I'm on Fallthrough: APIs: Design Imperfectly, Improve Relentlessly

A couple of weeks ago, I joined the lovely Kris Brandow and Ian Wester-Lopshire on the Fallthrough podcast to talk some more about API design.

As I mentioned in I'm on Fallthrough: An Exploration of APIs, Versioning, & HTTP this was a planned follow-up, as we didn't quite chat through everything we'd planned to.

And in a similar vein, we're also talking about at least one more follow up 👀 One of the great things about the topic of building + maintaining APIs is that there's so much and that's why we want to do some more episodes.

This was a fun episode, and I enjoyed ~an hour of pre- and post-show chat too 💜

Another tidbit of behind-the-scenes knowledge was that the day before I was walking Cookie and had my phone voice recording while I talked through (to myself) thoughts for the show, but it wasn't until ~an hour later, that I found it was recording the inside of my pocket, not from my headphones so I lost some good thoughts, but hopefully remembered enough.

I was very excited to share an unpop (which I teased Ian and Kris with ahead of recording) that had the potential to be 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Also fun: I got promoted to Guest Co-Host 🚀

I'd kinda hoped that I'd be able to get a blog post written about API design + some more in-depth thoughts I had (that we didn't get a chance to dig into / in as much detail) but hopefully in the next week or so 🤞🏼

And I'd like to leave it on the closing words from Kris, which I absolutely love:

Build with what you've got