
My QR generator made a barcode that scanned as a different product at the register
Had a funny failure last month with the QR/barcode generator I run. A user asked me to make a Code...
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Had a funny failure last month with the QR/barcode generator I run. A user asked me to make a Code...

Started with a simple ask: generate EAN-13 barcodes for product labels. The API rendered fine,...

A while back I built a QR/barcode generator API — one call returns a PNG or SVG, base64-encoded, with...
First real complaint about my barcode tool came from someone printing product labels for a shop. The...

Two months ago I added barcode symbologies to what had been a plain QR endpoint — code128, EAN-13,...
If you’ve ever had to generate barcodes on the fly — for invoices, labels, stock items, tickets, or...