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PostalDataPI is a global postal code validation and enrichment API covering 240+ countries and territories. One API, one key, one flat rate โ $0.000028 per query with no tiers or subscriptions.
What you get back: Up to 18 metadata fields per postal code โ city, state/region, coordinates, timezone, three levels of administrative hierarchy, elevation, and more. Sub-5ms cached responses.
Works everywhere: US ZIP codes, UK postcodes, German PLZ, Japanese postal codes, Canadian FSAs, and 230+ more. Format normalization handles case, spacing, and hyphen variations automatically.
Get started in 60 seconds: 1,000 free queries on signup, no credit card required. SDKs for Python and Node.js. MCP server for AI agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.).
Built for developers: REST API, consistent JSON responses across all countries, OpenAPI spec, llms.txt for AI agent discovery.
DEV.to PostalDataPIAs a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.
However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.
My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).
Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.
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While developing Wasp, a JS full-stack framework, we keep researching other ecosystems (Rails, Laravel, Django, etc.) and finding ways how they figured out developer productivity. We kept finding these reusable legos, so we gave them a name: "full-stack modules". Let's define what we mean by that exactly. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago
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Getting a first thing online is a milestone worth not reaching alone. A MLH hackathon is the perfect place to try: build, break, and deploy alongside other people over a weekend. And DEV is always here for the other parts, open all the time, where a new coder can post the project, ask for feedback, and read how someone else cleared the same hurdle. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago
Same idea. Four rewrites. Four character budgets. Four hashtag policies. Four mental models of an algorithm I do not control and cannot see. And that is before you reach Mastodon, Threads, Reddit, a newsletter, dev.to, and whatever launched this quarter. - Source: dev.to / 18 days ago
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Melissa Data Quality - Melissa helps companies to harness Big Data, legacy data, and people data (names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails).
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