July 19, 2024
• 8 min read
About a week ago, I pushed a script to my GitHub that would monitor the Regal Cinemas website for new movies and report it to a Telegram bot. It was decently feature-rich, but I still wasn’t fully satisfied with it. The primary issue I kept noticing was that the bot would properly fire off an alert whenever a new movie was posted to the website, but oftentimes tickets couldn’t be acquired yet because showtimes are updated separately.
Read more →February 27, 2024
• 3 min read
Sometimes I need to spin a Docker container really quick so I can test stuff locally and the quickest way (for me) is to keep a project template somewhere on the disk so I can quickly copy it, add the web app and test it. Ofc there are other alternatives. Ofc some are better. Ofc some are faster. But this one is mine.
The container will be configured with:
latest Apache web server with SSL and mod_rewrite.
Read more →January 18, 2024
• 1 min read
A lot has been written about AI being the death of art, as so many artists have had their work fed into AI models without compensation, but I feel the conversation has neglected to mention how much free labor al of us are doing for AI companies simply by generating our own content online. OpenAI is generous enough to provide us mortal AI-feeders with IP ranges for the GPTbot, so make sure you add them to your firewall rules.
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