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AutomationThe Real Lesson of Automating Your Job Search (It’s Not About the Jobs)
When a cloud engineer open-sourced a Python pipeline that scrapes, filters, and ranks job listings, they got more than interviews. The real takeaway is a masterclass in selfish automation—and why the best tools are the ones you build for yourself.
Jul 24, 2026 · 9 min
AutomationStop Building APIs for Your AI Agents. Pass Them a File.
FableCut's architecture flips AI tool design on its head: instead of a bespoke API, the entire timeline lives in a plain JSON file. This is the pattern more agent-driven tools should steal.
Jul 14, 2026 · 8 min
AutomationBullMQ, Socket.io, and Webhooks Done Right: What NodeFlow Gets (and What It Could Add)
A deep-dive into NodeFlow's async job orchestration platform: the process separation, Redis-backed WebSockets, HMAC webhooks, and circuit breaker patterns that every engineer should understand—plus the security and reliability tweaks I'd add before production.
Jul 6, 2026 · 11 min
AutomationStop Mocking at the Wrong Layer: Server-Side HTTP Interception in Playwright with mockttp
How to mock outgoing server-side HTTP requests in Playwright end-to-end tests using mockttp as a per-worker forward proxy, giving you deterministic control over third-party API calls without touching your application code.
May 27, 2026 · 12 min
AutomationLambda on Lambda: Running Haskell in AWS Lambda Without Losing Your Mind
A practical deep-dive into running Haskell on AWS Lambda — why it works better than you'd expect, the cold start reality, and how to actually ship functional code to serverless infrastructure.
May 25, 2026 · 10 min
AutomationThe pkg.go.dev API Is Finally Official — Here's What You Can Actually Do With It
The Go team just shipped an official API for pkg.go.dev. Here's what it exposes, how to use it for automation, and why this matters for anyone building tooling around the Go ecosystem.
May 22, 2026 · 9 min
AutomationAI Workflow Reliability: Why Your Shiny Demo Will Break in Production
AI workflow demos look impressive until they hit production. Here's why reliability is the actual engineering challenge, and what patterns actually work to keep AI pipelines from silently failing.
May 22, 2026 · 11 min
AutomationBuilding a Cost-Aware AI Triage API: Stop Burning Money on LLM Calls You Don't Need
A practical breakdown of building an AI support triage API that doesn't hemorrhage money. Route requests intelligently, cache aggressively, and only call expensive models when you actually need them.
May 21, 2026 · 6 min- Automation
CloakBrowser: I tested it against 5 bot detectors — here's what happened
CloakBrowser claims to be a stealth Chromium that passes every bot detection test. I installed it, ran it against reCAPTCHA v3, Cloudflare Turnstile, and FingerprintJS to see if the hype is real.
May 19, 2026 · 8 min - Automation
Automating web3 workflows at scale — a sanitized case study
How I built custom tooling to manage hundreds of wallets, automate on-chain transactions, and run social bots across multiple protocols.
May 18, 2026 · 10 min