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hey everyone one of the things that annoys me about REST APIs is the integration of them. everyone integrates with the same APIs over and over again, rediscovering what the endpoints are, how the parameters work, guessing what the return fields are, writing the pagination code, figuring out how to get a token, etc. even amongst the most popular APIs, openAPI adherence is poor.

I'm thinking about starting an open-source project around building a REST client in Node.JS / TypeScript that has wrappers for the most popular REST APIs. It would come with types and documentation so you could see the parameters in Typescript.

I think, especially if you work at a SaaS and you need to build a lot of integrations with popular 3rd parties fast - it could be useful.

The great thing would be that you could work with a lot of APIs quickly, with the same syntax, without having to pause and go look up documentation, etc.

To start, the RestClient would be super slim, maybe only including some of the most common endpoints of some of the most common APIs - but let's be real, the Slack and JIRA APIs have hundreds of endpoints, and we all only use one or two of them.

Here's my list of the first ten API calls that I might consider putting in the REST Client

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slack postMessageToChannel

jira get all issues in project

googleSheets readData, writeData, listSheets

salesforce getAllOpportunities, getAllContacts

twilio sendTextMessage, doPhoneCall

gitlab getLatestCommits

github getLatestCommits

gmail sendEmail

twitter get latest tweets for user ========

The syntax would be, at a high level -

apiPass.slack().postMessage({message:'foo bar}) OR apiPass.jira().getIssues({'projectID':foo}})

thoughts?

if you are interested - LMK by leaving a comment.

this is something that i've been pondering for awhile.

at pretty much every job i've been at, we've had Linux Servers that we ssh into.

these linux servers have customer data on them, builds, code, business critical shit.

if i were a malicious individual, i could easily just rm -rf important files, scp important customer data out to my home computer. or use dropbox to sync some critical business data into the cloud... or casually peruse customer data and take advantage of it. and there would be no evidence that i did anything at all.

obviously, it's not possible to handle this from the networking side. SSH is encrypted, and any network level scans would just see a bunch of bits flowing between the server and me.

is there some solution to prevent this kind of linux data leak from happening? is it normal in companies for anyone to be able to just log on to servers, do whatever they want, without any kind of auditing or recording or tracking whatsoever?

i'm curious, with data leaks like the ashley madison one... did they ever find the perpetrator? does anyone even care about securing data....?

what does your company do to prevent data leaks?

hi everyone.

does anyone have tips for a software engineer on how to do good UI web design?

It's not as simple as it appears, I know, and doing stuff like drop-shadows. matching colors. layouts. having a toolkit of UI tools like different brushes, gradients, etc.

basically, resources on ui design for the software engineer would be very helpful...

where do i about learning about professional front end web ui design?

it appears that having a nice accessible website... from the colors, to the round corners, to the general look & feel... can make or break a web site.

does anyone have any emacs productivity tips?

is there anything that you've done to your emacs to make it work really well?

im using gdb inside of emacs, i type M-x compile to make, i only use emacs -nw inside of terminal because the regular X version is too slow, stuff like that...

i've never used buffer rings, or customized keyboard shortcuts to automatically macro-out if statements and stuff....

im joining a startup soon, and want to get more efficiency out of my coding! :)