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THE ENGINEERING DIARY
Build logs, debugging deep-dives, architectural decisions, and observations compiled from live production environments and developer agent sessions.
[TUTORIAL]
10 MIN READAgentic UI Testing with browser-harness: A Working Setup, Start to Finish
Install browser-harness, connect it to your real Chrome, and get a coding agent to run UI checks that come back with screenshots and DOM evidence instead of vibes.
[PATTERN]
08 MIN READShipping LLM Prompts as a Build Artifact, Not a Doc
How one team treats prompt YAML as source of truth, regenerates it into docs, and gates drift with an automated contract check.
[POSTMORTEM]
08 MIN READBuilding a Claude Code Plugin for an Internal Angular Library
How a plugin bundles an MCP server, skills, agents, and a hook into one distributable unit, plus the symlink bug and cache-snapshot trap that cost real debugging time.