Tag: Automation tools
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Tracking Visits During Maintenance: An Edge-First Cloudflare Architecture
How to keep an Angular SPA and CMS-backed website communicative during downtime – and measure maintenance traffic without relying on the systems currently being repaired. Planned maintenance is one of the few situations in which a website needs to remain available precisely when its primary application cannot be trusted. The CMS may be deploying, the…
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How I Protected Downloadable Audiobook MP3s with AI Watermarking
The Problem: Not Everyone Streams My daughter and I create a Polish children’s audiobook series — Zwierzęta Detektywi (Animal Detectives). We publish episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and that works great for most families. Then one of our customers asked: “Can I get the MP3 files? My kid uses an old MP3 player —…
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Understand Any AWS Environment with AI and the AWS CLI
You inherited an AWS account and nobody can tell you how the pieces fit together. Here is a fast, read-only workflow that pairs the AWS CLI with an AI assistant to map compute, networking and routing —* and turn the raw JSON into clean architecture diagrams. 1. Why CLI + AI beats clicking around the console The…
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How to Track QR Campaigns Before Cookie Consent with Cloudflare Workers and GA4 Measurement Protocol
One of the most challenging problems in web analytics today is measuring campaign traffic before a visitor accepts cookies. In an opt-in setup with tools like OneTrust or CookieYes, Google Tag Manager and GA4 often cannot record campaign events until consent is granted, which creates a blind spot exactly where marketers most want visibility. Why…
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Lion Roars Every Time Someone Buys My Book (WooCommerce → Twilio SMS Notification
A story about email push notifications lying to you, and why SMS saved the day. The Goal: A Lion Roar for Every Order I publish children’s audiobooks. One of the main characters in our book series is a lion — bold, brave, and impossible to ignore. The series is a family project: my daughter is…
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Zero-Touch QA: Automating Playwright Test Generation with Copilot Skills and MCP
Writing robust end-to-end tests for a live, multi-page application you do not own is notoriously difficult. Without access to local development environments, Storybook components, or internal feature flags, you are left manually inspecting the DOM to figure out how things work. However, the testing landscape is shifting rapidly. By leveraging GitHub Copilot’s extensible architecture, I…
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Automatic Company Data Retrieval by Tax ID – Integration with Polish Registries
Filling out order forms is one of the most frustrating aspects of online shopping. Customers must manually enter company details: name, address, postal code, city. If there’s an error – the invoice may be incorrect. Can this be simplified? It turns out, yes. Polish public registries provide APIs that allow automatic retrieval of company data…
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The Golden Hammer Syndrome: Why We Need Less AI and More Engineering
Stop burning GPU cycles to check if a number is even. A guide to regaining our technical sanity. It is an old adage in the toolbox of life: “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” In 2026, that hammer is the Large Language Model (LLM), and we are currently smashing…
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How I Used Comet Browser to Bulk Update Links in My Old Facebook Posts – and What I Learned
Migrating a domain is a pivotal moment for any online project. Recently, I moved my content fromhttps://drtfefbxsc.cfolks.pl/sniadanioweinspiracje/index.php/recipe/to a fresh, user-friendly domain:https://breakfasttips.com/recipe/ One thing became immediately clear: my Facebook page was littered with old recipe links pointing to the legacy domain. For branding, SEO, and user experience, those links needed updating—and fast. The Challenge: No Facebook…
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The Fast Track to Failure? How to Quickly Verify AI-Generated Applications – Checklist
As a lead software engineer, I’ve recently encountered a troubling trend. Many developers, including some who teach AI coding workshops, are fascinated by the ability to create applications with a single prompt. Like most “vibe coders,” they’ve never built, deployed, or maintained production applications independently—especially in large, distributed ecosystems with international, ever-changing teams and requirements.…
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From Buzzword to Business Value: Using AI Responsibly in Real Projects
How a bedtime story turned into a published book thanks to a thoughtful AI-driven workflow AI is no longer an emerging technology—it’s everywhere. The market is saturated with tools and platforms promising to do everything from writing your code to generating images, music, or complete applications. But here’s a hard truth that many teams (and…
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Simplifying Web Testing with AI: Introducing the AI Test Script Generator
The Testing Challenge As a team lead and software engineer, I’ve often encountered a recurring challenge in my projects: how to effectively test user journeys on websites. This challenge becomes particularly pronounced in companies without specialized QA teams, where testing responsibilities fall on developers who may not have extensive testing expertise. Let’s face it – many…