markcollin

Highly recommended video of Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ZK3ngNvvI

essentially, don't get paralysed on designing the perfect path on how to invest time/energy. just focus on putting in the hours everyday.

It was a sad, yet beautiful read. Some of my fav passage from the article.

"Researchers Gilbert, Quiodbach and Wilson coined a term called the “end of history illusion,” which describes people’s tendency to look back on the last ten or twenty years of their life and concede that they’ve changed a great deal. Yet when they’re asked to project how much they’ll change in the next decade, they tend to believe they’ll change much less, if at all, as if all their life was leading up to this moment, in which they’ve achieved peak selfhood"

"Until 2020, I thought Jake and I would live in New York forever. New York is so fun! But, realistically, we stayed too long, our goals and priorities changed, and the cost and struggle of the city stopped outweighing the desire for a kid and to be close to family."

SWE pays well.

I would rather improve my skills, grow in my career and switch jobs to bump my salary than juggle a side income

going to try this out.. clever font name ;)

I liked the demo actually. But it's scary that they would have access to all personal details.

But then Google already has access to all my data - via Gmail and my phone (android)

Humane clearly appears to be a category creator in the making

would love to know too. The website is gorgeous.

Ive tried Jetbrains Http client in the past; but I felt comfortable with a simple UI like Insomnia

Mostly used Insomnia for a long time, until I came across Bruno. Its been a game changer for me. Requests get saved as plain text files and still provides a great UI to work with

Basically all the benefits of text based files combined with a nice UI.

- choose the tech stack ur team is most comfortable with - focus on getting PPL to try your product, then revenue, then scale and then microservices - in that order

Going through the nue the tldr I got is "bring back simple html friendly declarative directives (hello AngularJS)"

Nice to see people trying to push boundaries

Nue might not be a great option for building large scale web apps; it however could be a great way to add reactivity to simple websites. We don't need to have the full fledged webpack monstrosity for every little site.

forks are hard, but I wish you the best.

forks are harder to maintain (specially when the original is still active) i wish them luck. prolly the best approach for people who want to use insomnia is to downgrade and keep using an older version.

Nice to see this. I use jq a lot.

The attention economy on full swing.

Interesting - have beem using uuidv4 for a long time. Will explore further on uuidv7

happy user of bruno here, love the project and the local only file based approach (no cloud bullshit-have had enough of it)

looks like the app has struck a chord with many folks, seeing a lot of hn posts & discussions in the last week around bruno

We don't talk about Bruno ;)

Like? If I understand you raise outside only if you plan to scale and give a great return; otherwise it is better to bootstrap right?

Yes. However I love the fact that Euch continued to oversee it's lead and development in tc39, and a lot of credit goes to him where js is today

To put things into perspective, microsoft acquired GitHub (which has a monopoly on oss hosting) in 2018 for 7.5b

and postman (a gui client) is at 5.6b. mind-bogglingly insane. I'd love to be enlightened on why is postman valued so much. what is d endgame here?

that rings true. and devs dont usually pay for dev tools. the only way I see them having any success is if they gain significant market adoption

however I applaud the effort trying to innovate in the saturated field. Almost every alternative on that list except thunder client is vc funded. I still can't wrap my head around postmans 5.6b val lol

Recommended reading: Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsche

having someone on the founding team who has a sizable network on social media is an unfair advantage ex: rauchg-nextjs sahil-gumroad and so on.

Interesting. glad to see the transparency. oss monetization is really hard.

sadly, most dev's don't pay for dev tooling.

really liking Bruno so far. Also I don't think a gui client would need vc funding. The pressure to show returns is what turns them to bloatware and saas.

I would pay for supporter edition if they go that route. tired of switching tools every 2 years.

lol.. here we are again discussing postman alternatives.. this looks like a cycle

open-source a tool

build userbase

VC funding

rugpull

repeat

lol.. here we are again discussing postman alternatives.. this looks like a cycle

open-source a tool

build userbase

VC funding

rugpull

repeat

Both popular alternatives - insomnia and Thunder client have pulled the rug

Had to migrate away from Thunder client once they announced their pricing and stopping freemium.

I have moved to bruno and its pretty refreshing to use a simple tool without the cloud bloat

Nice to the tools come out to save us from postman bloat

I have been recently trying out bruno - https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno

It allows me to save my collection on my filesystem (as folders and files) and I use git to save them in my private repo

I have been recently trying https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno and it allows you to use your own version control

You should checkout https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno they have collections that run on top of a folder that can be synced with git