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A thread 🧵 of _terrible_ design decisions for the internal APIs of the two Italian high speed train operators, Italo and Trenitalia. Hardcoded passwords, terrible translations, spelling mistakes, xml in json (but utf8 encoded and transmitted as an array of numbers), it's all here. Enjoy!

Oh dear, I could probably write a very similar thread on the Warsaw public transit API. Just look at the website! api.um.warszawa.pl

i used a VPN, and man, it is a thing of beauty that cannot be described in words. like someone turned a powerpoint into a website.