Today, Wordnik officially announced Swagger, a specification and framework for building interactive API documentation and sandboxes. The Swagger UI allows developers and non-developers to interact with an API and see how the API responds to different commands and parameters. It’s based on the technology that powers Wordnik’s own interactive API documentation and can work with both JSON and XML-based APIs.

You can find it in GitHub.

Wordnik co-founder and VP of Engineering Tony Tam said that it’s in use by a few other companies besides Wordnik, but he can’t disclose which companies.

The specification is language agnostic, and the framework implementation is available in HTML5, Scala and Java. There are also client generators for Scala, Java, Javascript, Ruby, PHP and Actionscript 3. More client support is planned.

Last week, Mashery announced an open source interactive API documentation system inspired in part by Wordnik’s API documentation.

wilddirt:

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).

nparametric:

(via Gephi [Mac, Windows, Linux]: An open-source software for visualizing and analyzing large networks graphs | CreativeApplications.Net)

ça va plaire à un certain jérémy, ça…

superiorvintage:

audio d-touch

A way to generate music using only software, a webcam and printable blocks. The software can be downloaded at http://d-touch.org/audio/, so all you really need is a pc or laptop, a webcam and a printer. Check it out!