To me, blaming an activity which requires active participation for “brain-drain” is such a weird and quite dated thing.
Take social media for example, these require no active participation other than moving your thumb up and down, and is in my opinion the real brain rot these days.
People will always find a way to get their dopamine, be it video games, reading, watching stuff, etc.
Don’t pick out a single thing and make it the boogey man.
I have no idea what you are talking about, I've used fedora for over a year now and aside from some tweaking, which I explicitly did myself, I've never had to go into some weird configs to change anything.
For a lot of people, work happiness is also a big factor, as it should. You’re spending at least 1/3rd of your whole day at your work.
Choosing a specific path does not make you smarter per definition
I would argue the offering is actually very clear. A nice demo is included. If you’re not using any REST clients it might be a bit harder to understand but I doubt you’re the intended target group
My take:
RecipeUI a Postman-like tool that offers convenient type safety and autocomplete on top of what Postman already does.
What is Postman?
It's a tool that allows you to configure, save, and replay HTTP requests. It helps developers building backend server APIs, so they don't have to keep fiddling around with their frontend. In many greenfield projects, the frontend doesn't even exist yet and Postman is effectively the only way to easily test what you're working on.
The alternative to postman is writing custom Python/NodeJS/etc programs to send these requests or painfully doing it with curl and bash.
I think it's cool and I'll probably try it the next time I have to work on REST APIs.
Honestly I'm still not entirely sold on the idea of Postman, for sending a simple HTTP request I find the python requests library a lot more intuitive to work with.
Then again I'm mostly looking at APIs to eventually use them in some other python script so perhaps my use case is not the best fit.
Unless the API does something weird you can do a lot worse than using curl and bash. I mean even using telnet (or openssl s_client) is not too bad if you're only doing a simple GET.
Postman is great for sharing API collections with others, especially if they aren’t a developer. Adding type safety to it is a great way to provide hints for acceptable values.
I think what is happening here is that the python interpreter can be used as an executable. This way you don't have to install python on the host machine and can carry your programs on a USB stick for example.
People will always find a way to get their dopamine, be it video games, reading, watching stuff, etc.
Don’t pick out a single thing and make it the boogey man.