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I'm personally very excited for this. Also, the fact that Linux apps will show up in the Start Menu is a nice touch and will be much more enjoyable than starting GUI apps from the terminal.

I hope one day we can get a widely adopted C and C++ package manager. The friction involved in acquiring and using dependencies with odd build systems, etc. is one of the things I dislike about the language. I’m aware on Linux things are a bit easier, but if it were as easy as “npm install skia”, etc. everywhere, I think many people would use the language more. Rust has package management, but not the ecosystem yet. On the other hand, C/C++ has the ecosystem, but no standard way to easily draw from it.

HTTPie is really good if you aren’t doing anything super complex. Postman is a little more than I need nowadays. If you don’t want to leave your browser, there’s another tool called Hoppscotch which is similar to Postman. All are perfectly capable, just depends what you want to do and how you like to work.

Nice to see a real world app using Fyne. Been following the Go GUI landscape for a while, hoping to see it keep growing.

Can I ask what kind of projects you work on as a Delphi developer today? I loved using it back in the day but I understand the market for it is quite slim now.

Thank you for this comment, I learned a lot.

Probably not the answer you’re looking for, but Windows Remote Desktop (if you’re on Windows) is REALLY good. If feels almost identical to using the remote computer directly, it’s snappy even on a mobile hotspot connection. If you’re not on Windows, I’m a fan of AnyDesk (no affiliation), and have had good experiences with it in the past.

Rather than deal with syncing environments, etc. why not just use the same one all the time and remote to your desktop when you want to use your laptop?

Has anyone tried this and able to share their experience? I tried to run the Windows Calculator example on macOS, and while it looked alright, the performance wasn’t so smooth.

I’ve been using Notion for Kanban-purposes - both for school and personal software projects - for a while now and am quite fond of it. I like that it is essentially a glorified spreadsheet and that I can develop my own organization system. I’d recommend trying it out if you haven’t, it’s quite flexible.

That being said, I am curious to see how Microsoft Lists [1] develops, since I already have a Microsoft 365 subscription.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-list...

Posted this in the other thread about this same article, figured I’d share it here too:

It makes me sad to see native apps fade out in many cases. Maybe it’s just nostalgia - I spent many summers making little native applications with Delphi or Xcode, and had plenty of fun. There’s still something beautiful - and irreplaceable - in my opinion, about a well-designed native app.

Sure, some Electron apps are pretty, but I’d prefer to have my minimally-styled, “boring-looking”, native macOS and Windows software back.

It makes me sad to see native apps fade out in many cases. Maybe it’s just nostalgia - I spent many summers making little native applications with Delphi or Xcode, and had plenty of fun. There’s still something beautiful - and irreplaceable - in my opinion, about a well-designed native app.

Sure, some Electron apps are pretty, but I’d prefer to have my minimally-styled, “boring-looking”, native macOS and Windows software back.

Home page says “bowse” courses, might want to look into that :)

I actually loved Delphi back in the day for Windows development. It was quick and easy. My biggest issue with FPC/Lazarus is that the technology isn’t popular compared to C++. In my experience, the library ecosystem, etc. just isn’t as large and it’s harder to find support for.

A solid, production-grade GUI library would complete Rust for me.

I reach for C++ and Qt when I want a cross-platform GUI and a low-level, compiled language. If Rust offered something on the same, or at least close, to Qt, I’d go all-in on Rust.

I haven’t heard about this before and I’m curious - what software only allows Quadro cards?

Regarding blocking ads, etc. - you might want to check out Pi-hole. It can run on a Raspberry Pi (hence the name) or just about anything. It’s pretty easy to set up. Works for blocking ads and trackers, and you can set up additional blocks as well (for Instagram, for example).

I like OneDrive. I have a Microsoft 365 Business plan which gives me 1 TB of storage for $5/month, plus email at my domain. I don’t have any super crazy use case, I just use it as a backup for files as well as syncing between computers. Works fine for me.

No answer, but I also have this issue. Curious to know the cause.

As someone who just set up Cloudflare on their site, can you explain the negative effects of doing so?

Just discovered this from your comment. I’m always looking for stuff like this to reference when designing. Thanks a ton!

If you’re going for paid, Affinity Publisher is great software, and is only $50 for a license. I’ve used it and enjoyed it. If you like it, you can snag the other programs in the Affinity as well for $50 each.

For open source, there is Scribus. I’ve never used it personally but I’ve heard good things. You could also try LaTeX or ConTeXt, the latter if your design is going to be more complicated.

I like Google Domains. I would create a separate Google account only for your domains you’re worried about something happening.

Notion is great. It gives you so much flexibility to really mold the software into what you need, I would highly recommend it. As freelancer I use it as a Jira replacement but I also have personal to-do lists, etc. in Notion and it’s nice having them all in one place.

Personally, I’ve never experienced the resource management issues you describe here, even when running similar workloads. I have a 2015 MBP with 16 GB.

I find myself reaching for LaTeX for complex documents that I also want to look great. Curious to hear what others use.

Looks cool, reminds me of the old architecture/floorplanning stencils I have lying around. Good luck!

No. Don’t have any problems with my email now. Using Gmail and don’t give out my email to spammy sites.

Docker is great. I wouldn’t say that I am a Docker expert, or a power user even, but being able to spin up a PostgreSQL, nginx, etc. nearly instantly and without lots of configuration is awesome. It keeps me focused on writing code, not configuring programs.

Thank you!

Interesting to hear the different choices for different circumstances. Might have to give Laravel a chance. Thank you for sharing!