Codeception 2.4 released
Hello everyone! We’d like to announce the immediate availability of Codeception 2.4.0 . This follows up the PHPUnit release and mostly conta...
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December Recap
Welcome to the last metrics recap of 2017! The beginning of December was very busy, as Insomnia reached the top of both Reddit (/r/programmi...
December Recap
Welcome to the last metrics recap of 2017! The beginning of December was very busy, as Insomnia reached the top of both Reddit (/r/programmi...
November Recap
November marked the one-year anniversary of the Insomnia Plus plan . I can't even believe it's only taken a year for Insomnia to grow from a...
November Recap
November marked the one-year anniversary of the Insomnia Plus plan . I can’t even believe it’s only taken a year for Insomnia to grow from a...
Official Ubuntu PPA
Starting with version 5.12.3, Insomnia can now be installed through an official PPA on Ubuntu-based operating systems. Follow these simple i...
Official Ubuntu PPA
Starting with version 5.12.3, Insomnia can now be installed through an official PPA on Ubuntu-based operating systems. Follow these simple i...
New Documentation Website
I'm happy to announce that there is a brand new Documentation Website for Insomnia! The new site is built using HelpScout Knowledge Base, wh...
New Documentation Website
I’m happy to announce that there is a brand new Documentation Website for Insomnia! The new site is built using HelpScout Knowledge Base, wh...
OAuth 1.0 Support is Here!
Starting with v5.11.0 , Insomnia users can now authenticate using the OAuth 1.0 authentication framework! OAuth 1.0 support was an extremely...
OAuth 1.0 Support is Here!
Starting with v5.11.0 , Insomnia users can now authenticate using the OAuth 1.0 authentication framework! OAuth 1.0 support was an extremely...
October Recap
October saw a large increase of traffic due to a very positive Hacker News comment that got a lot af attention. This also produced a large r...
October Recap
October saw a large increase of traffic due to a very positive Hacker News comment that got a lot af attention. This also produced a large r...
September Recap
Here is a short and sweet recap of September's metrics for Insomnia. If you like this post, be sure to check out the other recaps . There's...
September Recap
Here is a short and sweet recap of September’s metrics for Insomnia. If you like this post, be sure to check out the other recaps . There’s...
August Recap – Still Growing
I spent most of August getting ready to go on a long-term travel trip , meaning not much got done in August. As a result, this recap will be...
August Recap – Still Growing
I spent most of August getting ready to go on a long-term travel trip , meaning not much got done in August. As a result, this recap will be...
Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE
The bad news: from Firefox 55 onwards, Selenium IDE will no longer work . The reasons for this are complex, but boil down to two main causes...
Introducing GraphQL Support!
Starting in version 5.7.0 , you can now interact with a GraphQL server just the same as any other HTTP request inside Insomnia 🤗! Along with...
Introducing GraphQL Support!
Starting in version 5.7.0 , you can now interact with a GraphQL server just the same as any other HTTP request inside Insomnia 🤗! Along with...
Writing Better Tests: Riding The Command Bus
Before writing any line of test code we should think of how meaningful this test would be. The best code is the code you never write, you kn...
July Recap – One Simple Trick Increased MRR 45%
Well, another month has passed and Insomnia continues to grow 📈. Unfortunately, number of active users didn't budge, but MRR increased by a...
July Recap – One Simple Trick Increased MRR 45%
Well, another month has passed and Insomnia continues to grow 📈. Unfortunately, number of active users didn’t budge, but MRR increased by a...
Drive your Browser Tests with Codeception
In last few weeks Codeception received updates aimed to empower acceptance testing. We try to make PHP a better place for browser tests. As...
A Year of Insomnia
It's now been one full year since quitting my job to pursue Insomnia full-time. Notable Stats Open source'd the app $7,000 revenue from 152...
June Recap – A Roller Coaster
If you were to ask me which month has felt the most like a roller coaster, it would have been June. Major community-developed features were...
June Recap – A Roller Coaster
If you were to ask me which month has felt the most like a roller coaster, it would have been June. Major community-developed features were...
Response Previews for PDFs
Insomnia tries to display HTTP responses in the most friendly way possible. For example, HTML files are rendered as web pages, images and SV...
Response Previews for PDFs
Insomnia tries to display HTTP responses in the most friendly way possible. For example, HTML files are rendered as web pages, images and SV...
GitHub API Authentication using OAuth 2.0
OAuth 2.0 has been a supported authentication scheme in Insomnia for some time now but – if you are new to OAuth – can still be quite compli...
GitHub API Authentication using OAuth 2.0
OAuth 2.0 has been a supported authentication scheme in Insomnia for some time now but – if you are new to OAuth – can still be quite compli...
Introducing Unix Domain Socket Support
One of the headlining features of Insomnia 5.4.0 is support for UNIX Domain Sockets – a mechanism typically used for communication between p...
Introducing Unix Domain Socket Support
One of the headlining features of Insomnia 5.4.0 is support for UNIX Domain Sockets – a mechanism typically used for communication between p...
May Recap – Open Source and Community Building
On May 10th, I Announced that the Insomnia desktop app is now open source under the GNU AGPLv3 license. If you like this post, be sure to ch...
May Recap – Open Source and Community Building
On May 10th, I Announced that the Insomnia desktop app is now open source under the GNU AGPLv3 license. If you like this post, be sure to ch...
Codeception 2.3
Today the Codeception 2.3 sees the world. This is a stable release with almost no breaking changes but with new features you will probably l...
You're Invited to The Slack Team
Since the Open Source Announcement yesterday, many people have submitted bugs, asked questions, and proposed features via GitHub issues. How...
Insomnia Is Now Open Source
Today, I'm happy to announce that the Insomnia desktop app is now open source software under the GPLv3 license! The source code is hosted on...
New Addons Page
As you know Codeception has a really nice ecosystem with lots of modules and extensions built by the community. Thanks for everyone who inve...
April Recap – Burnout and Declining Growth
April was the most difficult month yet. I Launched Version 5.0 with some large new features, and the release went fairly smoothly. However,...
Writing Better Tests: Obtaining Specification
When you start implement testing in your development process you should always ask: which tests are important for this project. And there is...
Insomnia 5.0 – The Biggest Release Yet!
TL;DR – This update brings contextual autocomplete, more authentication types, and better debugging! 👏 It's been over a month since the last...
March Recap – Calm Before the Storm
As Insomnia slowly grows into a sustainable business it becomes more and more difficult to find things to put in these updates. I'm currentl...
February Recap – 192% MRR Growth
February was an exciting month for Insomnia with monthly recurring revenue growing 192% and monthly active users growing 14% . Considering h...
Hacking with IntelliJ
Jetbrains have a programme for Open Source projects which allows them to receive IntelliJ IDEA licenses. As part of that programme, which th...
January Recap – $110 MRR
Last Month's Recap was fairly uneventful due to extremely low app usage during the holiday season. Thankfully, usage is back up this month a...
Introducing Color Themes!
Superb design has always been treated as a core feature of Insomnia. However, I recently noticed that no design-related work had been done o...
December Recap – Happy New Year!
December is a notoriously slow month because of the holidays. I also decided to take some time off to reflect on things and spend time with...
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Dries Buytaert: Promoting the Drupal community from within the Drupal software
Jacob Rockowitz recently posted a blog post with ideas about how we can make Drupal software more welcoming . What I found most interesting...
Robot Van Gogh will paint your portrait
Maker Faire Rome, where everything started I participated in Maker Faire Rome back in December 2017. I came with the rest of the Arduino cre...
