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Owen Ríos

Owen Ríos working on a laptop

Devs Tech

Owen Ríos started out building websites and the backends behind them, and somewhere along the way became the person colleagues asked to explain things. APIs, Git, containers, the new tool everyone suddenly uses: he likes taking them apart until they make sense to someone who has never opened a terminal, without boring those who have.

He still codes most days, mostly to check that what he writes actually works. At The Next Digit he edits Devs Tech, where every explainer has to pass one test: could a curious beginner follow it, and would a senior developer find nothing wrong with it?

  • API Design

    The practical rules of REST API design: resource naming, HTTP methods, status codes, versioning, pagination, error responses and authentication, with examples.

  • AI Coding Tools

    The main types of AI coding tools, from in-editor assistants to autonomous agents and app builders, with current examples and how to…