Christopher Holloway
Christopher Holloway is the founder and director of Progressive Robot, a UK-based technology company. A full-stack engineer with more than two decades of experience, he works across PHP development, ecommerce, Linux infrastructure, technical SEO and AI automation, and writes here on technology, AI, hardware and software.
Stabilizing Automated Data Extraction Pipelines
Building reliable web scraping infrastructure requires addressing sophisticat...
Semantic Web Scraping: Replacing Brittle Selectors
AI-powered web scraping replaces brittle selectors with semantic extraction, ...
Why Faster AI Widens the Gap for Non-Technical Creators
Artificial intelligence generation has outpaced the deployment capabilities a...
Building an Automated Competitor Monitoring Pipeline
Automated competitor monitoring pipelines transform manual price tracking int...
Vibe Coding: The Shift From Syntax to Supervision in...
Vibe coding represents a paradigm shift in software engineering where develop...
Understanding Azure Monitor Health Model Architectur...
Modern cloud observability demands structured health models that synthesize d...
An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of produc...
Zoe Kleinman / BBC: An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product wh...
Durable Workflows on Postgres: Architecture and Trad...
Durable execution ensures multi-step workflows complete exactly once despite ...
Frontend Data Fetching: Primitives vs Strategy Hooks
Frontend data management continues to evolve as engineering teams evaluate ar...
Meta Deploys Creator Assistant for Facebook Content ...
Meta has launched Creator Assistant, a platform-native AI tool designed to he...
Meta Quietly Embeds Facial Recognition in Smart Glas...
Meta Platforms Inc. faces renewed privacy concerns after reports indicated th...
Why Profile Picture Platforms Fail Users and How to ...
Modern profile picture platforms frequently prioritize content volume over us...
Balancing Speed, Cost, and Accuracy in AI Documentat...
Automating pull request descriptions requires balancing speed, cost, and accu...
Automating Frontend Testing with GitHub Actions to E...
Automating frontend validation through GitHub Actions eliminates late-night e...
Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments...
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powe...
Automating Unit Test Generation With Large Language ...
Automating unit test generation through large language models significantly r...