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Postman has turned from something that's bad, that I put up with, to something that's god awful that I simply refuse to engage with. Now days, I just do everything with curl, shell functions and history

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A couple years ago, around when Deno hit 1.0, I started using it for a LOT of my shell scripting scenarios... I can write TypeScript files with a shebang that pretty much just work, and can reference repository packages that load to a cache directory at runtime if missing.. no separate npm install step.

This has been extremely helpful... I'm as inclined to copy as fetch then paste and tweak in a TS file as I am to use curl or anything else... I've pretty much stopped using things like postman altogether.

I ran from Postman to Insomnia. Then that was ruined. Now I am onto Bruno. We will see how long that lasts.

Bruno ftw!

Same except insert some insomnia forks/clones. Silver lining: if/when Bruno goes, I’ll finally be annoyed enough write my own.

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