Blog and case studies
Write-ups from production systems I have built or rebuilt.
Founding engineer: an AI research platform, empty repo to ten engineers
Case study about taking an AI research platform for public-market investors from an empty repository to production - the ingestion architecture, the customer-facing AI research features, and the patterns a team of around ten engineers went on to build on.
Read the article →BrowseWiz: lessons from building a production browser agent
Five engineering lessons from building BrowseWiz, a Chrome extension that browses the web and automates tasks in your tabs for you, extensible with custom tools, MCP servers, and OpenAI-compatible models.
Read the article →Case study: web rendering service
Case study about using a headless browser (no UI) to rebuild the rendering path of a web data extraction platform as a load-tested service that took over live traffic in stages.
Read the article →First Contentful Paint of the top 500 most popular websites
Measured First Contentful Paint across the 500 most popular websites with a Chrome DevTools Protocol automation script, and worked through which of them load slowly and why.
Read the article →Case study: utilitarian desktop browser application
Chromium desktop browser for Mac and Windows: rebranding, advanced extension integration, and the release and update infrastructure that kept it in sync with upstream Chromium.
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