What bonds a team together is shipping software that is used

https://matthewreinbold.com/2021/11/01/PolarityMappingAndAPIGovernance

We tend to say that people were happier in the past because life was simpler. Do you agree with this view? It is an idealization of the past as we ignore the testimonies and experiences of the misery that plagued people. If we turn to classical literature, we will find that the past is much darker than the present. On the other hand, the present has such bright lights that it often causes vertigo.

My favorite question to ask hiring managers, “Can you tell me about someone you have promoted in recent years?”. https://x.com/1sprintatatime/status/1820909764752372191?t=ke7vyfHAFSvCrZ48sO_Brg&s=19

The value of the filter query parameter is an expression involving the fields of the resource that produces a Boolean value. This expression is evaluated for each resource in the collection, and only items where the expression evaluates to true are included in the response. https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/azure/Guidelines.md#filter

API documentation can be so much more than API documentation. [It] can be the thread connecting all the stages of the API consumer lifecycle. https://notes.brunopedro.com/2024/06/27/20240627230846/

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a specification for how electronic data should be encrypted that was published by the National Insitute for Standards in Technology (NIST) in the U.S. in 2001 https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/privacy/illustrated-guide-advanced-encryption-standard?utm_medium=email&utm_source=marketo&mkt_tok=MTk5LVFERS0yOTEAAAGTfWHXbMeay5dEA78XJDcrELbG96ewhrXEctQc2eHKwAZXhDiPTQAc3VfKce7JKG_WxHuTk8JSwgDCi3K26nb3Zo9UfC7qi7F7eGy_k_KMJVVombQ

When you disagree with someone in words while being truly agreeable in demeanor, many people will match your conduct. They will discuss with you rather than attack you.

A list of key finding to illustrate the impact of AIP Guidelines in the areas of API consumption and API production: API Production: Increased Requirement Fulfillment: A controlled developer experiment showed that developers using API Improvement Proposals (AIPs) and an API linter achieved a 10% higher requirement fulfillment rate compared to those without any protocols. Feedback Utility: Among developers using the linter tool alongside AIPs, 75% found it beneficial, aiding significantly in refining their API designs.

Challenges in API usability, as highlighted by Scaffidi [18] and [16], include inadequate documentation, insufficient orthogonality, and mismatches between API abstractions and application requirements. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3650803