Tarv
November 26, 2024 at 9:00 PM
So I wake up and decide to read an article that was pending in one of the 27 tabs (Don't we all?😀) I had accumulated in my browser.
I am barely halfway through and already impressed by the author's succintness. This article doesn’t just hit the nail on the head—it crafts the hammer while it’s at it. The impression leaves me thirsty for more and I start going down the rabbit hole of looking for the "next perfect" article.
Well, until I realise I am wasting a lot of time just navigating those pages. So I decide to put some skills to work and lighten the work. I know you're wondering how exactly that is possible. Let me introduce you to the world of web scraping.
Get it know? Anyway I decide to inspect the page and realize it is actually pretty possible and not to leave out how easy it would be on this page. At this moment, I am appreciating the art of writing semantic HTML and despising how I format mine because without it this page would have been the proverbial Gordian Knot. But hey I like to think I'd still do it the Alexandrian way 😂.
This represents one of those few times that I am actually dying to open up my IDE and do something fantastic😂😂. After a few minutes I have the info I need on every article in a CSV file and I am beaming with happiness...........✋for a few seconds until I realize that's not everything and pagination is my only barrier to greatness.
I have to admit I struggle a bit in thinking this one through but eventually I do it because there is definitely no way I would be able to carry on with other activities with the unfinished puzzle in my head. A few minutes later I have a CSV file that would even have my ancestors patting me in the back for a task well executed.
Now that I have the info, I head back to close the tab and mark the end of a pending task while ticking off on successess of the day. That apparently was as easy as scrolling sideways instead of down on your favourite social🙃 (you'll eventually get it in your dreams😁).
I stumble on a link that takes me to the landing page of Hey. Well, they named it not me. Anyway, apparently hey.com is a mailing client like Gmail, Outlook and all the others you have in mind but with some way more exciting perks that sound too good to be true.
To begin with, imagine instructing someone to email you through janedoe@hey.com😂. Definitely sounds fun right? Then again, the first time someone emails you, you actually have the liberty to decline their emails. Yeah you heard me right! "I don't like you so don't touch my mail😂😂." When you choose to decline someone's emails, they can never email you again, essentially they're blocked. At this point I am already wondering where is the signup button because I am tired of getting spammed with promotions from every service around the world that I signed up for just to complete a single task. And sadly "Unsubscribe from this email" links no longer work. If you signed up you'll just have to follow the road straight ahead. No U-turns here👍.
You have to agree with me capitalism sucks right?😂 Anyway those are the services that got lucky I wasn't aware of temporary mails. As for the rest, they'll have to contend with a ghost user in their database. Hey back to hey😉. How about The Feed; a place where all the newsletters and other periodical mail you receive reside. The fun part is you get to read through them like the way to you scroll your X timeline, yeah "self-hosted X "😂.
Then I stumble across the most interesting feature. What if I told you that you could email all of us?😕. I must be kidding right? NO!! The way it works is you just write an email to a specific domain and voila🎆, your post gets published on the World Wide Web. Becoming a blogger has never been this easy. At this point I'm tempted to take down Blogzzly. Just Kidding!
How about "I'm addicted to emailing and I have been trying to stop for the last 5 months"😂😂 I resolve to just stop wasting time reading the documentation and sign up already because why not?
So I head to the sign up page and the first words I get hit with are "Try for 30 days". Yeah right, you have to pay to get all these perks😭. You see why we should strive harder always? No space in the world for freebies or at least not at hey.com. And that's when you truly realize that privacy is a reserve for the well off. So if you're not paying actual money you have to get comfortable with the saying "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product"👍
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