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
PM2, Supervisor or systemd: how to keep bots running in production
PM2, Supervisor and systemd can restart bot processes, but stability depends on lifecycle design, durable state and useful monitoring.
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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