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The Met API has no random button
A year ago I shipped a one-button "random artwork" toy on top of the Met Museum API. It has since grown into a four-screen app — and the interesting part is what you do when the API you're randomizing over has no way to hand you something random. Manufacture it. And once you can manufacture randomness, a deterministic "artwork of the day" falls out for free.
Hardening the open CORS proxy — allowlists, SSRF guards, and the bypass I almost left behind
A year after building an open serverless CORS proxy, I closed the open-relay hole it had become — target and origin allowlists, SSRF guards, a resilience layer — and learned a sharp lesson about a forgotten debug endpoint that Vercel was still routing.
Building a Random Art Generator with the Met Museum API and a Serverless CORS Proxy
Taking a break from science to explore art and technology with a web application that makes the Metropolitan Museum's collection accessible through a custom-built CORS proxy solution.
Building a Serverless CORS Proxy with Vercel - Simplifying Cross-Origin Requests
A practical exploration of building a serverless CORS proxy using Vercel's serverless functions, offering an elegant solution to the common cross-origin resource sharing challenges faced by frontend developers.