Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on May. 11, 2022
OpenAPI v3.1.0 has a bunch of great changes, solving problems like the subtle differences between JSON Schema objects and OpenAPI Schema objects, and adds support for Webhooks. Upgrading tooling can be tricky, but this should be a lot easier than the jump from v2 to v3.0. To reduce the workload we’…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Jan. 1, 2022
Around this time of year we’re thinking about things we’re going to do differently, new practices we’ve been putting off for too long, and mistakes we want to avoid continuing into another year. For many of us in the API world, that is going to be switching to API Design-first, using standards like…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Dec. 19, 2020
In the middle of 2018 in NYC I was going through some rough burnout. I’d been working my ass off at a corporation I’d panicked into after two startups prior had gone bankrupt. I was refactoring a huge API ecosystem which was a house of cards, built on sand, made out of soft cheese, yet also somehow…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Oct. 26, 2020
As the science-denial perpetrated omnishambles of 2020 continues, COVID-19 rages on whilst Europe gets hit by deadly storms and flash floods, wildfires are big enough to be called “gigafires”, the Arctic refuses to freeze for the first time on record, thousands are displaced by flooding in Vietnam,…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Oct. 15, 2020
I use gatsby-remark-oembed by Benedicte Raae, because it makes embedding Tweets, Instagram posts, YouTube videos, etc in Phil.Tech and Phil.Bike as simple as pasting in the URL. If it's hot, sit under a tree. If it's cold, put your jacket on. If it's raining, keep riding until you find somewhere dr…
Written by Phil Sturgeon
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on Aug. 19, 2020
OpenAPI has come a long way since its nascent days as Swagger. It’s got excellent tooling, is talked about at all the conferences, is used by governments, major banks, healthcare providers, GitHub, Stripe, all sorts. Everyone is using it to bring the benefits of a type system to the world of REST,…