Data Sovereignty and Open Architecture in Government Platforms: Design Principles
Designing digital platforms for the State comes with a constraint that barely exists in the private sector: today's technical decisions shape the so…
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How to Generate Images in Claude Code (2026)
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…
I asked 1,000 x402 endpoints to sell me something. 207 never quoted a price.
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…
The seven most common x402 seller mistakes, and how to fix them
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…
APIWatch: Checking API Traffic and Subscription Controls with WSO2 API Manager
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…
Why Our AI Desktop Assistant Never Stores Model API Keys on Your Computer
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…
ERP Development: API, Middleware or Direct Database Access?
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…
A TikTok Shop API for public product data: price, units sold and stock per SKU as JSON
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…
The wappalyzer npm package is deprecated: options for detecting tech stacks in code
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,…
Using AutoClaws free GLM models usage from other sdks (opencode / claude code)
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…
398 of 692 Products Were Published in One Afternoon. Zero Were Created in 90 Days
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…
Is anyone still reading that thread? Check the author's last reply with 3 free APIs
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…
I logged every status code scraping eBay sold listings. The block is not where you think
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…
Checking ccTLD availability without trusting one source (and what .si actually sells for)
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…
The EDI 855, Decoded: The Purchase Order Acknowledgment Is Where the Order Becomes a Promise
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…
I pulled 4 real error messages from live APIs today. Here is what each one gets wrong.
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…
Designing an MCP server for a personal data app: 6 lessons from 10 wardrobe servers
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…
NSFW Video and GIF Moderation with Python and an API
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…
The EDI 997, Decoded: What a Functional Acknowledgment Actually Proves (and What It Doesn't)
The EDI 997, Decoded: What a Functional Acknowledgment Actually Proves (and What It Doesn't) A 997 · Functional Acknowledgment proves one narrow thi…
Secure Your APIs: OAuth2 and JWT for Beginners
Secure Your APIs: OAuth2 and JWT for Beginners APIs are frequent targets for bad actors since they expose data and functionality. Securing them whil…
Testing Idempotency, Webhooks, and Race Conditions in Payment APIs
Payment bugs do not always originate from a missing patch or weak password. Some appear when two requests arrive almost simultaneously, a callback i…
How to bulk-check FEMA flood zones for a list of US addresses (no API key)
If you underwrite mortgages, screen insurance portfolios or evaluate rental properties, "is it in a flood zone?" usually means opening the FEMA Floo…
Design an Agent-Callable Action: Schema, Idempotency, Scoped Auth and Receipts
If you want an AI agent to act on your service without driving your web UI, the useful unit is one well-defined action. This is a design note, not a…
Funding Settles Every 8 Hours — but Four of These Five Exchanges Have No 8-Hour Candle
Funding Settles Every 8 Hours — but Four of These Five Exchanges Have No 8-Hour Candle If you hold a BTC perpetual on Binance, Bybit, or OKX, your f…
Live Sports Odds APIs: WebSocket vs REST, Latency and In-Play Feeds
This post first appeared on SportsAPIs.dev . What is a Live Sports Odds API? A live sports odds API (also called in-play or in-game betting API) pro…
AtmoRouter: A Cheaper OpenRouter Alternative (OpenAI-Compatible, Pay-Per-Token)
OpenRouter made a great idea mainstream: one API, many models. Subscription coding tools like Command Code bundle model credits into monthly plans.…
WordPress REST API Deep Dive: Custom Routes, Multiple Methods on One Endpoint, and Full CRUD
🚪 Why the WP REST API Deserves Your Attention Every WordPress site already ships with a front door for data. Open yourdomain.com/wp-json/ and you'll…
Give Claude or Cursor read-only access to public Instagram data with one MCP URL
If you ask an AI assistant about an Instagram account, it usually guesses. So it can't help with a competitor or a creator you want to research. We…
A list of MCP servers (100 active ones), and why your agent needs a list, not ten pages
Ask an agent for "every MCP server on GitHub with more than 500 stars that was pushed to in the last month" and watch what happens. It searches. It…
Grants.gov alerts that don't miss: every open federal grant tribes can apply for, from one sentence
The morning goes like this. Open the portal. Search "tribal". Sort by close date. Open the first eight results in eight tabs. Find the eligibility p…