Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

Andy, Matty, Denis, and Cody kept me moving and safely working out at home in 2022. My Peloton year in review.

“But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.” —Patrick Geddes

I remember the night I visited San Francisco months before I lived there and left a voicemail for Arthur: “I feel like I’ve reached a magical intersection of time and space where I can resonate.”

I love that I get to legitimately say, “Of course I’m precisely on time. I’m a Swede,” now.

“APIs are as much about hiding complexity as they are about exposing capability.” —Mehdi Medjaoui

“The public doesn’t understand their city’s complexity and they don’t care about it. Similarly, users don’t care about your system’s complexity. They’re not internal to your organization. It’s not their job.” —@civicunrest

#APIDaysParis #APIs #DX

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@seldo one of the best tweeters (and friend) ever

@civicunrest for civic tech stuff

@Techmeme my favorite tech news curator

@hn500 orange site tech news curation without having to visit the orange site

#APIDaysParis @civicunrest on APIs transforming govt:

• City govts all do similar things, but tools/practices vary greatly for no good reason. They reinvent because there hasn’t been a better way.
• Most govt APIs so far focused on exposing data, not capabilities
• Legislation, internal needs and policies, and product innovation (competing with private sector) are changing this!
• Early progress in cooperatively built/maintained software, investment in open source components, and data standards

Quotes from Erik Wilde’s talk at #APIDaysParis

“Nobody wants APIs. They want to get stuff done. Everyone needs APIs, but APIs are not the important thing. The important thing is the capability we wrap in the API.”

“If you wrap something super duper useful in a badly designed API, people will still use it! They won’t be happy, but they’ll still use it.”

Erik reached same conclusion I did about developer experience. #DX is important, but does not matter as much as API providers want to believe.

If you have a productive, hacking cough do 👏 not 👏 attend 👏 a conference in-person. You are a biohazard. JFC… Did the pandemic not teach y’all anything‽

#APIDaysParis

Getting squeezed by Google Maps and Apple Maps, a consortium of relegated players sees openness as a key differentiator with the creation of the Overture Maps Foundation.

Great to see Linux Foundation taking on data, not just code, but big questions about how ‘free as in speech and beer’ this will be.

https://venturebeat.com/virtual/creating-the-ultimate-smart-map-with-new-map-data-initiative-launched-by-linux-foundation/

Scaling is the new API challenge for banking-as-a-service.

“‘Embedded finance’ will lead to more hypermedia style APIs.” —John Phenix, Lead API, Integration and BaaS Architect at HSBC

Embedding a bank’s UI into a partner app does not feel seamlessly integrated.

Getting partner to write complex UIs negates the ease of working with a banking partner.

A partner rendering its own UI based on the bank’s logic is the winning solution for best end UX and low integration effort.

#APIDaysParis

The data and API governance practices described at L'Oréal seem more mature than anything I saw at Spotify and Stripe. I took a photo of nearly every slide they presented. So much great stuff.

#APIDaysParis