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insomnia just enshittified itself and requires cloud login like postman, and force upgrades you from the old version even if you disable updates. this blocked me at work today.

this client looks great, wanted to boost it here in case anyone else got screwed by Insomnia this morning.

  • gkpy@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    if i wasn’t a terminal person, this looks ideal! no reinventing the wheel for lock-in’s (read business model) sake…

    the only thing i don’t like here is their custom bru format. json, yaml or any other standardised markup fit their manifesto better as well imo

    • lonewalk@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m annoyed by this as I’m looking to script a rudimentary Bruno->postman tool, so I won’t be blocked at work on Monday. means I need to dig into their tooling.

      they have an internal bru2json method that is used when exporting a collection into a single file, so I wonder what the benefit is keeping it in the proprietary format at all. maybe it makes it a bit easier to edit by hand, which is a supported use case, but there’s JSON tooling to enable good autocompletes/schemas iirc

      EDIT: I has made script (very wip) https://github.com/wtpisaac/bruno2postman

      • gkpy@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        so I wonder what the benefit is keeping it in the proprietary format at all

        yeah my guess was easier editing and ux when collaborating via github, diffs on json don’t look great

        but yaml (for all it’s faults) would still be better haha or now that i think about it:

        both look similar to bru, would share the advantages over json and seem better spec’d/supported