Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow. Tour de force presentation on Web Hooks by Jeff Lindsay. Tons of really good ideas—provided your application isn’t Flickr sized, there’s a good chance you could implement web hooks pretty cheaply and unleash a huge flurry of creativity from your users. GitHub makes a great case study here.
Recent articles
- Introducing gisthost.github.io - 1st January 2026
- 2025: The year in LLMs - 31st December 2025
- How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" - 26th December 2025