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Matt
@matt-zen.bsky.social
Travel - Coding - Freedom
God I love what I do

Being able to live totally free of constrains and learn everyday is a blessing

And I've just started
July 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The moment you start interacting with clients, working on your personality is as important as working on your technical skills
July 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Last year I quit my job

Since I've learned HTML, CSS, JavaScript / Typescript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, SQL, Node, Bun, Docker, Express, Hono, Trigger, Drizzle, Neon, Supabase, Convex, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Lambda, Railway, Docker, n8n, AI SDK

You can just start
July 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Crazy that @vercel is ditching Edge Runtime in favor of Node

Is there even anything to compete with @cloudflare workers anymore ?
July 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Shocked how easy it is to forward a port with ngrok

Literally 2 minutes setup and your endpoint can be shared online from your local dev environment
July 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Is there a repository or directory of official llm instructions from software?

Not some random rules but really the updated rules from the developers of the software
July 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
How does zod `parse`handle objects when we don't know all the fields in advance

Turns out you can choose the behavior you want it to have when defining your schema

Default behavior strip extra fields
Using passthrough() keep them
Using strict() cause a validation error
July 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
One tool a day - Browser Automation

Browserless (2017): browserless.io

• API to run pupeeter/playwright headless browsers
• Supports isolated concurrent browser sessions
• Generate screenshots, PDFs or automate scraping
• Provide seperate API for simple tasks
Browserless - Browser Automation and Dodge Bot Detectors
Bypass any bot detection for your scraping or automations. Sign up for free today, to use our API, proxies and captcha solving.
www.browserless.io
June 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Why does building during the weekend feel the best
June 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
One tool a day - Scraping

ScrapeGraphAI (2025): scrapegraphai.com

• API, SDK & Browser Extension for scraping using AI
• Get structured data or markdown in one prompt
• Target a specific website or the whole web at once
• Provide automatic JSON schema generation
ScrapeGraphAI
Extract structured data from any website using our powerful AI-driven web scraping API
scrapegraphai.com
June 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
One tool a day - Scraping

Firecrawl (2024): firecrawl.dev

• API & SDK to extract structured data
• 500 free crawls per month & self hostable
• Provide scrape, crawl, map, search and agentic features
• Integrate with AI agents frameworks (Langchain, crewai...)
Firecrawl
Turn any website into LLM-ready data.
www.firecrawl.dev
June 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
One tool a day - Scraping

Instant Data Scraper

• Browser Extension to automate web data extraction
• Simple one-click install
• AI-powered html data detection for better results
• Handle infinite scrolling and pagination
• Supports export in CSV & xslx
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
One tool a day - Scraping

Apify (2015): apify.com

• SaaS for web scraping and automations via actors
• Run apify actors in the cloud
• More than 1,600 pre-built actors
• Proxy rotation & human-like browser fingerprints
• Schedule your actors
Apify: Full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform
Cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, AI agents, and data for AI. Use 5,000+ ready-made tools, code templates, or order a custom solution.
apify.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
One tool a day - Scraping

Easy Scraper (2023): easyscraper.com

• Browser Extension to simplify web scraping
• One click installation
• Scrape web data as csv, json or in clipboard
• Navigate to next pages
• Load data hidden by infinite scrolling
June 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
God bless the creators of these new python libraries, nearly could make me want to use the language again

• Ruff
• ty
• pyrefly
• uv

Truly no other feeling than ditching pip and venv
June 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Been wondering if there is a way to have a true SPA navigation on Next.js, meaning without having to fetch any RSC on navigation

Would be good to have the choice to load on first load all the routes I need instead of fetching RSC every time
May 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Been testing out bun, and honestly quite convinced with the experience so far

First package manager where it's fast enough so my attention is not moved away from the codebase while doing cli

And to be able to spin up a react codebase with practically no abstraction feels super fresh
May 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Why is my build failing when following the whole @expo.dev tutorial

Any idea?

Got this error: "Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration 'classpath'."
May 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So far love the docs for expo, just wondering how come collapsible bars are still so hard to make properly to maximize clarity for the reader

Still expo makes a good attempt, probably will get there soon
May 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Excited to try out Expo with React Native. Having never done any mobile dev before I wonder how much is transferable from the web part.

Gotta say the @expo.dev doc is super clean so far
April 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM