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Next.js Bot Detection: Block AI Crawlers at the Edge
37+ min ago (1057+ words) Your Vercel usage graph is climbing and your logs are full of names you did not invite: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bytespider. They hammer your App Router pages and quietly run up your bandwidth and compute bill. The reflex is a…...
🤖 How Backend Engineers Are Building AI-Powered Applications in 2026
47+ min ago (116+ words) AI isn’t only about training models. For backend engineers, the real challenge is building reliable systems around AI. A typical AI-powered backend might look like: 🌐 Client → sends request ⚙️ Backend API → validates & processes it 🤖 LLM → generates the response 🗄️ Database → stores application…...
Building NICHLYST: The 14-Day Clock, the "Web App" Illusion, and Hardening the Archive
1+ hour, 6+ min ago (463+ words) On September 10th, at 10:19 AM, the system finally turned green. Twelve confirmed, opt-in testers. The threshold is met. The 14-day Google Play closed testing clock is officially locked. For the next two weeks, NICHLYST sits in a state of anabiosis. My…...
Polar sandbox vs live webhooks — why checkout works and entitlements do not
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (794+ words) Checkout can succeed and your app can still treat the buyer as a free user. On Polar that usually means the webhook landed in the wrong world — sandbox secret on a live deploy, production endpoint still pointed at last night’s…...
My release smoke test passed on the message that says it failed
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (607+ words) Here is the step, as it had been since the first release: Read the last line on its own. It passes when the released version appears anywhere in the output. Now read what npm prints when the version is not…...
Why I Built cost-guard-mcp: Pre-Flight Cost Guardrails for AI Agents Talking to Data Warehouses
1+ hour, 4+ min ago (747+ words) The query that shouldn't have run Give an AI agent a warehouse MCP server and, sooner or... Tagged with aiengineering, mcp, python, opensource....
How to Obfuscate a.NET App in GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
1+ hour, 2+ min ago (359+ words) This guide shows the full workflow with Nebula.NET, but the pattern applies to any CLI-based.NET obfuscator..NET compiles to IL, which decompiles back to near-original C# in seconds (try it in ILSpy). Obfuscation rewrites that IL so it's…...
My duplicate-code detector flagged the check I had just written. I deleted the duplication, not the rule.
56+ min ago (415+ words) A detector in my build looks for repeated code shapes. It caught a ten-line window shared between two checks that I had written deliberately, days apart, believing them to be different. They were not different. They were the same shape…...
Best.NET Obfuscators in 2026: Top 5 Comparison
1+ hour, 2+ min ago (285+ words) There's a rite of passage for anyone who sells.NET software. One afternoon you drop your own DLL... Tagged with dotnet, csharp, security, comparison....
Redis Rate Limits for LLM API Keys and Tenant Quotas
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (822+ words) This post was created with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy before publishing. Rate limiting a normal API protects your servers. Rate limiting an LLM API protects your bank account. The difference matters, because it changes what you are counting…...