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22 Free Web Scraping Tools on Apify Store — No API Keys, No Subscriptions I built 22 web...

Every content creator, marketer, and indie hacker needs to know what's trending right now. But...

Building a Design System? Start with Colors. Picking colors that work together is harder...

"What Does 0 */6 * * 1-5 Mean Again?" If you've ever stared at a crontab entry trying to...

If you've ever had to debug a JWT auth issue in production, you've probably ended up at jwt.io —...

Every developer has been there: you need a unique identifier for a database row, a session token, or...

Building a currency converter? Most exchange rate APIs either require registration, limit you to...

Taking website screenshots programmatically is surprisingly annoying. You need Puppeteer (or...

Need website thumbnails for your link aggregator? Social media preview images? Visual regression...

Bad email addresses cost money. Every bounced email hurts your sender reputation, and disposable...

You want to generate a QR code or capture a website screenshot in your app. The typical advice? Spin...

Need to generate QR codes programmatically? Most QR code APIs either require complex authentication,...

Bounced emails kill your sender reputation. Disposable emails pollute your user base. And most email...

Building a domain lookup tool? A competitor analysis dashboard? A phishing detection system? You need...

Internal linking is one of the most underrated SEO tactics. Every SEO audit tool tells you "add more...

Stop Copy-Pasting Between regex101 and Your Code We've all been there: open regex101, test...

The Problem Every developer needs fake data for testing. You install Faker.js, write a...

Web scraping has an infrastructure problem: you need proxies, headless browsers, rate limiting,...

After shipping 10 Chrome extensions, I turned to VS Code. Same strategy: build tools I actually want...

A few months ago I decided to build and publish 10 Chrome extensions as a portfolio project. Not...

I have a confession: I'm obsessed with free tools. Not using them — building them. Over the past few...

If you've ever listed products on Amazon, Shopify, or Rakuten, you know the pain: writing compelling...

Six months ago, I had 25 APIs running on Cloudflare Workers. Today, I have 43. All on the free tier....

Decode any JWT token, inspect claims, check expiration, and get security warnings — all via a free REST API. No jwt.io, no copy-paste into unknown sites.