Tools
What I reach for, and why. Nothing is here because it is trendy. Each one is something I use or have decided to use, and the line under it says which.
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Building
the agent that writes and runs the scripts, the site and my own working directives
this is how I work: every script, directive and page here was built with it
the framework this site is built with
this site: no JavaScript of my own beyond the theme switch (the host adds one small script on the contact page to hide the address from spam robots)
the styling for this site
this site: every colour and size comes from one token file, no component library
browser automation for the launch checklist on this site
installed for the site check on 6 Sep, no verdict yet
hosting for client sites
my default, decided 6 Sep 2026, this site goes there next, no verdict from a live site yet
the vault every plan and journal here lives in
where everything is written down first
Scraping and data
scraping local business listings without a paid API
collected 50 restaurant leads in Cluj-Napoca on 6 Sep, phones for 49 and emails for 25, about six minutes, no paid API. One gotcha: cookies go on the session constructor, not on fetch, or every field comes back empty
the earlier source for the same leads
worked, but costs per run. I moved off it once Scrapling did the same job for free
where scraped leads and the bar cost tool land
a spreadsheet the client already knows how to open beats a dashboard they have to learn. It is where my deliverables land
Voice and phone
the English voice layer behind the phone receptionist
wired to real calendar booking; tested with web calls and direct webhook calls; no phone number attached to it yet
the Romanian voice layer behind the phone receptionist
wired to real calendar booking; took one real inbound call on 28 Aug 2026, which exposed a prompt bug, now fixed and pinned by a test
hosts the phone receptionist's webhooks and an hourly cron
deployed and running for those two jobs