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Comment · 2 years ago
The blog post mentions support for 300+ services. I have a couple of questions:
1. It would be interesting to see a comparison between the Rust service coverage and other language SDKs that have been around for a while such as Java. Is there such a place to see this comparison? 2. Will the Rust SDK stay up to date with the latest services as they're announced?
I'm very excited to see this announcement. It's been a long time coming.
Comment · 3 years ago
Perhaps using WASM via something like https://extism.org/. That would also open it up to building plugins in multiple languages.
Tangential to this I've wondered if it's possible or advisable to have a utility to port VS Code plugins to a plugin that's compatible with the JetBrains IDEs.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is exciting in several ways including the fact that
Martin Kleppmann is involved with the project. Filed at the top of my reading list if nothing else to see an undoubtedly good example of a complex Rust project.
Comment · 3 years ago
Hah, I have roll-down windows! Bummed about the outage. I was hoping I'd be able to take the new features for a spin today.
Comment · 3 years ago
Great memories of spending all my time on IRC and hunting for Photoshop when it was just a desktop app. Untold hours spent in college while procrastinating for my next exam.
Comment · 3 years ago
I remember being pretty stoked after getting a flat screen CRT. Oh how things have changed
Comment · 3 years ago
Congrats to the Oxide team. I'm not a potential customer but still get a thrill from the open source projects from these folks.
My favorite is the automated CIO repo: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/cio
Comment · 3 years ago
7. Train a machine learning model to recognize and extract tabular and repeated data based on training data.
8. Optionally publish generated OpenAPI specs to a central site or open PR to a GH repo, "awesome-openapi-devtools"?
Comment · 3 years ago
Great project! These features come to mind that would be great additions:
1. Ability to filter response properties.
2. Ability to work with non-JSON (web scraping) by defining a mapping of CSS selectors to response properties.
3. Cross-reference host names of captured requests with publicly documented APIs.
4. If auth headers are found, prompt user for credentials that can then be stored locally.
5. "Repeater" similarly found in Burp Suite.
6. Generate clients on the fly based on the generated OpenAPI spec.
Comment · 3 years ago
FYI, Akita was just bought by Postman: https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/announcing-akita-ha...
Comment · 3 years ago
This hits a chord with me and I've felt the same way for years. I'm now unemployed (by choice) and mulling over if I should take the plunge to pursue a SaaS or find another job.
One resource I haven't seen mentioned yet is https://tinyempires.substack.com/. He emphasizes not going the VC route and keeping the business small (solo) instead.
I feel like there should be a support group somewhere for like-minded software engineers that are unhappy with the typical job and yearning for a more self-fulfilling path.
Good luck on whatever you end up doing!
Edit: I forgot to mention there's also a bunch of good videos on YouTube from ycombinator startup school. They go into a lot of detail about cultivating ideas, etc.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have a couple of desktops with decent CPU, memory and GPU and 4x Intel NUCs that I run Proxmox on to manage VMs. I generally run a Kubernetes cluster on the VMs.
Depending on your use case, maybe just run a couple $5 machines on DigitalOcean?