Forget Postman – use Bruno!

Recently (well, in October) Postman has forced everyone to register an account or have no actual collections on a local machine (they call this “Scratch Pad”, apparently). The collections are, apparently, stored in a “cloud” (e.g. in Postman servers) – which is just not ok for me, because they may (actually they for sure will) contain customer’s data.

Solution? Use Bruno!

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Using CP2102-based USB-UART adaptor on an Intel Mac

I had a need to read UART on my Intel-based MacBook, for which purpose I decided to use an old CP2102-based USB-UART adaptor that I had lying around.

Since I’m a Java dev, I decided to use Java for this purpose. Well, actually GroovyShell this time, but anyway – I used purejavacomm library.

I previously did this on a Raspberry Pi, and it all worked well.

On a MacBook, though, nothing worked out of the box.

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