My co-worker Tanha Kabir has a cool Visual Studio Code extension called REST Book. Sure, there's lots of extensions and lots of ways to call REST APIs from Visual Studio Code - not to mention the command line. However, REST Book is a Postman-like notebook that uses the Native Notebooks UI experience that's already built into Visual Studio code. If you already love the concept of Notebooks like I do, you'll love REST Book. It's electric paper! Just like .NET Interactive or Jupyter Notebooks, it mixes Prose and Code in a very clean and very intuitive interface. NOTE: Today the REST Book extension requires Visual Studio Code Insiders, but not for long. Get Insiders and run it side-by-side with a stable VS Code here. Here's me calling into my Nightscout server to see my real-time Blood Glucose: Pretty cool. It's early days but I think Tanha already has a very interesting combination of a native Notebook experience and a Postman-like experience. Note I've also created a "SECRET" in the form of my API Key, and then I can refer to it in the GET request using $SECRETS.name. You can also assign variables like:let foo = GET https://hanselman.com and then use them in subsequent cells with $.foo.headers.User-Agent, etc. Just install the Rest Book extesnion in VS Code Insiders, and make a new empty text file with a .restbook extension. You can do GET and have the URL on multiple lines if you split on a ? or &GET https://www.google.com ?query="hanselman" &page=2User-Agent: rest-bookContent-Type: application/json And you can POST and each new line will be a Header, until the last lines after a line separator which is the body of the call.POST https://www.myexampleapi.comUser-Agent: rest-bookContent-Type: application/json { name: "Hello", text: "Hi friends, how are you all?" } If you want to get involved, look at the source, file an issue or bug, or just give compliments, do it over on her repository at https://github.com/tanhakabir/rest-book Have fun! Sponsor: The No. 1 reason developers choose Couchbase? You can use your existing SQL++ skills to easily query and access JSON. That's more power and flexibility with less training. Learn more.(C) 2021 Scott Hanselman. All rights reserved.     

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Chrome 94 has been released this week and is receiving criticism for the inclusion of an idle detection API. This API allows developers to determine when users are idle on a device, beyond just on the application's own tab, helping to identify if a user is uninterested in the content, or simply switched to a new application for some period of time. The feature documentation explains the intended use case in stating that:

It is a tool that allows you to build mobile apps without writing any code. FlutterFlow offers a simple drag-and-drop interface that makes building all sorts of apps for iOS and Android easy. Besides, users need to be able to create their content, and for that, it also exports the generated flutter code. You can even switch from FlutterFlow to a GitHub repository!

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Amazon has announced the release of its new TransferContact API in support of Amazon Connect, the company's omnichannel contact center. This new API will allow developers to integrate task and contact transfers between queues. Amazon's product announcement outlined the value that this new API provides to its partners:

Latest PECL Releases:phalcon 4.0.4 Full changelog can be found at: https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/blob/master/CHANGELOG-4.0.md [4.0.4] Added Added a way to utilize GitHub actions to run database tests against each RDBMS and reworked the testing suite. [#14779](https://github.com/pha$ Added the latest version of Codeception (v4) and utilized the phalcon4 module. #14779 Changed Changed Column 'notNull' definition to make possible create nullable (NULL) columns #14804 Fixed Fixed PhalconDbAdapterPdoPostgresql to correctly identify bool fields instead of treating them as tinyint [#14722](https://github.co$ Fixed PhalconCliConsole to pass current container to the PhalconMvcModuleDefinitionInterface::registerAutoloaders() [#14787](https://g$ Fixed PhalconDbDialectMysql::createTable() to create default value with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE/DELETE [#14797] Fixed PhalconStorageAdapter* to no longer accept the serializer option as it was clashing with the factory [#14828](https://github.com/$ Fixed PhalconHttpRequest to return the correct host on an UnexpectedValueException [#14763](https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/issues/1$ Fixed PhalconAssetsCollection to initialize position to 0 #14848 redis 5.2.0RC1 phpredis 5.2.0RC1 This release contains initial support for Redis Sentinel as well as many smaller bug fixes and improvements. It is especially of interest if you use persistent connections, as we've added logic to make sure they are in a good state when retreving them from the pool. IMPORTANT: Sentinel support is considered experimental and the API will likely change based on user feedback. Sponsors ~ Till Kruss - https://github.com/tillkruss Initial support for RedisSentinel [90cb69f3, c94e28f1, 46da22b0, 5a609fa4, 383779ed] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) Houskeeping (spelling, doc changes, etc) [23f9de30, d07a8df6, 2d39b48d, 0ef488fc, 2c35e435, f52bd8a8, 2ddc5f21, 1ff7dfb7, db446138] (Tyson Andre, Pavlo Yatsukhnenko, Michael Grunder, Tyson Andre) Fix for ASK redirections [ba73fbee] (Michael Grunder) Create specific 'test skipped' exception [c3d83d44] (Michael Grunder) Fixed memory leaks in RedisCluster [a107c9fc] (Michael Grunder) Fixes for session lifetime values that underflow or overflow [7a79ad9c, 3c48a332] (Michael Grunder) Enables slot caching for Redis Cluster [23b1a9d8] (Michael Booth) Support TYPE argument for SCAN [8eb39a26, b1724b84, 53fb36c9, 544e641b] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) Added challenge/response mechanism for persistent connections [a5f95925, 25cdaee6, 7b6072e0, 99ebd0cc, 3243f426] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko, Michael Grunder) protobuf 3.11.4 GA release. mysqlnd_azure 1.1.0 - 1. Rename option mysqlnd_azure.enabled to mysqlnd_azure.enableRedirect. - 2. Add a new option choice "preferred". - 3. When enableRedirect is "on", ssl is off, no connection will be made, return error "mysqlnd_azure.enableRedirect is on, but SSL option is not set in connection string. Redirection is only possible with SSL." - 4. When enableRedirect is "on", but on server side redirection is not available, abort the first connection and return error "Connection aborted because redirection is not enabled on the MySQL server or the network package doesn't meet meet redirection protocol." - 5. When enableRedirect is "on" and server supports redirection, but the redirected connection failed for any reason, also abort the first proxy connection. Return the error of the redirected connection. - 6. When enableRedirect is "preferred", it will use redirection if possible. If connection does not use SSL, or server does not support redirection, or redirected connection fails to connect for any non-fatal reason while the proxy connection is still a valid one, it will fallback to the first proxy connection. mongodb 1.7.2 ** Bug * [PHPC-1553] - Conditionally define ssize_t if it is not available skywalking 3.2.6 Fix the mistake of field entryOperationName in sw6 header.