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Tom Scott explains how he built a video that updates its title with its view count, and why open APIs have largely disappeared.

The title of this video should change with the times. But nothing lasts forever: here's the story of how I made it work, why it used to be easier to make that work, and how it all ties in to the White Cliffs of Dover and the end of the universe. Edited by Michelle Martin: youtube.com/@onthecrux Includes an accelerated section of "Traduction automatique des flux d'information (Yahoo Pipes IV)" by Laurent Moccozet, which is licensed under CC-by: youtube.com/watch?v=9m4oxwPw7bY - the remainder of this video does not fall under that license. 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: lateralcast.com/ youtube.com/lateralcast/ 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: youtube.com/techdif

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What people say. Highly recommended as an excellent explanation of the rise and fall of open web APIs.

Sophiraon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Should you make an open API?”

Tom Scott made a wonderful video a while back about open APIs, and about how they (mostly) died out0. It's currently called "This Video Has 51,973,714 Views", and I personally believe it's a great watch. 0 link to this video
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iamahackerguyon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Should you make an open API?”

Tom Scott made a wonderful video a while back about open APIs, and about how they (mostly) died out0. It's currently called "This Video Has 51,973,714 Views", and I personally believe it's a great watch. 0 link to this video
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cryptonectoron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation”

…cially not the sites we like to visit because they don't want to put out public APIs anymore. For non-browser app APIs (public or private), well, they can be the same, just driven by JS when in-browser. This... is sad. But this is a fact of life now. Just watch Tom Scott explain why the APIs went away, and when the APIs went away, so did HATEOAS ( link to this video ). Second, there's a lot of APIs that needn't have anything more than one end-point -- no links to traverse, no HATEOAS. For example, a certification authority can take a CSR and authentication and return you a certificate -- one end-point is all you need, and other than that, the API can be RESTful in every sense. And then there's APIs whe…
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badRNGon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Dependency”

…ry liberal with using dependencies that can get something in my mind functioning quickly before my motivation dries up. I think I shared the OP's anxiety regarding at least the longevity of what I write until I came to peace with the fact that my software will not function forever, and likely not for the rest of the decade. Relevant Tom Scott vid: link to this video…
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dwrodrion Hacker News • Mentions

On “Yahoo Pipes”

Check out IFTTT ( link ) or Huginn ( link ). They're similar but not quite. An underlying assumption with Yahoo Pipes was that interesting places on the Internet would offer APIs which have a developer UX that matches or exceeds the quality of their official UI. A mixture of unprofitability and abuse lead to this no longer being the case. Tom Scott's essay here: link to this video
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willis936on Hacker News • Mentions

On “A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff”

Obligatory link to the Tom Scott video on free APIs. There's a lot of common knowledge there, but his discussion on free APIs seems relevant. I've been burned by having hobbyist projects break from free APIs getting turned off. link to this video
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dpzon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Yahoo Pipes”

Any mention of Yahoo Pipes always makes me think of Tom Scott's "This video has x views". Feels quite relevant to other comments people have been making here. link to this video
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ksecon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes”

Everytime I see Yahoo Pipes I remember the video 1 from Tom Scott about programming. ( The video title view count is updated in as close to real time as possible ) 1 This Video Has 69,187,812 Views link to this video A lot of what I thought were good, accessible, productive, entry to middle level technology ( HyperCards. Yahoo Pipes. Flash, Delphi etc ) never gained enough market. They were all the sort of middle ground good enough options. Instead technology is often filtered from the top end extreme. So everyone tries to use what Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft are using. Because those tools are deemed as what Professional should use. The only rare exception that is powering most of the word…
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bewal416on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project”

Cool project! Yahoo Pipes was before my time, but I remember a Tom Scott video that mentioned it. Imagine having a service like that for free today… This video has … views by Tom Scott: link to this video
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allwashedupon Hacker News • Mentions

On “There Are No Instances in ATProto”

How is it any different than a centralized social media service then? Merely the fact that you can get a firehose from the website in a standard format? This was already the case with HTTP. The problem is that websites can leverage their power to make a locked-in ecosystem. see link to this video twitter, etc once had a much more open API. so did reddit. This was just the first stage of their penetration strategy. The decentralization is totally irrelevant due to the way it's implemented. The problem is that Apps are sticky, so app developers have undue power to control their users. The "content hosts" "moderators" etc need to be completely cut out of the picture to be at the same level of censorship r…
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