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Author name: Alex Chen

Alex Chen is a senior software engineer with 8 years of experience building AI-powered applications. He has worked at startups and enterprise companies, shipping production systems using LangChain, OpenAI API, and various vector databases. He writes about practical AI development, tool comparisons, and lessons learned the hard way.

Community

How to Master OpenClaw Plugin Development in 2023

Listen Up: Picking Up Where I Left Off
I remember my first time contributing to the OpenClaw project. It was exhilarating and terrifying all at once. I had zero clue about what lay behind those hundreds of files. But once I cracked open the code and started fiddlin’ with plugins, it felt like discovering a

Customization

Im Building AI with Open Source: My Perspective

Hey everyone, Kai Nakamura here from clawdev.net! It’s been a minute since I dove deep into the nitty-gritty of what makes our AI dev world tick, and today, I’ve got something that’s been on my mind for a while. We talk a lot about building models, training data, and optimizing algorithms, but what about the

Software Architecture

Express vs tRPC: Which One for Production

Express vs tRPC: Which One for Production?

Express has over 57,000 GitHub stars. tRPC, on the other hand, doesn’t even crack the 10,000 mark, and honestly, stars don’t ship features. Let’s break down these two frameworks and see which is worth your time and energy for production applications. The ongoing debate in the development community

Software Architecture

Dive Into OpenClaw Plugin Development Like a Pro

Dive Into OpenClaw Plugin Development Like a Pro

You know that feeling when a software platform you’re working with doesn’t have that one feature you desperately need? That’s basically how I ended up knee-deep in OpenClaw plugin development. There I was, itching to tweak a few things and after hitting a wall one too many times,

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Contributing

OpenClaw Configuration Deep Dive: Every Option Explained

If you’ve ever spent 3 hours debugging an OpenClaw config only to realize you forgot a comma, welcome to the club. Configuring OpenClaw can feel like decoding an alien language, but once you crack the code, it’s like finding a secret menu at your favorite fast food joint — lots more options than you thought.

Customization

My Open Source Strategy for AI Devs (March 2026)

Hey everyone, Kai Nakamura here, back on clawdev.net! It’s March 20, 2026, and the AI dev world is, as always, buzzing. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we, as individual developers and smaller teams, can really make a dent in this fast-moving space. We’re not Google or OpenAI, right? We don’t have infinite

Software Architecture

Claude API vs Groq: Which One for Small Teams

Claude API vs Groq: Which One for Small Teams

Claude API currently enjoys 85,000 GitHub stars. Groq’s library, however, has not made a similar splash and has no GitHub data available. It’s vital to recognize that stars aren’t the metric that determines any product’s success in your project—functionality is what ships the features.

Core Development

How to Contribute to OpenClaw: A Hands-On Guide

How to Contribute to OpenClaw: A Hands-On Guide

You know, when I first dipped my toes into OpenClaw, I was completely overwhelmed. I’d spent hours staring at the codebase, trying to make sense of the intricate web of logic sprawled across different directories. It felt like every line led to a new rabbit hole. But hey,

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