Goomics VS Marvel (Comics) API

> What a shitty culture Google has fostered. If you're ever curious how exactly Google shoved unethical technologies on employees that didn't want to develop unethical technologies, I highly recommend reading Goomics, comics made internally by a Google employee who left the company in 2021. It reveals how there had been employee protest against developing tech for the military purposes, as well as protest against... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

The more we learn about the current corporate culture of Google, the easier it is to understand why things are the way they are. We know now that launching products, no matter how redundant, is what gets you promoted, not fixing bugs in existing products. We also know that there are teams that support mission-critical portions of Android that are deeply under-resourced, primarily because there's no incentive to... Source: over 1 year ago

> From the outside, a major source of Google's inefficiency seems to be an endless cycle of product churn and duplication, with the worst example being the 10-plus messaging apps Google has produced since Pichai took over in 2015. Our best insight into Google office politics comes from a series of previously internal-only Google comics [1] by Manu Cornet, which frequently describe launching a new product at... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Google is a company that was always super profitable, but only became evil around 2010-2015. As reflected by Goomics. Source: about 2 years ago

As mentioned in the article, they're available on https://goomics.net/ Super cute comics, though there's a lot of references to internal Google culture or figures that I had to look up at times to get the joke. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Marvel - Access info about marvels vast library of comics. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

In summary, this tutorial or project is designed for individuals with an intermediate level of JavaScript knowledge. It guides learners in creating a superhero search app that utilizes the Marvel API, providing practical experience in fetching and displaying superhero-related data dynamically on a webpage. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

The original idea was to make it searchable by both Marvel and DC characters but DC doesn't seem to have an official public API while Marvel does, so that will have to do for this project. For more general superhero information you can also use superheroAPI, but to get the comic book data we will use Marvel's official API. Before starting you should make sure you have set up your Marvel developer account and you... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

Giphy - https://developers.giphy.com/docs/api/ Any API - https://any-api.com/ Marvel - https://developer.marvel.com/ GitHub - https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/users#get-a-user. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

The marvel api is pretty straightforward from what I hear. Also if you’re into MtG there’s scryfall’s api. And if you’re interested in something a bit less entertainment focused there’s always Twitter, which sounds like a joke but (sadly, perhaps) it is not. Source: almost 2 years ago