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I had a situation where I was doing some web scraping, and the site, while it had a predictable structure, had some unpredictable class names for the elements I was searching for.
In all cases, there was a class that began something like "ItemOfInterest_image_item__", but where the suffix would vary such that I couldn't depend on it matching from request to request....

I've recently started using the ability to merge Docker Compose files, as it reduces repetition when having different configuration for production from development.This also helps reduce cases where configuration gets updated in one, but not the other...

I've been using Caddy for years as a reverse proxy in front of other services, but recently wanted to use it to directly route traffic to PHP-FPM.Caddy has a specialized reverse proxy directive for PHP-FPM, php_fastcgi, which seemed like it would do...

I've been struggling to make time to either journal or draw.
The last I journaled regularly was in the winter of 2016/2017.Before that, it had been a number of years as well.I type so much faster than I write by hand, and my handwriting is atrocious.But when I type my journal entries... it's too easy to get distracted...