The Weekly API Cocktail – Issue #6

Each week we carefully handpick content about APIs, AI and the evolution of our jobs in software engineering. Yes, by «hand» we mean a part of an actual human.

Off-topics of the week...

• «It's DOOM, but You Can Cut, Copy and Paste Opponents»

• VC or GPT – Can you tell if a startup is VC backed or AI generated?

#tech

• Why I do programming

• OpenUX – a free and open alternative to Mobbin

• What to know about ToolShell, the SharePoint threat under mass exploitation

• Inverted Indexes: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide (2023)

• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

#apis

• What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it? (2024)

• Leprechauns, root causes, and other fairy tales

#genai

• Mistral’s new “environmental audit” shows how much AI is hurting the planet

• Who is LLM?

• Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

• awesome-claude-code: a list awesome commands, files, and workflows for Claude Code

#tools

• modernish: a library for shell script programming

• dataqueue: a lightweight, PostgreSQL-backed job queue

• chromautomation: A modern MCP that makes chrome usable by any LLM

• taskemon: print tasks with a thermal printer

• wush-action: SSH into GitHub Actions

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