Scraping Flats for Fun and Profit

Some time ago I’ve published GenevaFlats but I’ve never took the time to write about how I came to build it in the first place. Today I’m fixing that. The Motivation When I first arrived in the region, I was just as frustrated as everyone else. I remember sharing my lamentations over lunch with a friend when he offered this enlightening anecdote: He was having coffee and scanning the newspaper1 for apartments when, after venting his frustrations to the waiter, the server dispensed this pearl of wisdom… ...

January 20, 2024

Aesop's Homelab

Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are. William Meek “Squire Bill” Widener The Fox and the Cat Aesop’s fox got so distracted by the many plans he had to escape from the hounds that he forgot the crucial point of actually doing something about it, and got caught. I’ve never found myself running away from dogs but much like the fox I often find myself thinking more about a project than actually doing it. ...

April 15, 2022