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Web scraping

Aug 9, 2026
August 9 - treating the listing database as a cache, not the record
Listing sites edit and pull their own pages. Homestead keeps every capture as immutable evidence and rebuilds the searchable database from it, so a delisted house keeps its record.
Jun 25, 2026
June 25 - breadcrumbs: exporting my own grocery orders, one logged-in page at a time
breadcrumbs is a free, open-source browser extension I built to read my own logged-in grocery order pages and export a clean, itemized file, every item by name, with the price, so my budget knows what the basket actually held. Two store integrations work, the Chrome version is verified end to end, and a Safari port is in progress. This is what it is, why I built it, and what's still open.