LornaJane

Welcome! I’m Lorna: open source technology leader and developer experience engineer. I’m a striking combination of technical experience, communication skills, and a genuine love for enabling others to succeed. I’m a leader, an engineer, a writer, a user champion, an open source maintainer, and a public speaker. My passion is taking great technology, and making it a great experience for users.

On this site you’ll find my blog, links to things I’ve done in other places, and my contact details. I’m always happy to hear from others in the industry and you are welcome to reach out to me with requests for articles, podcasts, or speaking – I can’t do everything, but that doesn’t stop me trying!

From The Blog

04 Dec

2025

Nested tags in OpenAPI 3.2

OpenAPI has always had support for simple tags, but the OpenAPI 3.2 release brought in some serious tag upgrades including a summary field, a “kind” field with registry, – and the ability to nest tags which is the focus of today’s post. If one level of organisation isn’t enough for your API (and on bigger APIs I’d argue it shouldn’t be) then the ability to indicate which tag is the parent of this tag will be a good feature to adopt when you upgrade your OpenAPI descriptions. Continue reading →

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16 Nov

2025

Notification Contexts Matter

Like many of you, my days are dominated by notifications. Emails from project management systems, source control systems, calendar invitations, ticket updates, and message about messages on other platforms. I’ve noticed that some people use notifications as a power tool, while others seem blind to what happens when they do something. So this post is some tips that I’ve picked up along the way. Continue reading →

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17 Sep

2025

Quick local API docs with Scalar

Today I’m sharing a quick-and-dirty script to take an OpenAPI description, spin up a docs server locally, and copy the URL into your clipboard. I also use a bit of glob expansion in my script to find the right folder, because I have a lot of APIs with long and formulaic directory names (TM Forum members know this story). I’m spinning up Scalar here as it’s my current favourite just-works local API docs platform. Continue reading →

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Talks, Articles, Podcasts, and More

From The Blog

Nested tags in OpenAPI 3.2

Notification Contexts Matter

Quick local API docs with Scalar

Talks, Articles, Podcasts, and More

What’s new in OpenAPI 3.2

OpenAPI: How to handle file management

OpenAPI for Web Developers

New OpenAPI Standards

Panel: Maintaining Open Source Software

OpenAPI Standards Landscape