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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
#222Thats why I self host Yaade https://docs.yaade.io (shameless plug lol)
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Indeed. It is the enigma of success in an industry with no franchise value.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#224I'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…
RapidAPI for Mac, formerly Paw, it's free for individuals.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#225I'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…
Self host Yaade. If you dont have a server run it locally in a Docker container.
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#226Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#227I'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…
Restfox [1] is worth checking out. It's fully offline and lets you version control your collections with git or any sync tool you prefer. The postman import is well tested and the app also allows you to export back to Postman collections. Disclaimer: I maintain it. [1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox
I ctrl+f'ed to find Restfox to also give my recommendation. It's a great tool, thanks for maintaining it! :-)
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#228I 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 exp…
>Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations
There are several FOSS command line tools that can do this easier, e.g. https://httpie.io/cli
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#229I 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 exp…
Pretty obvious why if you use the software. I get the whining, but teams need ways to share their complex workflows, and teams are where the money is for all dev focused software. That's who pays for all your tools to have free versions. People who use make and curl to jury rig some unshareable solution together that no-one else in their company would even bother trying to use aren't worth any money to companies.
You put them in your repo or file server. No need to have all these accounts and potentially leaks/attacks
Git is pretty good at sharing you know
Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
#230I 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 exp…
Pretty obvious why if you use the software. I get the whining, but teams need ways to share their complex workflows, and teams are where the money is for all dev focused software. That's who pays for all your tools to have free versions. People who use make and curl to jury rig some unshareable solution together that no-one else in their company would even bother trying to use aren't worth any money to companies.
>I get the whining, but teams need ways to share their complex workflows, and teams are where the money is for all dev focused software.
Complacent corporate teams. Agile teams need to simplify their workflows, and know that a Makefile can be better than some closed down, Cloud-first tool.
>That's who pays for all your tools to have free versions
Nah, we have free versions for stuff without enterprise editions too.
>People who use make and curl to jury rig some unshareable solution together that no-one else in their company would even bother trying
It's that "no-one else" that doesn't bring value.