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What holds up after the diagram is done

Practical lessons on architecture, production engineering, and applied AI from 28 years of building software.

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What 28 Years of Software Engineering Taught Me About Architecture

The tools keep changing. The architect's responsibility does not: understand the real problem, make the important tradeoffs visible, and stay accountable until the system works in production.

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Automating Chrome with CDP instead of paid browser tools

How to control your own Chrome with the DevTools Protocol, avoid paid browser services, and keep full control of data and sessions.

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