Bruno is quite good with postman compatibility and it's own syntax
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
#152Hello all,
Postman founder here. I did not time this with an AWS outage of this magnitude but I posted about filesystem, git, and offline support coming to Postman last week: https://x.com/a85/status/1978979495836356819?s=46
Postman has a lot of capabilities now that require the cloud but there is still an offline client built in just for requests.
Building sign-in and cloud features were not due to a VC-led conspiracy. A large number of companies depend on APIs (like AWS) and have thousands of services and APIs. Customers need to manage them and wanted us to build it.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#153This 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
> could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app Wow, in a world dominated by gigabytes of electron application, people thinks 10 MB is the optimal size for a simple utility TUI app. As a reference, (from archlinux repo), vim’s install package is 2.3MB, curl is 1.2MB, lua (the complete language interpreter) is 362KB
To be fair, Vim and Curl are almost certainly dynamically linked, so they get to "cheat" a little. 10 megs is entirely reasonable for a statically linked utility intended to "just work" when you dump it somewhere in your $PATH.
Take the Micro editor. It's written in Go, and packs a fair bit of functionality into a single 12 meg static binary (of which a few megs is probably the runtime.)
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#154The red flag appeared a few years ago already. My company forbade us to use it. This wan no problem for me, because I mostly use curl, but people got upset. We thought this too much restrictive, but ...
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I switched to Bruno, it's pretty nice, no complaints.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
not possible once you sign away your allegiance to a VC
sign in, you mean. sign away means getting rid of vcs.
I understood it as giving it up, not getting rid of. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Give+It+Away
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#157I'm looking at alternatives that are guarantee to work locally and only found the following: Posting.sh -> Postman imports are experimental which makes it a non-starter for people like myself with large Postman collections. TUI only also makes it harder to switch. Insomnia -> Owned by another large tech company. Yaak -> Made by the same guy who created AND SOLD Insomnia above. Not exactly comforting to switch over fo…
I'm one of the creators of Kreya [1]. We were one (or the) first to support a fully-offline, git-centric local data storage in this space.
Kreya is privacy-first since its first commit five years ago, since we were fed up with Postman and Insomnia. Happy to answer any questions
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#158just use curl
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Been using Bruno. It’s good, only complaint is it has some dark mode quirks.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I've been using Bruno for a couple of years, there are some rough edges but overall it's very good.