OK which dumb engineer unsafely wrapped the entire feature flagging / observability / telemetry tooling around the main process of the app such that it wouldn't load unless those libraries resolved?
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is unmaintained. This is the cost of devs focusing on corporate gains and not their craft.
I want to judge the devs for it but if a VC walked up to me with a bag full of cash and the opportunity to work full time on a passion project I can’t be anywhere near sure I’d say no.
That bag full of cash will keep being a bag full of cash but the passion project will likely become driven by whoever hands you the bag and will head towards their goals, not yours. Anyway you'll keep the cash. It's not different from what the vast majority of us do with our jobs every day.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#163This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app
Currently using Bruno. Saw your comparison. If Bruno has everything I need, what would you say is your biggest benefit compared to Bruno?
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#164This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app
Hey, happy user of Yaak here, thanks for building this. Wish you success and peace.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#165This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app
Currently using Bruno. Saw your comparison. If Bruno has everything I need, what would you say is your biggest benefit compared to Bruno?
Faster, smoother, GRPC, plugins, themes, fully open source, no telemetry,...
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#166Question: Do I miss something by not using Postman? My alternatives for development are "Edit and Resend" of a request (in Firefox) and plain old curl scripts for reusable examples.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Which is why plumbers don't get VC money and salaries aren't as high.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
probably too much work for a solo dev
The REST Book extension was made by a VS Code dev and does a decent enough chunk of what is needed, at least for simple use cases. Handy Dandy Notebook as well, but that requires some reformulation to get everything in terms of standard curl/node/python/etc commands. (whether that’s better or worse than a custom http dsl is a matter of some debate)
Also: httpBook - Rest Client
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#169In the beginning, there was Postman, and we used it, and it was good. Then, Postman became enshittified, so we switched to Insomnia. Then, Insomnia became enshittified, so we switched to Bruno. Then, Bruno became enshittified, so now it's Yaak. Let's see how long it takes for one of these programs to break the cycle.
And each of those are just thin wrappers around curl I guess. We should be glad that some good free software could be produced in the past to serve as the foundation for today's greed.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#170I switched to Insomnia, seems not as bloated for my use-case.
Isomnium is even better, although it's been archived.