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It's been running slow for hours (page refreshes taking minutes instead of a second) but it seems to be working again.
The scrapper I use for the "Still alive spammers" normally takes about a minute to run, more for "3 page" lists of the undead. But today? Well over an hour ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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what is a scrapper ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The boy who challenges you to a fight at playtime.
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A scraper that has been spell corrected?
Or else a scraper that tries harder?
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Wordle 435 6/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
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WTE??
Wordle 435 5/6
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"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Wordle 435 6/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨
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🟨⬜🟨🟨🟩
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Perhaps my penultimate one is same as yours.
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Wordle 435 5/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
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⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩
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Not an easy one!
Wordle 435 5/6
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But I should have known guess 4 was wrong ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Why? Guess 4 was also not staright forward and could be a valid confusing one.
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Without giving spoilers, the result of guess 3 directly said guess 4 was wrong - it could not be that character in that position. Stupid of me ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've emailed the "with spoilers" version to you.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 435 5/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
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Wordle 435 5/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 435 X/6
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Too many choices!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wordle 435 4/6
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Slow start but jump it.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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My father was a toolmaker.
A toolmaker is essentially someone who creates tools that do things like stamp sheet-metal.
He was brilliant.
I could have seen myself involved in fabrication quite happily in a different life. My driving core is that I like to build - I just happened to settle on software.
I especially like to build things for other developers. I suppose it's the toolmaker in me. 
I love writing code generation tools. Especially the ones that write code that's not realistic to do by hand, such as LALR parsers.
Unfortunately, reading the room I feel like it's not a well understood art. Some of my most elaborate, really cool tools like Slang/Deslang[^] collect dust on this site, despite all the amazing things you can create with it[^]
In the end it has sort of put me off. Maybe code generation just isn't cool enough for the cool kids.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 27-Aug-22 10:13am.
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I don't think it's a question of whether code generation is cool enough, but of use cases. A potential user must first have an application in mind that would benefit from a tool or framework. Then they have to learn how to use it to build that application. To overcome those hurdles, it's important to have some non-trivial examples that use the tool or framework.
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My father (step father) was also a tool maker and a vary talented man but didn't bother to pass along any knowledge to me.
But I've always been curious and eager to learn. I don't have the patience to do anything as precise as toolmaking but I love to create things.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer is finally available for download.
JaxCoder.com
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I also enjoy making software tools which help me or other developers. But no one else uses my tools. 
I also dislike using code written and published by other developers, I'd rather roll my own (in most cases).
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It sounds like we're similar in that way.
I have a whole ecosystem of code I use for IoT and it all works together beautifully. That's the advantage of rolling your own, but it sure is a lot of work!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I hope you guys don't miss the irony of all this: everyone complaining that no one wants to follow their path and prefer to make their own.
Like my old boss used to say: managing programmers is worse than herding cats 
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: I hope you guys don't miss the irony of all this: everyone complaining that no one wants to follow their path and prefer to make their own.
For almost the ultimate example of this, read Qwertie's top comment thread in the second article she linked.
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Yah, I noticed that one but I didn't want to lay it on too thick
Mircea
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