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Your approach seems interesting because it removes some of the barriers to entry for non-technical people.

That's a great example of adding features and feeding the complexity instead of offering what customers want.

These are great suggestions.

I'll write about it the next time I'm in a similar situation.

Great question.

As a consumer, you can set up an alert when any of your API requests has a deprecation or sunset HTTP header. You'd know immediately if any of the APIs you depend on is about to be deactivated.

I compared three open-source OpenAPI reference generators that work with Express.js almost out of the box.

There are APIs with more than 1,000 paths. However, most have less than 10.

That's a great point, and that's why I explicitly used the word suspicious. If you deploy a new version, then the tool you use to detect suspicious activity should take that into account.

And no, this is not a pitch. I don't work nor am endorsed by any of the services mentioned in the article.

You can always use a polyfill like this one: https://github.com/jonathantneal/fitie

Interesting solution but can't it be achieved with the object-fit CSS property?

Using `object-fit: cover` will make the video resize maintaining its aspect ratio and filling its entire box.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit for more info.

Working on API Changelog, a service that notifies you whenever any of the APIs you follow changes their documentation:

https://www.apichangelog.com/all

Thanks for sharing, Edward! Please send any feedback.

I know what makes it bad: http://nordicapis.com/5-reasons-why-developers-are-not-using...

You might also be interested in this article: http://apiux.com/2013/05/14/api-versioning/

E.g. testing an API method that creates a contact.

You'd need to craft fake names, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.

Fake names, phone numbers, addresses, etc.

"Lorem Ipsum" style data.

Great job!

You might want to prevent anyone from updating your data and influence the results by applying a document update validation function: http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/ddocs.html#validate-docume...

It's quite interesting to compare it to ProgrammableWeb API directory (http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory) which has 10,555 entries.

WordPress can render LaTeX since I can remember.

Example:

- http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?latex=\displaystyle%20w_{a,...

- or a simpler one: http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?latex=\frac{\pi}{2}&bg=ffff...

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Great stuff! Makes it really easy to offer human readable messages instead of HTTP codes in your app.

If you're just looking for HTTP codes, here's the link to the JSON file: https://github.com/andreineculau/know-your-http-well/blob/ma...

I'm not sure I understand your argument. I never said that the motivator was ending up with more money.

But yes, they will pay less taxes.

So, if their tax rate is 35%, every donated dollar costs them only 65 cents.

Interesting move by YC as a way of paying less taxes and helping nonprofits at the same time!

As written in the article, one of the advantages is avoiding things like the man-in-the-middle SSL exploit.

It's already available: http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-2/tb95neveln.pdf

Storing credentials in plain text is not something that you'd want to do if you want to prevent an attacker to easily access them.

Thanks for the feedback.

I can't replicate that problem but I'm going to investigate how you got those GET parameters on the link.

That's an interesting HTTP status codes cheat sheet.

What kind of data source? Can you be more specific?

If you're talking about Web APIs, you usually want to connect to an endpoint that gives you information about the user or the API.

Some APIs offer an 'echo' endpoint just for testing, other APIs offer an endpoint that provides information about the user account.

There are a few apps doing that already:

- http://www.bakoma-tex.com/ - http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi

Will it offer realtime rendering?