Plugged into the World

Remember Plugged into Iceland? This is its big sibling. Same idea, bigger planet: the APIs, MCP servers and skills that people all over the world build their pet projects with. Pokémon, recipes, the space station, Formula 1, northern lights, terrible dad jokes. Click any card and you get a short how-to.

Here's a good way to start on the "Connecting to the world" guide. In the "Accessibility" guide you wrote at least 8 items into a JSON file (volcanoes, films, board games, whatever you picked). Swap that file for a live API, and you already have a page to put the data in. So pick your topic below and see what fits. Every API card shows three little checks: Search, Images and Details. Your "Accessibility" page has a search field, results with an image and a details dialog, so an API with all three slides right in.

One warning before you start. I tested about 300 APIs for this page, and a surprising number of the famous ones from tutorials are dead or have changed. Your agent doesn't know that, because it learned from those old tutorials. So when it writes fetch("https://restcountries.com/v3.1/…") with total confidence and nothing comes back, you'll know why. Remember spotting outdated syntax and invented APIs in the "JavaScript Frameworks" guide? This is the same skill. The red Gone group at the bottom lists the worst offenders.

The code examples are React, like in the "React - Fetch" guide. The fetch() part is exactly the same in Vue and Angular.