It crept up slowly, through small frustrations, awkward workarounds, and moments where I caught myself thinking this feels wrong, but it’s the only way.
Over time, a pattern became hard to ignore:
We’ve gotten incredibly good at designing APIs, but we’ve barely designed access at all.
And now access is starting to behave exactly like an API, whether we intended it to or not.
I’m writing this because I kept running into access decisions that felt small in the moment, but kept shaping systems in ways I didn’t expect, and I didn’t have a good mental model for why.
It crept up slowly, through small frustrations, awkward workarounds, and moments where I caught myself thinking this feels wrong, but it’s the only way.
Over time, a pattern became hard to ignore:
We’ve gotten incredibly good at designing APIs, but we’ve barely designed access at all.
And now access is starting to behave exactly like an API, whether we intended it to or not.
I’m writing this because I kept running into access decisions that felt small in the moment, but kept shaping systems in ways I didn’t expect, and I didn’t have a good mental model for why.
Check out my thoughts.
https://dantelex.com/blog/access-is-the-new-api