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PinnedInFAUN.dev() 🐾byJoel Hanson·Jul 29, 2025Turn GitHub into Your Free Data Platform: Building APIs with GitHub ActionsLearn how to turn GitHub into a free, serverless data platform with GitHub Actions, Pages, and APIs powered by your repo.
Joel Hanson·Jun 8What If Your Kafka Sent Half the Data Over the Network?Originally published at https://joel-hanson.github.io/posts/26-shrink-kafka-integer-payloads-with-bijou64/
Joel Hanson·Jun 7Aesthetic Habit Tracker: A Challenge Grid That Lives in Your BrowserOriginally published at https://joel-hanson.github.io/posts/28-aesthetic-habit-tracker-challenge-grid-on-github-pages/
Joel Hanson·Jun 7From Prompt to Home Screen: Shipping Nursing Tracker with GitHub PagesOriginally published at https://joel-hanson.github.io/posts/27-from-prompt-to-home-screen-booby-tracker-on-github-pages/
Joel Hanson·Dec 19, 2025From Celery to Restate: Rethinking Async Tasks in DjangoExploring the transition from Celery to Restate for async task processing in Django applications, with practical examples and real-world…
Joel Hanson·Dec 18, 2025Adding Durable Execution to Flask Applications with RestateLearn how to enhance your Flask applications with Restate for reliable, fault-tolerant operations without changing your core application…A response icon1A response icon1
Joel Hanson·Dec 4, 2025Introducing ContextLayer: Transform Any REST API into an MCP Server in MinutesDiscover ContextLayer — the bridge that transforms any REST API into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling AI assistants like…
Joel Hanson·Aug 27, 2025Apache Kafka + SSE: The Open-Source Connector for Seamless Event StreamingStream Wikipedia changes, GitHub events, and financial data into Kafka with this zero-code SSE connector — just configure and go!
