But why does the app stop working if telemetry can't be sent? Who engineered this?
Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
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Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#142Stopped using postman from about 2018 I think. I think it was because I found it stupid to have to log-in to do API queries.
I didn't even find it that ergonomic to use, to be fair.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good thing is that we can start using Insomnium now.
It is unmaintained. This is the cost of devs focusing on corporate gains and not their craft.
Devs have to eat and if someone offers you a life altering amount of money to work on their hobby project, a lot of them would probably take it. It's hard to turn down something that might assure your family a comfortable life.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#144This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app
One thing I despise about postman is how much friction there is to creating a new request. In my line of work, I'm often using an API client as a scratch pad to validate /poc. At the same time, it would be nice to just have a simple "history" that I could go back and search if I needed to find some request I made a few weeks ago.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good thing is that we can start using Insomnium now.
It is unmaintained. This is the cost of devs focusing on corporate gains and not their craft.
Do you apply the same logic to your plumber? Your accountant? The 'craft' is something you do for customers in order to make money to eat.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is unmaintained. This is the cost of devs focusing on corporate gains and not their craft.
Devs have to eat and if someone offers you a life altering amount of money to work on their hobby project, a lot of them would probably take it. It's hard to turn down something that might assure your family a comfortable life.
That's all good, and I hope they're happy, but they shouldn't expect their audience to stick around if they start to ruin the project that got them there.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#147I made a very simple lightweight yaml based Postman alternative called `yapi`. https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi Run this: yapi -c ./users.yapi.yaml With this file: # users.yapi.yaml # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://pond.audio/yapi/schema url: http://localhost:3000 method: GET path: /api/users query: select[name]: true select[tag]: true limit: 10 Or just `yapi` to use fzf to find configs.
That's a really great concept and I could see how one could get used to the workflow with this! But, why such low stats on github?! I guess everyone is jamming on postman, eh?
If you take a peek at the commit history [1], you'll see that the project started only last week with some very vague commit messages. The code is also quite messy and unoptimized. It's a cool project but not exactly industry-level software.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#148This could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app in your terminal tab. Boggles my mind how even this kind of app manages to bring in Electron and the cloud. Edit: Ah, so here it is: https://posting.sh
Oooh this is neat! I've been using hurl (https://hurl.dev/) for the last few years and while it's fun, I've ended up with a ton of text files floating around a folder instead of any kind of organization. Might have to try this.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is unmaintained. This is the cost of devs focusing on corporate gains and not their craft.
Do you apply the same logic to your plumber? Your accountant? The 'craft' is something you do for customers in order to make money to eat.
The plumber doesn't start to install additional pipes that require an annual fee, or spying on me "because you know, nothing to hide", or any other nonsense we are seeing in software.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#150I remember when one of the "Core Goals" of Postman was "Complete control over your data - Keep simple JSON based data formats which can be exported and shared as per user needs". https://web.archive.org/web/20140604204111/http://www.getpos...
When Postman started becoming shit, I started using Insomnia, which is also turning into shit now.
I heard Bruno is good, but haven’t used it. Apparently everything is in a file, which is an appreciable idea.