Just Use Curl

Just use cURL What the fuck happened to making HTTP requests? You used to just type curl example.com and boom, you got your goddamn response. Now everyone’s downloading 500MB Electron monstrosities that take 3 minutes to boot up just to send a fucking GET request. It’s already on your machine, dipshit You know what’s better than downloading Postman? Not downloading Postman. cURL is already installed on your machine. It’s been there since forever. It works. It’s fast. It doesn’t need to render a fucking Chromium instance to make a web request. It doesn’t depend on a service to run. It doesn’t require an “Enterprise” subscription for basic features. It actually does everything Oh, you need to: Send POST requests? curl -X POST Add headers? curl -H “Header: value” Upload files? curl -F…

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