While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.

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I love that things that we're building internally at <Super Not Secret New_ Public Project> are being validated daily in the wider Atmosphere. This is [roughly] how we're handling pre-moderation, and I'm impressed daily by how easy it is to add behaviours to our system with atproto.

🎮 Like CRDTs and videogames? @inkandswitch.com is ✨hiring✨ for a project that combines @automerge.org with @godotengine.org to make the next generation of collaboration tools for game development! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-i... (Fully remote 🌍🌎🌏 contract, late Nov to April)

i think the 2005-2015 era open source boom was built on a nice job environment where people had a little free time and employers believed in creativity the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?

First time as Speaker at #PlatformSummit2025. What a wonderful experience! A lot of good conversations and great discussions with the participants. Really enjoyed and I’d like to thank @nordicapis.com for the opportunity to participate of such an amazing event. Hope to return again next year!

Research labs disappeared "when the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled that it was legal for companies to buy their own stock." notes.brunopedro.com/2025/10/14/2...

Day 0 of#PlatformSummit2025 is done. Thank you to the attendees of #APISecurityUnconference and see you all tomorrow for the main event!

Weekend...

"Most elements you create during API design are wasted. If they’re not validated by stakeholders, they end up being replaced with new ideas. What if I tell you that API prototyping can be an incremental process?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/just-in-ti...

A change of brand: Behind the scenes stories of rebrand glory, drama, or disaster. https://www.achangeofbrand.com/

"Most elements you create during API design are wasted. If they’re not validated by stakeholders, they end up being replaced with new ideas. What if I tell you that API prototyping can be an incremental process?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/just-in-ti...

Brillo Box (Soap Pads), 1964 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1136503

Next week, Mike is doing a workshop about talking to people about your work. It's a small group. It's intensive. People call it transformative or whatever. If you have professional development budget, direct it here and skip a few annoying meetings. www.eventbrite.com/e/presenting...

Really really proud of this one and I hope you will sign up

Can API prototyping be an iterative process?

#APIs are more than just code; they're about people. My new article on @nordicapis.com explores how #APIs are creating real value for #citizens by transforming #public #services. Let's build a better future, one API at a time. #API #GovTech #TechForGood #Citizens nordicapis.com/how-do-apis-...

"Especially with AI systems, interacting with a large API becomes more complex. Systems such as ChatGPT expect your API to offer a clear functionality so it can be contextually picked whenever it makes sense." apichangelog.substack.com/p/api-size-m...

It was a pleasure to join my friend @bbratton.bsky.social of Antikythera as a guest on @drbriankeating.bsky.social’s podcast, Into The Impossible, to explore the computational nature of intelligence and life.

"technology is structured in such a way that it’s inherently isolating, that it inherently pulls [people] apart" notes.brunopedro.com/2025/10/08/2...

API prototyping can also start with writing minimal code and adding layers on top to progress. This contrasts with OpenAPI-first API prototyping. Both methods can have their advantages, I reckon.

"There's a mismatch between what API providers think their audience is and who the decision-makers really are. While providers publish their documentation targeting developers, the API decision-makers are less technical and more business-savvy." apichangelog.substack.com/p/documentin...

It was agonizing to choose from among the 34 excellent submissions, but here are the four talks selected from our CFP process!

In 1637, tulip bulbs sold for more than canal houses. Then the market crashed & everyone asked, what were we thinking? Today’s AI boom feels familiar. We’re trading agents and copilots instead of bulbs, but the mania looks the same. My latest Substack "AI Tulips" mamund.substack.com/p/ai-tulips

😲 Arduino is acquired by Qualcomm! Wondering what this will lead to: Arduino becoming a maker of industrial turnkey products, or Qualcomm developing a range Arduino-branded devkits? blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/07/a...

Do AI reasoning models abstract and reason like humans? New paper on this from my group: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02125 🧵 1/10

⏳ Only 7 days left until the API Security Unconference (Oct 13) in Stockholm! Looking for real-world solutions to today's API security challenges? Secure your spot: https://nordicapis.com/events/the-api-security-unconference/

The product is less important than the process and designers become brands. notes.brunopedro.com/2025/10/06/2...

on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.

Congrats to The Guardian on hiring Doctorow to explain enshittification to the non-tech masses. #enshittification #CoryDoctorow

A wonderful, expansive conversation with Long Now cofounder Brian Eno on the @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social show today. "I think that’s what I mean by ‘generative music.’ You start the piece, but it finishes itself. It carries on finishing itself for the rest of time.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Weekend...

"We’re missing a great opportunity, as API practitioners. Why do we prefer to insist that APIs need to be something technical and complex, while everyone else seems to be going in the opposite direction?" apichangelog.substack.com/p/who-uses-a...

Truck Announcement, 1985 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/4047

one day, this will catalogue parrots and zap pigeons

In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Turing test, I'm re-upping my short essay, "The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Everyone uses APIs.

"I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the notion of API prototyping and its relationship to API simulation." notes.brunopedro.com/2025/10/02/2...

"What happens when there's an error? AI agents need clear information whenever there's an error when they're consuming an API." apichangelog.substack.com/p/api-docume...

Here are my slides for my #apiConference talk "Making Your APIs AI-Ready" b.mamund.com/4oj5vIT "This talk outlines five critical shifts organizations can make to ensure their API ecosystems are machine-ready: Intentionality, Context, Standardization, Discovery, and Adaptability."

Here's my slides for my #apiConference talk "Creating Your Own MCP-Style Agentic System" b.mamund.com/4mKYdfF This talk shows a working version of an agentic system you can download and adapt to your environment today.

RFC 9842 is HTTP Compression Dictionary Transport -- this is a big one! Congrats @Yoav and @PatMeenan ! https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9842.html

Governance on the web is implicitly feudal. Even if the open source maintainers here “failed to create a formal governance process”, GitHub itself fails to provide any meaningful way to facilitate that process if any single owner can revoke everybody's access. www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

"I recently participated in a project related to the exchange of information with business partners. Our idea was to define the outbound API once and then ask each partner to implement it on their side." apichangelog.substack.com/p/documentin...

The premier is happening rn www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5g...

Weekend...

"Just fantastic working spaces available to use at no cost." blog.cloudflare.com/new-hubs-for...

What is the meaning of trusting an API specification, e.g., OpenAPI? Is the trust related to the people who work on the specification? Is it related to the technical quality of the work? To both? Or something else?

In this week’s newsletter we talk about my grandmother, who would've turned 109 today, Zoom, and putting on your face. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...