Anxiety Paradox

The first step to recovery in a world that just doesn't get it

Learn More 119 17Nov 4 '18

The Jinja2 Template: Web Templates for Python

Of all the templates in the Python world, Jinja is certainly one of them

Learn More 16 1Oct 31 '18

Py in 5: List Comprehensions

List comprehension! The way to handle lists and the things that go in them, Pythonically.

Learn More 19 4Oct 26 '18

Py in 5: Lambda Functions

The series where I attempt to take a Python programming concept and explain it, in mere mortal terms, in a 5 minute read or less!

Learn More 25 5Oct 25 '18

What I've Learned Being a Self-Taught Developer

The benefits and pitfalls of learning on your own and how to make the decision of degree or no degree

Learn More 38 8Oct 22 '18

How Specific Are you With Your Imports and Why?

What are you package importing habits?

Learn More 9 6Oct 2 '18