tl;dr; Conferences like Minnebar are where you learn things you didn’t know you should learn, so get out there and start attending! — tl;dr; Conferences like Minnebar are where you learn things you didn’t know you should learn, so get out there and start attending! Conferences, especially technology conferences, are a very fascinating lens to see an industry. But attending conferences doesn’t always feel like a logical use of time+money to everyone (especially those who have never been to a conference). On one hand, isn’t every topic something that’s already published online and watchable on…

Best Buy’s APIs have accepted both plain-text (HTTP) and SSL (HTTPS) API requests for a long time. This year, in the interest of improving… — Best Buy’s APIs have accepted both plain-text (HTTP) and SSL (HTTPS) API requests for a long time. This year, in the interest of improving everyone’s security & privacy, we’re dropping plain-text support. Here’s the gist of what we’re doing: api.remix.bestbuy.com and api.bbyremix.bestbuy.com are going away in favor of api.bestbuy.com

Search. The final frontier. At least for RESTful Web API documentation. And that’s really unfortunate because as the industry realizes APIs… — Search. The final frontier. At least for RESTful Web API documentation. And that’s really unfortunate because as the industry realizes APIs are as vital to our systems as HTML, the shortcomings in API documentation are forcing some bad choices: Only describe CRUD operations in your API documentation, leaving the R[ead]…

tl;dr; — tl;dr; Stop trying to hack the Amazon Dash button. Just buy a cheap doorbell, a Raspberry Pi, and solder them together. You’ll get more flexibility and keep some heavy metals out of our landfills. Now the actual story

We’re migrating to Slate and you’re invited along for the ride. — James Yu, a co-founder of Parse, said: Documentation is a layered beast. Truer words are rarely spoken. And writing blog posts about how to write API documentation is almost as old as the idea of RESTful APIs (one we particularly appreciate is Braintree’s story.) While we’re very big fans of…

Eric Caron joins team as Product Manager — https://flic.kr/p/2ZyxsN On September 23, 2008, two technologies were exposed to the world: Best Buy introduced Remix and Google introduced Android. It is no understatement to say both platforms surpassed even the most optimistic early expectations. …

No extreme measures, just extremely powerful guidelines. — Now stop abusing it so the rest of us can get back to work. There is no shortage of advice about email. Some of them are pretty extreme. Some want to destroy it altogether. But I prefer to accept a reality where incremental improvements have a higher probability of success…