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A report claims Postman's client silently installed an AI-related plugin without explicit user consent, and that the plugin attempted to transmit all API request and response data elsewhere. The claim surfaced via a developer changelog-style post rather than an official Postman announcement, and no response from Postman is cited.
A developer has released Ghostman, an open-source command-line tool for sending API requests and inspecting webhooks directly in the terminal. It stores collections as local YAML files, starts in under 200ms, and includes a built-in webhook receiver that runs on localhost without needing external tunneling services.
The writer, expecting his first child, reflects on Neil Postman's 1995 book The End of Education and historical predictions about technology replacing teachers, including Thomas Edison's 1913 claim that books would soon be obsolete. He revisits his own 2013 prediction that MOOCs would transform education and notes that institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have persisted for centuries despite shifting purposes.