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Nice, I didn't know that "Git scraping" was actually a term, but I used this technique to build an API which allows fetching HMRC exchange rates in JSON format.

https://github.com/matchilling/hmrc-exchange-rates


Another #FunFact: Perl ranked number 5 in "What Languages Are Associated with the Highest Salaries Worldwide?"

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#most-loved-d...


#1 in Perl programmer happiness also. (Not part of survey.)

:)


Really like the simplicity of the project, well executed ! Good luck with it and I hope that you will resist any feature requests which will turn the product into another Mailgun/ Twilio etc.

There is an audience for every (useful) product!


- left my old job like every year or so

- commenced an MSc course focussing on AI and Machine Learning

- according to GitHub I've created 624 commits and 35 new repositories in 2017

- built Botlang (https://botlang.org/), a scripting language for conversational chatbots

- have begun blogging about this and that (https://www.matchilling.com/blog/)


Thanks for the hint, I've updated the URL to point to the new version.


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