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How I spent days debugging a silent Discord bot, only to discover the application itself was corrupted—and Discord gave zero indication anything was wrong.

Your translations work, but users have to dig through browser settings to change languages. Let's build a dropdown that remembers their choice with cookies.

You set up localization, created the .resx files, it compiled... and then nothing happened. Here's why .NET silently ignores your translations and how to fix it.

Your test suite exists. It passes. But how much of your code does it actually test? Here's how to set up Codecov and stop living in denial.

I built a Discord bot to summarize hundreds of messages using OpenAI - then discovered that all Discord bots run as a single instance serving every server. Here's the journey.

I asked two AIs to help debug performance issues. One maintained context and found the root cause. The other kept saying 'likely your code does this' while looking at the actual code.

A reusable task configuration for building, running, testing, and deploying ASP.NET projects with Tailwind CSS.