PostgreSQL Token Cleanup for REST APIs
Verification tokens are usually designed as if the only important event is a successful click. In a real REST API, the harder work happens around th…
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RESTful API vs REST API: Is There Actually a Difference?
What is REST? REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style , not a protocol or a standard. It was introduced by Roy Fielding in…
I got tired of Selenium, so I made a browser you drive with HTTP requests
Every time I've needed to automate a browser, I've paid what I call the Selenium tax. You want to click a button on a page. Simple. But first: insta…
Node.js Email Verification Needs Atomic Tokens
Email verification looks like a small feature: create a token, send a message, and accept the token when the user clicks it. In a real Node.js servi…
REST API Verification Needs an Email Lease
Email verification looks like a simple two-request flow: create an account, send a message, then accept a token. In a production REST API, it is clo…
Production-Ready Java REST Client: Retries, Pagination, Rate Limits, and Error Handling
Production-Ready Java REST Client: Retries, Pagination, Rate Limits, and Error Handling A simple REST client is easy to build. A production-ready RE…
PostgreSQL Idempotency Keys for Email APIs
Email verification looks like a simple endpoint: accept an address, create a token, send a message, and return 202. In a real REST API, the difficul…
REST API Fixtures Need a Cleanup Contract
Integration tests for authentication often fail after the assertion has already passed. The user was created, the verification message arrived, and…
Multipart Uploads Made Simple: Sending Files with curl's `-F` Flag in Java
Every admin console ends up with a file upload — Excel imports, avatar pictures, PDF attachments. Implementing multipart requests by hand in OkHttp…
Understanding REST APIs with Node.js and Django: A Practical Overview
Understanding REST APIs with Node.js and Django: A Practical Overview REST APIs are an important part of modern web development. They allow differen…
How to Build an AI Agent from Your Existing REST API — Without an MCP Server
How to Build an AI Agent from Your Existing REST API — Without an MCP Server You already have a REST API. You don't want to rewrite it, run a dedica…
Как записать ЛИД в Битрикс24 (заявка с сайта и подобное) через входящий вебхук на PHP
Для простой серверной интеграции с Битрикс24 далеко не всегда требуется полноценная OAuth 2.0-авторизация. Если задача — из внешнего сервиса создать…
Пакуем PHP в PHP, чтобы запаковать в JS, чтобы обернуть в HTML
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Building a Custom REST API in WordPress the Right Way
WordPress is often treated as a traditional CMS, but its REST API makes it possible to use WordPress as the backend for applications, dashboards, mo…
Rails Routing & APIs: What Actually Happens Between the URL and Your Controller
When I started studying APIs more seriously, I realized there was a problem with the way I was learning. I knew how to create a Rails API. I knew ho…
REST API Development: The Backbone of Modern Web Applications
REST API Development: The Backbone of Modern Web Applications Every time you log into an application, browse products, submit a form, or refresh you…
Ship a Custom WordPress Endpoint Without Writing a Plugin
Your JavaScript frontend needs a list of featured products from WordPress. Not the whole REST API surface, not raw post objects with forty fields, j…
Init User Engine – A gamified, frontend-first user system for WordPress
Init User Engine is a lightweight, no-bloat user system for modern WordPress sites. It replaces the default profile/login experience with a full gam…
Cisco Patches CVSS 10.0 Flaw in Secure Workload — Unauthenticated Attackers Could Gain Site Admin via API
Cisco has released emergency patches for a maximum-severity vulnerability in its Secure Workload platform — a flaw so severe it earned the rarest de…
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О том, как динамическая документация (Self-describing API) помогает синхронизировать фронт и бэк без ручного контроля, экономит 25 часов команды в н…
Idempotent Signup Emails in Node.js APIs
Signup email bugs are rarely caused by SMTP alone. In most backend systems, the real problem is that account creation, retries, and background jobs…
🧩 How to Pass a Request Body in a GET Request? Meet the New HTTP QUERY Method (RFC 10008)
⚡ A New HTTP Verb for Developers The QUERY method (RFC 10008, June 2026) finally solves a long-standing pain point: sending complex request bodies s…
HTTP finally has a proper way to send a query: meet the QUERY method
For decades we've had exactly two bad options for "read something using a complex input": cram everything into a GET URL, or lie and use POST. In Ju…
Testing REST API Verification Emails Without Polluting Shared Inboxes
Verification emails look simple from the product side: user signs up, API sends a message, user clicks a link, account becomes active. On the backen…
HTTP QUERY Method: The Missing Piece Finally Added to HTTP
For years, developers have faced a common dilemma when building REST APIs: How do you send a complex, read-only query without misusing HTTP methods?…
Кастомизация Битрикс24 на платформе Вайбкод: создаём паспорт клиента
Тестируем платформу Битрикс24 Вайбкод для создания полезных приложений в своём бизнес-портале с помощью ИИ-агентов. Сегодня сделаем паспорт клиента:…
How to test APIs on actual iPhone hardware over 4G and 5G
If you are building a feature that talks to an API, you test it thoroughly. Postman on your laptop, maybe a simulator or two, everything looks clean…
Code Quality findings now have a REST API a pipeline can actually call
The first time we needed yesterday's CodeQL findings for a tracking ticket, I clicked through the Code Quality UI for about ten minutes, copied a ru…
Building an Edge REST API with Hono.js + TypeScript — From Bun Local Server to Cloudflare Workers
If you've ever built a REST API with Express, you've probably felt it. Middleware registration, type definitions, body parser setup, connecting Joi…
AI, the New UI, Not the New API
A recent LinkedIn post sparked an interesting thought. The author claimed: "ReSTful APIs may be dead soon. Instead, web services may expose a single…