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Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by KomoD »

shp0ngle wrote: post #39

Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/ https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Alternative to postman, that's fully local and syncs to git easily. Unlike hoppskotch and insomnia that are free, but offer paid sync, Bruno just works in git. Unlike others, it doesn't dump JSON that's hard to diff, but has its own easily diffable format. You can share your collections in your existing git, with your existing accounts and PRs. Also ha…

All these clients miss something I really want, Protobuf support for regular HTTP/S requests, they all pretty much have Protobuf stuff already from implementing GRPC support

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by novoreorx »

em-bee wrote: post #64

20 years ago i discovered a project by a university in germany that implemented a well thought through object storage with connections to all sorts of messaging protocols. it was used as a platform to research collaboration models. fortunately, at the time some german academic institution offered grants to universities for publishing their projects as Free Software or Open Source, and so this platform was released un…

I may be able to contribute, what language is it written in?

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#113

Post by sanjai0pi »

KomoD wrote: post #111
shp0ngle wrote: post #39

Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/ https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Alternative to postman, that's fully local and syncs to git easily. Unlike hoppskotch and insomnia that are free, but offer paid sync, Bruno just works in git. Unlike others, it doesn't dump JSON that's hard to diff, but has its own easily diffable format. You can share your collections in your existing git, with your existing accounts and PRs. Also ha…

All these clients miss something I really want, Protobuf support for regular HTTP/S requests, they all pretty much have Protobuf stuff already from implementing GRPC support

What do you mean? Can you please explain more or raise a GH issue?

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#115

Post by shp0ngle »

KomoD wrote: post #111
shp0ngle wrote: post #39

Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/ https://github.com/usebruno/bruno Alternative to postman, that's fully local and syncs to git easily. Unlike hoppskotch and insomnia that are free, but offer paid sync, Bruno just works in git. Unlike others, it doesn't dump JSON that's hard to diff, but has its own easily diffable format. You can share your collections in your existing git, with your existing accounts and PRs. Also ha…

All these clients miss something I really want, Protobuf support for regular HTTP/S requests, they all pretty much have Protobuf stuff already from implementing GRPC support

Bruno doesn't have grpc.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#116

Post by em-bee »

redder23 wrote: post #114
em-bee wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

please email me. see profile.

So you think this does not get enough attention, but you keep it secret? Makes zero sense.

if you are interested, you can contact me. otherwise i'd like to avoid de-anonymizing my hackernews account.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by KomoD »

shp0ngle wrote: post #115
KomoD wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All these clients miss something I really want, Protobuf support for regular HTTP/S requests, they all pretty much have Protobuf stuff already from implementing GRPC support

Bruno doesn't have grpc.

I never said that it did?

But clearly they're planning to add it.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

#118

Post by KomoD »

sanjai0pi wrote: post #113
KomoD wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All these clients miss something I really want, Protobuf support for regular HTTP/S requests, they all pretty much have Protobuf stuff already from implementing GRPC support

What do you mean? Can you please explain more or raise a GH issue?

A regular HTTP request with protobuf as the body, load a .proto file, select a message and enter the values

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by jasonpeacock »

saghm wrote: post #32
jasonpeacock wrote: post #11

Everyone hand-rolls their own dotfile management system, but YADM already does everything you need: https://yadm.io/

I've never doubted that there are existing solutions for dot files that do everything I need, but I've yet to find one that doesn't take more work for me to swap to than continuing to just clone a git repo an symlink maybe half a dozen things the once or twice a year that I happen to set up a new machine.

> the once or twice a year that I happen to set up a new machine

This was me for a long time - but then I started using ephemeral (EC2) hosts for remote development, and while I wasn't setting up a new machine frequently, knowing that I could do it with <5min of effort (and 15min of building Nix packages) eliminated a lot of anxiety.

Re: Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

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Post by fuzztester »

jasomill wrote: post #86

qpdf[1], and, in particular, libqpdf, is possibly the most useful PDF tool I've ever used, because it was the first library I found that works at the proper level of abstraction for dealing with the PDF file format on its own terms. In other words, the library directly exposes the essential PDF object structure (pages, dictionaries, strings, numbers, streams, etc.) for easy editing, while abstracting away as much of…

Interesting.

I must check out qPDF.

Have you tried out muPDF?

I have not, yet, but it looks interesting too.

mupdf.com

https://artifex.com/company

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