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Test your namecheap API
My Let’s Encrypt SSL cert was accidentally expired. It’d been updated, but certbot created a new cert instead of updating the existing one. I don’t know why. Anyways. This led me to explore how I might automate this and viola, trwnh has done it! Before you plug in trwnh’s Python script, however, maybe you just want to check out the API for yourself? Here’s a fish script to do it.…
Document your API
Turns out that the UK has great advice for Documenting APIs.
Files are loosely coupled interfaces
How does one build an interoperable ecosystem of personal (or communal) applications? Impressed by Linus Lee’s enormous ecosystem, I emailed him with my own questions about underlying data structures. He pointed me to an invaluable article by Gordon Brander, if headers did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them. Linus summarizes: 💬 The basic idea is that documents and entities are key-value pairs, with a few "blessed" keys that are universal and an open space for other keys to become used by specific use cases.…