It took nearly 18 months, but here it is! A step by step guide to designing REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Async APIs. I’m so thankful to @VaughnVernon for the opportunity to pull together over a decade of API coaching into a single resource

I continue to be amazed at how ahead of his time Da Vinci was.. REST architecture by DaVinci 👏

According to this map, Texas is so big that you can fit a Texas between Waco and Austin

Yep. I still have a chapter or two on floppy from a book I co-authored in 1997 for Que Publishing

The ending for the TV series Continuum. No spoilers, but it is both beautiful and heartbreaking

Voyager 1. Engineered for decades. Meanwhile, my X feed is all about loops.

What happens when Amazon decides to reboot The Mummy 👇

It is the mid 2000s. I'm pitching a web app idea. I'm connected to a VC and we meet for coffee. He listens for five minutes, calls a colleague, who was nearby and joins us within 10 min. They listen patiently. Then they recommend that I "just build it" without VC. Why? Because the multiplier isn't enough for them. However, they know the idea would be valuable to a specific niche market. They tell me of a group in Chicago building something similar and releasing their underlying framework called Rails. It will help launch the idea without all of the overhead and time required with Java or .NET. So I built it. I launched it. While it didn't make millions, it gave me deep insight into launching a web app in the web 2.0 era, all as a side hustle. The VCs were right. I didn't need their money. I needed a bigger idea. I needed to execute first. So I did. Sometimes the best thing you can get is a "no" to kick you in the back side and get moving. It also proves that some VCs first want to help others, while some see you first as a money multiplier.

Amazon doesn't know how to produce and manage content and IP anymore. It is so bad, they have opted to hire leadership from Netflix - the only other place that manages to be worse than Amazon. So no, no property or IP is safe at Amazon under current leadership

That's because there were no electronics around to record it

Amazon pitching the reasons for why they cancelled the new Stargate show

Alderaan shot first

Well Amazon, I guess it will be O’Neilll (with 3 L’s) by the time you get done with it?

Easy fix: Spencer Gifts Stadium

> Claude, this wasn’t confidential “You are absolutely right. In the process of staying confidential, I accidentally released the information.”

Lemonade Stand on the Apple ][

Appliance errata

I’m sure she’s ready to finally land after 66 years in the air

I’m seeing more and more of these kind of posts. It points out a fundamental aspect of exposing LLMs directly to users: If this prompt is typed into the model vendor’s chat interface, you assign the blame to the model vendor and hope the model team improves it in the future. If you type this into a search engine, the search engine vendor takes the blame with an assumption that the entire product experience is now broken.

Yes, AI detectors are a scam. So much so that I was accused of using AI for some tech writing. I checked various detectors, received all sorts of results from very little chance to 90%. I then asked what they used, adjusted the copy to game the detector into better results, then I wrapped the engagement and dropped them as a client. That person no longer works there