Engineering Resilience: Two Lessons from Building Under Pressure
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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…
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…
How to make a better API for claude/codex?
So I built a few API calls for sales research purposes, mainly to help people gather better information about their prospects and leads. The API can c…
Webhook Testing: The Complete Guide for 2026
Webhooks are how modern systems talk to each other asynchronously. Stripe sends them. GitHub sends them. Shopify, Slack, Twilio, Postmark, SendGrid, M…
The Only API Documentation Template Your Team Actually Needs
Last week, I watched a senior dev spend 45 minutes just trying to figure out if an API endpoint was deprecated or not. He had to dig through Slack thr…
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 …
I Learned REST APIs in College - But Nobody Told Me What They Actually Do
You open Instagram.Your feed loads. You like a post. You follow someone.Every single one of those actions is a REST API call happening behind the scre…
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…
How to Convert JSON to XML Without Breaking Your Integration
Working with modern APIs means living in JSON. But the moment your project touches a legacy enterprise system - a bank, a government service, or a SOA…
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…
Одна маленькая ошибка в дизайне Java API, за которую потом приходится платить очень дорого
Привет, Друзья! Хотел написать короткий пост по мотивам одного казалось бы простого ПР-а, который мы недавно получили в рамках Axelix: Open Core проду…
Give your AI agent eyes on short-form video: the Reelyze API + skill for Claude & Cursor
Most social analytics tools hand your dashboard a pile of numbers. None of them let your AI agent look at a video and reason about why it underperform…
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…
Build a versioned Laravel API with auto-generated OpenAPI docs in 10 minutes
TL;DR — We'll install dskripchenko/laravel-api , write one controller, and end up with a versioned API ( /api/v1/... ) and interactive OpenAPI 3.0 doc…
I Built an API That Turns Any Website Into JSON Using Just CSS Selectors
I've written a lot of scrapers. The HTML parsing part is never the interesting part — and it's always the part that takes the longest. You know what d…
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…
Claude Fable 5: Features, Pricing, and Fallbacks
Claude Fable 5: Features, Pricing, and Fallbacks Anthropic just shipped claude-fable-5 , its most capable widely released model. It is a Mythos class …
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…
Integrating Payments in Indonesia: Midtrans vs Xendit (and When to Pick Which)
If you're shipping anything that takes money in Indonesia, two names come up before all others: Midtrans and Xendit. They're both solid, both support …