See Why HATEOAS is useless and what that means for REST.

The article provides a background leading up to these observations:

• There are very few good tools to create a REST API using this style
• There are no clients widely used to consume these types of APIs

The "useless" in …

Driscoll: So how did you end up becoming …

See https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/python-interviews I'm honored. I'll be studying what the other folks have to say in here. Being in the Python community means respecting other's views. And that means understanding them. This looks like fun because it isn't *deeply* technical, it's about people and technology.

Recent publications elsewhere: Spec to Gherkin to Code

I was "volunteered" by a colleague to help the program committee for PyCon 2018. I rarely think of myself as qualified for this kind of thing. Yes. I have six books on Python (with a seventh on the way) but the PSF folks are brilliant and dedicated and hard-working, and …

1. I can't teach myself data science on my crappy old Windows machine.
2. I've decided to get a new Windows machine. Here are the specs.

TL;DR -- To remove doubts and questions, rewrite it.

Many, many people are confronted with the request to maintain someone else's code.

Either it's open source, and you have to make formal PR's visible to the world.

Or it's "enterprise" in-house software, and you have to make PR's visible to …