Leonardo Contreras

@wan

Creator, owner, developer, whatever of WanBlog. I'm a 22 y/o Software Engineer, currently working @ Justia. I like computers, songs, videogames and pretty much just chilling around, that's my whole thing.

Posts by @wan

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Leonardo Contreras
4/9/2026 • web-scrapping

Scraping 101 - How to get into Scraping

Learn what web scraping is, how it works, static vs dynamic sites, common challenges, and how to get started using Scrapy with a practical shell example.

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Leonardo Contreras
4/8/2026 • aws

How was WanBlog created

WanBlog started as an experiment to build a blog from scratch. This post covers the architecture, AWS Amplify setup, AI-assisted development, and lessons learned along the way.