On API Usability

Steven talks about API
Usability
and even asks you to
sign up
to go to API usability tests.
He makes a point that I use often… I call it the “design in reverse”
principle. Before you write
any of your framework, write a simple app that uses it… What are the three lines
of code it takes to perform the common task? Then just build the API to make that
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