Debbie Codes

I created a Grok Bot coach for gym, nutrition, and accountability after having twins.

I created a CoachBot for nutrition and training.

Quick walk-through of how I did my full shop with Grok Bot from my phone, while out with the twins.

I need to look for a job, so I made a Job Hunt bot on Grok Bot.

I ran out of gluten-free beer on a Sunday night and asked my Grok Bot chief of staff to buy more.

Grok Bot just dropped.

I asked a Grok Bot to act as my travel agent and book flights.

Grok Bot just dropped.

Every message in an AI product is a paid model call.

Every hour, an agent opens our real app, clicks around like a tester, and files honest bug reports.

How I used Goose, an open-source AI agent, to write 55 pages of documentation, capture 59 screenshots, and build three reusable skills in just four days.

AI-led analysis of a 6% local pass rate — from tracer bullet planning to building an agent skill that transformed 38 spec files with measurable benchmarks.

A guide to Claude Code's slash commands, keyboard shortcuts, and tips for a smoother workflow in the terminal.

How I turned a single-file agent skill into a maintainable README workflow with scripts, references, and evals.

Discover how Google Gemini's Canvas lets anyone build websites, games, and interactive teaching resources for free — no coding skills required.

A beginner's guide to AI agent skills — what they are, how they work, and how to build your first skill in minutes.

How I migrated from three separate VS Code prompt files to a single portable agent skill that handles videos, podcasts, and blog posts — with browser verification and automatic PR creation built in.

How I use AI agents and MCP tools to automate publishing and updating podcasts, videos, and other content on my website.

I now have two year old twins yet I also work fulltime and manage to raise my kids with no daycare or family help.

I've been playing around with a few things recently and wanted to share a real experience that genuinely surprised me.

If you've ever needed to test an application that requires authentication, you know the pain of logging in every time or, worse, handing over your credentials to an LLM.

Have you ever wished you could automate browser tasks — like filling out a form or uploading a file — without writing a full-blown test script?

Have you ever wanted your AI assistant to access real-time data?

I have been wanting to share more content on my blog, but ironically, the process of publishing has been slowing me down.

Learn how to use Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol) to explore your website and automatically generate comprehensive tests, making web testing more efficient and thorough.

Discover how to use MCP (Model Context Protocol) and GitHub Copilot to generate Playwright tests without needing access to your application's source code, perfect for testing external sites or black-box testing scenarios.

The GitHub MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server is a powerful tool that provides seamless integration with GitHub APIs, enabling advanced automation and interaction capabilities.

Did you know Playwright has two MCP servers?

If you've ever returned to your test suite to find a sea of red, you're going to love this one.

I recently built my own AI agent.

Playwright has introduced a powerful new feature: Playwright Agents.

Creating visual documentation has always been a time-consuming process.

But this time it was different.

Learn how to build your first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from scratch.

How can we walk on that stage with more confidence, deliver a great talk and not only own the stage but also connect with the audience.

For those new to Python here is a quick beginners guide on how to setup Python and Pytest and install Playwright.

We can write a simple test to make sure that when a user clicks on an item in the menu it takes them to the correct page.

And there it is, another year gone but when you look back at all you have achieved then really there is no more to say than; what a year.

How can we locate a link click on it in our e2e tests.

My personal website was built many years ago and had collected quite a large amount of code as I used my site to play around and experiment new features of Nuxt.

My site has a color mode option to change from light theme to dark theme or sepia theme or use the system preference.

I just really liked the idea that Microsoft were willing to send people out to help others, to help them build better software with their products and I said to the two Microsoft guys, "One day I will work for Microsoft".

When a recruiter from Meta, from America, had called me, it just opened my eyes to the possibility that maybe just maybe I was actually good enough to work for the big tech companies.

When you step back from the nationality, the color, the religion the sex etc you just get a bunch of people who become a great bunch of friends.

Often we want to return a single item from an array.

The .filter() method in JavaScript creates a new array with all elements that pass the test implemented by the provided function.

To many people it might look like I have it all worked out and to be honest I do think I have a pretty good work life balance.

When working with SVG's sometimes we just put the svg into our code and think nothing more of it.

Many people keep asking me where I get my motivation from, how do I find so much time and energy to do so much?

If you ever look at the home page of my site or the intro slide of my talks you will probably think I am the biggest show off in the world.