March 2021 Summaries

The Slice Machine #SliceContest concluded with the announcement of three winners, each taking home prizes aimed at enhancing their home office setups. Arseniy Yusupov, who secured third place, impressed with a website focused on recycling ocean plastic into sneakers and won a custom mechanical keyboard. Christophe Ghisi, the second-place winner from Toronto, created RUNNER, an application that turns running into a delivery side hustle, earning him a 4K curved monitor. The grand prize went to Jedidiah Broadbent for Whimsy, a startup offering bird-inspired speaker housing, rewarded with a standing desk. All participants will also receive exclusive Prismic swag as a token of appreciation for their creative entries, with future contests anticipated upon the next updates of the Slice Machine.

Starting April 1st, Prismic's main API endpoint (/api/v2) will no longer include a comprehensive list of tags used in a repository, although tags will still be accessible within individual documents and queryable by tag. This change is aimed at enhancing API response times by eliminating unnecessary data retrieval, as 99.9% of requests to the main endpoint are intended solely for retrieving a "ref," which identifies the most recent content version. The update is part of a broader effort to improve API efficiency, including the transition of endpoints to an Edge CDN to make requests globally faster. Users who currently utilize the tag list are advised to modify their applications accordingly, as the "tags" property will initially return an empty array before its eventual removal. Prismic has communicated that further improvements to the API are anticipated, with users encouraged to stay informed through resources like their February product meet-up.