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A personal API

So in the middle of reading Jim Groom’s post on The LMS is dead, and getting my head around next generational digital wonderment, I found myself jumping into Kin Lane’s post on the Personal API. As a programmer, I’m aware of what an API is and how it works, that it becomes a fundamental part of loosely coupled, highly cohesive system design, but I’d never thought of a personal API stack with me as it’s puppet master. Or it as my data shield…

Bryan Mathers

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