The expense bot and the permission turnstile
A small Telegram expense bot, a Google Sheet, and the operational truth that most useful automation eventually has to pass through a permissions screen.
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#Software
Pragmatic engineering, tradeoffs, product code, and decisions that survive contact with reality.
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Debugging Telegram webhooks on Google Apps Script
A practical checklist for a Telegram bot that writes to Google Sheets through Apps Script, including the retry, spreadsheet, and 302 traps.
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The dataset that seemed to know too much
A sharper note about the moment an AI answer feels impressive for the wrong reason.
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Running a 26B MoE model on an 8GB GPU
A practical note from a real homelab experiment: what mattered when running a 26B MoE model on an RTX 2070 SUPER with 8GB of VRAM.
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The boring stack wins
A boring technology stack helps small teams ship, debug, and maintain software by saving attention for the product instead of the plumbing.