Howth Technology Factory

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Dublin, Ireland Joined on Jul 20, 2026 https://howthtechnologyfactory.pro/

Aug 23

Daily batch rescan vs event-driven rescan: an architecture choice

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Aug 22

How fast a sanctions list update actually reaches your API call

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Aug 21

Exact match vs fuzzy match, worked examples

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Aug 20

What our sandbox test suite actually covers before go-live

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Aug 19

Stop collapsing match confidence into a boolean

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Aug 18

Sanctions screening latency, benchmarked

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Aug 17

Handling a sanctions API timeout without guessing

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Aug 16

PDF Conversion Formats Compared: When to Use Image, DOCX, or Flattened Output

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Aug 16

What counts as a "successful" sanctions screening API call

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Aug 16

I Wrapped a PDF API in a CLI Tool So I'd Never Touch the Docs Again

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Aug 15

Docker, Queues, and PDFs: Containerizing a Document Pipeline That Doesn't Fall Over

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Aug 14

From LangChain Tool to Production: Wiring a PDF API into an Agent Framework

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Aug 13

Batch-Processing 10,000 PDFs a Night: Notes on Concurrency and Rate Limits

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Aug 12

Watermarking PDFs for Compliance: A Practical Walkthrough for SaaS Teams

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Aug 11

Testing PDF Pipelines: How I Write Assertions for Files I Can't Just Diff

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Aug 10

Idempotency Keys for PDF Jobs: Why Retrying an API Call Shouldn't Duplicate Your Output

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Aug 9

PDF Processing in a Serverless Function: Fitting It Into a 10-Second Timeout

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Aug 8

Building a Slack Bot That Merges and Compresses PDFs on Command

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Aug 7

Data Quality Is Your Greatest Defence Against Weak Sanctions Screening

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Aug 6

Handling Sanctions Matches the Right Way: From Alert to Resolution

#webdev #productivity #security #api

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Aug 5

Audit-Ready by Design: Building Traceable Sanctions Screening Workflows

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Aug 4

Sanctions Screening Across Industries: One Check, Different Workflows

#news #webdev #devops #agents

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Aug 3

Ongoing Sanctions Monitoring: Risk Does Not Stand Still

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Aug 2

Build Sanctions Screening Into Your Application Without Hiding the Decision

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Aug 1

Reduce False Positives Without Increasing Sanctions Risk

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Jul 31

Understand the Data Behind Sanctions Screening

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Jul 30

From Manual Checks to Repeatable Sanctions Screening

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Jul 29

Stop Risk Before It Becomes a Problem: Designing Sanctions Checks Into Onboarding

#ai #finance #accountant #webdev

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Jul 28

Designing VAT Validation That Fails Safely: A Three-State VIES Workflow

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Jul 28

Model VIES VAT validation with three states, not true/false

#typescript #webdev #api #testing

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Jul 26

How to create an llms.txt file for your website (by hand or in 30 seconds)

#ai #seo #llmstxt #webdev

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Jul 24

BuiltWith vs Wappalyzer vs pay-per-use: the 2026 economics of tech stack detection published

#webdev #seo #api

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Jul 24

The PDF Function Is the Easy Part: Designing a Reliable Document Step

#automation #programming #architecture #mcp

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Jul 22

Bulk-validating EU VAT numbers

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Jul 20

We scored major websites on AI readiness. A national newspaper got 33/100.

#ai #seo #marketing #llmstxt

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Daily batch rescan vs event-driven rescan: an architecture choice

How fast a sanctions list update actually reaches your API call

Exact match vs fuzzy match, worked examples

What our sandbox test suite actually covers before go-live

Stop collapsing match confidence into a boolean

Sanctions screening latency, benchmarked

Handling a sanctions API timeout without guessing

PDF Conversion Formats Compared: When to Use Image, DOCX, or Flattened Output

What counts as a "successful" sanctions screening API call

I Wrapped a PDF API in a CLI Tool So I'd Never Touch the Docs Again

Docker, Queues, and PDFs: Containerizing a Document Pipeline That Doesn't Fall Over

From LangChain Tool to Production: Wiring a PDF API into an Agent Framework

Batch-Processing 10,000 PDFs a Night: Notes on Concurrency and Rate Limits

Watermarking PDFs for Compliance: A Practical Walkthrough for SaaS Teams

Testing PDF Pipelines: How I Write Assertions for Files I Can't Just Diff

Idempotency Keys for PDF Jobs: Why Retrying an API Call Shouldn't Duplicate Your Output

PDF Processing in a Serverless Function: Fitting It Into a 10-Second Timeout

Building a Slack Bot That Merges and Compresses PDFs on Command

Data Quality Is Your Greatest Defence Against Weak Sanctions Screening

Handling Sanctions Matches the Right Way: From Alert to Resolution

Audit-Ready by Design: Building Traceable Sanctions Screening Workflows

Sanctions Screening Across Industries: One Check, Different Workflows

Ongoing Sanctions Monitoring: Risk Does Not Stand Still

Build Sanctions Screening Into Your Application Without Hiding the Decision

Reduce False Positives Without Increasing Sanctions Risk

Understand the Data Behind Sanctions Screening

From Manual Checks to Repeatable Sanctions Screening

Stop Risk Before It Becomes a Problem: Designing Sanctions Checks Into Onboarding

Designing VAT Validation That Fails Safely: A Three-State VIES Workflow

Model VIES VAT validation with three states, not true/false

How to create an llms.txt file for your website (by hand or in 30 seconds)

BuiltWith vs Wappalyzer vs pay-per-use: the 2026 economics of tech stack detection published

The PDF Function Is the Easy Part: Designing a Reliable Document Step

Bulk-validating EU VAT numbers

We scored major websites on AI readiness. A national newspaper got 33/100.