Computing Life

Build cheap compute clusters on AWS using spot instances: automated system configuration, sshfs file transfer, and GNU parallel for job distribution.

A practical guide to scraping photos from Facebook groups when Graph API doesn't expose the endpoint - using Chrome dev tools, curl with cookies, grep and awk to extract image URLs from rendered HTML.

Building a web interface for MATLAB using Node.js and Express, enabling file upload, real-time status updates, and result download—useful for collaborative research and distributed computing.

Shares experience using Amazon's Fulfilled by Amazon service to resell Black Friday deals. Documents pitfalls in the seller center interface, particularly around pricing and inventory management, with a price monitoring utility.

Using GitHub WebHook to create a self-updating Node.js web app that automatically pulls code and restarts when you push to the repository.