Twitter limits the number of users you can have with an API key. Netflix disabled its API. The web concept of mash-ups seems to be very rare today.
Are there any major services that still consider their API an asset worth maintaining?
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Ooh, I've just discovered that you can enable actions on GitHub pull requests by default! This is the actions settings page.
My understanding is that GitHub introduced these limits to prevent people trying to run cryptominers on GitHub actions. Sounds like GitHub has largely fixed it.
Every time I implement an interpreter with recursion, I regret it.
As soon as I want TCO, or userland control of stack limits, or resumable exceptions, I need my own stack.
This is awkward because it's an upfront design decision. Changing the stack model is a big refactoring.
On the limits and perils of being data driven: https://twitchard.github.io/posts/2022-08-26-metrics-schmetrics.html
(Worthwhile improvements are often not amenable to A/B testing, and metrics can harm intrinsic motivation.)