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Short, practical posts to help you ship real backends from the
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Oct 16, 2026
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3 min read
Ask an AI assistant to build you an app and it writes the code quickly. The hard part comes next: where does the data live? Most assistants will tell you to set up a database, create an account somewhere and paste in ...
ai
agents
mcp
chatgpt
backend
Oct 14, 2026
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3 min read
Ask a coding agent to build you an app and it will happily write the frontend. Then it stops and asks where the data should live. Set up a database? Write a server? Sign up for something and paste in a key? Now it doe...
ai
agents
mcp
backend
Sep 28, 2026
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7 min read
There is no single best mock API tool, because "mock API" covers very different jobs: fake data for a tutorial, a stable fixture in CI, a way to test what happens when an API fails. This guide picks the best tools for...
testing
mock-api
qa
ci
Sep 28, 2026
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7 min read
The fastest way to learn API testing is to test real APIs. These ten are free, public and live today, and each is good for practising something different. After the list there are ten practice projects, from a first G...
testing
qa
api
postman
education
Sep 28, 2026
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5 min read
JSONPlaceholder is brilliant for getting started: instant fake endpoints, predictable JSON, zero setup. At some point, though, your app stops being a demo, and a fake API starts getting in the way. This guide covers w...
testing
mock-api
frontend
jsonplaceholder