Ah, yes, the things that are extremely valuable as long as you don't account for externalities.

Thank goodness you're here is short and fun.

This looks interesting, but I don't particularly want another client app for this when we can "just use curl" and have that in files (already very git-friendly)?

This will not help many, but I've found a good way that helps me and my team, since we're all in VSCode most of the time anyway. The extension "REST client" lets us write HTTP calls directly in a file and run them from there, with some basic variables and support for different kinds of authentication scheme and environment variables. It has replaced POSTman and Bruno for us: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client

If you're not already using a vscode based IDE this won't help you at all, sure. But, if you are - this lets you write up sequences of requests in a (still manual, but quite quick) file to test APIs and play with them. Highly recommended!

em dashes are typographical faffery and have always been (in my opinion) a marker of writers who take themselves, and the surface level of their style, far too serious.

just use commas, my friend

This actually looks kind of awesome.

Absolutely true, but Graph-QL has never pretended to be REST.

Valid, but dumb.

good old 418, always appears when you really want a cup of coffee

I don't understand - do you think mastodon (or the fediverse in general) is sparsely populated? That's not my impression at all!

that was great! thanks!

if you want a taste of the excellence that is magit, but are a vscode user: there's an extension called "edamagit". highly recommended!

i call then the "domain".