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Notes from the workshop
Write-ups on infrastructure, tooling and the experiments running behind primehosting.dev.
Speed Up Your Telegram Bot by Hardening Webhook Security
A secure bot is often a faster bot: by validating Telegram requests efficiently and cutting avoidable work, you can reduce latency without weakening your webhook endpoint. This tutorial shows practical security steps that also improve throughput for Telegram developers.
Building a Practical Telegram Bot Command Router in Python
A Telegram bot gets messy fast once commands, callbacks, and inline queries start competing for attention. This tutorial shows how to build a small but extensible router so your bot stays easy to extend, test, and reason about.
NASA’s Mars program leans on helicopters as landers and rovers stall
NASA’s latest Mars plan carries a $2.1 billion estimate for SR-1 Freedom, but that figure does not include the helicopters. The gap highlights how tightly the program now depends on a narrow set of options for getting around the planet.
Telegram Bot Security: Speed Up Webhook Verification with Signed Secrets
Telegram bot security often gets treated as a checklist item, but verification can become a real bottleneck when your bot scales. This post shows how to improve webhook security while reducing per-request overhead by replacing repeated expensive checks with a signed secret flow that is fast to validate and easy to operationalize.
Telegram Bot API’s Most Common Mistake: Treating Updates Like Commands
A lot of Telegram bots break in the same place: developers assume every incoming update is a clean command and build logic around that assumption. In practice, the Bot API delivers a stream of different update types, and the difference between a reliable bot and a flaky one usually comes down to handling that stream correctly.
Practical Best Practices for Telegram Infrastructure: Building a Reliable, Scalable Bot Stack
Telegram bot systems fail less because of code bugs and more because of weak infrastructure decisions: rate limits, webhook reliability, state handling, and deployment discipline. This article focuses on practical implementation patterns that help Telegram developers build systems that stay responsive, recover cleanly, and scale without surprises.
Google Removes MV2 Extensions From Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin
Google has removed Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store, including uBlock Origin. The move is significant for developers and users because it affects extension availability and signals the continuing shift in Chrome’s extension platform.
Telegram Bot Security Best Practices After the Latest Token-Phishing Wave
A recent wave of Telegram bot token theft has shown how quickly a single leaked credential can turn into account takeover, spam distribution, or data exposure. This guide focuses on the practical controls Telegram developers should put in place now to reduce risk.
Telegram Developer Tools: Using the Forgotten `setWebhook` Secret to Debug Incoming Updates
Most Telegram bot tutorials stop at token creation and basic polling, but the Bot API’s webhook workflow has a quietly powerful debugging angle. This tutorial shows how to use Telegram’s webhook delivery behavior and update introspection to diagnose real production issues faster.
Telegram Developer Tools After the Bot API 7.x Shift: What Changed and How to Build for It
Telegram’s developer surface has been moving fast, and the most useful recent shift is less about one headline feature than about the platform becoming more capable for real products. This deep dive breaks down what changed in the newer Bot API era, how it affects bot and mini app builders, and what to update in your architecture now.
U.S. Tightens Barriers Around Drones and Robots as China Retains Scale Advantage
The U.S. is moving to block more foreign-made drones and robots, but China’s manufacturing scale could shift the competitive battle rather than stop it. For developers and Telegram operators watching the autonomy stack, the bigger story is how policy can reshape where these systems are built and deployed.
Improving Telegram Bot API Performance: Webhooks vs Long Polling
If your bot is growing, the biggest performance win usually isn’t micro-optimizing handlers—it’s choosing the right update delivery model and tuning it well. This comparison focuses on where Telegram Bot API bots spend time, how throughput differs between webhooks and long polling, and what developers can do to reduce latency and missed capacity.