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[Pascal LD]

May 15, 2023

This is a test to see how Reeder updates internally since it's not picking up my blog name.

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[Pascal LD]

March 12, 2023

Hello and Welcome 👋

My name is Pascal and I've built this blog. It's a place where I'll share what I'm working on, my views on topics that are important to me, or things that seem cool! Expect a variety of topics

When I say I've built this blog, I don't just mean the content. I also wrote the code. I'll tell you why, but first let's cover the basics.

I'm a husband and fath...

Avoiding Chromedriver site detection on Apple Silicon Macs

[Pascal Lefrancois-Deignan, Pascal LD]

November 2, 2022

To this day (2022-11-03 as of this writing), there are still many sites which have a plethora of useful information, that you may even pay for, but that data isn't accessible via any sort of API cough banks cough. A pretty common scenario is to use some sort of automation tool to essentially screen scrape the data so that you can do whatever y...