API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
About API Evangelist
API Evangelist has worked for the last 15 years to make sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs, profiling public and private APIs and distilling down knowledge into a regular cadence of API storytelling, and weekly knowledge building sessions focused on schema, APIs, governance, operations, change, and evangelism.
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Is OpenAPI Still Relevant When You Tell Claude "Make Me an API"?
I hear a version of this question constantly now, and it is usually asked with a little smirk: if I can just tell Claude “make me an API” and it does, why do I still need OpenAP...
Fern Puts SDK Design Decisions In The Contract
Nineteen keys in the x-fern- namespace, thirteen providers. Square, Webflow, AssemblyAI, Pipedream, SignalWire, HelloSign, Method Financial, Vital, Instabase, NewsCatcher, Eon, ...
Agent Resource Discovery (ARD): Sixty-Two Companies Declared An OpenAPI. They Spelled It Eleven Ways.
There is a new file companies are starting to put on their domain, and almost nobody has noticed it yet. It is called an AI Catalog manifest, it lives at a well-known URL, and i...
Mintlify Does A Lot With One OpenAPI Extension
After a week of writing about vocabularies with nineteen and thirty-six keys, Mintlify is a relief. There is essentially one: x-mint. It appears in twenty-eight providers, 881 t...
Microsoft Works In The Open With 70,000 Engineers. You Can Publish Your API Documentation.
I have written twice recently about the two excuses I hear most often when I walk a company through their public API presence. The first is that they have partner APIs, not publ...
Understanding Our Relationship With Technology
API Evangelist has been working to understand our relationship with Internet technology for the last fifteen years, but it has primarily been focused on understanding the producers of the technology, where moving forward I am more interested in understanding the consumers of not just APIs, but the applications they build on top of APIs.
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