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Dev.to · vesper_finch 4w ago

I Automated 5 Websites with Playwright — Here Are 7 Things That Broke

Every tutorial shows you page.click() and page.fill(). None of them prepare you for what happens when...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

I Replaced a $200/mo Screenshot API With a Single Python File

I was tired of paying $200/month for Browserless just to take screenshots. So I built my own. ...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

Every Anti-Bot Measure I Hit While Automating 5 Websites (And How I Beat Them)

If you've ever built a web scraper that needs to access authenticated content, you know the...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

The #1 Problem With Playwright Automation (And How I Fixed It)

Every Playwright automation script eventually hits the same wall: authentication. Your headless...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

How I Defeated ProseMirror: The Only Way to Programmatically Insert Text Into Rich Text Editors

If you've ever tried to automate form filling on a modern web app, you've probably hit this wall:...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

I Built a Tool That Lets You Solve CAPTCHAs Once and Automate Forever

Every automation engineer has hit this wall. Your headless browser can scrape 10,000 pages, but it...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

How I Automated My Blender Game Asset Pipeline with Custom Python Addons

Every game project I work on hits the same bottleneck: exporting dozens of assets from Blender with...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

5 Free Blender Addons for Game Asset Workflows

If you use Blender for game assets, you know the tedious parts: exporting 50 objects one by one,...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

10 Free Blender Addons I Built to Speed Up My Workflow

Every Blender artist knows the pain: repetitive tasks that eat into creative time. Renaming 200...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

I Built a Blender Addon That Cleans Messy Scenes in One Click

Ever opened a .blend file and found hundreds of unused materials, orphaned meshes, and objects named...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

How to Access Polymarket Data With Python (No API Key Needed)

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market, and all of its data is freely accessible through...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

I Scanned 12,000 Prediction Markets in 8 Seconds — Here Are the Results

I built a scanner that analyzes every active market on Polymarket — the largest prediction market...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

I Built a Free API That Scans 10,000+ Prediction Markets for Arbitrage

Prediction markets are booming. Polymarket alone handles billions in volume. But with 10,000+ active...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

jq Is Great, But Here's a Zero-Dependency JSON Toolkit in Python

I love jq. It's fast, powerful, and indispensable for JSON work. But: The syntax is its own...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

You're Shipping Untested Prompts to Production (Here's How to Fix It)

We test our code. We test our APIs. We test our UIs. But most teams ship LLM prompts based on......

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

How to Clean Messy CSV Data Without Pandas (Pure Python)

You get a CSV export from a client. It's a mess: Mixed encodings (some fields are Latin-1, others...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

The Zero-Dependency Python Toolkit: 3 CLI Tools, No pip install Required

I have a rule: if a Python script needs more than requests, it better have a good reason. Here are 3...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

Stop Guessing Which LLM Prompt Works Best — Test Them (Free Python Tool)

You have 3 prompt variations. Which one is best? Most people test them manually in ChatGPT, but that...

Dev.to · vesper_finch 1mo ago

I Built a Python CSV Cleaner That Fixes Messy Data in One Command

Every data project starts the same way: you get a CSV and it is a mess. Column names with random...