AI is being sold as relief from impossible productivity demands, but in exhausted software organizations it often deepens the problems it claims to solve. Craft to throughput, SaaS to org dependency, and work into value extraction - is this what we want? Net API Notes for 2026/06/05, Issue 260

Progress in any craft rarely looks like a revolution. Progress happens when we stop demanding adherence and start talking about what we owe each other. It’s lonely work, and one made harder by the coming cognitive debt crisis. Net API Notes for 2026/03/17, Issue 258.

What does a license plate scan, a REST API, and a knock on someone’s door have in common? In Minneapolis, they’ve become one in the same. Net API Notes for 2026/02/03, Issue 257.

API leaders will chase a "definitive" standards policy but software systems behave like coastlines: the closer you look, the more edges appear. This edition shows how "complete" standards backfire and why healthier practice starts by choosing a useful scale. Net API Notes for 2025/12/16, Issue 256

Most API programs don’t fail for lack of standards; they fade from lack of belonging. In this edition, I explain why sustaining API community engagement takes more than process and policy. Turn a calendar invite into a calling. Net API Notes for 2025/11/18, Issue 255