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Although most APIs are built to connect internal components, there's a shift toward more externalization and monetization of public APIs.

Some engineers develop a strong point of view that meetings are a waste of their time. There’s good reason for that perspective, as many meetings are quite bad, but it’s also a bit myopic: meetings can also be an exceptionally valuable part of a well-run organization. If you’re getting feedback that any given meeting isn’t helpful, then iterate on it, and consider pausing it for the time being. It may not be useful for your organization yet, but don’t give up on the idea of meetings.

Don't expect to see any more big AIX news. This means the last Unix left is… Linux

Software is hungry. Feed it.

I started my career in programming during heydays of Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE). This was late 90s/early 00s, and there was a rich ecosystem of enterprise vendors hawking application servers, monitoring tools, and boxes upon boxes of other fancy solutions. These tools were difficult to learn, expensive to license, and required an a...

I’ve recently been real fascinated by the topic of complexity and what keeps us from keeping software simple. The wider net likes to blame “lazy programmers”...

Brief attempts at what is web

The delivery icon hasn’t changed in 60 years, and it’s making your food worse.

Coffee Choices and the Decoy Effect. Have you every bought a coffee and been ‘bedazzled’ into getting a bigger or frothier one than you’d planned? “It just seemed sooooohhh …

Always remind yourself that enterprise or corporate development is not boring and stodgy, rather impressively tough to do well.

Endpoints The following data products are available as restful endpoints. These services are available in RSS and JSON formats.

I am fascinated with cultivating the hashtags that come through my Mastodon instances. I have two domains setup. Kin Lane and API Evangelist. My personal one is more photos, libraries, travel, outdoors, where my professional one is APIs, data, platforms, and protocols. Once you start following, following, posting, and engaging with other instances, your hashtag trends begin to evolve and you end up with a pretty robust list of topics that people associate with their posts.

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

Today let’s think out loud about TikTok, perhaps the most vexing and fascinating expression of Big Tech power since Google in the early 2000s. I’ve written about TikTok several times, a…

This article will teach you the distinction between init and systemd and their allies, as well as how and why this controversy arose.

Open Food Network (OFN) is a network of small-scale farmers and shops dedicated to improving how food is sold and delivered to people.

Software design decisions should be time-aware.

Testing doesn’t need much of an introduction. Yeah, it’s important; Yeah you probably write/refactor tests every day. Although testing itself is pretty obvious, there are many pitfalls to actua

James Gosling prefers using recursion over arrays, and other secrets of Java's founding father.

The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the last half-century.

We aren't there yet, but maybe one day we will harness AI the way we harnessed the atom -- or as a more recent example, the Internet. Will we continue pretending AI is some kind of magic we can't possibly understand... Or will we peer into the black box?

This is my personal wiki where I share everything I know about this world in form of an online wiki built with Docusaurus on GitHub.

ChatGPT can carry on a conversation, but the most important goal for artificial intelligence is making it understand what it means to have a mind.