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This seems like it belonged on freshmeat ca. Y2K.

For this application, current best practice is using Electron stack, or better, cloning VSCode and relying on GeoLeoMaximusDYP v3.2 LLM for geo-location.

How can starting a browser be a best practice? This app is lightweight and does not even use a GUI toolkit. You would roughly use 20x more memory. How is that a best practice?

Using sarcasm. Sarcasm that you missed.

I stopped reading the rest. I just saw Electron is mentioned. Some people honestly think that is a good approach.

Well, it is extremely portable. Just also all the other things you mentioned.

Both Windows and macOS have X servers. Heck don’t they both ship with them nowadays?

not really that portable?

No, not rest API, electron.

What's that? Webarchive/google don't return much of anything.

http://freshmeat.net was a directory of open source software back in the 90's and noughts. It was one of the main ways to discover software.

But what is X11? Is that like Wayland? ;-)

Yep, my "package repo", if you will, for pretty much everything I installed on Slackware back in the day.

A modern equivalent is <https://freshcode.club/>

I was about to mention Aminet[1] too as a joke of sorts (it's Amiga focused, but still updated, though it stores the actual archives more than focus on the "news"), but scanned the front page on freshcode first and one of first things that stood out was an Amiga program[2]... If anything makes Freshcode a successor to Freshmeat, the only thing missing is an Enlightenment theme being posted too.

[1] https://aminet.net/

[2] https://freshcode.club/projects/apccomm

Way to make us feel old :)

Others have mentioned it was a directory, but it sent me off on a nostalgia trip, so here is an "obituary" of sorts, that is itself getting rather old:

https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/

And here's the HN discussion from back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135

(including a couple of my own comments, which aren't all that intersting)

And the wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode

None of these really convey the cultural importance of Freshmeat to the opensource community at the time, though. For a while, Slashdot + Freshmeat were among the two first sites almost everyone I knew and worked with would open in the morning.

Like product hunt but OSS.

Imagine if GitHub release authors publicized releases in a timeline view.

v.0.1 of this or v3.0 of that had the same exposure.

One site. Daily fix.

The thing that the responses are not capturing is that the stuff on freshmeat was often kind of frivolous desktop widgets or themes. People were excited about Linux desktops and lots of people were authoring small stuff to customize it.

Network monitoring/visualization widgets that sit on your WindowMaker dock or similar was a common theme.

So that is sort of the reference being made here

must have at least once

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