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Shipping notes, patterns, and release updates
Short, practical posts to help you ship real backends from the
frontend.
Oct 19, 2026
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3 min read
You've built a Next.js prototype and it needs to remember things: tasks, sign ups, feedback, whatever the app is about. You don't want to provision a database, write migrations or run a server just to find out whether...
nextjs
backend
prototyping
javascript
Oct 19, 2026
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3 min read
"I need to store some JSON" can mean very different things. Settings for one user's browser. A list your whole team edits. Payloads a backend processes later. The right home depends on three questions: 1. Who needs to...
backend
json
databases
prototyping
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