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Two Actors, one agent, and the three ways my chain broke

A client asked a question that sounds simple: which sellers on the marketplaces are risky to buy from? Answering it takes two steps.

• Two actors processed different task parts, but agent failed to connect them properly
• First actor scraped sellers with tax ID, legal name, store URL; second actor calculated risk scores
• Data format mismatch, empty strings as input caused incorrect risk scores and chain failure

2026-09-02 ·dev.to

Revisiting Joel's Test - exe.dev blog

• Joel Spolsky's 12-step test remains relevant despite tech advancements
• Shelley Test replaces human code review with LLM adversarial reviews
• Athena agentic bot supervises continuous deployments and logs

2026-09-02 ·blog.exe.dev

The last mile of a scraper is a human copying a spreadsheet

I scrape product cards from online stores for a content bank with an Actor of my own . The Actor finishes, the dataset fills up, and then a person exports it, checks it, and pastes it into the tool…

• Last mile of scraper performed manually by human
• Apify MCP connectors aim to eliminate manual process
• Connector enables Actor to communicate with third-party services

2026-09-02 ·dev.to

CodeScanner.scan(): Barcode Scanning Without Rebuilding the Camera Pipeline

The new vision analyzers could read barcodes, faces, poses, text, documents, and segmentation masks. Scanning one QR code still meant opening a camera, configuring a session, listening for frames…

• Codename One framework simplifies native app development across platforms
• CodeScanner.scan() handles entire barcode scanning process
• VisionCameraView manages camera access and analysis results

2026-09-02 ·dev.to