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Cossmology Profile: https://dub.sh/iYDyLXq

Key People: Jakub Roztocil

#APITesting #OpenSource #OSS #COSS

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Day 89 of Year 3
Day 820 overall since Jan 1, 2024

💻 nhcarrigan-mentorship:
• Focused on debugging backend database connection
• Learned the difference between direct DB access vs REST API in Supabase
• One step closer to getting the app fully connected

Clarity comes from digging into the details — today was one of those days. 🔍

📖 Daily reading ✅ staying consistent

#JavaScript #BackendDevelopment #APITesting #Supabase #Databases #ProblemSolving #SoftwareEngineering

Ready to level up your Event-Driven Architecture? 🚀

The upcoming Microcks 1.14 release is bringing a powerful new capability to the community: Asynchronous Triggers! ⚡️

Get a head start and check out the new documentation here:
👉 https://microcks.io/documentation/explanations/async-triggers/

Kudos to the Microcks maintainers for continuing to push the boundaries of API mocking and testing! 👏

#AsyncAPI #EventDriven #Kafka #APItesting #OpenSource

API Testing Tools: Overkill for the Quick Peek?

Developers find complex API testing tools like Postman too much for quick checks. They want simpler options for fast validation.

#APITesting, #DeveloperTools, #SoftwareDevelopment, #TechNews, #Programming

https://newsletter.tf/simple-api-testing-tools-for-quick-checks/

Many developers feel current API testing tools are too complex for simple checks, wanting easier options. This is a big change from how things used to be.

#APITesting, #DeveloperTools, #SoftwareDevelopment, #TechNews, #Programming
https://newsletter.tf/simple-api-testing-tools-for-quick-checks/

BRUNO: PLAIN TEXT, GIT-FRIENDLY API TOOL SPARKS CONVERSATION

New API tool Bruno stores collections as plain text files, making it easy to use with Git. Learn why this matters for developers.

#BrunoAPI, #GitIntegration, #APITesting, #DeveloperTools, #OpenSource

https://newsletter.tf/bruno-api-client-plain-text-git-storage/

Bruno is a new API tool that stores your API requests as plain text files, unlike other tools that use complex formats. This makes it much easier to save and track changes using Git.

#BrunoAPI, #GitIntegration, #APITesting, #DeveloperTools, #OpenSource
https://newsletter.tf/bruno-api-client-plain-text-git-storage/

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Day 75 of Year 3
Day 806 since Jan 1, 2024

💻 nhcarrigan-mentorship:
• Strengthened backend debugging skills
• Tested API routes with Postman
• Verified request parameters, status codes, and data validation across endpoints

Reliable APIs are built through testing, validation, and attention to detail. Every check matters.

#JavaScript #APITesting #BackendDevelopment #NodeJS #ExpressJS #PrismaORM #APIDevelopment #WebDevelopment #DevJourney #SoftwareEngineering

Things that are native on my Mac: 😀

Xcode
Instruments
Safari
Terminal
Everything I use daily

Things that are not: 😭

My API client
My regrets

#iOSDev #APITesting #DeveloperLife #MacOS #HTTPBot #RESTapi

Wednesday — March 4, 2026

Day 62 of Year 3
Day 793 overall since 1/1/24

📖 Daily Reading
✅ freeCodeCamp News — 1 article
✅ Daily.dev — 1 article

💻 Learning Progress

nhcarrigan-mentorship:
Wrapped up backend testing today — Postman collection is ready, email validation is in place, and the feature branch was rebased cleanly. Small steps, big progress toward a stable API.

#Year3OfCode #Day793Overall
#freeCodeCamp #100DaysOfCode
#NHCarriganMentorship
#JavaScript #BackendDevelopment #APITesting