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  1. I'm trying to rent a car for an upcoming holiday across the Atlantic Ocean. I select a Monday as the start of the trip and I get... nothing. I look at the networking console: the website is sending the date I picked as Monday midnight in my timezone... which translates to 22:00 on Sunday, meaning the rental agency is considered as closed 🤦‍♂️
    #WebDev #fail #WebFail #TimezoneFail

  2. Baby food companies in the US are apparently legally obligated to test their foods for heavy metals content and to publish the lab results on their websites. I have a colleague who is looking to collect this data, so I started looking at the Gerber website.

    Not only is the data not available in bulk, the website is *actively* hostile towards scraping. Standard cookie checks, etc... are bad enough. However, here, you have to retrieve data for each UPC/Batch pair one page at a time... and the actual lab results (for **one** UPC/Batch pair, and so about 20 integer values stored in a json blob)... come along with nearly **half-a megabyte** of interface goop.

    Ugh.

    #WebFail #API

  3. Man darf doch seine Finanztricks nicht verraten, sonst macht das noch jeder #webfail #ffdt
    de.webfail.com/5a235ddad92?tag