Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End (2021)

Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by nonethewiser on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:34PM (#37200671)

Can you pick a less antagonistic example?

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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by bheadmaster on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:42PM (#37201306)

Would you prefer I used Judaism instead? Or Islam?

Or do you consider my point about network effect in tech stacks being similar to religious beliefs to be antagonistic by itself?

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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by brightlancer on Sunday August 20, 2023 @05:27PM (#37203075)

The adage I learned decades ago was "a billion Chinese can't be wrong".

If PP had used that, would it have been antagonistic? Racist?

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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by arrowsmith on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:39AM (#37206119)

I thought the origin of this expression was the Elvis greatest hits album 50,000,000 Elvis fans can't be wrong:

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