I’ve no idea what’s underneath, really. I’ll ask and see what I learn.

A paper map sounds fun! I’ll try. Thank you for the tips.

I’ve tried one King’s Quest game and found it frustrating, but that was years ago. Maybe could try again.

I’ll give them a shot, thank you.

I learned how to “write” in Grafiti for my Palm Pilot, and I’ve learned how to best phrase my searches, so I can learn this.

I mean, yes, but also any movement towards the light should be welcome.

Are games with semantic text input any fun? They look like they’d be tremendously frustrating as a modern gamer. I guess you need to learn the language it’s looking for?

As awful as she is, her pulling away from MAGA can only help in giving some followers a chance at coming to their senses.

I honestly think we provide a significant impetus for improvement on their side. They have lots of other customers, but most aren’t as involved and embedded in the data as we are.

That’s not a bad idea. Usually, so far, their frontend team doesn’t hear about the changes either!

They have accepted the penalties as the cost of doing business, and the decision makers on my side are worried about opening it up again. It’s a custom hardware + custom software thing so there aren’t that many options!

That’s the one!

That’s a good thought. It’s a connection to one or more databases on their side, but it’s read only. I suppose that’s possible!

We’re both in a really niche market and the other vendors don’t seem much better!

I’m 3,500 miles from the vendor’s devs, sadly.

Asking them to put the swagger file itself behind the API is a good idea. Their dev backlog is 3-24 months.

I used the same trick to determine the required headers and parameters - I checked their website which uses the same API.

The source of their delays is that different devs or teams “own” different endpoints and make their changes without documenting. It’s annoying, stuff like the same data being in field “hostId” on one endpoint but “deviceId” on another.

Appreciate the input. You aren’t wrong!

They’ve never rolled out a breaking change INTENTIONALLY, which is a fun distinction!

They do have an API Accuracy SLA but it’s not defined anywhere so we do our best. They’ve only avoided penalties a few months out of the last several years!

Luckily it’s not up to me, but I agree.

I’ve been complaining about the API for their main custom application, but they also have a ton of data in Salesforce and they screwed up when they set it up, so it’s not multitenanted or anything. I can’t have the API because I would be able to see and modify every customers’ data.

They’re awesome.

Luckily the only thing I ever pass it are dates and host IDs. I can check a known input against the known response, but my problem so far hasn’t been them breaking their database but breaking the new data being added or the API itself.

Yeah, it’s a tough one.

The main one I have issues with is a read only API. I guess I make it harder on myself from this perspective by not maintaining one big client, but lots of separate single-purpose tools.