https://shiv.me/tags/holy-grail/ Recent content in Holy Grail on Shivanand Velmurugan — Product leader. Systems thinker. Hugo en © Shivanand Velmurugan Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://shiv.me/posts/2009/the-holy-grail-and-the-programmers-high/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://shiv.me/posts/2009/the-holy-grail-and-the-programmers-high/ <p><a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/02/21/daveWinerBio.html">Dave Winer</a>, the inventor of RSS, wrote today about twitter&rsquo;s latest API update for supporting the <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2009/09/soon-to-launch-lists.html">lists feature</a></p> <blockquote> <p>It turns out there&rsquo;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&rsquo;t even have to change the <a href="http://listings.opml.org/verbs/apps/twitter/getTimeLine.html">glue script</a>, I pass in a <a href="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2009/10/25/gluescript.gif">different URL</a> and it just worked &gt; <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/10/25/goodApiDesignAtTwitter.html">orig link</a></p> </blockquote> <p>I wonder if there can be a better award?! Dave Winer applauding twitter?! I never thought I&rsquo;d see the day ;) (Just kidding Dave). Dave&rsquo;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&rsquo;s like a runner&rsquo;s high.</p>