Alex McHugh

A few months ago I noticed something that genuinely annoyed me. I was running tiny services across my Raspberry Pi lab: webhook workers monitoring agents lightweight APIs ETL processing tasks Small, focused workloads. The kind of things a Pi is actually good at. But the infrastructure stack underneath them?

I had a test spec to run against a web app. A couple of dozen test cases covering login, navigation, data persistence, drag-and-drop interactions, and settings. The kind of document that sits in a folder and gets run manually before each release. Running it manually takes most of a morning. So I decided to automate it properly. The first attempt I built a browser agent using a local Ollama model and pointed it at the app. Gave it the test cases as a prompt and let it run.

I don’t think anyone at Konami way back in 1986 could’ve ever foreseen the impact that Castlevania would have. Combined with Metroid it spawned a whole genre of games, and without it we wouldn’t have stone-cold classics like Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Ori and the Blind Forest, or Axiom Verge. The Castlevania Anniversary Collection launched back in 2019 to give fans a taste of the early days for the series, and now it’s free to keep, giving you eight games for the grand price of nothing.