Jeremiah, 1 year ago to random

OH: “People on my team are fans of Harry Potter, so we named our API services after characters in the books.”

Please do not do this. It’s not as amusing to your coworkers as you think. It does not help your coworkers intuit what your services do. Names are a UI. Be accessible.

And in the case of Harry Potter, the references also do not age well. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Jeremiah, 1 year ago to random

Opening keynote from Janne Lautanala, CTO at Fintraffic, shared how Suomi 🇫🇮 is organizing an ecosystem of public traffic data and services for land, air, and sea. The govt treats it as an economic enabler, worth €500M annually in business value.

https://www.fintraffic.fi/en

Its rulebook for a fair data economy looks useful to other govts: https://www.sitra.fi/en/publications/rulebook-for-a-fair-data-economy/

Apparently a city in Oklahoma is using its open source software, demonstrating how the EU helps the world.

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