This is hilarious to me, after using the evil things for years . Of course, there are reasons to use the hated postman and companies (may they be forever cursed). And I plan to keep using them.

But many valid points are made

  • undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    One more reason, there is a “copy as cURL” option in the Firefox developer tools network tab. It gives you a perfect cURL command including all the necessary cookies and headers to send the exact HTTP request that your browser just sent.

  • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I love it that the page is designed to advertise multiple pieces of software but stopped at curl ^^

    https://justuse.org/

    More coming soon. Or not. I don’t owe you shit.

    ffmpeg is definitely also a candidate for this.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The only point I can say is that editing text on the terminal isn’t as simple as a regular text field. And AFAIK the only way to write a query on a regular text editor would be to write it, save to file, run file…

    • dunz@feddit.nu
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      2 months ago

      Pressing C-x C-e opens the current commandline in your default editor.

      As in what’s in your $EDITOR variable. If you haven’t touched it, it’s most likely Nano or some minimal vim

  • tomi000@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The entire rant gives huge ‘Why would you use a programming language, just write binary’ vibes. I hate these kinds of talks because they go against the most basic principles of IT.

    Edit: bad wording, I didnt mean literally.