On my newsletter, yesterday, I connected the demise of Stack Overflow to the rise of GenAI, and how that pattern contributes to the loss of the messy, inefficient, and essential making of "common practice": https://netapinotes.com/from-shared-knowledge-to-private-answers/
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Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis is often framed as a political or law-enforcement story. It is also, unavoidably, a software story.
This article looks at how familiar technical patterns - API access, identity resolution, data enrichment, and permissive authorization models -enable surveillance and intimidation at scale. Not through exotic technology, but through ordinary, well-designed systems doing exactly what they were built to do.
https://netapinotes.com/accountability-apis-and-the-united-states-of-surveillance/ #APIs #uspol #minneapolis #msp
I know everyone's LinkedIn is different, but my feed has been swamped with #MCP (model control protocol) conversation. While there is a role for #APIs in today's #AI agentic buzz, there's more to what's happening than meets the eye. I cut through the claims, and try to see the situation clearly in this, the 250th edition of Net API Notes:
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Dark Sky is gone. NOAA continues to be cut. And yet, one guy rebuilt a weather API used by 40K+ devs & 80M+ requests/month — in his spare time.
This is a story about resilience, infrastructure, and kindness as punk rock.
📰 The Indie API Forecasting Your Future
🔗 https://netapinotes.com/the-indie-api-forecasting-your-future/
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