Somesh Bhardwaj https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog Notes on the systems, tools and incidents behind the work. en Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Five dashboards nobody was opening https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/five-dashboards https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/five-dashboards Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A monthly summary posted to Slack instead of five logins. The report was the easy half: the work was deciding what each number honestly meant, and building something that stays true when one of the five has a bad day. Automation Operations Slack Analytics Six agents were running and I could not tell you what any of them did https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/runlanes https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/runlanes Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Coding agents already write transcripts to disk. runlanes reads them, so you can see cost, real concurrency and which files each run touched, on runs that have already finished. Developer tools AI agents Observability Open source The message that mentioned finance and tagged nobody https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/finance-mentions-nobody-tagged https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/finance-mentions-nobody-tagged Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT A Slack message can point at a channel without involving it. Parsing that difference, joining every public channel automatically, and the ten lines of health-check server that kept the whole thing running. Slack TypeScript Integrations Governance A small event tool, and the day it stopped being small https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/event-tool-to-platform https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/event-tool-to-platform Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT Scoped as registration and a confirmation email. It became an orchestration layer over video, email, marketing and calendar systems, because attendance, certification and reminders each live in somebody else's product. Architecture Integrations SaaS Scope Routing email into Slack, which is not the same as forwarding it https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/email-that-belongs-in-slack https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/email-that-belongs-in-slack Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Forwarding a mailbox to a channel works exactly as specified and makes things worse. What changes it: Message-ID deduplication, real thread detection, and never touching the mailbox's unread state. Slack Gmail Automation Operations A portfolio chatbot that can drive the page it lives on https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/chatbot-that-drives-the-page https://someshbhardwaj.dev/blog/chatbot-that-drives-the-page Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Tool calling pointed at the interface rather than only at retrieval, why the API key decides the architecture, and why the retrieval layer is a substring matcher with tests around it. AI Tool calling Netlify Retrieval