Tag: apis
4 posts
Steal these ideas to build new products
Pouring through an extensive list of publicly accessible APIs to find new ideas for your next product.
đź’Ś Tiny Improvements - for builders, by @MikeBifulco.com
mikebifulco.com
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Mar 11, 2025
Effective interfaces decouple clients from the encapsulated implementation
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Jacob Bennett
jacob.blog
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Feb 15, 2025
Postel's Law
Why 'be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept' still shapes APIs and parsers, and where it breaks.
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Jacob Bennett
jacob.blog
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May 18, 2020
What makes an API simple?
Explores the tradeoffs in API design between minimal request inputs and richer contextual data. Argues that 'simple' should mean simple to use correctly, not just simple to look at. When an API encapsulates business logic, shifting complexity onto the API can reduce errors for consumers.
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Aug 30, 2019