Classics

This is a work in progress. My plan is to catalogue classic open-source software and open standards which I would like to read. Just another of my projects!

Software

• MediaWiki
• WordPress
• phpMyAdmin
• phpBB
• Firefox
• Doctrine
• Symfony (see also projects using Symfony)
• Laravel
• Ruby on Rails
• Linux
• Apache HTTP Server
• MariaDB
• PHP
• Zabbix
• GRUB
• Postfix
• Dovecot
• Mailman
• ViewVC
• QEMU
• GW-BASIC
• msbasic
• SSH
• OpenSSL
• BASH
• Ethernet card driver (pick one)
• ZFS

Websites

• https://www.ebay.com.au/
• https://www.aliexpress.com/
• https://www.amazon.com.au/
• https://ap-southeast-2.console.aws.amazon.com/

Standards

• URL
• HTTP
• HTML

REST APIs

I asked ChatGPT what are some famous REST API services? I want to read about how they work.

• GitHub API
• Stripe API
• Twilio API
• Shopify Admin API
• Google APIs (many are REST)
• Microsoft Graph
• Slack Web API
• Reddit API
• YouTube Data API
• X (Twitter) API

What to pay attention to when studying them:

• Resource naming: nouns, pluralization, nesting
• HTTP verbs: GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE
• Status codes: 200, 201, 204, 400, 401, 403, 404, 409, 422, 429…
• Pagination style: page+limit vs cursor tokens vs Link headers
• Authentication: API keys vs OAuth 2.0 vs signed requests
• Rate limits
• Error response format
• Versioning strategy
• Idempotency (especially payments)