How I Built an AI-Powered Bounty Hunting System That Finds and Solves GitHub Issues AutomaticallyOpen source bounties are real money. Platforms like Algora, Expensify's Help Wanted program, and dozens of smaller bounty boards collectively post hundreds of issues per week with cash rewards attacheMay 4, 2026·6 min read
TypeScript Patterns That Make CLI Tools BulletproofBuilding CLI tools in JavaScript is quick and dirty. Building CLI tools in TypeScript is quick and clean — if you know the right patterns. After shipping 43 npm CLI tools over the past year, I've distilled the TypeScript patterns that consistently pr...Mar 20, 2026·13 min read
Building a Production-Ready Rate Limiter in Node.jsBuilding a Production-Ready Rate Limiter in Node.js Rate limiting is one of those things developers ignore until they get hit by a botnet, a runaway script, or a competitor scraping their API. By then, it's too late — your server is melting, your dat...Mar 20, 2026·15 min read
How to Build a GitHub Bot That Automatically Reviews Pull RequestsWhy Automate PR Reviews? Code review is one of the highest-leverage activities in software engineering — and one of the most consistently bottlenecked. PRs sit unreviewed for days. Reviewers leave comments about style and naming while missing archite...Mar 20, 2026·9 min read
Building a Self-Healing API Monitor in 100 Lines of Node.jsWhat "Self-Healing" Actually Means Production systems fail. APIs go down, timeouts spike, third-party services flake. The question isn't whether your API will break — it's how long it stays broken before you notice and fix it. Most monitoring solutio...Mar 20, 2026·9 min read
Node.js Streams: A Practical Guide to Processing Large Files Without Memory IssuesThe Problem With "Just Reading the File" Every Node.js developer has written this at least once: const fs = require('fs'); const data = fs.readFileSync('bigfile.csv'); processData(data); It works fine — until it doesn't. The day your CSV grows from ...Mar 20, 2026·9 min read
How to Build a Dependency Audit CLI Tool with Node.jsHow to Build a Dependency Audit CLI Tool with Node.js Your node_modules folder is a liability. Here's how to build a tool that tells you exactly what's wrong with it. Every Node.js project starts with npm install. Within minutes, your innocent-looki...Mar 20, 2026·11 min read