API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
About API Evangelist
API Evangelist has worked for the last 15 years to make sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs, profiling public and private APIs and distilling down knowledge into a regular cadence of API storytelling, and weekly knowledge building sessions focused on schema, APIs, governance, operations, change, and evangelism.
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Five MCP Servers Put A Price In The Tool In Four Different Shapes
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Pipedrive put a price on every tool call: an x-token-cost on all 371 operations, in Pipedrive’s own rate-limit currency, sitting right ne...
The Wires Are Crossed: Slop For Humans, Structure For Agents
I think the wires are crossed in how we are using agents right now. The thing agents are actually good at, and the thing they actually need, is structured, machine-readable cont...
Nobody Is Forecasting The Transactional API Economy
When I sat down with Zdenek Nemec last month, he made a point I have not been able to shake. Before 2020, direct monetization was only ever a small slice of why companies built ...
Commune Has An API And Substack Does Not
My first rule for any software I use to run API Evangelist is that it must have an API. Not just because I like APIs, but so that my business can get its data in and out. An API...
An Agent Found Four APIs And All Four Decided To Trust It
I built four small sites this fall so I would have something real to point agents at. Yawplet takes short messages. Yarnhen takes stories. Hagglebee takes classified ads. Eventw...
Understanding Our Relationship With Technology
API Evangelist has been working to understand our relationship with Internet technology for the last fifteen years, but it has primarily been focused on understanding the producers of the technology, where moving forward I am more interested in understanding the consumers of not just APIs, but the applications they build on top of APIs.
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