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Engineering Lead @ kraken.tech
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Comment · 8 months ago
So many hallmarks of LLM authorship (the arrows, the framing, the unnecessary fluff, the big important-sounding words). Not to mention the vested interests of the author. Let’s just call it what it is: bullshit. No signal, just noise.
Comment · 10 months ago
Wow. Charles was indispensable tool for working with HTTP apis back when I got started as an iOS dev in 2011. Great to see it still going strong.
Comment · 1 year ago
In 1990 I was super excited to have my high school work experience application accepted to CSIRO in Macquarie Park, only to find when I turned up that I’d spend the whole boring week cataloging magnetic tape from these dull satellites Landsat 4 & 5. The only time my greybeard supervisor seemed remotely animated was when he started imagining what imagery 6 & 7 would send back.

How wrong I was; what this now greybeard wouldn’t give to rummage through that lab again.

RIP #7.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah, this is a bugbear. FWIW my wife and I "share" keychain items by airdropping them to one another as required. It works, but nowhere near as nice as having a common record we can both maintain.
Comment · 4 years ago
If only FastAPI could achieve the same…
Comment · 4 years ago
Try https://httpie.io/cli

No affiliation... just happy user relieved at deleting Postman :)

Comment · 4 years ago
Trello.

Lots of half-baked clones but remarkably few quality foss implementations. WeKan is… a mess. Taiga is complex & the frontend is CoffeeScript (!!). FocalBoard looks about the best of them, but it’s still missing many features and they’ve explicitly rejected calls for OAuth and/ or SAML because they want as a paid feature.

Comment · 5 years ago
Yup - huge fan 20yrs (!!) ago. Great community with plenty of players back then. I still log into my main character every couple of years just to check they’re still going.
Comment · 5 years ago
This needs more upvotes.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'd be interested in that article - be great if you could re-up the footnote :)

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