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Ever struggled with an under-documented API? You probably don't wanna cause the same headache for your users then. Here are some tips and tools to avoid confusion and how to make your API easy to start with. We discuss the use of Postman, Swagger and Talend API Tester as documentation tools, and gi…

Ever wanted to communicate with your client and your team using the same tool? We touch on this problem and present a surprising contender in this space.  Then we quickly context switch to today's main game.  You're just starting to play with a new API or creating one? You need some too…

In this brave new world where everyone got a teaser of what's it like to be the work from home hero, some people found this is the life they might want to pursue.  This episode is dedicated to giving you some insight into this, sometimes very bumpy ride called freelancing. We would recommend …

The web evolved significantly, especially in the last few years. From the point when "Web 2.0" was invented changes skyrocketed and the widening of this horizon never stopped since. You could do an increasing number of things in your browser.  Today we take on this subject form the softw…

In our line of work, most of us face a hard decision point when we choose our next gig. There are three major pathways to choose from. Getting a job in the classic sense of the word, joining an agency or be brave and dive into the somewhat lonely world of a freelancer. If you asked yourself the q…

The internet is an unsafe and scary place and that's where your API will live. The minute you publish it to the world you can take for granted, there will be hacking attempts ranging from the script kiddie running some random thing on their computer to the person searching for something new to brea…

In this episode, we touch on how this ongoing crisis changed the way everyone works.  Now what we thought is the exception became the new norm. We try to shed light on how people started coping and also give some useful advice on how to use the current situation to your advantage.  …

In this episode, we share the worst APIs we have encountered. Not naming any, don't get it wrong. Just a little story about how bad can it be when you're trying to use even some of the well known APIs in the world.  With some hopefully useful advice, in the end, this first episode wants to sh…