Notes / esedark

Notes from the work.

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

Infrastructure and DevOps

Prepare an Ubuntu server for production with secure access, controlled services and tested recovery.

Mobile Automation

Scale automation by controlling work, failures and capacity instead of multiplying fragile processes.

Mobile Automation

Plan a maintainable Android mobile farm with realistic capacity, power, connectivity and replacement costs.

Infra & DevOps

Configure Cloudflare conservatively for reliable DNS, HTTPS, useful caching and proportionate security.

Laravel & Backend

Run Laravel queues as a production subsystem with explicit delivery semantics, bounded jobs, safe deployments and measurable service levels.

Instagram & Proxies

Validate ownership, isolate sessions and prioritize stable, traceable operations before putting an Instagram mobile proxy into production.

CTO & Product

Keep ownership of architecture, access and delivery while freelancers provide focused execution capacity.

Laravel & Backend

Move heavy work outside HTTP with small idempotent Laravel jobs, bounded retries and observable Redis queues.

Cases & Personal Brand

Becoming a CTO means shifting from producing code to producing decisions, systems, ownership and business outcomes.

Applied AI

A decision table, a sales enquiry example and a pilot brief to assess whether a process needs an AI agent or a controlled workflow.

Instagram & Proxies

Account warming should be a conservative onboarding and observability process, never a promise to bypass Instagram controls.

Mobile Automation

Appium, Puppeteer and Selenium solve different automation problems; the correct choice starts with the real target, not tool popularity.

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.