Earlier this year, the inaugural Kong Summit Hackathon engaged the open source community with competitions in various categories, highlighting innovative contributions like Scott Harwell's Insomnia plugin, which won in its category. Scott, who frequently collaborates with hyperscalar cloud infrastructure vendors, developed a plugin to generate an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)-specific signature for API authentication, addressing a gap in Insomnia's existing functionality. His journey began with the need for a flexible, open-source API client for testing HTTP requests and authenticating across different cloud providers. The plugin leverages Insomnia's dynamic features to minimize user input and streamline configuration, allowing seamless switching between OCI environments. By publishing the plugin as open source, Scott ensures that the Insomnia community can expand and adapt his work. The development process, facilitated by existing resources and Insomnia's integration with NPM, was efficient, enabling him to progress from concept to solution quickly. Now, users can authenticate OCI REST API requests within Insomnia with ease, and Scott encourages community feedback and contributions via GitHub.