I work on software security at MITRE, including serving as amember of the OmniBOR Working Group, where I lead development of the Rustimplementation, and as the project manager for Hipcheck, a tool forautomated supply chain risk assessment of software packages. Zola 2024-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://www.alilleybrinker.com/topics/api-design/atom.xml 2024-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 2024-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 Andrew Lilley Brinker https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/softlocking-apis/

<p>We can learn from case studies of APIs forever trapped by past decisions. Just like a video game can softlock and become impossible to progress, so too can APIs become softlocked by technical and social commitments.</p>