The Holy Grail and the Programmer's High
Dave Winer, the inventor of RSS, wrote today about twitter’s latest API update for supporting the lists feature It turns out there’s an API call that retrieves the timeline for a list, and it works exactly like the API call that retrieves the timeline for an account. So much so that I didn’t even have to change the glue script, I pass in a different URL and it just worked > orig link I wonder if there can be a better award?! Dave Winer applauding twitter?! I never thought I’d see the day ;) (Just kidding Dave). Dave’s right though. There is a certain high that you get when something just works (as it was intended). That is the high that we programmers live for. It’s like a runner’s high. ...