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One question I have, reading some of the UK "energy digitalisation" plans is: are there plans for a standardised consumer-level APIs for things like energy cost?
Apple, for example, has a bunch of facilities that can change how devices work according to current energy cost (EnergyKit, introduced in 2025) - but nothing works outside the US.
(Their support for OpenBanking shows they can add national-level APIs if they're available.)

Energy digitalisation framework: a vision for a coordinated and connected energy system
Delivering the digitalisation of the energy system in a coordinated and connected way.

"Ecological fitting" in an image: a domestic honeybee, Apis mellifera, on flowers of a western Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia, at Quartz Hill, California back in January
#naturalist

After more than 20 years working with #Java, I learn APIs introduced in JDK 1.4.
You can chain exceptions with #Throwable.initCause(), even if the designer didn't provide a relevant constructor.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@swick/116455985982945725
See, files were not the best of ideas, neither do I think every damn thing should be abstracted as a file, nor are the APIs that great. Sorry folks.

Good Read:
https://brandur.org/second-wave-api-first

The Second Wave of the API-first Economy
APIs were meant to make the web programmable and interoperable. A combination of revenue chasing, security concern, and abuse reversed the trend for a decade as walls went up instead of down. Today, LLMs are changing the equation. People want agents that act on their behalf, and the services that ship APIs will have a decisive edge over those that don’t.

Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems
The web platform is way more powerful than most developers realize — and every year it quietly gains new superpowers.
🧑‍💻 https://dev.to/sylwia-lask/stop-instal

Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems
The web platform is way more powerful than most developers realize — and every year it quietly gains...

This article is interesting about thoughts of using flying networks to support military operations.
It is a complex system - and my sense is that they will screw it up with application specific protocols and APIs that evolve and change over time as as military events (the kind that go boom or are intentional forms of in-band attacks - think everything from hyper-phishing to spoofing to zero-day attacks).
But even if it were put together with the precision of a Swiss watch, my old…

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-deepens-india-push-…

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership | TechCrunch
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.

I keep forgetting there is no mastodon admin api to change the registration mode. I deeply wish that api existed because so many servers would benefit from building tools to open registration during hours they are available to properly moderate new accounts.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

Using the Browser’s <canvas> for Data Compression
When building static websites and Single-Page Applications (SPAs), we sometimes need functionality in JavaScript front ends—such as compression—that is usually handled on the back end instead. […]
🔄 https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/canvas

Found another ngscopeclient optimization opportunity: on this benchmark we spent about ten seconds out of a minute waiting for sscanf() as a result of some legacy APIs (dating back to when all drawing was done in Cairo) that store color of protocol data as HTML \#rrggbb color codes at some steps of the pipeline then convert to packed RGBA32 later. There's caching but apparently even that isn't enough.
Probably time to throw away those legacy APIs and do better. Or at least begi…

Google today announced an early preview of #WebMCP,
a new protocol that defines how AI agents interact with websites.
“WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision,” wroteAndré Cipriani Bandarra from Google.
WebMCP lets developers tell large language models exactly …

Google previews WebMCP, a new protocol for AI agent interactions
Google's WebMCP protocol lets AI agents execute structured actions on websites via browser APIs. Is this the next frontier of technical SEO?

Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/salesforce-

Check out today's Metacurity to catch up on the crucial infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--StopICE platform reportedly hit by a breach, 100k users' data exposed,
--Hot social media site for AI agents Moltbook left APIs exposed,
--28 malicious skills are targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
--Russian Legion warned Denmark of large-scale cyberattack,
--Notepad is probing reported security incidents,
--US DoJ s…

StopICE platform reportedly hit by a breach, 100k users' data exposed to US feds
Social media site for AI agents Moltbook left APIs exposed, 28 malicious skills are targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users, Russian Legion warned Denmark of large-scale cyberattack, Notepad++ is probing reported security incidents, US DoJ seized pirated content domains, more

@… Also the Casio official app supports a lot of their watches including some quite expensive GShocks. They will want to support that for some time and I assume many of the underlying APIs are essentially the same, so probably not too bad maintaining support for this as well.
@…

Logged into Google using Chrome at work and found it's become a Kakfa-esque experience where I had to log in five times before I realized what was going on with "profiles" I've never asked for. Reminds me of the time I did a shoot-out of ten visual recognition APIs and I got demos of the others done in 20 minutes each but Google Cloud Compute took two hours because it trashed my Python #google

Berlin-based Upvest, which builds trading APIs for neobanks and retail lenders, raised $90M in equity, sources say at a $735M valuation, up from ~$413M in 2024 (Arno Schütze/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

It's really fun how you can easily vibecode apps using Mastodon's APIs to analyse, summarize your timeline, lists etcetera For personal use i made an app to summarize the last 48 hours of posts in a specific Mastodonlist. Really useful/timesaver.
#vibecoding #mastodon

Duende has released DPoP Support for #aspnetcore via the JwtBearer Extensions NuGet package. This library helps protect your APIs against one of the highest threats to the OAuth ecosystem: the abuse of stolen access tokens.
#dotnet

🔁 RESTful path params like /products/{id}, reverse proxy endpoints (passthrough or transform), HTTP custom types letting #PostgreSQL functions call external APIs directly
🛡️ Enterprise-ready out of the box: authentication, authorization, rate limiting, caching, SSE streaming & full #OpenAPI

I do a lot of hands-on work with AI Agent Skills that are loosely coupled with Data Spaces (databases, knowledge bases, filesystems, and APIs). OpenLink Software now has a publicly accessible AI Agent Skills repository on GitHub that I contribute to directly.
If you’re interested in what’s possible across both consumer and enterprise use cases, this repository is for you. Note that everything we build is grounded in open standards—so what we share can be easily reused by anyone.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115972744331119621
A nice blog post that asks "Are there any open APIs left?" (Spoiler: Many have disappeared, but there're still Wikipedia, Google Books ISBN lookup, Pokémon API , MusicBrainz and others)

from my link log —
What category theory teaches us about dataframes.
https://mchav.github.io/what-category-theory-teaches-us-about-dataframes/
saved 2026-03-29

#Unbrowse — agent-native browser skill for #AI agents. Auto-discovers APIs from browser traffic & generates reusable skills on the fly #opensource

Alabama-based Linq, which pivoted to programmatic messaging APIs in February 2025, raised a $20M Series A to build AI assistants that work within messaging apps (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/linq-raises-20m-to…

Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps | TechCrunch
Linq offers an API that lets companies offer their AI assistants via iMessage, RCS and SMS.

When Macintosh was introduced as "the computer for the rest of us"—sporting its bright six-color Apple logo—what really caught my attention was the huge stack of Xeroxed "Inside Macintosh" developer manuals: kept in a three-ringed binder at the University's computer center, filled with loads of Pascal APIs. And when Steve introduced the NeXT cube with its stack of API manuals, I was entranced. My life has revolved around the platform ever since.
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⚡ Fast rubbish is still rubbish — speed does not replace quality
📦 Software is a liability, a product is an asset
🏰 Moats are more expensive — competitive advantages can be copied faster than ever
🤝 Build for agents — APIs & interfaces must be designed agent-first
⚠️ Anticipate modes of failure — trusting models entirely is a recipe for disaster

I do a lot of hands-on work with AI Agent Skills that are loosely coupled with Data Spaces (databases, knowledge bases, filesystems, and APIs). OpenLink Software now has a publicly accessible AI Agent Skills repository on GitHub that I contribute to directly.
If you’re interested in what’s possible across both consumer and enterprise use cases, this repository is for you. Note that everything we build is grounded in open standards—so what we share can be easily reused by anyone.