Alex Barron

Creating an OpenAPI Mock Server with Prism

Prism is a free, open source tool created by Stoplight that enables developers to quickly create mock API servers using only an OpenAPI document. Prism parses your OpenAPI spec to understand your endpoints, schemas, and examples to spin up a local server you can make API calls to using whatever

Making an AI Search Results Analyzer with SerpApi, ChatGPT, & Ruby on Rails

I recently discovered SerpApi and thought it would be fun to build a simple application using search results pulled from SerpApi. If you don't know about SerpApi, they're experts in scraping practically every search engine in existence and packaging the results in an easy to use

Getting Started with the Chatbase API

The following article contains affiliate links to Chatbase. If you end up signing up for a paid plan with Chatbase, I will get a commission. There's no additional cost to you. Chatbase is a tool to simplify building a custom chatbot trained with whatever content you want. You

Creating an OpenAPI Specification The Hard Way

OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) is an open-source tool to standardize specification of REST APIs. This standardization enables programmatic parsing of an API's structure and syntax to automatically generate documentation, client libraries, and even server code. Think of OpenAPI as the source of truth for your API; from schemas to

Getting Started with Pocket Bitcoin's API

Pocket Bitcoin is a fantastic place to buy Bitcoin if you live in Europe. In addition to being a great place to buy Bitcoin, they also offer API access to developers who want to integrate their products with Pocket. This unlocks a new revenue stream for you through their affiliate

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