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Every month someone sends you twelve branch reports, or a folder of CSV exports, and you spend an hour copy-pasting them into one sheet. Excel already has a built-in way to do this: Power Query. Here is the short version, plus three things that usually break it. Put all files you want to merge in one folder (nothing else in it). In a new workbook: Data > Get Data > From File > From Folder, pick the folder.
What Is REST API? REST API is a popular approach for building communication between applications. It uses HTTP methods such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETEto work with resources. For example, an endpoint like /api/products might return a list of products. REST is straightforward, widely supported, and relatively easy for beginners to understand.
Cloudflare has added a native Web Search API to its AI Gateway, built in partnership with search providers Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. The feature lets developers pull live web results into a model's context window during inference, addressing the gap where models are frozen at a training cutoff and can't speak to recent events or changing documentation. Three access paths are available: directly through AI Gateway, via a standard REST endpoint (passing an AI Gateway auth token and a provider name in the request payload), or through a Workers binding that Cloudflare says takes one line of cod
Cross-Chain Bridge Risk Assessment: CCIP Target Protocol: CCIP (TVL: $1862.7M) Chainlink Cross‑Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) TVL (Ethereum & L2s): ≈ $1.86 B (Oct 2026) CCIP is Chainlink’s flagship cross‑chain messaging and token‑transfer layer, designed to enable developers to move arbitrary data and assets between EVM‑compatible chains, L2 roll‑ups, and non‑EVM networks. Its architecture relies on a decentralised network of off‑chain relayers (oracles), on‑chain router contracts, messenger contracts on each destination chain, and liquidity pools (or “Liquidity Providers – LPs”) that
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