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An API can be up, fast, and still break every client that depends on it. A field changes from an object to an array. An optional property disappears. A path is renamed in the OpenAPI document.
A readiness endpoint for a Node.js metering service should report the last verified capability state, not call the account API on every probe.
Singapore is already one of the world’s most crowded AV markets.
Digital note-taking has an awkward size problem. A phone is easy to carry but cramped for handwriting and document markup, while a 10-inch tablet gives you more room at the cost of becoming another…
It’s the best version of the most successful product ever made. And yet by nature of *how* the iPhone 18 Pro improved in the last year, it’s not exciting at all.
Two weeks ago I wrote about a webhook receiver that can be slow and flaky on purpose. A reader left a comment that changed how I think about it: "a 10% error rate tells me my sender retries.
