This blog post is going to be really short, and if you happen to have stumbled up on it, hopefullly I’ve got some answers for you. However, I’m really just writing this post because I want to bookmark this information for my future self! haha

With a lot of web scraping technologies, they’re typically intended to be run on a desktop computer or a server that’s able to simulate a web browser. However, setting up your project like this is going to cost you some money to do because you’ll need to spin up a server instance that you have to pay for each month. I have a massive graveyard of dead projects that I’ve had to kill off because I couldn’t afford the server costs. So personally, I’ve been trying to build things that truly don’t need a server and can operate without a centralized backend that costs me money each month.

And fortunately, I discovered a couple of guys on the internet that have run into the same problems and created a solution that you can use in your React-Native apps.

1. Check out Gift Banda’s Web Scraping in React-Native on Medium
2. And take the cheerio-without-node-native library for a spin

Cheerio-without-node-native is a fork of the cheerio webscraping library that removes/replaces the modules that make cheerio incompatible in a client-side environment.

I’m sure there are some downsides to doing this client side. I imagine that some things that involve JavaScript rendering and what not you probably won’t be able to do client-side. My guess though is you’ll probably be able to scrape 50 to 80 percent of the stuff you could normally scrape with cheerio.

I haven’t actually used this library yet, so we’ll see if it actually can get the job done. If not, I suppose I’ll just setup a server and a backend and all of that the old fashioned way.

I’ve been working on my first ai powered project recently using the Claude API, but I keep running into this problem that I haven’t been able to get around… Claude won’t give me back a single answer, instead it returns an array of answers of “content blocks.” I actually asked Claude via claude.com and ChatGPT via chatgpt.com how to fix this, but I didn’t get back a working solution. However, I asked Grok via x.com and it actually did give me the solution to this problem! Grok’s solution here: https://x.com/i/grok/share/RgTd0eJc35sUhAg19KtxuVA4L

This past weekend I tried building my first ai project using ChatGPT’s API. I want to build an app that tells me what bands are playing on any given night in Austin, TX and includes Spotify embeds so I can listen to the bands music so I can decide if I want to go see them or not. This is something I can sort-of do on chatgpt.com, but when trying to do the same thing via OpenAI’s API, I wasn’t actually able to get it to work.

While I was a little deflated that my weekend project was a failure, fast forward a few days and Anthropic launched their new web search tool today! And sure enough, I tried giving Claude via the Anthropic API the same prompt I had given ChatGPT and Claude is able to tell me what bands are playing tonight in Austin, TX at Hotel Vegas, a cool venue by my apartment that has shows 7 days a week 365 days a year.

If you’re interested in using the new web search tool via the Anthropic API, make sure you set the model you’re using to claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219, and add “tools” block when you instantiate your Claude client:

Today at work I was tasked with iterating over a JavaScript (TypeScript) object to find a particular property or key nested somewhere within the object. The tricky part is the object can have infinite nesting, so we don’t know how deep we need to dig to find the needle in the haystack.

I thought someone else may end up needing a solution to this problem, so I decided to write this blog post. I found a StackOverflow article which was pretty helpful, however the author of the answer to that question only posted partial bits of the solution, and didn’t post a complete function.

After a little work on replit.com, I came up with a function that does the job for me. For my use case, I only needed to find one needle in the haystack. If you need to find multiple instances of the same property or key, then you’ll need to re-work my function.

Hope you find this function helpful internet friend!

If you’re a React-Native developer and you’re running into this error when attempting to run your Metro bundler, “too many open files,” the fix is really simple: You need to install watchman.

$ brew install watchman

While setting up my new company issued MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon, I thought this error had something to do with the new chipset and Rosetta, but this did not turn out to be the case. All I ended up having to do was install watchman, which we accidentally removed from our company’s README.

Well I was really hoping for this blog post to be a little bit longer, but that’s all I’ve got! Install watchman and then restart the Metro bundler and you should be good to go.

Today I deployed some new code to production for a Flask app that I’m currently building. On my local machine the code which I wrote was running fine without any issues. However, after deploying the code to production I noticed my new endpoint was not working at all and was consistently returning 502 Bad Gateway errors.

A few things I tried tweaking to fix this included updating the config files for NGINX and Gunicorn and explicitly setting timeout durations because the new code that I pushed to production was pretty long running and slow, so I thought maybe something was just timing out. However, after updating my timeout settings in my NGINX and Gunicorn config files to 5 minutes, my code continued to fail in production.

Then I happened to stumble upon a forum post where someone mentioned that this error can sometimes occur if you run out of memory or compute resources. My production server at the time was pretty weak, especially compared to my laptop, running a single CPU with 1 gigabyte of RAM.

The next fix I tried was bumping the resources for my server via DigitalOcean’s server hosting dashboard. And voila! After bumping the resources to 2 CPUs and 4 gigabytes of RAM my code started running as expected, and the 502 bad gateway error went away.

So there you have it. If you have tried bumping the timeout setting for NGINX and Gunicorn and are still running into 502 bad gateway errors, try allocating more CPU and memory resources to your production flask app, and that may fix the issue, especially if the code that is failing is something long running and slow.

UPDATE: I ended up having to bump the resources again, this time to 4 CPUs with 8 gigabytes of RAM.

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Really quick blog post here tonight on how to detect collisions between Humanoids in Roblox. My script is named DetectCollisionsBetweenHumanoids and I’ve placed this script under ServerScriptService. Please note, that I have some code in my example which displays text on the users screen whenever a collision is detected, you can ignore this part of the code which displays that a collision has occurred on the screen:

I’m currently working on building my first game in Roblox, and I need to be able to print out some information to the screen for debugging. Normally you can just use “print()” to display text for debugging / texting purposes, but I’ve noticed that this doesn’t work when you’re testing multiplayer functionality. Right now I’m trying to detect collisions between Humanoids, and print just isn’t working for me in this specific circumstance since I have to run the game in multiplayer mode (print works fine for me when just running the game as a single player however).

Okay so let’s get to it, how to display text on screen programmatically in Roblox. First you’ll need to add ScreenGui to the StarterGui in Roblox Studio. If you need help with this, reference this tutorial from Roblox on how to add a scoreboard: https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/building/ui/creating-a-score-bar

Then you’ll want to add a TextLabel to your ScreenGui, and after that, add a ModuleScript called DisplayTextModuleScript.

Then under ServerScriptServer, add another script called PrintToOnScreenLogger.

Here is a screenshot of what this initial setup should look like in Roblox Studio:

The finished product will look like:

I broke my femur skydiving a couple of weeks ago and am still laid up in a hospital bed recovering. I’ve been meaning to start learning a little Roblox development though, so I’m using this time lying in bed at the hospital to learn Roblox game development.

The first game that I want to make is a zombie game, because I think that’d be fairly simple to create. However, I found that I’ve been having some trouble doing two things:

1. Detecting collisions between Humanoids
2. Changing Humanoid’s Appearance (to turn them into zombies)

This quick blog post is just going to cover topic 2, changing humanoid’s appearance. I have a little code snippet that I created tonight that changes a Humanoid’s skin color to neon green so I can represent them as zombies. If you are looking to do something similar, maybe you’ll find this code snippet useful: