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dev.to > kahenda > 2-bugs-that-made-me-question-my-life-choices-and-what-they-actually-were-12jc

2 Bugs That Made Me Question My Life Choices (And What They Actually Were)

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (296+ words) The Ant That Refused to Take the Shortest Path Building lem-in, my ant colony pathfinding project. The algorithm kept sending ants down a longer route when a shorter one clearly existed. I spent hours convinced my BFS logic was fundamentally…...

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dev.to > zyte > stop-writing-messy-spiders-the-professional-way-with-scrapy-poet-6og

Stop Writing Messy Spiders. The Professional Way with Scrapy-Poet

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (583+ words) If you were building a web app, you wouldn't cram your database queries and business logic into your API routes. That would be a maintenance nightmare. So why do we accept this in our Scrapy projects? We build massive, unwieldy…...