If you’ve got a Twitter account, and a blog with a lot of content, sharing your posts can be a nice way to help someone out, and drive a little extra traffic to your site. If your site generates an RSS feed, here’s how you can automate the process - for free!
If you’ve got a Twitter account, and a blog with a lot of content, sharing your posts can be a nice way to help someone out, and drive a little extra traffic to your site. Here’s how you can automate the process on your Ghost blog - for free!
I ran into a problem in Erlang yesterday that made me think… is there anyway to implement a property accessor on a record?
I’ve been thinking for awhile now that I wanted to setup a wiki. I wanted something light-weight, with support for uploading images and files. And I wanted to retain control over the data and configuration, as well as encrypt access to it. Here’s how to install DokuWiki on Ubuntu with DigitalOcean.
Ever needed to link directly to one section of a webpage? You can, as long as there’s a header (or another element nearby like a div) with an ID assigned to it. Let’s see how.
The PasswordRandom API provides random values - and not just passwords as the name would seem to suggest. It also generates GUIDs, random numbers, characters, etc.
A table of contents is convenient for visitors, so I wrote a script to generate one for any blog automatically!
The Google Books API provides access to Google Books, which lets you search for any book and, at a bare minimium, see meta data about it. Depending on copyright status, you might also be able to see sample pages or read the entire book. You can also buy books.
When you find an API to use in your app, you’ll need to access it in a specific language - not always an easy or straightforward task. As long as you’re doing all that work, why keep it to yourself? Let’s look at creating an API wrapper that you can share with others!
The Internet Game Database is a community-driven site that collects and shares information about games and game-related data. Let’s check out the IGDB API!
Penguin Random House is a book publisher, and their API can be used to get data about books, authors and events. Let’s check it out!
The US Census Bureau APIs provide free access to geolocation data, as well as American census data, demographics, housing stats, etc. Let’s check them out!
OpenWeatherMap provides free access to extensive weather data - current conditions, 5-day forecast, uv index, weather alerts, etc. Let’s check out their API!
The ISS Notify API (or is it the Open Notify API?) was written by Nathan Bergey for a Science Hack Day competition, then released to the public. You can use it to find the location of the ISS, or to find when it’ll pass over a location! Check it out.
Trello is a virtual kanban board… or a nice to-do list if you’re going solo. I like it, maybe you will too, and their API makes nearly all areas accessible to devs.
NASA’s API makes their data (such as Mars rover photos) available to anyone who wants to consume it. It’s an unprecedented wealth of knowledge, so let’s dig in!
The NOAA API lets us query weather and climate data from NOAA, an agency that studies and charts conditions in the oceans and atmosphere. Let’s check it out!
The Google Maps API is a series of APIs for multiple platforms, each focused on a small set of tasks. At first it all seems a bit overwhelming, but each of them is pretty easy to use. Let’s check a few out!
Slack is a popular communication and collaboration tool, and their API gives us access to channels, messages, and more. Let’s check it out!
