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Not just browser extensions. I miss an API in all kind of software we use at work. No wonder the half of the companys in this world run on excel.
by _trampeltier 7y ago
Not just browser extensions. I miss an API in all kind of software we use at work.
No wonder the half of the companys in this world run on excel.
- quickthrower2 7y agoI am seriously considering learning emacs. As a lazy IDE guy, it feels like yak shaving and a lot of work, but I can sort of see how having that much control over your environment would be great, and setting up some cool workflows to make stuff quick and easy in the long run.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoMe too. It's a thought I keep repeating that is probably worth expanding into an article - modern software eschews interoperability, and in particular, SaaS is based on preventing interoperability. What used to be a desktop application operating on an independent source of data (filesystem) now vacuums the data and offers it back over an official interface and an extremely limited and locked-down API. Wrt. those APIs, note that what just a decade ago on desktop was considered normal interop, nowadays often requires the interoperating parties to sign contracts, adding a legal dimension that further shuts out end users.