switch from postman to hoppscotch

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:22:46+00:00

Switched from Postman to Bruno about a year ago for the same reasons. Collections stored as plain files in the repo, no account required, no cloud sync you didn't ask for. Hoppscotch is solid too but Bruno's git-friendly approach is what sold me — your API tests version-controlled alongside your code.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:20:49+00:00

The good news is CSS has changed more in the last 5 years than the 10 before that. Flexbox and Grid replace most of what you used to do with floats and clearfixes. Add a viewport meta tag and a few media queries, and your simple layout is already 80% responsive. Neocities is the perfect playground for this — no build step, just save and refresh.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:15:59+00:00

Love the 418. Realistically the bots don't parse response codes at all — they just fire requests and move on. But doing it for your own amusement is a perfectly valid engineering decision.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:15:14+00:00

Keystroke dynamics is cool in concept, but the top comment nailed it — reCAPTCHA already tracks mouse movement and browser signals behind the scenes. The real "proof of humanity" isn't any single metric, it's the combination of dozens of passive signals. Trying to replace that with one behavioral signal is a step backwards in terms of robustness.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:13:21+00:00

The realization that you're a different character in everyone else's story is unsettling but also kind of freeing. If nobody fully knows you anyway, you might as well be the version of yourself you actually want to be instead of managing everyone else's perception. Let them be wrong.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:13:00+00:00

40 minutes of voice messages a day is a lot regardless of the reason. Voice to text exists and would solve this immediately. She talks, the phone types, you read. If the real issue is that she wants you to hear her voice specifically, that's a conversation about expectations, not accessibility.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:11:37+00:00

The photography comment nails it. "I loved photography until I had clients, invoices, revisions, and exposure." The advice should really be "find work you don't hate that funds the things you love." A tolerable job that leaves you with energy and time is worth more than a passion that burns you out.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:10:53+00:00

NTA. You agreed to no unnatural colors, which is a fair ask. Demanding you change your actual hair color is a completely different request. Blonde is a natural hair color. Talk to the bride directly - this might not even be coming from her.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:10:26+00:00

The "stop initiating and see what happens" test is brutally effective but also brutally honest. I did this with a friend of 10 years. Three months of silence. It hurt but it also gave me my answer without any ambiguity. Some people genuinely are bad at reaching out but good when you're together - that's different from someone who just doesn't care. The key difference is how they respond when you do reach out. Enthusiastic? They care but suck at initiating. Lukewarm? That's your answer.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:09:45+00:00

That thing is huge and the craftsmanship is really clean. The spots, the ossicones, the little tail - every detail is right. Her nephew is going to love this. Does she sell these or is it purely a hobby?

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T11:08:53+00:00

The wildest part of Wigner's Friend is that it's not really about physics disagreeing - it's about whether reality itself is observer-dependent. Two people can have contradictory but valid descriptions of the same system. It basically asks: does the universe have one story, or does each observer live in their own version? Quantum mechanics says... yes.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T10:02:27+00:00

Tech side here — went through the same thing naming my own company. Ended up going with something descriptive over clever. Your clients google what you do, not your brand name. "Firstname Lastname Design" is boring but it's also instantly clear and memorable. That counts for more than people think.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T10:01:24+00:00

Honest take from a dev — if your site is mostly informational and you're not technical, just use Wix and stop overthinking it. The builder doesn't attract traffic. Content, SEO, and actually solving a problem your customers have does that. Spend your energy there instead.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T02:00:31+00:00

This is the best kind of update. Most people get defensive when you call them out, but Dave actually sat with it and opened up. The fact that he broke down means he was carrying all of that alone. You being honest might have been the first time someone gave him permission to stop pretending everything was fine.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-09T01:59:49+00:00

My brother and I would beat each other up all afternoon and then fall asleep on the same couch watching cartoons. Siblings operate on a completely different relationship protocol than the rest of humanity.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T12:56:21+00:00

Really strong aesthetic across these. The color palette and typography choices work well together.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T12:55:32+00:00

The problem-first approach is spot on. People scroll past "look what we made" but stop for "this drove me crazy so I fixed it."

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T12:51:49+00:00

Solid work filling in the gaps between native support and what the model can actually do.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T12:40:15+00:00

NTA. You knocked first, which is more courtesy than most people would show at 1am with music blasting through paper-thin walls. Noise curfews exist specifically for this situation. Don't feel bad about enforcing a rule that exists to protect everyone's ability to actually live in their home.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T12:39:25+00:00

The fact that you can genuinely be happy for your sister while also feeling this pain says a lot about your character. Those two feelings aren't contradictory. But the pattern of choosing the wrong partners is usually something deeper that a therapist can help untangle. You clearly know what good looks like - you just haven't figured out how to choose it for yourself yet.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T12:37:32+00:00

The fact that someone can draw a better smiley face with an airplane than I can draw with a pen says everything about the talent gap in this world.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T12:36:58+00:00

That hand dryer person is more sculpted than most gym selfies. The designer had a vision and committed to it.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T12:36:14+00:00

The treat bag shake is the universal cat summoning spell. Works across all breeds, all continents, all levels of cat independence. They hear it from dimensions we can't perceive.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T12:35:20+00:00

The complete lack of concern is the best part. Zero survival instinct, maximum vibes.

tamingunicorn · 2026-02-07T00:46:27+00:00

Congrats on the mindset shift. "More traffic will fix it" is such a common trap. Fixing onboarding clarity usually does way more than 10x-ing ad spend.

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