Nick's Data Journey

How I made my first internet money

I earned my first internet money. And I did it fully dressed in a regular office. Recently, someone posted my API website on Hacker News. The post stayed in third place for about 36 hours. As a result, over 30,000 visitors flooded to the site in a short period

How to find Free Public APIs for Developers and Students

At the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR), our students are engaged in creating data stories—simple websites that tell compelling narratives through data. To achieve this, they need reliable public data sources that provide real-time data, often accessed via APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). But where can one

How to Downgrade to the Flex Plan in Mailgun in 2023

Don't want to pay $35 for sending out a few dozen emails a month? Me neither! Follow this step by step guide to downgrade to Mailgun's (very well) hidden Pay-As-You-Go plan.

How to enable E-Mail Signups on Self Hosted Ghost-CMS

I installed Ghost CMS on a Digital Ocean Droplet using the (probably not yet famous) One-Click-Installation. Using this method, my blog was up and running in minutes. However, I quickly realised something was off, because no users could sign up and no emails were sent.

Installing Selenium on a Mac to get started with Web Scraping

Learn how to install Chrome, Chromedriver and Selenium on a Mac.

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