"Dieter Rams designed the Vitsoe 606 universal shelving system in 1960, when he was 28." notes.brunopedro.com/2025/12/01/2...

Six months ago, I joined New_ Public to help build a new social platform for local communities. Today, I could't be more excited and proud to share what our amazing little team has cooked up, and is launching in closed beta this week. Learn more at joinroundabout.com

TOMORROW: Join me live at noon ET to discuss: What Makes Experience, Product, and Corporate Visions Different You’ll discover how to craft a compelling vision that inspires your stakeholders to deliver great user experiences. RSVP at Leaders of Awesomeness: https://leaders.centercentre.com/

Weekend...

"Behind the scenes, MCP uses JSON-RPC, which, by definition, exposes operations, not resources or data like other API styles do. Since workflows are sequences of operations, it makes total sense to use MCP tools inside them. Is that already possible?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/using-mcp-...

Contributing to the open source ecosystem is much more than altruism — it's a smart strategy with real business benefits. Check out the latest DirectorPlus via @leaddev.com, featuring great insights from Manik Surtani, Block's head of open source! leaddev.com/hiring/open-...

"Behind the scenes, MCP uses JSON-RPC, which, by definition, exposes operations, not resources or data like other API styles do. Since workflows are sequences of operations, it makes total sense to use MCP tools inside them. Is that already possible?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/using-mcp-...

As part of preparing for #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver March 2026, we're republishing the videos from Seattle March 2025, along with transcripts. Here's @blaine.bsky.social, Network Punk, Welcome to the Jungle.

API prototyping needs mock data. APIs that don't deliver what consumers need are bound to fail. How can you, the designer, align all expectations before implementing an API? See what is common between the artist Dana Schutz, Apple, and your API. apichangelog.substack.com/p/why-api-mo...

"Some people defend that AI agents should be given a set of pre-configured workflows instead of opening access to all possible combinations of operations. But, is that approach something you can even call agentic?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/full-api-m...

Weekend...

A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of science’s biggest questions: how life begins. Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.

"'No AI without APIs' doesn’t make sense. At least in a world where agents don’t need to communicate with the outside. You can have all the APIs you want. If your AI system can’t reach them, they’re useless." apichangelog.substack.com/p/the-mcp-re...

Some news to share today: Earlier this year, we started our publishing company and released our first title, Bootstrapping Computing. The full-color paperback is available for preorder now, and will be released on December 1.

Excited to share that @fmvilas.me (creator of AsyncAPI) has joined Hookdeck as VP & GM of Outpost. He's leading our mission to standardize event delivery infrastructure through open source and the Event Destinations standard. hookdeck.com/blog/fran-m...

"No AI without APIs" doesn't make sense.

“Design is the method of putting form and content together.” —Paul Rand The form will follow. Start with the content.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Ref designobserver.com/thoughts-on-...

Times of fragmentation call for a legible sense of order. We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment. A preview of what's inside ->

What if you could query the official MCP registry from inside the Arazzo Visual Editor? This demo shows how easy it is to find the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server you want to use on your Arazzo workflow. By using the official MCP registry, you can quickly find the MCP server you're looking for.

"How can you tell a machine it needs to use two or more operations to fulfill a full use case? How do you explain that those operations need to be executed in a sequence? What if one or more of those operations fail?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/machine-or...

The official MCP server registry now has an API! Today, we look at how to call this helpful RESTful API to find MCP servers and even publish your own server with the open-source directory.

The newest book from Long Now cofounder @stewartbrand.bsky.social is now available from @stripepress.bsky.social. Brand explores why taking responsibility for maintaining something—a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act. Preorder here: press.stripe.com/maintenance-...

What happened to Google's "API Registry API?" It looks like it's not being actively maintained. github.com/apigee/regis...

"Whatever the goals of the business are, to have alignment, the API needs to support them. To say that a workflow embodies alignment is to say that it manifests how the APIs that compose it support the goals of the business." apichangelog.substack.com/p/workflows-...

A new browser war is brewing. LLM companies want to be the place your online journey begins — not Google. And the easiest way to make that happen? Own the browser. andybudd.com/archives/202...

"I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game." notes.brunopedro.com/2025/11/17/2...

I finally wrote the blog; it's big. Computers I never had: the Acorn A3020.

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

Thank you @johnthornhill.bsky.social and the @financialtimes.com for the lovely and thoughtful review of “What Is Intelligence?”— and for engaging so deeply with the book’s central questions on life, intelligence, and human identity. Read the full review: bit.ly/4r0tYED

"We’ll be interviewing people whose work is to make sure the APIs they manage are in good shape. If you know someone whom you think we should interview, please let us know! It could even be yourself." apichangelog.substack.com/p/behind-the...

📢 Introducing The Val Town MCP Server Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp

They never rest and are always ready for more.

We’re hosting @syncconf.bsky.social Community Day and have an open space to drop in, hack, do demos, and connect with others working on sync and related systems. Feel free to drop in during the day, we’ll do a few group discussions in the afternoon. luma.com/l28n75qt

What if you could use MCP tools inside Arazzo workflows? Here's another iteration of my experimentation with Arazzo workflows. youtu.be/tGDjB9K93js

I'm continuing my experiments with Arazzo. This time I explore a visual approach to editing workflows. youtu.be/MYaagA2yrdU

i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...

Behold: you can now see all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once. Every issue on a single zoomable interface www.404media.co/byte-magazin...

I wrote a very long blog post about all I learned about HNSWs in the last year: "Scaling HNSWs" -> antirez.com/news/156

Interesting API mock utility that offers programmable response handling. notes.brunopedro.com/2025/11/11/2...

API governance is a service. You have a group of people on one side helping another group of people manage their APIs in a better way. It feels like service blueprints can be an interesting way to document API governance processes, so I'm giving it a try. apichangelog.substack.com/p/documentin...

These are my first steps at experimenting with building an Arazzo Definition Editor and using it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao6l...

What do you mean by "an API specification?" notes.brunopedro.com/2025/11/05/2...

Experimental animation, machine drawing, china ink on found pages. #penplotter #machinedrawing

14 years after Alan Turing's death, an unpublished manuscript emerged where he suggested the idea of a "disordered" computer that anticipated the rise of connectionism cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Alan...

"Trust is a key factor behind deciding which API specification format you should use. Should you define your API using AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, Smithy, or TypeSpec, just to name a few formats?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

This is huge: graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2c Journalists are organizers – like political organizers – but of information, knowledge, and culture. In my most humble opinion, I think journalists _need_ to be using tools like this, on their own terms. It's scary, but so is being a socialist in NYC.

"Should API operation responses always include references to parent resources?" notes.brunopedro.com/2025/11/06/2...

"I recently participated in a project related to the exchange of information with business partners. One of the goals was to allow external entities to share information with my organization. The second goal was to allow the same thing but in reverse." apichangelog.substack.com/p/documentin...

I'm honoured to be shortlisted for the Community category in the @openuk #openukawards 🙏🏻 it is wonderful to be recognised, thank you!