Explains the concept of statelessness in REST APIs, contrasting it with stateful systems and detailing its benefits for scalability.
Key insights on API design and compatibility from Addy Osmani's lessons at Google, emphasizing that compatibility is a core product feature.
A weekly link dump covering API design comparisons, software development philosophy, Maven 4 updates, leadership insights, and AI's impact on coding.
Explores the design and type-safety of compound components in React, discussing when they are and aren't the right pattern.
A developer's perspective on building effective design systems, focusing on API design, developer experience, and team collaboration.
The author refactors libdav to use a new Requests API with a builder pattern and updates vstorage to use a streaming API for synchronization.
Analyzes LLM APIs as a distributed state synchronization problem, critiquing their abstraction and proposing a mental model based on token and cache state.
C# 14 introduces extension members, allowing developers to add properties and static members to existing types, not just methods.
Argues that generic Tooltip components in design systems are flawed and proposes better, more accessible alternatives for web development.
Learn how to officially deprecate methods in Node.js libraries using the built-in `util.deprecate` function to provide runtime warnings.
A developer discusses the dangers of assuming code won't change or be misunderstood, advocating for defensive programming practices.
A developer shares Q&A from his SwiftLeeds talk on SDK development best practices, covering API design, monetization, and feature flags.
A technical analysis of Claude Code's WebFetch and WebSearch tools, detailing their internal architecture and processing pipelines.
A Google Chrome engineer reflects on his 11-year career working on web standards and APIs, and announces his retirement.
Explores how developers must now design tools for both human users and AI agents, discussing the rise of AI experience (AIEx) alongside developer experience (DevEx).
Explores how tech debt in infrastructure code creates a self-perpetuating 'flywheel' effect, making it extremely costly and difficult to fix.
A developer rants about building accessible web components while creating open-source components to display Bluesky likes using its open API.
Explores using function arities as a pseudo-protocol in Clojure's Flow library, comparing it to traditional protocol-based design.
A product manager argues against excessive documentation, explaining why linking unrelated features can create clutter and maintenance issues.
A guide to designing reliable, production-grade Kubernetes controllers and avoiding common API design pitfalls.
