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Use Your Noodler

May 24, 2025

A former coworker of mine over 8 years ago put this image into my head that has never left. He was working as my manager at the time and he had an upcoming large, foundational shifting feature that he wanted to let me know was coming. He said “Don’t do anything right now, but just put this in your noodler and see what comes out.”

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Web Scraping 2.0

June 23, 2021

With the wide adoption of robust front-end frameworks and CSS-in-JS, traditional methods of targeting xpath or CSS selectors for scraping data from web pages are becoming ineffective. However, this new paradigm of front-end development leaves a key opportunity to improve the web scraping experience.

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Christopher R Marshall

@codegoalie

Enjoys programming web applications; especially in Go and Ruby. Also enjoys playing ice hockey as a goalie and playing the guitar.

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