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Saving Screenshots in Rails with url2png and Paperclip

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url2png is a service for generating screenshots of websites. Pass in a URL and some dimensions and it spits back a high quality png capture of that site.

Unlike some competing services I've tried, it even does a decent job handling sites that require client-side rendering.

Someone has already built …

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Simple Counters in Python (with Benchmarks)

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It's sometimes necessary to count the number of distinct occurrences in an collection. For example, counting how many times each letter occurs in a block of text. Or sorting a list by its most common member.

If I were to do this sort of counting with SQL, I would generally …