Everything I know about good API design(seangoedecke.com)

347 points by ahamez 1 year ago | 120 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke sharing practical advice on designing good APIs, covering REST, GraphQL, and balancing familiarity with flexibility.

I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)

519 points by swah 9 months ago | 265 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.

Doing nothing at work(seangoedecke.com)

334 points by Sukram21 4 months ago | 116 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should work fewer hours at ~80% utilization because tech company performance is dominated by outlier, high-impact events.

Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering(seangoedecke.com)

23 points by dboon 7 months ago | 14 comments

I build products to get "unplugged" from the internet(getunplugged.io)

21 points by keplerjst 9 months ago | 5 comments

'Make invalid states unrepresentable' considered harmful(seangoedecke.com)

49 points by zdw 1 year ago | 49 comments