Build logs, technical deep-dives, and the occasional opinion. How we ship things at Miracle.
A straight guide to getting a custom Discord bot and a custom website built: what each one is actually for, when the free tools stop being enough, and how the two fit together into one clean system.
We wanted clean response-time and resource graphs on our status page, without hosting a second monitoring app. Turns out we were already collecting the data and throwing it away.
Our team page streams what everyone is doing on Discord in real time over a WebSocket. Three things were broken, and fixing them was way more interesting than we expected.
Our redesign had way more red lines than green, and that was the whole point. The biggest wins came from deleting a loud accent color and a pile of fonts pretending to be a system.