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May 14, 2026Thunder Client vs Rentgen — one checks if the API works, the other checks how it breaks
Modern API development has become slightly absurd. A developer sends one request from inside VS...
May 14, 20262 min read2 reactions0 comments
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Thunder Client vs Rentgen is one of those comparisons that sounds logical until you actually look at how people use them.
Both deal with API requests, both sit somewhere in the development flow, and both are useful. But...
May 5, 20263 min read2 reactions0 comments
HTTPie vs Rentgen is one of those comparisons that sounds sensible right up until the moment you realise they’re not even playing the same sport.
Yes, both talk to APIs, but so does half the internet, and we don’t compare a terminal tool with a...
May 3, 20262 min read2 reactions0 comments
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Apr 29, 2026Bruno vs Rentgen — same cURL, very different consequences
There is a moment every developer knows. You take a cURL. Maybe from Swagger. Maybe from logs. Maybe...
Apr 29, 20262 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Apr 6, 2026New Rentgen Release v1.20.0 🚀
Release v1.20.0 🚀 👉 Project export / import (this is the main one) No accounts. No cloud. No data...
Apr 6, 20261 min read2 reactions0 comments
Hoppscotch vs Rentgen? Not really. One sends requests. The other breaks them.
There’s a funny moment in every API project. You send a request. It returns 200. JSON looks...
Apr 30, 20262 min read0 reactions0 comments
ReadyAPI vs Rentgen: One Builds Enterprise Confidence. The Other Checks If the API Falls Apart Before That.
There’s a funny moment in API development that almost nobody talks about. A developer finishes an...
May 6, 20261 min read3 reactions0 comments
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Apr 1, 2026Good breakdown and read on medium of a problem most teams don’t even realize they have
APIs pass tests. CI is green. Everything looks fine. But production still breaks — not because of...
Apr 1, 20261 min read2 reactions0 comments
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Feb 19, 2026Testing Proton Pass API Without Knowing Its Architecture
I took a real Proton Pass API request straight from the browser and ran it through Rentgen. No...
Feb 19, 20261 min read3 reactions0 comments
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Feb 11, 2026We Don’t Have an API. Right. Your Frontend Talks to the Backend Telepathically.
I’ve now heard this twice while talking to QA engineers: “We don’t have an API.” Interesting. So I...
Feb 11, 20261 min read3 reactions0 comments
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Feb 24, 2026I Spent Two Minutes Testing Amazon’s API. It Was Enough.
There’s something oddly comforting about large tech companies. You assume that somewhere, deep in the...
Feb 24, 20262 min read5 reactions0 comments
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Jan 31, 2026ChatGPT Telemetry Crashes on Invalid Input (Yes, Really)
Everyone says telemetry “doesn’t matter”. Until it starts returning 500 Internal Server Error. I...
Jan 31, 20261 min read4 reactions3 comments