On: Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?

[hackermailman]

Use Google scholar to find papers on API design. Here's one https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub32713.pdf

Here's many more papers http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/apiusability.html and here https://sites.google.com/site/apiusability/resources

Check 'cited by' to find more papers