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Notes on notifications, connecting messaging channels, and what we learned building Ting — written by the people who actually build it.
LINE Notify is gone — an honest comparison of what to use instead
LINE Notify has shut down. A straight comparison of the real replacements in Thailand — LINE Messaging API, Telegram, Discord, ntfy and Ting — with the trade-offs and cost of each.
Read moreServer alerts on your phone in 5 minutes, with no bot to write
The actual steps: sign up, create an app, send the first curl, then a disk-check script in cron and a tappable button on the card. Five minutes, start to finish.
Read more7 mistakes in notification system design (I've made every one of them)
Sending everything, no severity, duplicates under stress, messages at 3 a.m. — the mistakes that make recipients mute your app, and how to think about fixing each one.
Read moreWhy sending notifications needs a queue (and retries that don't duplicate)
Five ways fire-and-forget notification code breaks — slow downstream APIs, lost sends, duplicates after a restart, workers fighting over jobs — and the minimum structure that fixes them, with real SQL.
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