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Laraue Software Blog β€” C# .NET Development & Open Source

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

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One card from a Telegram album β€” handling media groups and edits in a bot, without timeout hacks
Part 12 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. Telegram delivers an album as a burst of separate messages and an edit as a fresh update β€” here is how to turn a media group into a single record without the usual timeout accumulator, and how to treat an edit as an update instead of a duplicate.
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Saving media from a Telegram bot β€” store the preview, stream the original
Part 11 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. Teaching the capture bot to handle photos and video, and the storage decision behind it β€” keep small previews on disk, stream full files straight from Telegram on demand without buffering them in memory, using nginx range-request passthrough, instead of re-hosting everything.
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Why users kept choosing Telegram Saved Messages over our bot β€” and what we changed
Part 10 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. The story of a product mistake β€” we added epic and status selection to the bot, but real users kept using Saved Messages β€” and how we fixed it.
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