"Documentation can kill an API. It's the most important thing influencing its quality. It's the very first thing consumers interact with."
apichangelog.substack.com/p/making-api...
Build the API that solves the needs of specific people.
If your job was to know when to hit the semicolon key on the keyboard, I'm sad to say that's not an employable skill anymore.
If you shape ideas into tools and art via code, it's really so much better than ever now, and I don't see that changing soon.
API Governance should be a lever, not a barrier.
Continuous user research is at the core of API product management.
Most teams obsess over the business case but ignore production readiness.
notes.brunopedro.com/2026/03/03/2...
"Whether it is OpenAI slashing latency with WebSockets, 0x enabling AI-driven cross-chain commerce, or Mutual of Omaha turning months of insurance paperwork into days of digital synchronization, the theme is the same: the removal of friction."
apichangelog.substack.com/p/2026-09
"Whether it is OpenAI slashing latency with WebSockets, 0x enabling AI-driven cross-chain commerce, or Mutual of Omaha turning months of insurance paperwork into days of digital synchronization, the theme is the same: the removal of friction."
apichangelog.substack.com/p/2026-09
"In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it."
www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
Weekend...
Local-first Conf is back, and this year Ink & Switch will be hosting a one day "Lab Day" adjacent to the event. See you there!
When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz.
Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂
d3js.org
I've been trying it myself, thinking about how I can make it part of the visual editor.
"A workflow that can't be executed remotely feels like a loss of potential. I mean, you can still trigger it manually, or even execute it periodically. However, there's no way for it to receive programmatic requests from the outside world."
apichangelog.substack.com/p/exposing-w...
"Developers could never consistently code for eight solid hours a day without getting exhausted"
notes.brunopedro.com/2026/02/27/2...
Fragments: how organizations are using AI, reflections from the Utah retreat, agentic engineering patterns, inserting friction for security, training biological neural networks
martinfowler.com/fragments/20...
Yesterday I gave a talk at the local-first online meetup in which I explore how local-first can help support technological sovereignty in an age of geopolitical tensions youtu.be/81rQgLLxnGU?...
"What are the real-life, physical things you think AI can be good at controlling?"
This is the question I asked in June 2025, leading to the discovery of a few interesting cases.
How have things changed since then?
apichangelog.substack.com/p/connecting...
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What have companies like Kong, Solace, Polymarket, KNOREX, and Odynn been up to last week?
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"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.
I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
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This looks very interesting. It's a part of the Ad Context Protocol.
"The Brand Protocol enables brands to claim their identity and establish a verifiable source of truth through a standardized discovery mechanism."
docs.adcontextprotocol.org/docs/brand-p...
Weekend...
Over on dead-Twitter, @geoffreylitt.com asked the following question last week:
"I desperately need a Matt Levine style explanation of how OAuth works. What is the historical cascade of requirements that got us to this place?"
Here's my attempt at an answer: leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:3v...
Now, I can share this openly: I’ve been working on @micepe.io as a side project for several months.
The time has come 👇
linkedin.com/feed/update/...
@aaif.io 👋
"As enterprises embrace agentic AI architectures, there’s a natural temptation to expose every API as a tool for AI agents via protocols like the MCP. This is a mistake."
blogs.mulesoft.com/artificial-i...
