Thoughts
Notes on software engineering, distributed systems, and the future of human productivity.
Building a Better WhatsApp SDK
whatsapp-web.js runs a whole headless Chromium to act like a phone. The other door skips the browser and speaks WhatsApp's native protocol over a plain WebSocket, then hands you a raw socket and a firehose of events. whatsweb is the thin layer I built to make that socket feel like a bot.