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I have a blood feud with Postman because, for years, every time an update came out it just got worse. I got to the point where I’d only update when I got a new work computer or had to for some specific feature (very rare)… that was maybe every two years.

Around 2023 (I think) I had to do an update and, after the update, it helpfully locked my dozens of collections and hundreds of LOCALLY saved requests behind a “you must create an account” barrier. I was fucking pissed, still am.

They did provide access to an “export” functionality but it wasn’t easy to find and didn’t seem to be documented. I found out about it with a web search where everyone was complaining about the tomfuckery and somebody offered that helpful bit of info.

Exported, tried a few other clients, settled on Bruno like a few other comments say. The postman export imported into Bruno just fine. Hoppscotch seemed pretty good too but I don’t think it had Environments at the time. At least I remember there being something about environment configs where Bruno was better.

Fuck postman forever. https://www.usebruno.com/

It makes me really, really happy that I know this insult. Might be the first time I’ve ever seen it used in text (at least text in a language that I can understand)

You might be interested in this (it was super timely for me 6 months ago) : https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

How often do you take your RAM out and put it back in?

But yeah, I see your overall point about reliability.

IRC is still relevant… at least for the olds.

Most of my channels are VERY low traffic, just occasionally catching up with people I met there 20+ years ago. But, the #xkcd (Slashnet) one is pretty active if you want to jump back in and actually talk to people.

Bouncer on the home server, hexchat on the desktop. I had some mobile client but I didn’t use it frequently enough to keep around.

Someone touching my perfectly clean screen and leaving a fingerprint deeply angers me in a way that almost nothing else does. I don’t know why but it’s infuriating.

Yes… But also working on your vocabulary!

… So double yes

Been using it for about 16 years on TP Link, netgear, and now GLInet routers - its great.

The only one I ever reflashed back to stock was the netgear and that was mostly a temporary experiment.

I love having Tailscale running on it so I can access my LAN from anywhere and use it as an exit node.

Edit: I probably started with DDWRT on a Linksys… Forget if it was DD or Open WRT on the TP link.

Heard this trick on the radio a few months ago and it seems to work for me.

Think of a word, I usually do something short like “cat” or “dog”. Let’s use “dog” for this example.

Take the first letter and list every single word you can think of that starts with the same letter. So, for “dog”, think of all words that start with the letter “d”

Once you run out of “d” words or are taking more than a few seconds between each one, go to the next letter and do the same thing. So, all words that start with “o”. Continue until you’re asleep or have to pick a new word.

That is definitely a thing. When I got into it I repinned all our locks with a difficult bitting and added spools/serrated pins.

… All the while knowing that a burglar is just going to smash a window or kick in the door so I really just made it harder on myself ; )

Congratulations, you’re now “the wizard who can open doors” forever. It’s really nice to be able to help people with something that isn’t that hard (for most locks) but appears as magic to so many people.

I was once at a wedding at a lodge type place in the middle of nowhere with rooms that auto locked like a hotel. Opened the locked closet that held the tables/chairs when the owner had accidentally left it locked and was two hours away. … Then three rooms for drunk people that locked their keys inside… Then somebody who rented a cabin 30 min away drove me out there to let them back into the cabin they’d locked themselves out of (hopefully I didn’t just break into a random cabin for them… But the keys were sitting on the counter just inside the door, and they knew exactly where they were, so probably not)

Plus, it’s just fun.

What picks do you use?

Because it was generated by a llm.

I did a search for the torque spec on a castle nut last week and the second result was for a nut (as in, food nuts that you eat) website and the llm had gone all in on nuts and added a page about castle nuts. It even generated an image of a castle for the top because… castle nut.

It proceeded to provide vague instructions and a torque recommendation of 2x the actual spec.

Then there was the other one about a small 4 stroke engine where it stated “other sites will say you don’t need to mix oil with gas but you absolutely must!” (You don’t and shouldn’t) … I wonder how many people have fucked up their shit by trusting llm garbage without knowing better.