James Ashford

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Why I'm moving to Ghost from WordPress

For those of you that have kept a beady eye on this site over the past few days, may have noticed a few changes around here. To cut a long story, the Raspberry Pi that I use to run my WordPress site ran out of space, and it took me

Are Static Site Generators All What They’re Hyped up to Be?

I’ve had a website for a good 10+ years or so now, and I’ve come to use a lot of web development tools in that time. This includes everything from coding in pure HTML to using CMSs such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. I’ve also come to

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Interacting With REST APIs in Python With 5 Lines of Code

An essential skill for any web scraper or data scientist is to know how to collect information from a publicly available REST API. In short, a REST API is a very simple web service where simple HTTP requests (just like a web browser) are used to collect data usually in