twincipher

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   by twincipher 7mo ago

   Yes and no. Claude code helped with boilerplate and debugging, however every city's permit system is different enough to warrant hands-on work - figuring out the API endpoints, understanding the schema, pagination quirks, etc... AI w
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   I wrote 200 scrapers for city permit APIs to map US construction activity(permitradar.io)

   2 points by twincipher 7mo ago|3 comments
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   by twincipher 7mo ago

   So something big got approved a few miles from my house -- a data center complex -- which I found out through a local news provider. The story sparked my curiosity, and I soon went down a rabbit hole of local city government websites and p