Quotes from Leonard Richardson

The term "statelessness" is getting at the fact that the server doesn't care what state the client is in.

thinking of API design as resource design is a very effective way to avoid thinking about hypermedia.

You are employed by a suspicious number of douchebags!

They wanted us to change," said Tetsuo. "They came to our planet and they wouldn't shut up about fluid overlays and unhierarchical forms of social organization. We felt like we had to listen to them, because they were so powerful. But secretly we thought of them as monsters from space. And now here we are at your planet, and we are the monsters from space." "Why'd you come here? Why even bother?" "Don't you want to be a monster from space, too?

The things you're accustomed to are dangerous. In applications intended for use within an organization, a design based on API calls works well and is easy to develop. The API call metaphor assumes away the network boundary and lets a client invoke a method on a remote computer just like it would call the API of a local code library.

While there is a lower class, I am in it." — Eugene Debs

the "API call" metaphor inevitably exposes the server's implementation details to the clients. This introduces coupling between server code and client code.

in a hypermedia-based design, resources don't matter as much. The designer's job is to identify all the state transitions.

And it's nighttime," said Jenny. She sighed. "I'm going home.

it seems we've got a mental block when it comes to hypermedia in web APIs. This is a big problem, because hypermedia is the feature that makes a web API capable of handling changes gracefully.

We make a product and sell it. How hard can it be? Every douchebag either one of us has ever worked for has managed to do this!

a good way to make some cash without worrying about boring things like originality or operating capital.

I've been working for other people my whole life, and all they do is ignore my ideas. That's if I'm lucky. If I'm not lucky, they ruin my ideas and then make me

I just have a slight fear of being a tiny speck in the infinite cosmic void.

You weren't using the moon for anything. Only some long-term robot storage.

URLs don't even need to make sense to human eyes. But we humans prefer nice-looking URLs, like

A maze of softly-lit slightly-curved beige hallways, all alike.

Don't be a guy who feels bad," said Tetsuo. "Nobody ever knows what to do. Our life-task is to decide what to do.