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usebruno / bruno

bruno

Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)

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Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)

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Observed mentions: 2022-10-22 09:36:32 UTC to 2026-03-31 18:01:50 UTC.

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From https://ohmjs.org — Here are some awesome things people have built using Ohm: - Shopify's theme-tools (https://github.com/Shopify/theme-tools/), used in their online code editor and the official VS code extension. - Seymour (https://github.com/harc/seymour), a live programming environment for the classroom. - Shadama (https://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/live2017/), a particle simulation language designed for high-school science. - Slang (http://slang.kylestetz.com/), a browser-based audio programming language, and turtle.audio, a music sequencer inspired by turtle graphics programming. - Simpletalk (https://github.com/dkrasner/Simpletalk) is an expressive, programmable authoring system inspired by Hypercard and Smalltalk. (See also the StrangeLoop talk). - Wildcard (https://www.geoffreylitt.com/wildcard/), a browser extension tha
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t empowers anyone to modify websites to meet their own specific needs, uses Ohm for its spreadsheet formulas. - JAMScript (https://citelab.github.io/JAMScript/) is a programming language for edge-based IoT applications. - Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno) is an open source IDE for exploring and testing APIs. It has also been used in a number of projects by Ink & Switch (https://inkandswitch.com), including Potluck (Dynamic documents as personal software: https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/), the Deja Vu project at MIT (https://sdg.csail.mit.edu/project/deja-vu/), ...
In Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler
As one of my good friends pointed out back in 2012, most people don't know how to ask questions[0]. I'm feeling a bit sorry for zahlman in the comment section here, they're doing a good job of defending SO to a comment section that seems to want SO to bend to their own whims, no matter what the stated aims and goals of SO really were. There does seem to be a lot of people in the comments here who wanted SO to be a discussion site, rather than the Q&A site that it was set out to be. I do think it's very unfair of many of you who are claiming SO was hostile or that they unfairly closed questions without bringing the citations required. I'm not saying at all that SO was without it's flaws in leadership, moderators, community or anything else that made the site what it was. But if you're going to complain, at least bring examples, especial
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ly when you have someone here you could hold somewhat accountable. The problem is, you still see a lot of it today, whether it's in IRC channels, Discord chats, StackOverflow or GitHub issues. People still don't know how to ask questions: * [1] * [2] * [3] [0]: https://blog.adamcameron.me/2012/12/need-help-know-how-to-as... [1]: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/issues/10670 [2]: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/issues/10649 [3]: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/issues/6515
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How so? In their README they specifically state: > Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever. We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device. Read our long-term vision here <https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269>. I glanced over that github discussion and don't see where they've gone back on that statement. Am I just missing where they've taken the cloud route?
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