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Re:Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:04AM (#12634409)
Emacs package Chronos: https://libraries.io/emacs/chronos
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.4 on Friday August 05, 2016 @03:49AM (#12230667)
This is very true indeed. Company mode is the completion framework that rules them all. I have abandoned the older ac-alternatives in favour of this. And it's easy to write new backend source plugins too.
Re:RoboBrowser: Your friendly neighborhood web scraper on Thursday May 12, 2016 @02:12PM (#11685517)
I find WWW::Mechanize::Firefox an interesting alternative. The API is similar to WWW::Mechanize, but it remote controls an instance of Firefox using the MozRepl addon. This means scraping/interacting with pages using JS works fine.

http://search.cpan.org/~corion/WWW-Mechanize-Firefox-0.78/li...