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Making a nice API of Amtrak's ugly API (mgwalker.github.io)

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Making a nice API of Amtrak's ugly API (mgwalker.github.io)
Making API Errors More Transparent (twilio.com)
Making a RESTful JSON API in Go (2014) (thenewstack.io)
Reverse-engineering the Starbucks ordering API (blog.tendigi.com)
Reverse engineering the ChefSteps Joule (and making a chrome extension) (medium.com)
Making OpenAPI / Swagger Bearable With Your Own DSL (developer.squareup.com)
Taming OpenAPI using Racket to create a DSL
Bypassing LinkedIn Search Limit by Playing With API (habr.com)
Obfuscation via Encryption: Real-World Reverse Engineering of APIs (lucasbaizer.dev)
Reverse engineering Blind’s API and client side encryption (blog.jldc.me)
PalmOS on x86: API porting (pmig96.wordpress.com)
How to use undocumented web APIs (jvns.ca)
Twitter API Changes Set Maximum User Cap for 3rd Parties (thenextweb.com)
Ripping OAuth tokens (or other secrets) out of Twitter clients (timetobleed.com)
Google Kills Weather API (thenextweb.com)
Lambda Labs Releases Face Recognition API βeta (api.lambdal.com)
Current status: API v1.1 | Twitter Developers (dev.twitter.com)
Binary instrumentation library for QEMU (projects.gso.ac.upc.edu)
Amazon Maps API (amazonappstoredev.com)
Restful API framework for Flask / MongoEngine (github.com)
Notes on the USE paradigm for API design (hjr3.tumblr.com)
Optimizing the Netflix API (techblog.netflix.com)
A Rest DNS API allowing to perform DNS queries over HTTP, outputting JSON (statdns.com)
A Guide to Designing API Client Libraries (kev.inburke.com)
Ask Lobsters: What is the general consensus on the best API authentication these days?
I liked Flickr's now-deprecated [hash-the-params](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.howto.web.html) authentication because it was simple (though [flawed](http://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2009/09/flickrs-api-signature-forgery.html), it is fixable). Now it seems like most sites are using OAuth 1....
Hypermedia API for Industrial Applications (projexsys.com)
Show Lobsters: Yardbase, free and open API of local, community-based data (yardbase.org)
Still very alpha... developed during a Startup Weekend event.
Google Glass' The Mirror API - How It Works (i-programmer.info)
Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs (mnot.net)
Show Lobsters: Scalabitz, content discovery through Bit.ly's API (branchandbound.net)
Debugging the Stripe API using Runscope (blog.epanastasi.com)