Phil Sturgeon

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2022 in Review: Restoring Ancient Woodlands, Vanlife, Sucking at Bikes, and Green Tech

It’s been another weird and wonderful year, and I wanted to reflect on that in a post. Let's talk consulting on the road, fighting the climate crisis planting trees, losing loads of those trees to the climate crisis, and vanlife!

How Nearly Dying Repeatedly Fixed My Burnout

Burnout and depression had turned me into an angry broken version of myself, and the solution was apparently living on a bike for two years, cycling through 34 countries, crossing snow covered Alps on a bike held together with zip ties, then switching between heat exhaustion, heat stroke, hypothermia, and hyponatremia for a few months... whilst working full time.

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Only You Can Bring Modern OpenAPI Bundling to JavaScript

If you’re familiar with OpenAPI you’re probably familiar with “Bundling”, also known by some as “Resolving” or “Dereferencing”, “External…

Global Namespace Collision Detection in PHP

Namespaces have existed in PHP since version 5.3 to avoid two classes with the same name from different parts of the codebase conflicting…

Checking Extensions on Laravel Sail and Vapor

One of the Protect Earth API volunteers was looking into using Laravel Excel to add “Download CSV” functionality to Protect Earth’s amazing…

OpenAPI v3.1 Resources for Tooling Developers

OpenAPI v3.1.0 has a bunch of great changes, solving problems like the subtle differences between JSON Schema objects and OpenAPI Schema…

Creating OpenAPI from HTTP Traffic

If you want to get into API design-first, but awkwardly already have a bunch of APIs with no OpenAPI, use a HTTP proxy like Akita to create OpenAPI from your HTTP traffic!

Climate Action in Tech - Design, Code, and Hack the Environment Better

As the science-denial perpetrated omnishambles of 2020 continues, COVID-19 rages on whilst Europe gets hit by deadly storms and flash floods…

Fixing Gatsby oEmbed Instagram Failures

Another day goes by and Facebook find another way to ruin something simple. Their oEmbed API has been "deprecated" (they were going to brick it with 400 responses) but before that date even arrived those 400 errors started showing up for folks using various plugins like gatsby-remark-oembed. The solution? Jump through all sorts of shitty hoops including uploading your passport...

OpenAPI Examples Need Help

OpenAPI has come a long way since its nascent days as Swagger. It’s got excellent tooling, is talked about at all the conferences, is used…

Refactoring an entire API Ecosystem

You've joined a huge company and the entire API ecosystem is a complete mess, how do you prioritize what needs to be done in order to unf**k the whole thing? API Descriptions, REST, API Evolution, Circuit Breakers, HTTP/2, HTTP Caching, gRPC, GraphQL, what is going to help and when do you do it?

Remote Work As Climate Action

With the slow but sure rise in remote working, let's leverage this fantastic lifestyle change to improve our own quality of life, and avoid permanently flooding the cities millions of us call home.

Phil Sturgeon

I help make API Design tools at Stoplight, write about pragmatic API design & development, systems architecture, live on a bike, and help tech folks figure out how they can use their skills to unf**k the planet.

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