What is it with generic HTTP clients and their data/account hunger? And why has no fully selfhosted team collaboration tool stood up?
Data/account hunger is how you get money.
Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client
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#22Here is the main Github issue with a lot of context: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577 It was later turned into a discussion here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590 However, the discussion was closed so newer issues have been created.
I saw they mentioned Git Sync as alternative. Do they do something to prevent that from working locally? Git itself does not need any remotes to be configured or you could set the remote to be another local git repository.
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#23Thanks for this. Luckily I found out insomnia was (fully) enshittified through hacker news and not the forced update. I'll backup my files and move over to this fork soon.
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#24Here is the main Github issue with a lot of context: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577 It was later turned into a discussion here: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590 However, the discussion was closed so newer issues have been created.
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#25Hey everyone.. wish we were here discussing something more positive. however...
I happen to know that the Kong CTO is extremely obsessed with GitHub stars and vanity metrics so he can impress investors (e.g. check out his twitter to see him bragging about star counts).
The best thing you can do to get Kong's attention on how horribly they have handled this situation is...
unstar https://github.com/kong/insomnia
...and tell everyone you know to do the same...
It's so so sad that it's come to this but if you haven't seen any of the CTO's responses to users... you're in for a ride. See the thread that dang posted here. The CTO's own words make it quite clear that he sees the Insomnia community as pests getting in the way of his IPO.
It should be crystal clear to everyone paying attention that the leadership at Kong doesn't have a whole lot of respect for their user's private data. I was hoping they'd take a moment to reflect after the extreme backlash but instead they've just been arguing with users nonstop while some of us are sitting here filling out compliance reports on the accidentally exfiltrated data.
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#26What is it with generic HTTP clients and their data/account hunger? And why has no fully selfhosted team collaboration tool stood up?
I’m also a bit baffled. What’s so hard about curl with a UI? Why are there multiple entire companies in this space? I mean, competition is great and all, but these two at least look in a race to the bottom.
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#27My feature request: a way to generate curl commands, fetch, etc. Browsers can do it, why not a dedicated client for making http calls?
Insomnia already does this, at least did as of version 2022.6.0. Right click on the name of the request in the sidebar to find "copy as curl" and "generate code", Ctrl+Shift+G also brings up the Generate Code interface. I'll check if the more up to date version that insomnium is based on has the same feature once I get it built.
When I went looking for alternatives to Insomnia I was pleasantly surprised to see that RecipeUI[1] will let paste in curl commands with various flags etc. and parse those to generate new entries, pretty slick.
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#28Do you have a plan to maintain it long-term or is it just a fork in sake of a fork? Other than that, for UI/manual testing I'd recommend Restfox or Bruno and ezy for gRPC. Hurl and Step CI for automated testing Restfox: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno ezy: https://github.com/getezy/ezy Step CI: https://github.com/stepci/stepci Hurl: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource…
https://hoppscotch.io/ is another one
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#30My feature request: a way to generate curl commands, fetch, etc. Browsers can do it, why not a dedicated client for making http calls?
Insomnia already does this, at least did as of version 2022.6.0. Right click on the name of the request in the sidebar to find "copy as curl" and "generate code", Ctrl+Shift+G also brings up the Generate Code interface. I'll check if the more up to date version that insomnium is based on has the same feature once I get it built.
Thanks. I looked for that feature before in insomnia and didn't find it.