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

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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21 Jul

2025

API Specificity with Overlays and Enums

The more I work on API standards, the more I realise how few teams understand that they can adopt the standards and, without breaking any contract, adapt them to make a strong interface for their own application. One of my favourite examples is to add enums where a standard interface cannot dictate the exact values, but in your own implementation it is very helpful to do so. Continue reading →

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Talks, Articles, Podcasts, and More

From The Blog

Notification Contexts Matter

Quick local API docs with Scalar

API Specificity with Overlays and Enums

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