Karol Horosin

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How to Programatically Get Photos Matching Content in Your Apps With Python and Unsplash API | HackerNoon

Introduction I often want to add visually interesting elements to my projects and struggle with content. Let’s say you have a subpage that shows all the posts/any other information related to a city. It would be great to have a photo of said city in the header, wouldn’t it? You may think that the way to go is to generate something with AI. It may work, but there are many issues with this approach. There

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Creating a SendFox Newsletter Signup Form in Next.js: A Tutorial | HackerNoon

Introduction SendFox is a popular newsletter service built by AppSumo. The company is famous for its store with lifetime deals for software. The product has limitations and is not a perfect solution, but if you need a solid tool with predictable cost, it may be just the fit for you. There’s a generous free tier as well. There aren’t many examples online for how to create a signup form outside of embedding one. They don’t

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How to Scrape Data Off Wikipedia: Three Ways (No Code and Code) | HackerNoon

I needed some data for my side project. Google helped me find only outdated CSVs, expensive closed sources, and APIs hidden behind the “contact sales” button. Wikipedia was ranking high in my searches, but I quickly found that the tables are as unstructured as the ones you typically create in Word or Google Docs. There was no consistency in columns and naming conventions. This at first discouraged me but after failing to find another data

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