Shorel

> Most FOSS alternatives won't get anywhere near that.

I don't see any reason why a project with a head start can't reach such parity.

I tested PhotoCraft yesterday.

On the same hardware (128GB RAM), there's just no comparison. Much faster, and better in every way, I don't see myself using Photopea again.

I think we are in agreement here.

Ohh you want an Electron alternative, not just some software that's not written in Electron as an example that it is possible not to use Electron. Which was my goal, to show you an example.

In that case the toolkit I used is called wxWidgets. It has been my Electron alternative for two decades.

It is the effort of hundreds of people, so I find your comment of "just build one" as pretentious as it can be. No single person can do this. It's a collective effort.

Because they can ban your entire corporate account, as a paying customer, for one developer that's flagged in their system joining your org.

And there's no human in the loop you can talk with when that happens. Just one automated response after another.

The only appeal possible is to become viral and force their hand to check your case.

Honestly, I would avoid both.

It depends on what are you talking about.

If it is about a Postman/Insomnia/Bruno alternative, the answer is yes.

I use it everyday now, it is called APIKulture. It may not look as pretty, but it is insanely faster than Bruno.

And Postman/Insomnia now require login to their systems which I just refuse to do.

The use of Electron is poor coding.

I dislike Oracle as much as anyone, but Google is the last company I would use as a cloud provider.

I always use Vue.js and I'm sad it is not included here.

Mainly because it has the smallest footprint and arguably the best performance of the powerful JavaScript frameworks.

I would be surprised, because coding languages add useful information to the development process.

It makes no sense to remove this information, as it also helps the LLM to make better coding decisions and to apply better abstractions.

Things like classes, macros (as in lisp, not as in C), design patterns, etc. They are all easily expressed in programming languages, and currently compilers are fundamental to help LLM find and fix bugs.

Or it is feature complete and doesn't need constant updates?

As long as it is being used daily, I think a project is still alive.

I completely agree with you.

It even got to the point where I implemented my own Insomnia/Bruno alternative and I have been using it exclusively for months now. Because Bruno lacked some features I needed.

Last time I checked, Bruno implemented these features, but my version is still much faster and uses minimum resources in comparison (C++ and wxWidgets).

There's no difference with the "real" world.

It's like you never read the quote, and if you read it you did not understand it.

We live our lives to the best of our abilities and sometimes things go very bad for us. What is unreal about it?

Let me guess: you definitely don't consider the possibility of trying your best to be realistic.

I'm living by these words.

So many great lessons I have heard from him, truly a life model.

Thank you so much for sharing your story.

It also gives us a change in perspective about things in life. Not only about luck, but also about science and the wonders of the modern world.

Thank you so much for sharing your story.

It also gives us a change in perspective about things in life. Not only about luck, but also about science and the wonders of the modern world.

I can't upvote you more than once, therefore purchasing the book seems like the logical option.

I enjoyed a lot the small sample of jokes you have on the website.

Kudos to you!

You may get the same guarantees on paper, but at this point there's absolutely no reason to trust any AI provider.

At best they get a fine, and it will not make a dent in their cash reserves.

You definitely can. There's the framework laptop, and also many Lenovo models are bulkier and more robust.

Yeah, it has to be a friend phone as mine has command line via ssh (and tailscale).

Woah, I certainly did!

I am interested in the following use case: convert the PDF to e-pub, then edit it with Calibre to fix some issues that always happen.

Currently using pandoc.

Is there anything in this project that was not already easily available with command line tools?

It read to me as a case of: "only webpages are software, and I'm afraid of the command line".

Really. All he wants was very easy to do already.

I wish that twitter format was unfamiliar.

Really.

It has been spammed all over for the last 15 years.

I just do my part to discourage it.

I would let them peek around my Windows partition at will.

Anything that matters is in the Linux one.

I think that's the 2025 mental model.

Nowadays you hire a developer that can use Claude or Cursor out whatever and they will use any language. There are no expensive Rust developers anymore. Or even JavaScript ones.

And for me this is the reason we need to learn stuff several times. In layers.

The first time we both improvise and memorise. But we have no idea of the underlying complexity of the edge cases. This matches what the imitation game does.

Then we practice and practice, and we start to understand, to really understand what's going on. This is in parallel with learning to deal with the edge cases.

Then, many years later, we learn everything again, but based on an internal world model that can predict and explain just everything about what we are learning. And that's when we actually learn. After we already know it :)

That actually sounds awesome.

Mainly because normal Ruby is an awesome language to write code, and it is also a language that's tried and lost the spotlight because its performance is really, really low, even when compared only with other interpreted languages.

There's something to your approach.

The best results for me have been when I write something 100% in a language and when it is done the AI takes my implementation and ports it to another language.

I agree your way is the only way, and is similar for me as well.

I have very particular ideas about how everything must work. Very particular ideas about which should be the tech stack. Meaning I don't have anything that uses nodejs or Rust.

The algorithms used, the abstractions that matter to me. Almost everything is different to what the AI would do if left to its own devices.

And many times I try to patch the code myself, and succeed, before giving up to the AI.

Anything else leads to insanity.