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Paraphrasing a known saying, "there's no API, it's just someone else's computer". I wish programmers would internalize this. They often seem to take APIs uncri
by RicoElectrico 2y ago
Paraphrasing a known saying, "there's no API, it's just someone else's computer".
I wish programmers would internalize this. They often seem to take APIs uncritically, not questioning whose resources they're using and where does the data come from as well as its quality beyond obvious cases. APIs are leaky abstractions as all abstractions are.
- qup 2y agoAPIs can be hosted locally. In fact, I think most of them are.
- croes 2y agoAPI doesn't mean someone's else's computer.
- amiga386 2y agoBut all the APIs in this collection of free public APIs are on someone else's computer. Hence testing them daily to see if the someone else is still offering them.
- ruthmarx 2y ago> APIs are leaky abstractions as all abstractions are. Not all abstractions are leaky. Not at all.
- bbkane 2y agoDo you have any favorite non-leaky abstractions?
- schwartzworld 2y agoThat’s “there’s no cloud”. Of course there are APIs.