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Dev.to · Alex Spinov
2w ago
Stop Overengineering: Docker Compose on a $5 VPS Handles More Than You Think
You don't need Kubernetes. You don't need microservices. You don't need a service mesh. For most...
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2w ago
SQLite Can Do More Than You Think — Full-Text Search, JSON, Window Functions, and 281TB Databases
SQLite ships with every Python, every iPhone, every Android, every Mac, and every Linux distro. Yet...
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2w ago
GitLab Has a Free Container Registry, Package Registry, and API — Here's What GitHub Doesn't Tell You
GitLab gives you a complete CI/CD platform, container registry, package registry, AND a full-featured...
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2w ago
SQLite Is Enough for Your Side Project — Full-Text Search, JSON, and WAL Mode Included
Every developer tutorial starts with "first, install PostgreSQL" or "set up MongoDB." For most side...
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2w ago
5 GitHub Actions Workflows I Use to Run Free Web Scrapers, Monitors, and Data Pipelines
GitHub gives you 2,000 free CI/CD minutes per month. Most developers use them only for tests and...
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2w ago
httpx Is What requests Should Have Been — Async, HTTP/2, and Better Defaults
I stopped using the requests library 2 years ago. httpx does everything requests does, plus async,...
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2w ago
DuckDB Changed How I Process CSV Files — 7 Queries That Replace pandas
DuckDB just changed how I process CSV files. No more pandas for simple analysis. No more importing...
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2w ago
10 Developer Tools I Use Every Day After Building 77 Web Scrapers
After publishing 600+ articles and building 77 web scrapers, I have a clear picture of which tools...
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2w ago
Notion Has a Free API — Search, Create Pages, and Query Databases Programmatically
Notion has one of the best free APIs in the productivity space. You can read databases, create pages,...
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2w ago
How I Run 77 Web Scrapers on a Schedule Without Breaking the Bank
In 2024, I was running 12 scrapers on my laptop. A cron job that silently died at 3 AM. Data gaps I...
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2w ago
Zod Is Not Just Validation — 5 Things You Did Not Know It Could Do
Zod Is a Swiss Army Knife Most developers use Zod for form validation. But it can do much...
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2w ago
Telegram Bot API — The Most Developer-Friendly API I Have Ever Used
Why Telegram Bot API Is Special Most APIs make you fight with OAuth, rate limits, and...
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2w ago
20 Free APIs That Still Work in 2026 (Tested This Week)
I Tested 50+ Free APIs. These 20 Actually Work. No broken endpoints. No surprise paywalls....
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2w ago
Every Free Public API I Found That Actually Works (2026 Edition)
I Tested 50+ Free APIs. These 20 Actually Work. No broken endpoints. No surprise paywalls....
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2w ago
OpenStreetMap Has a Free API — Build Maps Without Google (No Key, No Billing)
Google Maps Charges $7 Per 1000 Requests. OpenStreetMap Charges $0. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is...
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2w ago
Hono.js Is What Express Should Have Been — Build APIs in 5 Minutes
Express Is 14 Years Old. We Can Do Better. Express was revolutionary in 2010. But in 2026,...
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2w ago
Have I Been Pwned Has a Free API — Check If Any Email Was in a Data Breach
Why This Matters Data breaches happen daily. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) tracks 14+ billion...
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2w ago
7 JavaScript One-Liners That Replace Entire NPM Packages
Stop Installing Packages for Things JavaScript Already Does Every npm install adds supply...
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2w ago
I Tracked Every API I Used for 30 Days — Here Are the 7 That Survived
The Experiment Last month I tracked every free API I integrated into projects. Started...
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2w ago
Bun 1.2 Just Made Node.js Feel Slow — Here's What Changed
Bun 1.2 Dropped and It's a Big Deal Bun 1.2 brought full Node.js compatibility, a built-in...
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2w ago
The Internet Archive Has a Free API — Search 800B+ Web Pages Programmatically
The Wayback Machine Has an API Most developers know the Wayback Machine for browsing old...
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2w ago
Every Developer Should Have a 'Scripts' Folder — Here's What's in Mine
The Most Productive Thing I Ever Did Two years ago, I created a ~/scripts/ folder. Every...
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2w ago
httpx: The Python HTTP Client That Should Have Replaced Requests Years Ago
Requests Is Showing Its Age requests is the most popular Python HTTP library. It's also...
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2w ago
I Replaced 5 Paid SaaS Tools with Free APIs (Saving $200/Month)
The SaaS Tax Is Real I was paying $200/month for tools that do what free APIs do better....
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