That’s funny because I have seen this advice most needed in large projects, where things drag out because people keep having new ideas that they think will make it better. The insidious part is that certainly some ideas are good, the issue is that identifying the most critical changes is never definitive until you ship and see if it works.

(Obviously this advice can easily go horribly wrong in the hands of incompetent leadership, context matters, etc)

> new ideas

Don't add them to current development; add them to future development.

Credit cards aren't a fixed cost. Spend less.

What a helpful take in a CoL crisis.

Everything is a crisis if you can't control your impulses.

Some people just can't resist the urge to feed their families.

To feed with burrito paid on four installments.

That’s becoming a very small part of the population, as birth rates fall across the board.

Is hardly the childrens fault. It is also hard to go back on if your circumstances change

Easier or not, it's certainly more productive to focus on what you can control.

Also I'm open to critiques of capitalism, but the post I replied to didn't contain one.

I guess more people died of starvation under socialism than under capitalism.

blaming capitalism is extremely useless

Until it isn't because enough people realize it is inherently flawed and will never result in stability and they would rather die than relegate themselves, their children, and all their later generations, to indefinite servitude of an outdated economic system. Provided we don't kill our world first in our pursuit of endless profit growth.

I'd much rather deal with some less stability and have a lot more resources available to smooth out the bumps.

The US has made the correct choice for the last 250 years, I hope people like you aren't able to derail it.

> I'd much rather deal with some less stability and have a lot more resources

This strategy works so long as you're in the group of people who do indeed have "more resources," but breaks down if you're marginalized in any way, or if you don't want to support the exploitative system.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1646771/ Turns out, scientifically, it hasn't

That is what people always says about their current culture or economy or political system, even as they are on the very edge of systemic change. And quite frankly to me that just reads like an excuse to not do or try anything so people can kick the can down the road, benefiting themselves at the expense of many others both currently and in the future as things deteriorate further.

it is if that's all people do, but I think it is a necessary step to realize that we do live under a system that encourages an amoral allocation of resources. If people only ever shrug that off or treat it as intractable it will never change. Some would argue that it cannot be changed, but I think that just means they haven't read history.

Brother lately I’ve only been putting groceries on credit cards and you’re right, they’re not a fixed cost. They’re a variable cost that just keeps going up.

I wonder if in classic HN fashion somebody will suggest to stop eating...

Anyone remember Soylent?

I prefer Huel.

The addition of credit cards to that line does little to spoil the point they were making.

Technology is inherent deflationary due to scaling laws of increasing productivity. This is awesome because think if all the zero or very cheap apps etcs. The productivity is largely based on lack of regulation which allows innovationto occur at speed. Now if we only could deregulate "meatspace" applications (think nuclear, housing, etc) we might be able to achieve great gains.

an alternative reason is that there little to no property with new technology.

if you could remove private property rights over land, housing too would be much easier. Thats a regulation governments arent gonna touch though

You don't have to go that far though. Why does it take months to get housing permits? Or many years to get nuclear permits? Just making those processes more efficient through technology would greatly help, but we can't. It's not the technology slowing these things down.

That's what Lunar is for. Just bump up the brightness to HDR levels. Helps a lot with the glare, but will take a bite out of the battery life.

It's always interesting to see users have somewhat strong opinions over fan vs fanless. I could never go Macbook Air again because I've been to hotter climates and do things beyond just using a browser and invariably the keyboard gets too warm for my fingertips. I need the MBPs fans and Mac Fan Control, noise be dammed.

That is my number one issue with startups. They all start minimalist and end up bloated, some sooner than others, and what made them great disappears behind all this bloat. See: tyranny of the marginal user.

I'm looking at alternatives that are guarantee to work locally and only found the following:

Posting.sh -> Postman imports are experimental which makes it a non-starter for people like myself with large Postman collections. TUI only also makes it harder to switch.

Insomnia -> Owned by another large tech company.

Yaak -> Made by the same guy who created AND SOLD Insomnia above. Not exactly comforting to switch over for. How long till this one also gets sold?

Any other great local tools out there? I would like to be done with Postman.

There’s also Bruno!

« Offline only - We take security and privacy seriously. Bruno is an offline tool and there is no syncing of your data to any cloud »

https://www.usebruno.com/

Restfox [1] is worth checking out. It's fully offline and lets you version control your collections with git or any sync tool you prefer. The postman import is well tested and the app also allows you to export back to Postman collections.

Disclaimer: I maintain it.

[1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

I ctrl+f'ed to find Restfox to also give my recommendation. It's a great tool, thanks for maintaining it! :-)

I use a simple bash script:

    #!/bin/bash -x

    TOK="my-jwt-tok"

    case "$1" in
        get-foo)
            curl -H "header: bearer $TOK" "http://www.example.com/foo" | jq .
            ;;

        post-bar)
            curl \
              -H "header: bearer $TOK" "http://www.example.com/bar" \
              -H "content-type: application/json" \
              --data-raw '{"baz":"bap"}'

            ;;  
        *)
            ;;  

    esac

used like:

    ./example.bash get-foo

I know it doesn't have the functionality of postman, but this is how I build up interactions with a new API.

I would like to put the request body into a file and use it with `@file.json`.

I'm one of the creators of Kreya [1]. We were one (or the) first to support a fully-offline, git-centric local data storage in this space.

Kreya is privacy-first since its first commit five years ago, since we were fed up with Postman and Insomnia. Happy to answer any questions

[1] https://kreya.app

RapidAPI for Mac, formerly Paw, it's free for individuals.

https://paw.cloud/

Self host Yaade. If you dont have a server run it locally in a Docker container.

I just memorized curl like a lunatic.

Why?

My argument would be:

OSS models are most of the time not competitive on price when the provider does not support caching, and most third party providers don't.

What do you do if your manager sends you on boondoggles of a project?

"All they wanted was the phone app. " This is key. A smartphone, any smartphone, was never going to be the answer for these folks.