Sollea AI lead developer Mohamed Amine Ben Mallessa created a solution to generate vector PDF posters and high-resolution PNG images server-side in about 3.5 seconds using Playwright and versioned HTM…
Sollea AI lead developer Mohamed Amine Ben Mallessa built a system using Playwright (Chromium headless) and versioned HTML templates to generate vector PDF and 300 dpi PNG posters server-side in about…
Sollea AI migrated its poster rendering from a fragile iframe-based Photopea solution to a server-side HTML engine using Playwright, reducing render time from 30-60 seconds to 3.5 seconds and eliminat…
Alibaba released Page Agent, an open-source JavaScript library that runs inside a webpage to control its interface using natural language commands. The agent reads the live DOM as text, compressing it…
A developer's guide reveals that bypassing anti-bot walls for production-ready web scraping requires understanding modern detection systems like browser fingerprints, TLS characteristics, IP reputatio…
A developer spent nearly $200 in GitHub Actions CI costs overnight after AI-generated test suites and unowned test fixtures caused 49 out of 168 CI runs to fail, revealing brittle test infrastructure …
Bytesalt, a new AI-powered testing tool, uses parallel AI agents to simulate real users and find bugs that Playwright scripts miss, such as UI overlaps or race conditions. The tool accepts plain Engli…
A developer argues that traditional QA roles are being automated by AI, with the developer-to-QA ratio shifting from 3:1 in 2015 to 10:1 in 2025. AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor Agent, and Kiro c…
A developer built a minimal WebMCP agent using Playwright and the Gemini API to test WebMCP tools with stronger AI models. The agent uses Playwright to control a real Chrome browser, enabling tool dis…
A developer outlines the evolution of web scraping techniques from 2020 to 2026, highlighting modern solutions such as fingerprint randomization, residential proxies, and Playwright for JavaScript ren…
A developer built a utility module to handle HTTP Basic auth credentials for WordPress maintenance tools using Playwright and urllib. The module centralizes credential extraction and encryption, preve…
Ovid, a new extension for the pi coding agent, automatically verifies features by recording terminal and browser videos of e2e tests and attaching them to pull requests. The tool runs on macOS and Lin…
A developer argues that manual test cases should be stored as YAML files in version control rather than in SaaS databases. The approach leverages AI for case generation, enables PR-based review via gi…
Simon Willison released shot-scraper 1.10 with a new video command that records browser sessions as WebM videos from YAML storyboards, a feature that had been blocked for two years until Playwright 1.…
A developer with ADHD built an AI agent called 'hex' to help manage executive dysfunction by integrating with calendar, Todoist, Obsidian, web search, browser, TTS, and Telegram. The agent uses memory…
Simon Willison released shot-scraper 1.10 with a new `video` command that records Playwright-driven video demos of web applications from a storyboard YAML file, enabling coding agents to produce visua…
Smoketest.sh improved its AI browser agent's reliability by switching from letting the model invent selectors to using stable accessibility tree refs. The fix uses Playwright's ariaSnapshot in AI mode…
Google's Gemini Computer Use preview enables builders to test AI agents that can operate browser, mobile, and desktop environments through tools like Playwright or Browserbase, offering a workflow for…
A developer built Innward, a B2B hospitality operating system, using Vercel v0 and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for the Hack the Zero Stack hackathon. The system includes AI-ready property management feat…
An engineer discovered that MCP server schemas consumed 42,000 tokens on a single server, causing a 37% token bill increase. After instrumenting a production agent, they found that schema overhead acc…