Chris Mendez - Chris Mendez

Scraping web pages with NickJS

Published May 04, 2020 - 1 min read

How to transition from PhantomJS and CasperJS to NickJS for headless browsing.

Scraping web pages with ScrapingBee

Published May 02, 2020 - 2 min read

PhantomJS is dead, how to scrape web pages through ScrapingBee.

Hello FinTech!

Published April 30, 2020 - 4 min read

Finance textbooks are often too academic or dense to be useful. Here are a few key finance terms explained in "plain English".

Getting started with Nuxt.js

Published April 13, 2020 - 2 min read

How to build your first web application using Nuxt.js.

How to Simultaneously Unrar Multiple Files at Once into Individual Folders

Published April 11, 2020 - 1 min read

Suppose you have a dozen or so *.rar files that you would like to unzip at the same time. But for each file, you want to create a folder with the same name and extract the files into that specific folder. Here are the short-hand and long-hand versions. Getting StartedFirstly,

Install Octave on a Mac using Homebrew for Machine Learning Prototyping

Published March 10, 2020 - 1 min read

How to install Octave environment using Homebrew for Machine Learning prototyping.

Find your files on Mac

Published December 25, 2019 - 2 min read

I love Spotlight on Mac but wanted to explore a few other tools. Here are a few of my favorites. DocFetcherI really like DocFetcher. It's a Java program that runs on all Operating Systems and you can even put it on a USB with an index that leads to other

Deploying Rails 5.x on AWS ElasticBeanstalk using AWS CodeCommit

Published December 01, 2019 - 5 min read

How to deploy your Rails app on ElasticBeanstalk (including S3 buckets, security groups, load balancers, auto-scalling groups and more) using CodeCommit.

Managing Python Packages Through Virtual Environments

Published October 30, 2019 - 3 min read

How to set up a Python project and manage its dependencies using virtual environments.