Late Night Linux Late Night Linux – Episode 309
Nov 25, 2024
Dive into the fascinating world of laptop battery life as different desktop environments like Xfce and GNOME are compared. Explore web scraping with tools like PUP and reminisce about retro gaming with a web-based IDE. Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2 while simultaneously dissecting the modern impact of smart Rubik's cubes. Delve into unconventional cube designs and evaluate battery performance on a framework laptop while discussing open-source energy measurement projects. Discover the intriguing balance between performance and efficiency in Linux.
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PUP for HTML Scraping
- Use PUP to parse HTML and extract specific information like JQ does for JSON.
- Scrape websites and select elements via CSS to output desired data.
Octopus Energy Scraping
- Will used PUP to scrape information from the Octopus Energy website because their API lacked some data.
- He found PUP easier and faster than Beautiful Soup, his usual scraping tool.
8-bit Workshop IDE
- Graham discovered 8-bit Workshop, a web-based IDE for developing on retro platforms.
- It offers a unified interface with integrated emulators and supports various systems like Commodore 64 and Atari 2600.
