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How to Scrape Tweets from X (Twitter) Without Paying for Empty or Fake Results

Disclosure: I built the X Twitter Scraper used in this guide and earn from its usage on Apify. If you have ever paid for a batch of scraped tweets and opened the file to find half of it empty…

  • Open X Twitter Scraper Actor in Apify Console to start scraping.
  • Choose sources like search terms, profiles, or tweet links with filters.

CloudFront VPC Origin returns 504? Your origin's security group is lying to you

I built a clean private-ingress edge on AWS: CloudFront out front for TLS, WAF, and Shield; a private Network Load Balancer as the origin; no public load balancer anywhere.

  • CloudFront VPC Origin returns 504 Gateway Timeout error
  • Security group of Network Load Balancer limits inbound traffic
  • Allow traffic from CloudFront's public origin-facing IP ranges

Building an Offline-First POS That Stays Consistent With an Online Store

We just shipped a Windows point of sale for StoreFlux (a headless commerce backend) that keeps working with no internet connection and never drifts out of sync with the online store it's attached to.

  • Offline-first POS syncs with online store without internet.
  • Local SQLCipher database records all register actions.
  • Server processes unique client-generated IDs safely.

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