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Scraping Lewishams bin days - 7 Sep 2020 Docker  Python  Web 

Lewisham Council have what at first glance appears to be a perfectly good webpage for figuring out what day your recycling is on. Except, there’s no API, and the pages appear to have been designed for the explicit goal of breaking every option for scripting them.

Solving Docker’s ‘wait for database’ problem - 22 Nov 2019 Cloud  Docker 

One of the problems very familar to anyone doing anything with Docker is that of knowing when a service has become available. If you’re working with Kubernetes, then there are various probes that solve the problem there, but for some reason this has never been solved fully in Docker as such. They are aware it’s…