API Strategy & Practice Conference
I’m excited to be speaking at the first API Strategy and Practice Conference this November 1-2 in New York City. Speaking and sponsorship opportunities are still available. You can learn more on the...
View ArticleSuper Hexagon (iTunes)
Super Hexagon is deceivingly simple. It looks easy, but it’s probably the hardest game I’ve played on iOS (lasting 60 seconds is a good score). Perfect casual game with great music. If you get dizzy...
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A conversation with Steve Marx
I’ve wanted to record the kinds of conversations I have with the interesting people in tech I meet and Steve Marx of Site44 and Webscript.io fame (and formerly of Microsoft Windows Azure fame) was...
View ArticleX-Callback Header: Evented Web Building Block by @progrium
The X-Callback header is a proposal for a common way to describe HTTP callbacks, primarily in the case of registering them. Great proposal from my former Twilio colleague Jeff Lindsay for instructing...
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Craving Conversation
Twitter is my water cooler. I blow off steam, talk about what I’m working on, learn new things from others, etc. For the first few years I spent using the service it seemed like every night there was...
View ArticleTraffic and Weather: My new Cloud/API Podcast
Steve Marx and I had such a great time with the conversation I posted here that we decided to do it every week. Check out Traffic and Weather, a (mostly) weekly news and commentary podcast about all...
View ArticleBox API v2: Less is More
Box has updated their API to version 2 and has simplified it along the way. The highlights: Consistent request/response models Convention-based attribute names (please do this in your APIs) No more...
View Article2012 API Community Survey
I (via API Jobs) teamed up with Programmable Web, Mashery, 3scale and Layer7 to survey the API community landscape. One lucky participant will win an 11” MacBook Air or Surface Pro. If you’ve built or...
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Runscope
I’m very excited to announce that I have co-founded a company. If you use APIs in your mobile or web applications request an invite to our early preview. We’re still very early in this and will be...
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Age
This post is a little more personal and not at all technical. I realized I’ve been wanting to write about this for awhile. On the latest episode of Hanselminutes two of my favorite internet friends had...
View ArticleThe Good and the Bad of OAuth 2.0 Authorization Implementations
While testing out a new tool I’m working on that uses a variety of OAuth2 providers and thought I’d catalog some of the quirks I came across. This is just for the authorization flow, not for actually...
View ArticleAuthentication: Don’t be Clever
My contribution to the new API UX blog: By using standardized, common authentication schemes you can reduce the cognitive overhead for the developer consuming your API and avoid getting into...
View ArticleDesigning APIs for Humans
Earlier this month I gave a talk at Devs Love Bacon on an API design philosophy I picked up while working at IFTTT I’ve been calling ‘APIs for Humans’. Sadly, it’s not about this: OH at @devslovebacon...
View ArticleAPI Digest 2.0
Today I’m happy to release a brand new API Digest. Previously the digest was email-only. Starting today all links will be available via apidigest.com and @APIDigest on Twitter and App.net. You can also...
View ArticleLaunched
Today we opened the doors on Runscope, our new set of tools for debugging, testing and inspecting your API integrations. In addition to that, we announced that we’ve received a seed round investment of...
View ArticleAPI Changelog: API Documentation Change Notifications
My company Runscope just launched this free service for tracking and sending notifications for changes to the docs for 23 popular APIs including Facebook, Twitter, Stripe, Twilio, Dropbox and more....
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I, Revolution: OAuth is awesome, OAuth is horrible.
From my co-founder Frank Stratton: Photo: Micro Ecosystem by Pierre Pocs Introduction After writing the Runscope API, and several OAuth API clients to other services. I’ve finally had some time to...
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A Survey of the Localhost Proxying Landscape
In late 2009, soon after coining the term ‘webhooks’ and starting to evangelize them to the world, Jeff Lindsay ran into a problem. I had another idea while thinking about webhooks. It would be great...
View ArticleHow Runscope raised a $1.1M seed round without customers, revenue or even a...
I’ve been seeing a lot of posts lately on how to raise money from venture capitalists for your startup. I used to gobble that stuff up, reading any and every post I could to try to glean any insight I...
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Everything is a remix; making the best use of conventions to build Runscope.
One of the most influential books of my software career is Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think. While the book is a little dated now, it contains a plethora of software design gems. The one that stuck...
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