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Build Your Own: Python PDF to Text

Recently, I found myself facing the need to convert my personal PDF files to text. While there were many existing PDF to text converters available for this task, I couldn't shake the feeling of unease about uploading my private documents to unknown servers. Who knows what could happen to them

Automatically sync Esports schedules and tournaments to your Google Calendar with Tournacat

I Built a Google Calendar Add-on. Here's What I Learnt

I made Tournacat, an add-on that syncs upcoming Esports schedules of tournaments to Google Calendar. Two months later, Tournacat has garnered 4 paid users and is slowly growing. In this post, I will share my experience building Tournacat using various technologies including Cloudflare Worker, Hugo, and Google Apps Script. Along

Dota 2 The International Event

Add Dota 2 Upcoming Match to Google Calendar

💡Update March 2023: Check out this Google Calendar add-on instead I rely heavily on Google Calendar to manage my rather chaotic schedule in life. Probably like you, I want to know what and when is the next Dota 2 tournament happening, especially for Major Championships and The International. I want

Michelin Chef Plating Dishes

How I Scraped Michelin Guide Using Golang

At the beginning of the automobile era, Michelin, a tire company, created a travel guide, including a restaurant guide. Through the years, Michelin stars have become very prestigious due to their high standards and very strict anonymous testers. Michelin Stars are incredibly coveted. Gaining just one can change a chef's

How To Build a Pastebin Clone for Free

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How To Build a Pastebin Clone for Free

Today, we will be building a Pastebin [https://pastebin.mozilla.org/] clone — a web service that allows users to upload and share text through links known as ‘pastes’. What follows is my journey of how I create a Pastebin clone using serverless functions through Cloudflare Worker [https://workers.cloudflare.com/

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I Built My Own TinyURL. Here’s How I Did It

Designing a URL shortener such as TinyURL and Bitly is one of the most common system design interview questions in software engineering. While meddling around with Cloudflare Worker to sync the Daily LeetCode Challenge to my Todoist, it gave me an idea to build an actual URL shortener that can

Writing down todos

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How I Sync Daily LeetCoding Challenge to Todoist

If you have ever been on a job hunt for a software developer position, you would have come across the so-called LeetCode style interviews. Even though most of us don’t have to invert a Binary Tree at our actual job, that is how most coding/technical interviews are conducted

How I Built A Craft Beer Search Engine For Free

How I Built A Craft Beer Search Engine For Free

Craft beers are delicious. Expensively delicious. When I first came to Singapore, I was introduced to the wonders of craft beers. Coming from Malaysia, I felt spoiled by the number of choices available here. Soon, my friends and I got caught up with the craft beer fever, but there was

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