zine from the author of beautifulSoup the web scraping utility, mourning the destruction that has come from what he created, via others using it for bad ends.
Sometimes beautiful Soup is used to do something really important, often as a piece of journalism. (My favorite example.)
But it's also been used as a tool for spamming, doxing, and other things I think are unethical.
And it's often used in ways that make rich people richer. :chart_with_upwards_trend:
Maybe not unethical per se, but not the best use of the power we have as computer programmers.
Beautiful Soup is just a tool.
It isn't good or bad on its own.
But I chose to make this tool instead of a different tool.
I choose to work on it now instead of doing other things.
