lafond

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by lafond 22d ago
Hi! Absolutely zero political agenda here, just someone wanting to track the price of fuel. While Wikipedia isn't always to be trusted (everyone knows that), the situation has been widely described as a crisis: https://en.wi
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by lafond 22d ago
Exactly the mentality I had while building the site
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by lafond 22d ago
GasBuddy is great, no doubt! I was well familiar with them before working on the site. The issue is that their data is user reported and not directly reported from Costco's warehouse numbers - so there were a few times that the price w
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by lafond 23d ago
If only they exposed this data!! Would have been so fun adding the display to the site
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Tracking Costco gas prices(jack.bio)
129 points by lafond 24d ago|115 comments
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Scraping parking tickets in 1,300+ US cities using API vulnerability(jack.bio)
3 points by lafond 8mo ago|0 comments
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by lafond 9mo ago
It's now available! https://jack.bio/feed :-)
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by lafond 9mo ago
Great minds think alike! Tough you weren't able to find anything cool with it, but glad I wasn't the only one thinking to automate it :)
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by lafond 9mo ago
OP here - I did some pretty heavy research on this topic to make sure I'd be okay publishing this / automating anything at all. From what I looked into (and mind you, I'm a 23 year old security researcher & not a lawyer)
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Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates(jack.bio)
197 points by lafond 9mo ago|206 comments
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by lafond 1y ago
Appreciate the kind words :)
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by lafond 1y ago
Author here! After receiving the C&D, the method with which I was getting the data was removed/patched (which I'm now noticing was not mentioned in the blog post...) I did ask them if there was any thing I could to keep it up
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by lafond 1y ago
Author here - I absolutely do have more to learn about trademarks and appreciate everyones comments :) I was attempting to go for a good faith representation but (obviously) now know that wasn't the best way to go about it. As far as r
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Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House(jack.bio)
368 points by lafond 1y ago|187 comments
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Using Waffle House Data to Track Natural Disasters [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lafond 2y ago|0 comments
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Building a dangerous driving leaderboard (and getting offered a job)(jack.link)
7 points by lafond 4y ago|1 comments