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2026
  • Scrapers vs. Sites That Don't Want to Be Scraped
    Comparing agent-browser, Camoufox, and Scrapling to find the best stealth scraper for AI agents.
2025
  • Browsing Inside a Browser: How Web Proxies Work
    Service workers, URL rewriting, and the Scramjet generation. An explainer on browser-based web proxies, how they differ from traditional proxies, and where they break.
2024
  • Your Own OAuth Server, No Servers Required
    Deploying Ory Hydra on Google Cloud Run for a fully serverless, OpenID Connect-certified OAuth 2.0 server.
  • What If Your Cloud Provider Literally Could Not Read Your Files?
    How non-custodial encryption lets you store data with any provider while keeping the keys to yourself.
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