Sitemap - 2025 - Signals from Our Futures Past

A pause for the holiday season

Keeping this going

The Dream of Symbiosis

Shortwave: Beyond Hallucinations: The Illusion of Understanding

The Human Behind the Door

Shortwave: The Positive Power of LLMs

Designing Beyond De-Skilling

Shortwave: Measuring What Matters in the Age of AI Agents

The Binary Mind

Shortwave: Convincing Until You Look Closer

Teaching the Machines to Teach Us Back

Shortwave: Augmenting Human Intellect

Making Your APIs AI-Ready

Ten years on, still ignoring Roy

Announcing the Shortwave Series

Four Faces of Resilience

The key to progress is improving how we improve

Better AI Code Starts Here

The Interface Is No Longer the Code

I Like This Game (Redux)

AI-Driven API Design

AI Tulips

The story behind the story

Correctness Isn’t Competence

The Hypermedia Commons We Missed

AI is a Tool, Not a Feature

Beyond Jobs

A note of thanks

The Demand Economy: On-Demand, In-Demand, No-Demand

Ontology, Taxonomy, Choreography

Stigmergy

The Mother of All Demos and the New 'Engelbarts'

Stop Calling It Reasoning

Robots, Before They Were Robots

Building Toward the Coffee Test

Focusing on Capabilities Is a Win

When API Clients Have a Mind of Their Own

The Discovery Root Trick

From sheet music to source code

Friday Signal #2025.25

Your Next API Client Doesn’t Read Docs

Friday Signal #2025.24

Ants, AI, and the Endless Immensity of the Sea

Friday Signal #2025.23

Workflows for Machines, Too

Friday Signal #2025.22

From Discovery to Execution

Friday Signal #2025.21

Affordance Aversion

Friday Signal #2025.20

The Model Is Not the Territory:

Friday Signal #2025.19

Stateless Parts, Stateful Wholes

Friday Signal #2025.18

From Endpoints to Intentions: Preparing APIs for Autonomous Clients

A Heads-Up: Some Older Posts Will Be Moving Behind the Paywall

The Growing Medium for API Ecosystems

Reimagining Agentic Systems

GenAI’s Bezos Mandate? Shopify Just Issued It

ALPS and the Topographic Mindset

A Hypermedia Hero's Tale

The Information Architecture Philosophy Behind RESTful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook

Hand-Held Calculators and DeepSeek

It's UnSub January!

2024 : An API year in Review