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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
#192I stopped using Postman when it magically started connecting to a central server for… nothing useful, really. I have no idea why people would design software this way, especially a development tool that should work with any web server, under any network condition (including fully offline against localhost).
Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations, or Python tests with requests to match against expected responses.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#193This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app
This looks awesome! I've been wondering what to do with Insomnia since its enshittification. One idea: since you are doing good-faith licenses anyway, maybe you could add in the possibility to pay for some kind of one-time license? I don't particularly need or want updates from my API tool, I just want it to work and not break. I would be fine with paying a one time commercial license that gives non expiring right to…
I think this is covered by lifetime fallback license, under pricing->FAQ - but not sure, seems so.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#194Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#195This is one of many reasons why I prefer curl[0] and a bit of shell scripting. With this approach there is no dependency on a vendor's servers. 0 - https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html
Same but since a lot of bigger scenarios I need to test the scripting quickly becomes a lot so I often do this using Groovy (as I am a Java developer this is nearly the same). I now have a collection of scripts I often reuse and adapt.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#196Surprised to see no one's mentioned HTTPie yet. I reach out for their web app anytime I have to make a one off network request: https://httpie.io/app
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#197Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#198I am against government regulation, but at times likes this (or your sous vide and washing machine requiring online accounts to function) the idea for regulations that mandate availability of local server for client server applications is alluring. And making all cloud functionality optional.
Or just use an alternative, and there are plenty of them in that segment, no need for the legislator to do anything here.
Just use an alternative is not a long term solution when we talk about customer rights. Because the enshitification marches trough the products.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#199This 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
640K ought to be enough for anyone.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#200Question: 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.
We use it at my work because one team will create the backend, and another team will create the frontend, and its useful to be able to share a big list of all the endpoints, along with how to use them and the expected result that can all be run, as well as handling all the auth for you