The Disparity between APIs and SDKs

I think it’s time for us all to accept the truth: I’m abandoning the plugin series. I had a functioning proof of concept at my previous job, but I didn’t think to grab it when I left and moved halfway around the world, and I don’t feel like trying to recreate it right now. Maybe I’ll come back to it someday. Instead, today we’re going to talk about APIs and why there are so few SDKs to consume them.

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The Art of Coding

We often hear about a turning a field from an art into a science, but we rarely (if ever) hear about turning a science into an art. I assure you it’s there, and I assert that one without the other is usually a horrible thing.