What a URL reveals
A datalink is public by construction. Working out what that means before it means something.
BLOG
Notes on the idea.
Datapoints on how datalink works and why it works that way: the design decisions, the reasoning behind them, and the writing that made us think of it in the first place. Published as it is written.
Discussion happens in the repository issues.
The URL is the API
Parameters in, picture out. Why the simplest possible interface is the one that survives contact with agents.
One link, two audiences
The same string, read by a person and read by an agent. Why that symmetry is the whole trick.
Data in the link
Why the URL is the right place to keep the data — and what changes when it is there.