James Huang How to Web Scrape with Python in 5 Minutes Web Scraping Web scraping is a technique to automatically access and extract large amounts of information from a website, which can save a huge amount of time and effort. In this article, we will go t...
James Huang A world without Google & Facebook? On July 5, 2021; WSJ reported that Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have privately warned the Hong Kong government that they could stop offering their services in Hong Kong if au...
James Huang Cash flow management I had an interview earlier and talked about how to operate a company in successful manner. I conclude as "It is all about cashflow". (Back in 2020 July, we ran into cashflow issue due to over-ambitiou...
James Huang Encrypted and decentralized messaging apps will replace WhatsApp Governments and commercial companies are using chat apps to get access to your data and metadata. As a result there’s a strong call for private and decentralized messaging applications. This new evolu...
James Huang How I made my own VPN Server in 15 minutes Privacy/ Anonymous Concern People are (rightfully) freaking out about their privacy as the Government voted to let internet providers share your private data with advertisers. While it’s important to ...
James Huang Network-level ad and tracker blocking There are many ways of blocking ads and trackers from your browser. These come mainly in the form of extensions, such as the popular Ad-Blocker in Google Chrome. But there is a better, more efficient,...
James Huang Enabling DNS over HTTPS (DoH): Advantages and Best Practices First thing’s first, let’s clear up the basics. Not everyone understands exactly what DNS is and how it works.Let’s start with the DNS part: When you surf or browse the Internet or ever use any resour...
James Huang One Thousand “True” Fans In 2008, Kevin Kelly dispelled the myth with his essay titled “1,000 true fans.” It took the internet by storm. The premise of the essay was that any writer, designer, musician, artist, entrepreneur, ...
James Huang Creative entrepreneur or the Entrepreneurial creator? Creative entrepreneur or the Entrepreneurial creator? The creator economy has only formally existed for decade, but it is now firmly established. With the Internet and many platform around the world; ...
James Huang NFTs could enable studios to raise money for physical designs We're living in an age of efficiency and profitability and creativity gets not nearly valued enough, with the large social media platform, there would have been a very interesting way of creating alte...
James Huang How Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) Protect Artist/ Creator? The goal of our image search engine is to accept the query image and find all visually similar images in a given dataset....
James Huang Operation Efficiency in Watch Industry field The watch industry is in the midst of a storm. They’re battling indifferent millennials, synthetic imitations, and a struggling economy. They’re also facing stiff competition from department stores, b...