Kin Lane @[email protected]

Y’all See API Contract Testing Like You Do Terms of Service - https://apievangelist.com/2023/02/24/yall-see-api-contract-testing-like-you-do-terms-of-service/

platform engineering implements devops infrastructure when your organization is big enough to get economy of scale. it can't really be outsourced if your software engineering capabilities differentiate your product. that's why the cloud apis have coalesced where they are. the last mile specialization and glue to your business is a bespoke product, tailored to make your business as efficient as possible within its unique constraints

If you didn't already know, the Internet Archive has been hiring artists to perform pre-meeting mini-concerts twice a week since the pandemic started. We now have over 200 archived on our site for you to enjoy too:

https://blog.archive.org/2023/02/17/the-internet-archive-musiczoom-collection-continues/

On behalf of the Association of Internet Researchers #AoIR, we join the Coalition for Independent Technology Research's call for #Twitter to *not close* their free API access for vital public-interest research & ask policymakers to enshrine this form of access to all big platforms.

https://independenttechresearch.org/letter-twitter-api-access-threatens-public-interest-research/

David Graeber - Policy for the Future of Work https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-policy-for-the-future-of-work?v=1676052180

This will never cease to amaze me.

”The Old Stockholm telephone tower was a metallic structure built to connect approximately 5,500 telephone lines in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Constructed in 1887, the tower was used until 1913. It was damaged by a fire in 1952 and demolished the following year.”

#stockholm #sweden #history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stockholm_telephone_tower

Explore the Library of Congress’s digitized archive of rare 19th-century photographs of African American women activists.

#Art #Photography #History #Activism #BlackActivism

https://hyperallergic.com/370345/19th-century-photographs-of-black-women-activists/