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The Design of Everyday APIs (2022)

roguelynn.com published 2022-06-022 min read

What makes a good API for a library? Or more importantly, what makes it bad? This talk discusses the principles of what goes into user-centered design, and how best to apply those principles when writing a Python library for fellow developers.

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