My friend Catherine is publishing her first book of poetry on Monday, September 16! Barely a Whisper: Poems from the Heart of a Woman Re-becoming. Please check it out!

I am upset but not surprised that Nassau County passed a public mask ban. Misdemeanor with a $1,000 fine and vague exemptions for health or religious reasons — left up to police to decide, of course. 😡

I’ve been using Insomnia for testing API calls for a while and have been mostly pleased with it. Today I noticed I was several versions behind and the app no longer seemed to have a Check for Updates option. I went to their site and found new versions.

I made the mistake of just installing the latest version, thinking the upgrade would go smoothly. The new version opened without any of my API request collections. It looked like it found some older collections, but I had to login in order to migrate them. That was frustrating, especially since I’m not using any of their cloud or paid features, but sure, I’ll sign up for an account since you’re holding it hostage.

After entering my email, it told me to enter the verification code they sent me. No email came from them, though. I tried to re-send it and still no dice after waiting for half an hour. I get that this is a nice way to verify the authenticity of an email address, but it’s very frustrating that it prevents me from even using the app. They should at least let people sign in and then prompt to verify the email address as a separate step.

At that point I did what I should have done first 🤣 and searched for issues with upgrading. I was very much not alone. From that thread, I found that several people had downgraded to version 2023.5.8, the last version before version 8, and their collections were restored. I did that and voila, my collections are back! I immediately turned off the preference to automatically download software updates.

I should probably switch to Postman, but also found Hoppscotch.io and httpie recommended as open source options, so I’ll check into those too.

Periodic reminder to myself as much as anyone else: foster an environment of delight around learning new things rather than shock that someone doesn’t know something, no matter how “common” it is. Evergreen xkcd: xkcd.com/1053/

Authoritarian court says, “Sure, criminalize unhoused people” and “progressive” governor jumps right on the bandwagon. Cool cool cool.

It is increasingly important to connect with our communities and mutual aid groups. There are plenty of needs to meet. We are all we got.