Blog
Dev notes, design thoughts, and occasional feature stories from BotShade —
lighter-weight pieces, published whenever the mood strikes.
August 19, 2026
Rebuilding our settings panels — and open-sourcing the part underneath
In v2.5.4 we rebuilt every settings panel on Discord. Here's why the Back button kept ending up in a different place on every panel, how we fixed it for good, and why the layer underneath is now out as an open-source package called KageKit.
May 3, 2026
Hi — I'm building BotShade.
A short introduction from the solo developer behind BotShade — why this product, what it's becoming, and what I'm trying to make a little less frustrating.