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PubMed Has a Free API — Search 36M+ Medical Papers Programmatically

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

PubMed Has a Free API — Search 36M+ Medical Papers Programmatically

I was building a health-tech prototype last week. Needed medical research data. Expected paywalls...

OpenAlex API: Search 250M+ Academic Papers for Free (No Key Required)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

OpenAlex API: Search 250M+ Academic Papers for Free (No Key Required)

Last month I needed citation data for a research project. Google Scholar blocks scraping. Semantic...

23% of Public APIs Have CORS Misconfigurations — Here's How to Fix Yours

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

23% of Public APIs Have CORS Misconfigurations — Here's How to Fix Yours

CORS errors are the most common frustration for web developers. But CORS misconfigurations are one of...

5 Security Headers Your Website Is Missing (and How to Add Them in 2 Minutes)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

5 Security Headers Your Website Is Missing (and How to Add Them in 2 Minutes)

I scanned the top 100 websites on the Tranco list last week. You know how many had all recommended...

The npm Registry Has 2 Million Packages — 14% Have Known Vulnerabilities

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

The npm Registry Has 2 Million Packages — 14% Have Known Vulnerabilities

I ran npm audit on 50 popular starter templates last week. The results were shocking: 43 out of 50...

GitHub Has a Secret Security API — Scan Any Repo for Vulnerabilities in 30 Seconds

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

GitHub Has a Secret Security API — Scan Any Repo for Vulnerabilities in 30 Seconds

Most developers use GitHub for code. Almost nobody knows it has a free security scanning API that...

Your Cron Jobs Are Failing Silently (Here's a 50-Line Fix)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Your Cron Jobs Are Failing Silently (Here's a 50-Line Fix)

Last month, my backup cron job failed at 3 AM on a Saturday. I didn't notice until Monday morning...

I Linted 100 Dockerfiles from GitHub — The Same 5 Mistakes Everywhere

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Linted 100 Dockerfiles from GitHub — The Same 5 Mistakes Everywhere

I wrote a Dockerfile linter and ran it against 100 popular open-source Dockerfiles from GitHub. The...

I Analyzed 10,000 Git Commits — 23% Had Useless Messages

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Analyzed 10,000 Git Commits — 23% Had Useless Messages

I ran a script across 50 open-source repos and analyzed 10,000 commit messages. The results were...

Your .env File Is Probably in Your Git History (Here's How to Check)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Your .env File Is Probably in Your Git History (Here's How to Check)

You added .env to .gitignore. You deleted the committed version. You think you're safe. You're...

I Built a Morning Briefing Bot in 50 Lines of Python (Weather + Crypto + News)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Built a Morning Briefing Bot in 50 Lines of Python (Weather + Crypto + News)

Every morning I used to open 5 tabs: weather, news, crypto prices, calendar, and email. That's 10...

5 Free APIs That Changed How I Build Side Projects (With Code Examples)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

5 Free APIs That Changed How I Build Side Projects (With Code Examples)

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I Built a Free API Vulnerability Scanner — It Found 23 Issues in My Own Code

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Built a Free API Vulnerability Scanner — It Found 23 Issues in My Own Code

Last month, I ran a security audit on a side project I'd been working on for 6 months. I thought the...

You Don't Need Kubernetes (Probably)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

You Don't Need Kubernetes (Probably)

I've seen startups with 3 engineers and 500 users deploy on Kubernetes. The monthly infrastructure...

Why I Stopped Using Docker for Local Development

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Why I Stopped Using Docker for Local Development

Controversial take: Docker is amazing for deployment. But for local development, it's slowing you...

The API Economy Is Broken — And Free APIs Are Winning

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

The API Economy Is Broken — And Free APIs Are Winning

Here's a counterintuitive trend: while API companies raise prices (Twitter: $100/month, Reddit:...

5 Government APIs That Give You Data Worth Thousands (For Free)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

5 Government APIs That Give You Data Worth Thousands (For Free)

Most developers know about the big public APIs — Twitter, GitHub, Google Maps. But there's a goldmine...

I Automated My Job Search With Python — 3 Scripts That Actually Work

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Automated My Job Search With Python — 3 Scripts That Actually Work

After getting laid off last year, I spent the first week applying to jobs manually. Copy-paste...

Stop Using API Keys in Environment Variables — Here's What to Do Instead

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Stop Using API Keys in Environment Variables — Here's What to Do Instead

I recently audited a friend's startup codebase. They had 23 API keys in .env files. Three of those...

I Built a Supply Chain Scanner for Python — pip Has the Same Problem as npm

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Built a Supply Chain Scanner for Python — pip Has the Same Problem as npm

Every week there's a new npm supply chain attack story. But here's the thing nobody talks about: PyPI...

I Scanned 500 npm Packages for Typosquatting — 23 Were Suspicious

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

I Scanned 500 npm Packages for Typosquatting — 23 Were Suspicious

Last month, a developer on my team installed colurs\ instead of colors\. One letter difference. The...

Email.md — Write Emails in Markdown and Convert to Responsive HTML (224pts HN)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Email.md — Write Emails in Markdown and Convert to Responsive HTML (224pts HN)

A Show HN project is trending at 224+ points: Email.md — write your emails in Markdown and get...

Running LLMs on Apple Silicon Is Getting Serious — Hypura Scheduler (194pts on HN)

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

Running LLMs on Apple Silicon Is Getting Serious — Hypura Scheduler (194pts on HN)

A new project just hit Hacker News at 194+ points: Hypura — a storage-tier-aware LLM inference...

LiteLLM PyPI Compromise Is Just the Beginning — How to Audit Your Python Dependencies Right Now

Dev.to · Alex Spinov 3w ago

LiteLLM PyPI Compromise Is Just the Beginning — How to Audit Your Python Dependencies Right Now

If you missed it: LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI were compromised — malicious code was...