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Jan 22, 2026·4 min read

Two Slack Commands That Cut My Weekly IT Request Processing by 3 Hours

Every access request was a Slack DM, then a form, then manual approval routing, then a Jira ticket. I collapsed that into one slash command.

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Dec 18, 2025·5 min read

Building OEM Hunter, Part 3: The Part Number Normalization Problem Nobody Warns You About

After getting 14 plugins returning data, I had a new problem: the same part appeared in four different formats across sources. Exact matching missed 60% of cross-source results. Here's how I fixed it.

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Dec 2, 2025·4 min read

Building OEM Hunter, Part 2: Beating Automotive WAF Protection with Camoufox

Standard scrapers get blocked immediately on most dealer sites. Here's the fingerprinting problem, why Playwright alone doesn't solve it, and how Camoufox changed everything.

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Nov 15, 2025·5 min read

Building OEM Hunter, Part 1: Why Automotive Parts Sites Are a Mess (and How I Architected Around It)

Finding OEM parts across 18+ supplier sources is entirely manual. I decided to build a scraper orchestrator. Here's the architecture I landed on and why the naive approach doesn't work.

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Nov 1, 2025·4 min read

Apple Silicon Has a Wi-Fi Problem. I Fixed It with 300 Lines of Python.

My M1 MacBook would drop Wi-Fi or lose DNS silently, 3–4 times a week. The fix was always the same four steps. So I automated them.

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Oct 18, 2025·4 min read

The Audit That Found $40k in Wasted SaaS Spend — and Took 45 Minutes

Most IT teams track SaaS in spreadsheets and audit it once a quarter. By then the damage is done. Here's the tool I built to surface waste continuously.

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Oct 4, 2025·4 min read

30 IT Tickets in 5 Seconds: How I Replaced Manual Helpdesk Triage with Claude

Manual triage was costing my team 2–5 minutes per ticket, every ticket, every day. Here's the Streamlit app that killed that workflow.

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