OpenLint: picking up where Spectral left off
In an age of relentless slop, it's never been more important to protect your API ecosystems with automated style guides, and whilst Spectral has slowed down, OpenLint is about to hit the ground running.
OpenAPI is Coming For Us All
In this dispatch of the newsletter: Arrazo is adding SOAP, an interview with Tabstack, Cloudflare Forge, Overlays 1.2.0, Interactive API Testing, and more!
OpenLint: picking up where Spectral left off
In an age of relentless slop, it's never been more important to protect your API ecosystems with automated style guides, and whilst Spectral has slowed down, OpenLint is about to hit the ground running.
Giving Models an API for the Web, with Tabstack
Podcast host Mike talks to Tessa and Steve from Tabstack about building an API that gives standalone models access to the web.
Stop the bloat: Clarity is Kindness
Why generate many word when few word do trick? Also: Golang's new JSON API, Restify 12, The Consensus API, introspect-mcp, and more!
APIs Are Having a Moment
With MCPs driving all kinds of rich functionality, APIs are having a real moment. Also in this newsletter: An Arazzo primer, MCP and OpenAPI, and a Hono deep-dive
Throwaway Tooling
In this edition of the newsletter: burnout in Open Source, GraphQL is governance, Fastify v6, Openapi.tools, and supply chain attacks, oh my!
Quick: Expose Every Endpoint!
When LLMs make code generation faster, how should API devs find the balance between speed and quality? Also in this newsletter: httpretty, Spectral gets forked, and the API Report Card
Extending OpenAPI
One of OpenAPI's unsung heroes is its ability to be extended elegantly. Also in this dispatch: Gin, the HTTP framework for Go, Upyo for sending email, Leaf Wiki, and the HTTP OPTIONS method.
Query Is Here
A fresh new HTTP method makes a big splash in the API world. Also in this newsletter, OpenAPI Python, GraphQL 17, Portman, and API Governance with OpenAPI
Go Faster with HeyAPI
Hey API's modern approach to building typesafe apis, PatchBay's list of useful APIs, Oxide's Drift, an editorial on the state of work, and more!
All Devtools Die
Sunsetting is the most often overlooked part of the product lifecycle; nothing we use is permanent. In this newsletter: Stainless acquired by Anthropic, Arazzo 1.1, Fiber for Golang, and more!
Save Money and use APIs
Navigating a website using APIs is many times more efficient than an LLM thrash through tokens - so why isn't it more popular? Also in this newsletter: Fastify + OpenAPI, an HTTPS benchmarking tool, Voiden, and more!