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lnikkilaon Ask HN: What are good reads for designing APIs?

I really liked Building Stripe’s API and it’s sequel, Move fast, don’t break your API:

http://amberonrails.com/building-stripes-api/

http://amberonrails.com/move-fast-dont-break-your-api/

lnikkilaon Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

Update is free. Instructions on how to migrate your App Store purchase are here: https://paw.cloud/docs/getting-started/migrate-from-appstore

lnikkilaon Fish shell 2.2

rbenv has good fish support out of the box if you're willing to switch from rvm:

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

lnikkilaon Mario running in Unreal Engine 4 [video]

The original DS had a pretty good remake as a launch title with improved graphics and a bunch of new stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_64_DS

lnikkilaon Android’s 10 Millisecond Problem explained

If you’re interested in this topic, you should listen to episode 20 of the Android Developers Backstage podcast. [1]

Raph Levien talks about audio latency and how they started working on minimising it in Lollipop. He mentions that it’s still an ongoing process.

The relevant part starts at 35 minutes into the episode.

[1]: http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2015/01/episode-20-font...

lnikkilaon Slow, flexible and cheap: Six years of development to create a rubber hexagon

There’s a great 99% Invisible podcast episode called “Derelict Dome” that tells the story of a geodesic dome restaurant built in the 1950s.

“The glass windows heated the restaurant up like a greenhouse, so the owner installed fiberglass over most of the dome, blocking the ocean views. It leaked constantly, and was difficult to maintain.”

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-64-derelict-do...