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Scraping 150k+ Instagram followers reliably: batching, resume-on-error, and enrichment

I run a small AI/automation consultancy in Brazil, and a recent lead-research project needed the full follower list of a public Instagram profile — about 153,000 followers — plus enrichment (bio…

  • Scraped 150k+ Instagram followers in batches of 10,000
  • Resumed extraction on error, logged failures and sent email reports
  • Enriched profiles with enrichment data, flagged commercial accounts

Jumia Product Performance and Analysis.

Introduction Jumia is one of Africa's leading e-commerce platform that manages millions of transcations with a diverse products from electronics,beauty products and many more…

  • Jumia manages millions of transactions across electronics and beauty products.
  • Dataset contains inconsistencies and errors requiring cleaning and preparation.
  • Dashboard created using Excel to display KPIs and product performance insights.

Shopify's agent-commerce category filter doesn't filter. We checked 190 stores.

Since 2026 every Shopify storefront answers an agent-commerce endpoint at POST /api/ucp/mcp , advertised at GET /.well-known/ucp . Merchants did not turn it on and it is not in their admin.

  • Shopify's agent-commerce category filter fails to filter results.
  • Tested across 190 Shopify storefronts.
  • Sending category identifier in request schema fixes the issue.

Amparo: applying for food aid without reading a single word

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built Every year an enormous amount of aid money goes unclaimed.

  • Project aims to remove barrier of unclaimed aid money
  • Voice interface accepts answers in applicant's own words and language
  • Uses Google Gemini and ElevenLabs for interview and voice

Whisper.cpp Vulkan on Arch: A Detective Story With No Crime

A six-week journey through source builds, CI pipelines, and one package pacman never mentioned. TL;DR: pacman -S whisper-cpp ggml-vulkan . That's it. That's the whole answer.

  • Author investigates six-week mystery of whisper.cpp CPU usage
  • Vulkan support missing in official extra/whisper-cpp package
  • Custom PKGBUILD created for Vulkan-enabled whisper-cpp

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