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Laraue Software Blog — C# .NET Development & Open Source

Real code, real decisions, real tradeoffs. We write about what we build — .NET libraries, Telegram bots, AI integrations, and the architecture mistakes worth learning from.

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Deploying a Nuxt Telegram Mini App. Setting up HTTPS on nginx with Let's Encrypt. A new mini app via BotFather

Part 7 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. How to deploy a Nuxt Mini App with the nginx + HTTPS + Let's Encrypt combo, set up automatic certificate renewal with certbot, register the mini app in BotFather, and test it locally through ngrok.

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Deploying a .NET app and PostgreSQL to a cheap VPS with Docker Compose

Part 6 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. Deploying to a cheap VPS with Docker Compose — self-hosted PostgreSQL tuned for 1 GB of RAM, a GitHub CI pipeline running on push to main, and a walkthrough of the Dockerfiles.

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