Notes / esedark

Notes from the work.

Architecture, automation, AI and product decisions. Technical detail with the business still in view.

Instagram & Proxies

Why proxy choices for Instagram Ads and Instagram automation diverge once you care about stability and traceability.

Scraping & Leads

Agree what a contact sample must prove before commissioning extraction: provenance, explicit states, review and maintenance.

Scraping & Leads

How to structure production scraping with queues, worker isolation and retries that do not create chaos.

Scraping & Leads

Choose data delivery around the receiving workflow, agree a sample and verify acceptance before commissioning an integration.

Costs and decisions

How I scope and compare software and automation quotes: testable deliverables, dependencies, maintenance and the decisions to make before hiring.

Scraping & Leads

How to evaluate lead deduplication: entity identity, false matches, human review and acceptance criteria for a CRM integration.

Instagram & Proxies

When mobile proxies help Instagram operations and when they only add cost and confusion.

CTO and software planning

A decision record to separate evidence from assumptions, verify dependencies and decide whether a software project is ready for development.

Infra & DevOps

Choose process supervision and verify startup, shutdown and deployment behavior before changing your infrastructure.

Infra & DevOps

Decide what application monitoring should cover, how to verify an alert reaches its owner and what ongoing operation requires.

Social Bots & Automation

How account farms, social agents and automation systems help brands listen, act and sell without becoming spam.

Applied AI

A work log and a hypothetical example for separating hours released, usable capacity and cash savings when evaluating AI automation.

Your next move

Tell me what needs to work better.

A product idea, a manual process or a system you have outgrown. Start with the problem; we can figure out the technology.