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Evaluating a Scraping API on Engineering Criteria, Not Marketing Claims: Oxylabs and Thordata, Rubric-Style

Vendor evaluations drift to whichever features get demos, and scraping APIs are mostly un-demoable — their quality shows up as a distribution curve on your own targets, three weeks in.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-16

20 min read

Does Your Product Work in São Paulo? A Geo-Testing Lab Notebook, With Providers Compared

Teams ship localized products from a laptop in a headquarters timezone and discover localization in production

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-16

20 min read

Training a Moderation Model on Videos That Don't Look Like the Internet: A Trust & Safety Field Manual

Content-moderation models fail on exactly the content that makes them necessary — the rare, evolving, regionally specific stuff.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-16

20 min read

Three Model Evaluations That Lied: Case Files on Multimodal Benchmark Contamination

A multimodal model's evaluation score is only as honest as its test data — and the most common failure isn't cheating or leakage from training.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-16

20 min read

A Real Estate Data RFP, Annotated: What a Good Answer Actually Looks Like

Property-data collection RFPs ask the wrong questions in 90% of drafts ("How many IPs do you have?" "Can you scrape Zillow?")

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-16

20 min read

Java Scraping Timeout Fix: Proxy Optimization Guide

In Java web scraping development, request timeouts and connection instability are common obstacles that affect data collection efficiency

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mia

2026-09-15

8 min read

Your AI Agent Reads Text Beautifully. It's Blind to Everything Else.

Enterprise AI agents retrieve from a corpus that is mostly text, while the knowledge they're asked about — products, packaging, screenshots, video — is mostly not text.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

Every CAPTCHA Your Fare Aggregator Meets Costs You Money: A Travel Data Team's Field Notes

Travel meta-search lives and dies on fare freshness.

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

Your Vision Model Aced the Benchmark and Failed the Shelf: Closing the Gap With Multimodal Datasets

Computer vision models that perform brilliantly on academic benchmarks routinely fail on real retail shelves

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Xyla Huxley

2026-09-11

20 min read

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