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Steve Willmott came to me asking what we should do with the APIs.io search engine. I don’t have much interest in developing tooling these days, but I am interested in hardening and moving forward our API discovery format APIs.json. Regardless, to really push forward APIs.json I need to push forward the concept of API discovery, and this is what APIs.io is all about. So, to help me move APIs.json forward I did a round of investment in APIs.io with Steve to see what was possible, but what was needed.

When Steve asked me what we could do with APIs.io, I knew I wanted to improve upon what APIs.io v1 was as an API search, but I also lay the groundwork for what we need to help alleviate our API discovery pain. Every time I have made an investment in API discovery over the last decade, I also find myself considering what constitutes a good API, as well as a bad API, but also effectively dealing with the change that is inevitable across the API landscape. I knew that search would be important for the new APIs.io, something I”ll write a separate post about, but I new that an APIs rating system for APIs.io would play just as an important of a role.

...and hold them accountable, and challenge them, and push them, and, and, and, and...

Joan Westenberg: The block button is the ultimate source of dopamine. Use it It's your right to choose who you interact with digitally, and you don't need a detailed explanation for your choices. Your online space, your rules. Ideally our feeds would not have replies from people actively harassing us,

A new report on CSAM shows how platform dynamics are bringing bad actors together, years after a similar scandal unfolded at YouTube

A 14-year-old’s removal from YouTube illustrates the work platforms need to do as the world becomes more polarized. Meanwhile, the internet remains a dangerous place for isolated teens to be

I took a break after the Meta in Myanmar posts, partly because I was crispy and partly because of heavy family weather. Then, wonderfully, we got a

When I joined Yahoo, one of the biggest adjustments I had to make was to their use of “Web Services”. There, that phrase means any kind of machine-to-machine communication using HTTP; SOAP isn’t assumed (or preferred).

You just gotta read this article. Wonderful stuff in here. Normally I would simply link to the URL, but in all their wisdom, Linux Journal wants everyone to create an account before they can read this essay. WTF?!?!? Never mind that Doc Searls' thesis is about individual people helping individual people - and that this ...

Earlier this week I attended an off-the-record meeting (i.e., no blogging about the details of who was there and exactly what was said by whom) with a group of executives from various news and media organizations to discuss the future...

OK you should have spotted quite a few characters living on this post :) Originally there were 'video-real' talking, salesy character centered on the page courtesy of CLIVEvideo but I still talk about them more below. A few months ago I blogged about the new kid on the intranet block, those 'layered' social virtual worlds.

At my previous job my daily commute took me past 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco. This building is infamous for being the home of Room 641A, where a whistleblower, Mark Klein, revealed that the NSA had created a secret room and placed beam...

The Internet removed constraints from the analog world, and AI is finishing the job. That this may be the final blow for the Internet as a source for truth may ultimately be for the best.

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue on his new podcast, Dot Social: Decentralization isn't a feature in and of itself. And you know, I think it's tough when, if you build a product that's just a clone of a closed product and it's decentralized, so you should care about this. I think

Right-sizing workloads, upgrading to newer servers, and managing power consumption can help enterprises reach their data center sustainability goals.

The Ethernet protocol connects LANs, WANs, Internet, cloud, IoT devices, Wi-Fi systems into one seamless global communications network.

If you are having a problem with your AI not performing well enough for your specific needs, fine-tuning is the way to go. Fine-tuning…

A few functional programming principles give a systematic and repeatable process for developing code. In this post I show this process using a simple example of summing the elements of a list.

Santa's Big Secret 04 Dec 2023 | 6 min read I've got a little secret to tell you. I've been hiding a little something from you. Even...

“LinuxKit is NOT designed with an intention to replace any of traditional OS like Alpine, Ubuntu, Red Hat etc. It is an open-source toolbox for building fine-tuned Linux-based operating systems that run in containers and hence, lean, portable & secure out-of-the-box.”                           […]

There's a lot of missing county-level data for no good reason.

Decompose parts of your applications into event handlers, start up Machines to handle the events, and stop them when the event is done.