A Month Exploring Fizzy - In their book Getting Real, 37signals talk about Open Doors — the idea that you should give customers access to their data through RSS feeds and APIs. Let them get their information when they want it, how they want it. Open up and good things happen.

Fizzy takes that seriously. When 37signals released Fizzy with its full git history available, they didn’t just open-source the code — they shipped a complete API and webhook system too. The doors were wide open baby!

So I dove in — reading the source, building tools, and sharing what I found. Every time curiosity kicked in, there was a direct path from “I wonder if…” to something I could actually try and execute. This post is a catch-all for my very bubbly month of December.

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