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The Inner Workings of Python Dataclasses Explained

Ever wondered how those magical dataclass decorators work? Wonder no more! In this article, I create a simplified dataclass decorator using the same concepts as the real one. Read More...

How Python Asyncio Works: Recreating it from Scratch

Do you understand how asyncio works behind the scenes? Read this article and see how we can use Python generators to create our own version of asyncio, and then use the __await__ dunder method to use the async/await keywords to come full circle! Read More...

Advanced Web Scraping With Python: Extract Data From Any Site

In this article, I cover how to get and manage cookies and custom headers, avoid TLS fingerprinting, recognize important HTTP headers to send in requests, and how to implement exponential-backoff HTTP request retrying. Read More...

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Jacob Padilla

I'm Jacob Padilla - a student at NYU Stern studying Business and Computer Science. Besides programming, my main interests are rock climbing, sailing, ceramics, and photography!

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