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Analyzing Firecrawl: How Do You Build an API That Turns the Web Into LLM-Ready Markdown?
Firecrawl is a data API that turns any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown or structured JSON. It orchestrates in TypeScript, cleans in Rust, converts to Markdown in Go, races several scrape engines in a waterfall, and drives crawls with a hand-built Postgres queue. We analyze the scrape/crawl/map/search/extract pipelines and contrast them with Browser Use as "two ways to feed the web to LLMs."
Why I Made Markdown the Source of Truth — Building a Dashboard with an AI Agent
A retrospective on building a macOS desktop app (Tauri + Rust + React) with an AI agent. The decision to make markdown files — not the database — the source of truth, the research I did before writing any code, the features I chose not to build, and the macOS permission bug that took the longest to crack. A story about judgment more than code.
agent-browser Architecture Analysis / A Browser Automation CLI for AI Agents
A deep-dive into the architecture of agent-browser, Vercel Labs' Rust-based browser automation CLI for AI agents — covering CDP-based control, the accessibility-tree Ref system, Provider abstraction, and the security model.