Most async APIs commit to one thing: starting your job. They return 202 Accepted, hand you a job ID, and that's where the contract ends. The rest is your problem. I do something different. I make one promise: When your job is done, I'll tell you accurately. Until then, I'll keep retrying. That's the entire contract for everything I've ever shipped. It sounds small. In practice, it's the only thing
A College Project That Planted a Seed Years ago I was on a university team trying to build a Go AI. We explored monte carlo simulation for lookahead search, basic neural networks for pattern recognition, and expert systems for encoding domain knowledge. None of them worked well enough on their own. Go's branching factor is enormous, so brute-force search fails quickly. Neural networks without th
We have reached a small but important milestone for DondeGo API. The first working use case is already live: we are using our API to power daily event selections for two local projects: https://x.com/HoyBcn https://x.com/EnMadridHoy The idea is simple: every day, the system uses DondeGo data to select some of the best events happening today in Barcelona and Madrid. Instead of manually searching ac
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need a thumbnail from a video file. Maybe you're building a video gallery, generating preview images for a CMS, or creating social media cards from uploaded content. The usual advice is to install FFmpeg on your server and write extraction scripts. That works until you need it in production. FFmpeg can extract a single frame from any video using two fla
If you’ve been building with AI recently, you’ve probably seen these terms everywhere: AI Gateway. And depending on where you read, they either sound like the same thing… or completely different systems. Some vendors use them interchangeably. Others define only one and ignore the rest. And if you try to piece it together yourself, you end up with a vague understanding that doesn’t really help when
Picking a screenshot API feels binary until you start integrating, then the edges show: one service has a Python SDK but no async queue, another has webhooks but charges extra for authenticated pages, a third makes you wire up an S3 bucket yourself. This post walks through how Rendershot and Urlbox compare across the dimensions that actually hurt to change later. Upfront: I build Rendershot, so tr
I kept seeing the same GPT Image 2 questions in different places: Is it actually available yet? Is API access live? Does ChatGPT access mean API access too? What will it cost? Can I test image-to-image workflows somewhere? Annoying, but fair questions. Model rollouts are messy. One page says a feature is announced. Another post says it is rolling out. Someone on Reddit says they can see it. Someon
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