Building invoicing into your app is painful. You spend days wrestling with PDF generation libraries, template engines, multi-currency formatting, and email delivery — then repeat it for every project. The Forgelab Invoice API handles all of it in one API call. Send JSON, get back a professional PDF invoice. What it does JSON in → professional PDF invoice out Multiple templates (professional, mini…
标题 API Security in 2026: The Attacks That Are Destroying Production Systems 标签 security, api, webdev, programming, backend, devsecops 内容 API Security in 2026: The Real Attacks Destroying Production Systems Every week, another company announces a data breach. The attackers aren't using zero-days or sophisticated malware—they're exploiting the same API vulnerabilities that have existed for years. I…
Introduction "Fluidize your AI subscription quotas and maximize the value of every penny." This is the No.73 article in the "One Open Source Project per Day" series. Today, we are exploring Sub2API (also known as CRS2). With the rise of native AI power-tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot, many developers find themselves with multiple AI subscriptions (such as Claude Pro or OpenAI Plus). How…
OpenWeatherMap API for Browser Extensions: A Practical Guide If you're building a browser extension that shows weather data, OpenWeatherMap is the go-to choice. Their free tier is genuinely useful, the API is well-documented, and it works well for extensions that call the API on-demand (rather than from a server). Here's what I learned building Weather & Clock Dashboard for Firefox. Getting Start…
File-based integrations are everywhere. ERP systems exporting data. Cameras uploading footage. Legacy systems pushing CSV files. Partners exchanging documents. And despite all the talk about APIs and real-time systems, a surprising amount of real-world infrastructure still runs on one simple thing: File transfers. The problem isn’t FTP. It’s everything around it. The missing layer Traditional FTP…
A few months ago I was building a fitness app and needed a good exercise API. ExerciseDB was the obvious choice — but it routes through RapidAPI, has unpredictable pricing, and the free tier is basically unusable at 10 req/day. So I built my own: WorkoutX — a clean REST API with 1,300+ exercises, GIF animations, and transparent pricing. Here's what it looks like in practice: Get exercises by body…
A Video API for European Content Discovery ViralVidVault serves trending videos from 7 regions including Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Austria. The API needs to handle region filtering, cross-language search, and engagement-based ranking. FastAPI is an excellent fit — async-native, auto-documented, and Pydantic validation handles the complex query parameters cleanly. Data Models from p…
On Tuesday I had the great pleasure and honor of doing the opening keynote at the APIDays Sydney conference, the first API (Application Programming Interface) conference in Australia, excellently organized by Saul Caganoff of SixTree. APIDays was founded by Mehdi Medjaoui in Paris in 2013, has since been run in Barcelona, Berlin, San Francisco and […]
