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Recommends Sophira · 2022-03 · on “Should you make an open API?”

Tom Scott made a wonderful video a while back about open APIs, and about how they (mostly) died out[0]. It's currently called "This Video Has 51,973,714 Views", and I personally believe it's a great watch. [0] [this video]

Recommends iamahackerguy · 2022-03 · on “Should you make an open API?”

Tom Scott made a wonderful video a while back about open APIs, and about how they (mostly) died out[0]. It's currently called "This Video Has 51,973,714 Views", and I personally believe it's a great watch. [0] [this video]

Cites cryptonector · 2020-06 · on “Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation”

Where to start... First, nowadays altering the DOM is way more responsive than loading a new page, so no one really wants HATEOAS -- not even users, but especially not the sites we like to visit because they don't want to put out public APIs anymore. For non-browser app APIs (public or private), well, they can be the same, just driven by JS when in-browser. This... is sad. But this is a fact of life now. Just watch Tom Scott explain why the APIs went away, and when the APIs went away, so did HATEOAS ( [this video] ). Second, there's a lot of APIs that needn't have anything more than one end-point -- no links to traverse, no HATEOAS. For example, a certification authority can take a CSR and authen

Cites badRNG · 2020-08 · on “Dependency”

Where I work, anything that is outside of the standard library and some certain security-approved dependencies requires a miserable approval process where an authorization package has to be submitted to security who will require upgrades anytime a CVE with a high enough assessed criticality is posted for the dependency (or other concerns regarding the source arise.) This approval is revisited on a regular period (or added to the standard list of approved dependencies.) The net effect is that there isn't dependency creep where any team can just continuously add dependencies to a project without their ongoing justification and visibility. For personal projects, I'm very liberal with using depe

Cites dwrodri · 2021-08 · on “Yahoo Pipes”

Check out IFTTT ( [LINK] ) or Huginn ( [LINK] ). They're similar but not quite. An underlying assumption with Yahoo Pipes was that interesting places on the Internet would offer APIs which have a developer UX that matches or exceeds the quality of their official UI. A mixture of unprofitability and abuse lead to this no longer being the case. Tom Scott's essay here: [this video]

Cites willis936 · 2021-08 · on “A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff”

Obligatory link to the Tom Scott video on free APIs. There's a lot of common knowledge there, but his discussion on free APIs seems relevant. I've been burned by having hobbyist projects break from free APIs getting turned off. [this video]

Cites dpz · 2022-11 · on “Yahoo Pipes”

Any mention of Yahoo Pipes always makes me think of Tom Scott's "This video has x views". Feels quite relevant to other comments people have been making here. [this video]

Cites ksec · 2023-12 · on “Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes”

Everytime I see Yahoo Pipes I remember the video [1] from Tom Scott about programming. ( The video title view count is updated in as close to real time as possible ) [1] This Video Has 69,187,812 Views [this video] A lot of what I thought were good, accessible, productive, entry to middle level technology ( HyperCards. Yahoo Pipes. Flash, Delphi etc ) never gained enough market. They were all the sort of middle ground good enough options. Instead technology is often filtered from the top end extreme. So everyone tries to use what Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft are using. Because those tools are deemed as what Professional should use. The only rare exception that is powering most of the word