It's even worse than it appears..
How can you tell you’re working on the web? When you do something new and innovative you help your competitors‘ users without forcing them to use your product. They are free to stay where they are and still get the benefit. People choose your product because it’s better for what they’re doing, or it feels better now, or whatever. We want the web to be the platform and it's cool because there is no platform vendor. #
Example code is not expected to be bullet proof like production code, and where covering different cases make it harder to follow they should not be there. #
  • It's a standard REST API.#
  • Here's the server side of the API. #
  • Here's how you call it from browser-based JavaScript. You can include that code in your apps.#
  • Here's an example app that implements a simple blog builder for my recent posts on RSS.chat. We were thinking about doing this as a project for Claude and myself but decided it would be more fun to let devs see what they can do here. :-)#
  • And finally here are the docs for the API itself. #

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