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That was a fun read! I don’t even know what Postman is but I do like curl :P
Be glad you don’t know what Postman is.
The only reason I bother is because some PMs want to use it.
Look at Bruno. Its open source, though I did get pay walled the other day and it pissed me off.
I thought this article was complaining about something that no-one used, but here you are recommending alternatives… alternatives that are not curl
Check out yaak, also open source no paywall. Built on Tauri so not a dumb electron app
Yaak has a commercial paywall if you use the pre-built binaries. You can easily build it yourself without licensing tho
Still has an open source version tho: https://www.usebruno.com/pricing
You can pry
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This is beautiful. I’ma send this to my coworkers.
With none other than…
Outlook. In HTML format. With a giant signature that includes an embedded image.
Also the image is a 2400px image that has been resized using width and height attributes.
Outlook.
Thankfully Thunderbird, although most folks here just use the Roundcube web client.
With a giant signature that includes an embedded image.
They are auto-generated and enabled for everyone. Typical corporate bullshit I guess.
Also the image is a 2400px image that has been resized using width and height attributes.
It’s a portrait (that thankfully has been downsized and compressed so much, that it’s barely recognizable (thank goodness, because it’s a horrific photo)), as well as a photo of my physical signature. Oh god do I hate emails and email signatures. And fuck my company for wanting emails to look “authentic” and including this stupid ass signature.
Oh lord, don’t tell me it’s also laid out with tables, too? 😭
This is such a weird article. Electron is not for making http requests, it’s for rendering web pages. Nothing within curl can render web pages. I’m not saying you should be using electron necessarily, but this is just so obviously wrong, what is the author thinking?
And (almost) any programming language has a built-in primitive for making http requests (possibly even using libcurl internally), why would I switch to a command line call if I can just do the http call directly with that primitive?
I think it’s a jab at Postman, which is essentially curl with a GUI.
Postman has Collection Runner tho, which is useful for people that like to dick around on a GUI and get their data harvested and used for AI training instead of writing their own script in Python.
Somewhere in between is https://hurl.dev/index.html
As a daily curl user, this made me interested in trying out postman.
There are less bloated alternatives I prefer. Like Bruno, which is easy/easier to version control.
Thanks for mentioning Bruno! It looks awesome. I haven’t tried it out, but I’m going to give it a shot today.
I just downloaded it, there’s even an appimage 😍
It will upload your credentials to the cLoUd and ask you for payment to do basic things. Completely enshittified.
curl is obviously fantastic but for more complex ad-hoc requests I usually prefer httpie.
Is there one of these for shell scripts over CI/CD frameworks?
The few times I’ve used Postman, I found myself doing everything I needed in Python shortly afterwards. It’s not cURL, but it could easily be such; I prefer the self organized “text” interface of code.
Bighead is not to be fucked with.
It’s been awhile since I had to deal with web requests. Back then I used Postman (back when I still used Windows). Now I try to always get by using the simplest open source tools for the job so thanks for sharing, will try it out.
I knew of curl but always thought of it as a tool to play around when doing simple requests, never knew people go so far with it.
nah im good lol
bruno seems decent
