#nerd-problems

[warriorairbender-blog]

False Hope

Walking outside. Wait what was that... (strains to listen) o my stars it's an owl. Reaction *outside* stupid weird smile and jumping like a little kid on Christmas *inside* omg is it finally the time for Hogwarts to accept me. I don't care how old I am maybe my owl is stupid and got lost

[rfbird-blog]

Automatically detecting website changes

Recently I wanted to automatically get a notification when a new rental property was added to Rightmove. I began by using their built in notifications which initially worked quite well, but I still found myself manually checking the site as those updates only came every 24 hours.

The solution? As with many web-based automation tasks, I turned to the much loved ifttt.com. However initially there is no way to detect changes. To do this you have to team it with a third party site; I chose to use page2rss.com.

Page2RSS does what you might expect from the name, and makes a feed out of any site. This can then be used with IFTTT's Feed action to notify you when it changes.

Sadly this still isn't quite real time, and I suspect with a different choice of third party site that could be improved upon (although how happy that would make rightmove, I don't know..). But this served my needs well, all without having to make any additional accounts

[justfortheshow]

I don't like being constantly reminded that I'm not as smart as everyone else....

It is taking me waaaaay too long to do this assignment. It takes me waaay too long to do any assignments. It sucks because I actually am a nerd and I like learning and reading about these subjects. But it's all become tedious and robotic when deadlines are involved. And everyone not only seems to be learning, but they're doing it so much more quickly than I am. When did I become so slow? When did I begin to fall behind? There's something missing up there.

Forgive the rant. Had to let it out.