Scraping & Leads
Playwright vs Puppeteer for modern web scraping
Playwright offers broader browser automation; Puppeteer remains a focused choice for Chrome-centric scraping. Architecture matters more than the library.
Notes / esedark
Notes from the work.
Architecture, automation, AI and product decisions. Technical detail with the business still in view.
CTO & Product
How to estimate software development without fooling yourself
Reliable software estimates expose scope, assumptions and uncertainty instead of presenting an invented deadline as certainty.
CTO & Product
What a CTO really does in a small startup
A startup CTO turns business priorities into a technical system the team can deliver, operate and change without uncontrolled risk.
Applied AI
RAG for business: permissions, sources and pilot scope
How to evaluate a business RAG pilot with current sources, verifiable permissions, acceptance tests and named maintenance owners.
Mobile Automation
Production bots: recovering tasks after a restart
Distinguish a restarted process from recovered work and decide what to verify before repeating an action.
Mobile Automation
How to build an Android phone farm for automation
A reliable Android phone farm treats every device as a measurable worker with controlled access, queued jobs and explicit recovery procedures.
Laravel & Backend
Laravel Horizon vs Supervisor: what to choose and why
Horizon manages and observes Redis queues; Supervisor keeps the Horizon process alive. In production, they often solve different layers together.
CTO & Product
Fractional CTO: when to hire one and what they should deliver
Know when part-time technical leadership is enough, what a fractional CTO should own and which outcomes justify the investment.
Instagram and Proxies
Why an Instagram account gets blocked even when you use a proxy
A proxy changes network routing, but it cannot repair inconsistent sessions, excessive activity or non-compliant automation.
Instagram and Proxies
How to monitor automated Instagram accounts with logs and alerts
Build privacy-aware monitoring that detects session, workload and integration failures before they affect every authorized account.
Instagram and Proxies
Mobile proxy for Instagram: basic setup for bots and antidetect browsers
Configure mobile proxy routing as a controlled infrastructure component, with one session owner, conservative limits and auditable operation.
Scraping & Leads
Marketplace scraping: prices, leads and business opportunities
Design a stable marketplace data pipeline for pricing, lead qualification and opportunity detection without losing provenance or control.
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