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Database Design for Bots: What Actually Works

Database Design for Bots: What Actually Works I’ll never forget the first bot I built that went live. It was […]

Alex Chen / April 30, 2026

Error Handling for Bots: Stop Ignoring the Obvious I once spent 12 hours chasing a bug in a bot that

/ April 30, 2026

Testing Frameworks: A Developer’s Honest Guide I’ve seen 7 software projects falter this month. All 7 skipped essential aspects of

/ April 29, 2026

Building Modern APIs: A Developer’s Honest Guide I’ve seen 3 production APIs crash this month. All 3 made the same

Alex Chen / April 28, 2026

Error Handling That Doesn’t Suck Let me tell you about the time I thought logging errors was “good enough.” It

/ April 28, 2026

Modern Development: A Developer’s Honest Guide I’ve seen 3 production agent deployments fail this month. All 3 made the same

Alex Chen / April 27, 2026

Error Handling in Bots: Keep It Simple, Keep It Clean I’ve been in the trenches. It’s 3 AM. Your bot

Alex Chen / April 25, 2026

Building Bot Infrastructure: A No-Nonsense Guide Building Bot Infrastructure: A No-Nonsense Guide You ever spend a Sunday trying to track

/ April 25, 2026

Prometheus Alerting: A Developer’s Honest Guide I’ve seen 3 production environments get blindsided by unexpected failures this month. All 3

/ April 24, 2026

Integrating DuckDB: A Developer’s Honest Guide I’ve seen 3 production deployments of databases fail this month. All 3 made the