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Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.

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October 2026

  1. Find And Verify Business Email Addresses And Build Lead Lists With Hunter
  2. Scale, Stop And Start Your Kubernetes Clusters Automatically With Azure Kubernetes Service
  3. Create Jira Issues, Publish Confluence Pages And Manage Team Access With Atlassian
  4. Manage User Logins, Roles And Feature Flags For Your App With Kinde
  5. Run, Cancel And Re-Run Your Software Builds Automatically With GitHub Actions
  6. Reddit Closed Its API. Here Is Where Agents Can Still Post And Read
  7. Someone Mapped Who Is Standardizing Agentic Commerce
  8. Search Sixteen Years Of API Research From One Call
  9. I Mapped Every MCP Working Group, Interest Group, And Extension
  10. Automate Ecommerce Email Campaigns And Segment Shoppers With Omnisend
  11. Run Code Without Managing Servers And Release It Safely With AWS Lambda
  12. Automate Branch Cleanup And Push Notifications With GitLab
  13. Run Traffic Reports And Build Audience Segments With Adobe Analytics
  14. Manage Event Contacts, Discount Codes And Campaign Email With Cvent Event Cloud
  15. Skills Over MCP Is Now Officially Beta
  16. Lint An OpenAPI And Find Out Which Rules Decide If It Passes
  17. Google Ships Agent Skills Like Products, And That's The Lifecycle They Need
  18. E-Invoicing: The Shape Of The Answer
  19. API Evangelist Is Now A Financial Contributor To OpenLint
  20. Trigger Builds And Retry Failed Jobs Automatically With Buildkite
  21. Run A Managed Graph Database And Predict Connections With Amazon Neptune
  22. Connect To Your Customers Accounting, HR And CRM Systems With Merge
  23. Send Contracts For Electronic Signature And Track Them With Docusign
  24. Send Marketing Email And Manage Contact Lists With SendGrid
  25. Who Actually Gets To Define API Standards
  26. Two Hundred Nine API Companies And Seven Hundred Seventy-Five Enterprises Hire In Different Worlds
  27. The MCP Maintenance Bill Depends On How You Built It
  28. Can Your MCP Server Finish The Job?
  29. Australian Government Is Open But Not Yet Discoverable By Agents
  30. Advertising: The Shape Of The Answer
  31. Share Files And Add Maps, Places, And Routes To Your Business With Google
  32. Compare USPS, UPS, FedEx, And DHL Shipping Rates With SMKlog
  33. Run Your Catalog, Pricing, And Customers In Software With BigCommerce
  34. Automate Clusters, User Access, And Patching With Red Hat
  35. Manage Products, Orders, And Coupons For Your Online Store With WooCommerce
  36. Telecom Network APIs: The Shape Of The Answer
  37. Regulation Writes The API
  38. Writing the MCP Style Guide for the Tools an Agent Reads First
  39. Why I Forked Spectral, And Why It Became OpenLint
  40. Track Errors, Releases And Cron Jobs In Your Software With Sentry
  41. Create, Track And Report On Issues Automatically With Jira
  42. Take Payments, Run Subscriptions And Send Invoices With Stripe
  43. Automate Projects, Tasks And Team Goals With Asana
  44. Calculate Sales Tax And File Returns Automatically With Avalara
  45. The Most Programmable Sectors In Australia
  46. Start With The Flow, Not The Agent
  47. Shipping: The Shape Of The Answer
  48. What Sets Australia Apart In Banking And Telco
  49. What 467 Conformant A2A Agent Cards Are Actually Offering
  50. The Specification Layer Now Has a Home
  51. A Meter With No Rate On It
  52. Open Responses Gets A Neutral Home, And A Baseline
  53. Insurance: The Shape Of The Answer Is Behind A Login
  54. If You Depend On OpenAPI Please Become a Member
  55. Gateways Count Every Token And Charge For Almost None Of Them
  56. API Monetization Is Falling Flat, Maybe It Is The Word
  57. Who Owns The Agent: The Panel At Tyk LEAP ON TOUR In New York
  58. We Had The Agent Protocol In 2008 And We Left It On The Table
  59. We Did Not Skip Hypermedia, We Moved It Out Of The Response
  60. Trust You Can Carry Has To Be Written Down
  61. Payments And Banking: The Shape Of The Answer
  62. Discovery Is The First Governance Control: My Keynote At Tyk LEAP ON TOUR In New York
  63. A Banker Said Finance Does Not Have Enough MCP Servers And They Are Right About The Banks
  64. Where The Market Layer Of The Kin Score Stands
  65. What A Program Needs In Order To Decide
  66. Three Hundred Eighty Companies Say Claude And One Hundred Forty-Two Say Anthropic
  67. Healthcare: The Shape Of The Answer
  68. Four Companies Serve Skills Over MCP The Way The Spec Says
  69. Three Hundred Eighty-Nine Agent Cards Are Live, And We Are Not Counting Ours
  70. The Incumbent And The Challenger: NCR Voyix And Lightspeed
  71. Five Thousand Official SDKs, And Nine Thousand That Are Not
  72. DeepInfer And The Shape Of The Answer
  73. A Listing Is Not A Certification
  74. The Human In The Loop Is Now One Email
  75. The Harness That Works Is A Contract
  76. The First Poppy Files, and the One a Vendor Wrote
  77. The Brands Are Missing From Their Own Markets
  78. We Don't Need No Stink'n Rules!
  79. Every Regulated Market Already Publishes Its Own Map
  80. A Competitive Landscape Harness
  81. Five MCP Servers Put A Price In The Tool In Four Different Shapes
  82. The Wires Are Crossed: Slop For Humans, Structure For Agents
  83. Nobody Is Forecasting The Transactional API Economy
  84. Commune Has An API And Substack Does Not
  85. An Agent Found Four APIs And All Four Decided To Trust It
  86. Six Standards Nobody Ratified, Measured Against What The Industry Built
  87. One Hundred Two Companies Hiring For MCP And The Enterprises Are Ahead
  88. Twenty-Five Thousand Overlays, And None Of Them Are Yours Yet
  89. The Well-Known Folder Is Filling Up
  90. fx Is A Coding Agent That Tells You Which Parts Of MCP It Does Not Do
  91. Driven Or Enabled: One Word In The Definition Of An Agent
  92. Two Front Doors for Agents in One Week
  93. The Kin Score Is Getting A Third Dimension: The Market
  94. Sixty-Four Talks In Stockholm, And The Agenda Aligns With My Keynote
  95. Ninety-Five Companies Publish Their API Design Rules, And APIs.io Lists Them First
  96. Decision Models Agreed On The Questions, Not The Contract
  97. Trappings of Individual API Patterns and the Benefits of a Diverse API Toolbox
  98. The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Regulatory Posture
  99. Seventy-Nine Industries Ranked By Programmability, And The Opportunity Is At The Bottom
  100. A Year After OpenAPI 3.2, Most API Tooling Cannot Read It
  101. What I Learned About JOSE on Today's OpenAPI Call
  102. We Used To Ask The Clients, Now We Unleash The Dogs
  103. Three Specification Calls in One Thursday
  104. The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Open Source Surface
  105. Business Capabilities Provide the Context You Need for AI Engineering
  106. An Overlay Is a Layer, Not a Diff
  107. Who Took My API Catalog Last Week, And How Much Of It
  108. What I Learned Running The Profiling Pipeline On gpt-oss-120b
  109. The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Create-or-Update Ergonomics
  110. What Adopting ReadMe Actually Moves On The Kin Score
  111. Twenty-Four Agent Bundles And Not One MCP Server
  112. The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Operational Transparency
  113. Overlay 1.2, And The Fourteen Jobs We Already Use It For
  114. One Hundred Forty-One Tools in the APIs.io MCP Server
  115. Commune Shipped An API, And Our Newsletters Are Moving Onto It
  116. The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Access Clarity
  117. One In Ten API Providers Still Publish Swagger
  118. Nylas Moves Into Pole Position as Most Programmable Provider on APIs.io
  119. Nine Hundred Eighty-Four Companies Hiring And Ninety-Nine Of Them Say OpenAPI
  120. It Is Called API Design, You MCP Hustlers
  121. Everything You Can Do With the APIs.io API
  122. An Agent That Signs Up for Your API Should Arrive With a Record
  123. The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Developer Ergonomics
  124. Ten Percent Have Upsert. One Percent Tell You What It Did.
  125. The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Contract Governance
  126. Ripio Wrote enabled false And Tools Will Read It As True

September 2026

  1. The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Contract Quality
  2. Eon Has Two Undocumented Dialects In One Document
  3. You Cannot See Your Own API From The Outside
  4. The Kin Score, Facet By Facet: Discoverability
  5. Fastify Now Speaks OpenAPI 3.2
  6. Demodesk And The Richest Version Of x-mcp
  7. APIs.io On-Premise, And Why I Am Looking For Design Partners
  8. The Standards That Make Your Business Agent-Ready
  9. The Four Ways Providers React To A Kin Score
  10. What Are the Humans and the Bots Doing on My Sites
  11. Pipedrive Put A Price On Every Tool Call
  12. Kin Score 0.23: The London Release
  13. Every Talk At APIDays London, Mapped To The Kin Score
  14. APIs.io Provides Discovery-Grade Artifacts
  15. The "We Are All In On Agentic" Shame Game
  16. The Walls Companies Put Up In Front Of Agents
  17. The Kids Who've Come Up In Age of AI Will Approach Things Very Differently
  18. MoEngage Decides Who Is Allowed To See A Tool
  19. Before You Buy An Agent Strategy, Map Your Capabilities
  20. Secureframe Is Teaching Agents A Multi-Step Workflow
  21. Overlays That Speak: Conversational Phrasing For Every Operation
  22. LLM SEO: How Do You Nudge an LLM?
  23. Kong Answered The Two Front Doors Post With A Door For Agents
  24. Amazon Opened Seller Central To Agents, And Kept The Storefront Closed

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