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Webhook.site vs Building Your Own: When Free Tools Cost You More

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25 Apr
Testing Resend's template email flow end to end

<p><em>Three API calls. One template ID that has to carry through all of them.</em></p> <p>Resend's API for sending a templated email is three steps:</p> <ol> <li>Create a

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29 Apr
Webhook Signature Verification (HMAC-SHA256) in Node, Python, Ruby — 2026 Guide

<p>I review a lot of webhook handlers. Roughly <strong>3 out of 5 either have a subtle signature-verification bug</strong> — or someone disabled verification entirely "to make it

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11 Apr
I got tired of using 10 different dev tools, so I built my own

<p>Stop for a second. How many tabs do you have open right now?</p> <p>Go ahead. Count them.</p> <p>If you're a developer mid-debugging session, I'm willing to bet at least three

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31 Mar
I Built a Free Uptime Monitor That Takes Screenshots When Your Site Goes Down

<p>We've all been there. You get a Slack ping at 2am: "Is the site down?" You check UptimeRobot. It says: <strong>DOWN - HTTP 500</strong>. Great. But <em>what</em> was HTTP 500?

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29 Mar
I Let OpenClaw Build a Web App From Scratch - It Even Created the PayPal Plan

<h1> I Let OpenClaw Build a Web App From Scratch - It Even Created the PayPal Plan </h1> <p><strong>TL;DR</strong>: I gave OpenClaw an idea. It built the entire product, deployed

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10 Sept
Session Replay Shouldn’t Cost More Than Your VPS

<p><em>A lightweight, self-hosted alternative for side projects and early-stage startups.</em></p> <p><a class="article-body-image-wrapper"

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30 Mar
My mock server lied to me. So I built a stateful API sandbox.

<p>Last month I was integrating with a payment API. Wrote my tests against a mock server, everything passed, shipped to staging — and the whole flow broke.</p> <p>The mock told me

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19 Jul
Hookbox: a self-hosted webhook inbox with HMAC verification and replay

<h1> Hookbox: a self-hosted webhook inbox with HMAC verification and replay </h1> <p>Debugging webhooks without a proper inbox is painful: ngrok tabs everywhere, lost payloads, no

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