And the API docs were rewritten to earn that story

The newpost entry now opens with the smallest call that works -- one field of markdown -- followed by a complete call you can copy, the actual response it produces, and what an error looks like. Getting your credentials no longer requires reverse-engineering: sign in to rss.chat in your browser, open the console, and the authentication section shows you exactly where your two values are. And there's a new page about the approach itself: How we document APIs -- a living document on writing docs for the reader, examples first, nothing but the truth. If you're documenting your own service, take whatever's useful. Thanks to jimr, whose report on demo.rss.chat started all of this.