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I built an open API for Nigeria's 752 universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education

If you've ever tried to find a clean, structured, up-to-date list of Nigerian tertiary institutions, you've probably run into the same wall I did: every result is a static blog post or a PDF from a few years ago, half of them contradict each other, and none of them are usable as data — just prose to be re-typed by hand. There wasn't an open API for this. So I built one. nigeria-tertiary-institutions-api is a free, open-source REST API and dataset covering every Nigerian university, polytechnic,

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Building a Community Wiki Around a Privacy-First Search Engine

The problem: a search engine needs more than a search box findnix.eu is a EU-based, privacy-first search engine — "Find alles, speichere nix" (find everything, store nothing) is the tagline. Once real users started using it, the support questions started too: how does the spam filter work, why isn't my site indexed yet, what data do you actually store, how do I report a fake shop I found in the results? Answering the same questions over email doesn't scale, and a single flat FAQ page doesn't e

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