rockerest’s avatarrockerest’s Twitter Archive—№ 10,255

    1. Today I wrote one-off code to filter out a value from a data set returned by the API to the consuming client. The value is only used on the backend side but for some god-forsaken reason is still returned by the API.
  1. …in reply to @rockerest
    API-as-SQL-over-HTTP is the largest unspoken problem with front-end web development today. If your API isn't curated specifically for your intended clientele you're just wasting everyone's time. There are better ways to query the database than piecemeal over slow HTTP.