The case for deterministic PDF filling
AI can read almost any document now. The harder question is what writes the answer back — and for anything an auditor might ever look at, that write s…
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Shopify Scripts stop executing June 30 — and the failure is silent: checkout completes at full price, no error
On June 30, 2026 , every Shopify Script stops executing. This is the final deadline — it has already been pushed twice (August 2024 → August 2025 → Ju…
When you just need to inspect a webhook before writing code
Webhooks are usually discussed as something your application should process automatically. A payment provider sends an event. A Git hosting service no…
10 API and Database Blunders Every Beginner Makes (and How to Fix Them Before Production Bites Back)
You wrote your first REST endpoint. You ran your first SELECT * . Things worked. Life was good. Then a colleague casually mentioned "idempotency key,"…
USPS Just Broke Your Magento Shipping. Here's the Fix.
If your Magento store still depends on the old USPS Web Tools integration, you should assume your shipping rates are either already broken or one chan…
When My AI API Went Down: Building a Resilient Fallback Pipeline
Last month, my side project hit a wall. The AI summarization API I depended on returned a 503 error for three hours. My app – a simple tool that trans…
Turn any company website into structured B2B data (one API call)
If you've ever needed to go from a company's website to clean, structured data — its name, sector, a short description, social links, a contact email,…
We built a free ipify alternative - here's what we learned
If you've ever needed your public IP in a script, you've probably typed this: curl api.ipify.org ipify is one of those quiet pieces of internet infras…
Migrating From Transactional Email to Agent Accounts
This is what most agent email code looks like today: // SendGrid / Resend / Postmark — outbound only await sendgrid . send ({ to : " prospect@example.…
ip-api.com vs ipify vs IPPubblico — which free IP API should you use in 2026?
ip-api.com vs ipify vs IPPubblico — which free IP API should you use in 2026? If you need a public IP detection or geolocation API for your project, t…
One mp3, twelve panels.
Phase two of Reel shipped on Monday. A reader page can now play a voiced narration of the comic while the panels turn. The piece I want to write down …
Ory Talos: Open-Source API Key Management for High-Throughput Systems
Ory Talos: Open-Source API Key Management for High-Throughput Systems Your API keys are probably a mess. If your system issues hundreds of thousands o…
REST API Design: Building APIs That Developers Love (2026)
REST API Design: Building APIs That Developers Love (2026) A great API is one that developers enjoy using. It's intuitive, consistent, well-documented…
Сервер работает. Продукт — уже нет
Большинство команд следят за серверами, базами данных и доступностью приложений. Но самые дорогие инциденты часто происходят совсем в другом месте. Ис…
XML to JSON Conversion - Avoiding the Pitfalls That Actually Bite You
Converting XML to JSON looks deceptively simple - until your pipeline silently drops attribute data, crashes on single-item responses, or passes "true…
Using PostAll's API to Automate Your Content Workflow: A Getting-Started Guide
I didn't set out to build a content API. I set out to stop copy-pasting. Every week, the same ritual: open a doc, stare at a blank page, write a headl…
Running OpenAPI Validation in GitHub Actions and Showing Findings in Pull Requests
Hello, I'm Ganesh. I'm building git-lrc , an AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free, unlimited, and source-available on Github. Star g…
I am building a PDF API because every codebase I touch has a haunted PDF service
There is a file in almost every backend I have worked on. It generates PDFs. Invoices, mostly. Sometimes reports or certificates. It was written years…
Stop Fake Webhooks: Master HMAC Signatures in Laravel 🛡️
The Webhook Spoofing Vulnerability When engineering a B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs, relying on external services like Stripe, Shopify, or GitH…
Stop Guessing Your Meds: Building a Multi-Drug Conflict Scanner with GPT-4o & FDA API
Have you ever stared at two different medicine boxes, squinting at the tiny font of the active ingredients, wondering: "Can I actually take these toge…
AI image generation with OpenAI API
OpenAI exposes image generation through the Image API ( POST /images/generations ). The official openai npm package wraps it as client.images.generate…
How Do Enterprise QA Platforms Handle Self-Healing Tests When APIs Change Frequently
A practical look at the strategies, tools, and trade-offs behind resilient API test automation and why test data management is just as important as th…
Why Your AI Agent Calls the Wrong API (And How to Fix It)
TL;DR: Your agent logic is fine. The problem is what happens the moment it touches a real API: Stripe, GitHub, Resend, HubSpot. Wrong schemas, silent …
Dead Letter Queue в Kafka на практике
DLQ — это просто топик. Сложное — всё, что вокруг него. Эта статья — про практическую архитектуру обработки событий из Kafka с отправкой данных во вне…
How to Recover Postman Collections After Being Locked Out
TL;DR If Postman’s 2026 Q1 free plan change blocked access to shared collections, your data may still be recoverable. Start with your Postman desktop …
Wiring the ElevenLabs API into a real pipeline: the SDK is 4 lines, the billing isn't
The ElevenLabs quickstart is four lines and it works on the first run. That part is honest. What the quickstart does not tell you is that the two thin…
Monitor Medium Publications and Newsletter Feeds via API
Monitor Medium Publications and Newsletter Feeds via API Readers follow collections —Towards Data Science, niche newsletters—not just individual write…
Find Medium Influencers and Top Writers by Tag (CRM-Ready Lists)
Find Medium Influencers and Top Writers by Tag (CRM-Ready Lists) Guessing handles from Google is slow. search/users , top_writers/{tag} , and recommen…
How ChatGPT and AI Agents Search Products in Online Stores
AI Product Discovery ChatGPT Product Search: How AI Agents Find and Recommend Products People used to Google products. Now they ask ChatGPT. **If your…
How to Get Google Search Results in JSON for an AI Agent
So you’re building an AI agent. At first, everything feels simple. The user asks a question, the model thinks, and the agent returns an answer. Then y…