It's been a few months since I have done a tech/hacking post. I figured it might be worthwhile to do a quick one on the recent web scraping work that I did.
Vox Charta, a web application that allowed astronomers to vote and discuss about the latest manuscripts made available on arXiv, was conceived in 2009 by James Guillochon. It was used by thousands of astronomers internationally as there was no other options available for several years.
Overleaf is an environment for researchers to collaboratively write their manuscripts and papers with $\LaTeX$. It is an amazing tool, but I have found that it has its limitations. For example, if you edit within their web UI, the changes may show up as separate commits in their History page. One of the benefits of Overleaf is that it is integrated with git. This is great as you can maintain version control and document changes to your collaborators.