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When YouTuber Marques Brownlee (aka MKBHD) launched his highly anticipated wallpaper app, Panels, it was expected to be a hit. Instead, users discovered major flaws, mainly in security. Panels stored its images in a publicly accessible bucket, making it easy for anyone with basic skills to download the app’s
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One of Pinata’s key differentiators from other file storage APIs is that we believe immutability is a first-class citizen. Every file uploaded to Pinata is immutable. This means if you want to change something, you don’t lose the original version. You can, of course, delete the original, but
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Building modern web apps often follows a familiar structure, with developers typically having the necessary tools in mind. Many websites today are simple CRUD applications: a front-end client authenticates users and sends requests to a server that updates a database. Files also play a significant role, supporting rich media experiences
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There’s no doubt that AI has completely changed the way developers write code. Before LLMs became popular, you had to Google your problems and crawl through endless Stack Overflow pages looking for solutions. Nowadays, you can find answers in ChatGPT, Claude, or even directly in your text editor, like
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When building any application that requires file storage (which is just about all apps), you have to ask yourself if the files being stored should be public or if they should be private. From there, you can start to make decisions about how to structure your app’s file storage
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Hello, Pinapple. Retro is always in. This is what I thought when I decided to show off the Pinata Files API by building an in-browser replica of the classic Macintosh desktop. The goal was to have simple file management functionality. You could drag new files in, create folders, and move
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If you’ve never used Gumroad before, it’s a platform that allows users to sell digital content. Something key to building such a platform is keeping the gated files secure, and that’s exactly what Pinata’s new Files API does. With that said, when we saw the below
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Node.js completely changed the JavaScript ecosystem, but not without its own issues. Even the creator of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, admitted later on that he had his own regrets over the design of Node. That’s what eventually spurred him to start Deno (if those letters look familiar, '
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College campuses are already sizzling with energy, but when you cram 400 hackers from campuses in the area into a single building and give them 36 hours to build the best apps they can come up with, the energy becomes so intense that I was close to firing up my
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