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  • briantoProgrammingBest Alternative to Postman?
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    20 days ago

    I can use insomnium for almost everything, but it’s not as complete as postman. randomly I’ll run into some problem that makes me go back.

    for instance, there’s no way to just enter binary data on a readable format to send over websocket. with postman there’s an obvious dropdown to send hex encoded data as a binary message.


  • briantoFediverse@lemmy.worldDon't reply "just Google it"
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    1 month ago

    on one hand I agree. on the other, google has historically been afraid of the verb to google becoming generic, so of course I’d like to see that happen.

    I think the middle ground is say google it, but make it clear you mean google it on an alternative search engine









  • but stability isn’t something that would drive a gentoo user away either.

    a lot of the draw of gentoo from what I saw was being able to configure everything down to how it gets compiled. it’s simple to apply a patch to a package before it gets built or maintain a custom kernel config in nixos, as well as all the advantages of declarative os