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Maybe if the UX was nicer, you wouldn't need to write scrapers and parsers and could just use their site.
by xd1936 3mo ago
Maybe if the UX was nicer, you wouldn't need to write scrapers and parsers and could just use their site.
- jefftk 3mo agoThey're scraping to automatically update the wallpaper on their desktop. That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX.
- lightedman 3mo ago"That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX." Actually, I used to have a live-updating website AS MY BACKGROUND. Windows 98 and Me, website used AJAX and Comet to make it happen. You used to be able to set websites as your desktop background.
- queuebert 3mo agoI'm sure that was 100% secure, too. /s (I did the same thing back then.)
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- dabluecaboose 3mo agoWe don't need a bloated React framework to show a plaintext file with the fuel tank levels. It's NOAA, not Microsoft.
- irishcoffee 3mo ago> We don't need a bloated React framework Could have stopped there for 99% of websites