The longer I write code, the more it feels that my life can essentially be boiled down to the act of connecting APIs. If I'm not connecting to our own internal APIs, I'm fetching data from some sort of external/public API.
For the most part, this process seems to get progressively better every single year. I have horrible war stories to tell about SOAP and deep battle scars from XMLHttpRequest. But I survived those trials and the API world today feels so much more... accommodating.
But that doesn't mean that everything in API Land is Rainbows & Lollipops. There are still headaches lurking out there. And because this blog is my own, personal, unpaid, self-administered therapy, I'm going to spend a few minutes venting my spleen.
If you ever find yourself in a position to actually write endpoints, then I want you to listen up. Because I'm going to lay out a step-by-step guide whereby you can make all the consumers of those endpoints hate your guts.
