api - Grant Winney

35 Results tagged on "api":

Jan 05, 2020

How to deploy your own private RequestBin instance in under 5 minutes

If you need to consume a webhook from another service, or verify the payload being sent from your own REST API endpoint, RequestBin can help. It intercepts and displays the contents of any call made to it. Here's how to deploy your own private instance in just a few minutes....

api web browser tech

Dec 30, 2019

Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors... on my desktop?

I was checking the status of a FedEx order when Brave warned me that "this site has been blocked from accessing your motion sensors". I'm struggling to understand why a website would need that access. Do I get a different experience if I drop my device? Tip my monitor over? Spin the mouse around?...

StackOverflow api tech aws lambda

Nov 05, 2019

Automate cleaning up your comments using the StackExchange API

Recent events at SE have me thinking about my contributions, and which of those I should/could clean up. Like Twitter, comments on SE have a limited shelf-life, and there's no reason to leave them hanging around. With the help of the Stack Exchange API, you can even automate cleaning them up!...

graphql api tech

Sep 25, 2019

Using the GraphiQL IDE to access a GraphQL API

One of the tools bundled with GraphQL is GraphiQL, which lets users query your API in the browser and see results immediately. This is a huge time-saver! Let's take a look at how GitHub uses it for their GraphQL API....

ghostblog api api wrapper codefactor travis ci tech

Jun 05, 2019

CodeFactor, Uploading Images via REST, and the Ghost Admin API v2.0

I finally wrapped up (for now) a little side project of mine, a C# wrapper around v2.0 of the Ghost RESTful API. I call it GhostSharp, and it's available on GitHub and NuGet. It covers the entire Content API as well as the 4 stable endpoints of the Admin API....

api newspapers history

Mar 03, 2019

Searching historical newspapers with the Chronicling America API

I've got a few old newspapers from the 1930s and 1940s, and find them fascinating. And so I was excited to stumble on the Library of Congress's Chronicling America API, which 'provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages'. Let's check it out....

ghostblog api api wrapper nuget travis ci rubygem

Feb 23, 2019

Gems, NuGet, CI, and the Ghost Content API v2.0

This was a week of firsts - creating my first Ruby gem 💎, first NuGet package 🎁, and a Travis CI build to run a suite of 250 tests in my GhostSharp project! ✅...

api ipaddress geolocation

Feb 12, 2019

Using the IP Geolocation API to find info about an IP address

Last year I caught an article about a simple, free service called ipify that returns your IP address. It became so popular the author soon found himself dealing with billions of requests per month! Here's a look at that API and the IP Geolocation API that it spawned....

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Cloudinary is an image and video management platform, which freed me from my dependency on YouTube to host videos on this site.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.