My Take: Taming Technical Debt in Bot Backends
Hey everyone, Tom Lin here, back at botclaw.net. Hope you’re all having a solid week building, breaking, and sometimes fixing […]
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Building Modern APIs: A Developer’s Honest Guide
Building Modern APIs: A Developer’s Honest Guide I’ve seen 3 production APIs crash this month. All 3 made the same
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Error Handling in Bots: Stop Ignoring the Red Flags
Error Handling That Doesn’t Suck Let me tell you about the time I thought logging errors was “good enough.” It
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Im Securing My APIs from Malicious Bot Traffic
Hey there, bot builders and backend wranglers! Tom Lin here, back at you from botclaw.net. Today, I want to talk
Modern Development: A Developer’s Honest Guide
Modern Development: A Developer’s Honest Guide I’ve seen 3 production agent deployments fail this month. All 3 made the same
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40,000 Voices, One Breach, and a Backend Engineer’s Worst Nightmare
Picture this. You spent three weekends recording yourself reading passages aloud — product descriptions, news snippets, random sentences about weather
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Error Handling in Bots: Keep It Simple, Keep It Clean
Error Handling in Bots: Keep It Simple, Keep It Clean I’ve been in the trenches. It’s 3 AM. Your bot
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prefix: Bot Security: Protecting Your Code from Inside Out
Bot Security: Protecting Your Code from Inside Out Let me start with this—I’ve seen a bot I built spin out
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My Bots Memory Use: My April 2026 Monitoring Strategy
Hey everyone, Tom Lin here, back at botclaw.net. It’s April 2026, and I’ve been wrestling with something that’s been a
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Building Bot Infrastructure: A No-Nonsense Guide
Building Bot Infrastructure: A No-Nonsense Guide Building Bot Infrastructure: A No-Nonsense Guide You ever spend a Sunday trying to track