Form encoding does have a few niceties that make it amenable to human use, so what’s wrong with it? Here we explore why to use JSON instead.

How to closely follow Stripe’s API and documentation conventions, but iterate on the bad stuff.

Event APIs are a good idea (and probably a better idea), but do come with a few downsides.

Making DELETE endpoints in web APIs not just technically idempotent, but friendly for clients that may need to call them multiple times in a retry loop.

Idempotency-Key is a convention long in use by Stripe to provide idempotency on non-idempotent HTTP verbs, and it now has its own IETF standards draft.