静态网站悖论
个人网站的两种不同实现方式：一种是复杂的内容管理系统（CMS），另一种是简单的静态 HTML 文件。文章指出，尽管大多数普通用户倾向于使用复杂的解决方案（如 WordPress），但实际上，只有少数专业软件工程师能够选择更简单的静态网站。
via HackerNews 2024 10 09
前两天刚好听朋友说 square space 已经涨到了近乎搞笑的 $25 月费，做不用来盈利的个人博客实在难以 justify。这篇文章中吐槽得很在点子上：
normal users are stuck with a bunch of greedy clowns that make them pay for every little thing, all while wasting ungodly amounts of computational power to render what could have been a static website in 99% of cases.
普通用户被困在了一群屁大点功能都要收费的贪婪小丑手里，与此同时浪费着人神共愤额度的算力来渲染 99% 的情况下都可以作为静态的网站。
当然原文中说的“只有少数专业软件工程师才能选择更简单的静态网站”略微夸张并不认同，因为静态站至少是比 self-host 的动态 CMS 少太多维护了。我的 backlog 里也一直躺了篇安利新手用静态站并拉踩 WP 的文，不过网上这种文已经有无数了也还是拦不住前赴后继往各种 CMS 的坑里冲的新手，觉得写了又有什么意义呢就还搁着没写。（当然迟早会像以前反复造的无数轮子一样被废话欲战胜的 but not today）
#indieblog#newletter
#other#playwright
Playwright CLI is a simple command-line tool for browser automation that works best with coding agents like Claude or GitHub Copilot. Install it globally with `npm install -g @playwright/cli@latest`, then use commands like `open`, `type`, `click`, `screenshot` to control browsers efficiently without loading heavy page data. It saves tokens for faster AI tasks on large codebases. You benefit by automating web tests, taking screenshots, and managing sessions quickly, making your coding and testing workflows smoother and more reliable.
https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
#typescript#fingerprinting#playwright#puppeteer#scraping#typescript
Fingerprint-suite is a toolkit that generates and injects realistic browser fingerprints into automated browsers like Playwright and Puppeteer. It includes four modular packages: header-generator for HTTP headers, fingerprint-generator for browser fingerprints, fingerprint-injector for injection, and a Bayesian network for realistic fingerprint creation. Since websites increasingly use fingerprinting to track and identify users, this tool helps your web scrapers avoid detection by mimicking real browser behavior. You can customize fingerprints by device type and operating system, making your automated browsing appear completely legitimate to anti-bot systems.
https://github.com/apify/fingerprint-suite
#typescript#agent#ai#ai_agents#ai_tools#automation#browser#browser_automation#browser_use#chrome_extension#comet#dia#extension#manus#mariner#multi_agent#n8n#nano#opensource#playwright#web_automation
Nanobrowser is a free, open-source Chrome extension that uses multiple AI agents to automate complex web tasks directly in your browser, keeping your data private since everything runs locally. It supports many AI language models, lets you customize which models handle different tasks, and offers an easy chat interface to control and track automation. You can automate repetitive tasks, ask follow-up questions, and review past interactions without coding. It works best on Chrome and Edge and is a cost-effective alternative to expensive AI automation tools, giving you powerful, flexible web automation with full control and privacy.
https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser
#python#ai#ai_scraping#automation#crawler#crawling#crawling_python#data#data_extraction#mcp#mcp_server#playwright#python#scraping#selectors#stealth#web_scraper#web_scraping#web_scraping_python#webscraping#xpath
Scrapling is a fast Python web scraping tool that fetches pages, bypasses anti-bot blocks like Cloudflare, and adapts to site changes by auto-finding elements. Use simple CSS/XPath selectors, spiders for big crawls with pause/resume, proxy rotation, and CLI—no code needed sometimes. Install via pip; it's memory-light and beats others in speed. You save time fixing broken scrapers, scrape reliably at scale, cut costs with AI tools, and focus on using data for leads, prices, or research.
https://github.com/D4Vinci/Scrapling