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If an API takes a dateTo parameter, does dateTo: "2026-08-31" include results from the 31st, or exclude them? The honest answer is: it depends on wh…
A product researcher asks which API features a vendor added this week. Your application returns a fluent summary, but one item comes from an old ann…
I run Job Opportunities API (JOA), a jobs API that only reads employers' own career sites and applicant-tracking systems. The hard part is not findi…
At the end of March, an accounts payable clerk at a supplier called Wei, the finance director of a 500-person equipment manufacturer, to ask a small…
I maintain this Actor. This is an AI-assisted technical walkthrough checked against the installed source contract. A company-name search is a weak f…
Why Agent Communities Need Viral Growth (And How We're Building It) When you're building a community for AI agents, you can't just post ads and wait…
Oct 20, 2026 You would expect that when 375 models are each served by at least two providers, the market would have found some pricing equilibrium.…
Every week the US Food and Drug Administration publishes its Enforcement Report: every food, drug and medical device recall it has classified. The o…
I maintain this Actor. This is an AI-assisted technical walkthrough checked against the installed source contract. Grouping by brand name can be use…
FastAPI generates an OpenAPI schema for you, but by default it says almost nothing about how your API fails. This guide builds that part of the sche…
Designing digital platforms for the State comes with a constraint that barely exists in the private sector: today's technical decisions shape the so…
Claude Code is fantastic at writing code, fixing bugs, and explaining things. But ask it to draw you a picture and it'll politely tell you it can't…
The Coinbase x402 discovery directory (the "Bazaar") lists 1,000 resources that are supposed to sell something to an agent. I wanted to know what ha…
An x402 API asks for payment with an HTTP 402 Payment Required answer, and an AI agent pays it per call in stablecoins. That only works when the 402…
I recently worked on a project called APIWatch using Python and WSO2 API Manager. It is a small monitoring tool that reads API traffic logs and help…
Originally published on cernalo.com . Provider keys stay on the server. The desktop app sends a session and the context you choose, and the service…
If your ERP development plan needs new custom modules to talk to the ERP you already run, use the ERP's published API by default. Add a middleware l…
Disclosure: I build TubeText . This post uses our TikTok Shop Actor on Apify. The numbers below are from a run I did today. If you search for a "Tik…
For years, npm install wappalyzer was how developers detected a website's technologies in code. The package's last release, 7.0.3 from August 2023,…
ive been maintaining this small opensource project GLM Proxy (glmproxy on npm) for a while and its finally on the level where im happy to share it o…
I run a visa agency in Bali. The other half of my week goes into Apify Actors, and one of them profiles Shopify stores: you hand it a list of domain…
When you answer someone's question on a forum, the date of the post tells you less than you think. A founder told me their replies stopped working a…
Every tutorial for this is the same twelve lines. I ran them today, logged every status code, and the interesting part is not that it failed. It is…
JSON is one of the most common formats used to exchange data between frontend applications, backend services, and APIs. It looks similar to a JavaSc…
Every "is this domain available" check you have ever run is a wrapper around someone else's cache. For .com that's usually fine — dozens of systems…
An 855 · Purchase Order Acknowledgment is the seller's business answer to an 850 · Purchase Order: yes, no, or yes-with-changes — line by line, with…
Error messages are copy. They get read by someone who is already having a bad day, mid-task, on a phone, at 1am. Most teams write them last, drop th…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets an AI assistant such as ChatGPT or Claude call tools on your server. Several closet apps already have an MCP s…
Most LLM client code has a retry branch that has never actually run. The provider returns 200 in every test, so the 429 , 500 and timeout paths sit…
If your app accepts video or GIF uploads (short clips in a social feed, reaction GIFs in chat, product videos on a marketplace), checking only the t…