From zero to a half a million views — Last month, I finally reached half a million views on Medium. It has been a long journey, with good and bad times, but I am grateful for every single second of it.

Avoid all Amazon scraping restriction policies with Octoparse — Web scraping allows you to retrieve any publicly available data from the web. But each web page has a unique layout and stores different data. So, programmatically extracting data from a web page involves custom logic. As you can imagine, building such scripts costs you time and money. Fortunately, several…

Ahorra tiempo y dinero gracias a una extensión de navegador para el scraping de páginas web — El scraping de páginas web es una de las formas más eficaces para recuperar datos de la web. Por otro lado, cada página web es diferente, y extraer datos de ella requiere un script de scraping que implique una lógica personalizada. Construir un script de este tipo cuesta tiempo y…

Saving time and money through a web scraping browser extension — Scraping web pages is one of the most effective ways to retrieve data from the web. On the other hand, every web page is different, and extracting data from it programmatically requires a scraping script involving custom logic. Building such a script costs you time and money. Luckily, many scraping…

“A different language is a different vision of life” — Federico Fellini — We all have our favorite movies, songs, books, and colors. But what about languages? Languages change the way we behave and express ourselves, and this is why different activities can have a particular preferred language. …

It is not always all about the money — I do not remember my university years as a good time of my life, and I prefer to avoid talking about them. Still, there are a few stories worth telling, and this is one of those. Where It All Began I hated every single day of my university journey. Still, I was quite unexpectedly…

Do polyglots dream of multilingual sheep? — I have been studying languages for years and can now consider myself a polyglot. Even though I have only been able to speak four languages for three years, this has changed my life significantly. …

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt — When language learning became part of my daily routine, I began to notice some changes in my life. One of the most noticeable things that has changed is the way I dream. I now dream in foreign languages, typically more than once, even during the same dream. Dreams are undoubtedly…

How to build a PHP script to validate and verify emails — Let’s assume you collected several emails from your users over time without sending them a verification email. Now, you want to use these emails to contact your users, send a newsletter, or just make sure the emails you collected are valid and exist. In this case, you should find a…