07
Aug
This is a rewrite of an older post of mine (this one). It bothers me that a lot of people explaining APIs throw around loads of confusing, meaningless buzzwords, to an otherwise easily explainable topic. It feels like these people are just trying to sound smart instead of explaining APIs. The reason why this post could also be called "Everything's a Lie" is because a lot of what we'll be doing is proving that most things you see around about APIs are just lies. In this post, we'll explore the meaning and reasoning behind the idea of an API, see…