sirjaz

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sirjaz··on Show HN: Release skies-adsb 2.0 – RTL-SDR ADS-B 3D plane tracking app

Any plans on making this a native app without the overhead of having a server service running?

sirjaz··on Show HN: Mikey – No bot meeting notetaker for Windows

Looks awesome, love that it is a local native app

sirjaz··on Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator

Congrats, but you should add support for Windows and macos apps. https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

sirjaz··on Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist

We need to get back to Native Software aka "Apps". As I have said before we have these powerful machines, with cheap storage. Why do I need to connect to a remote host through a bloated web interface just to read a document, it would be better, faster, and smaller locally.

sirjaz··on Why Tracebit is written in C#

I hate people always raging on Windows, but I love that they embraced .Net and C#. Windows outside of its cost has a more advanced kernel, note WSL1.

sirjaz··on Developers should embrace creative coding again

I wish we would see more developers embrace desktop native apps again. We have such powerful machines, only to use them as glorified dumb terminals

sirjaz··on Show HN: voidDB – A transactional key-value DB written in Go for 64-bit Linux

Since there are no strict OS dependency I can see, has anyone tried to compile this and run it on Windows?

sirjaz··on Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data

Any plans to test and support this on Windows Server, since there is nothing directly tied to Linux from what I can tell.

sirjaz··on Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021

That is because Windows isn't the hip thing. It's SaaS with that reoccurring subscription for little feature add.

sirjaz··on Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer

Any plans for making the workflow builder into a desktop app?

sirjaz··on Case Study: ByteDance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance

Someone on HN giving kudos to Windows for once. Has hell frozen over.

sirjaz··on Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data

It would be great if this was a desktop app. That way I wouldn't need to spin up another server

sirjaz··on Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

Well this is why there should be a custom local app that is not web accessible. Desktop apps and CLIs have there advantages, and this is one.

sirjaz··on Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?

Unfortunately, a vast majority of WebApps are hot garbage and even the good ones can never be as functional or as performative as a native app. We have such powerful machines, but we relegate them to such a horrible method of using them.

sirjaz··on Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams

This is great and all, but this would better be served as a desktop app with lower overhead.

sirjaz··on Five years of React Native at Shopify

They could have written a MacOS and Windows app to go along with their web app with React Native but didn't. Such a missed opportunity

sirjaz··on Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

I enduro using my phone explorer: https://www.fjsoft.at/en/

It has the similar feel to iTunes for the iphone.

sirjaz··on Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website

I'm wondering if they could get that to work with React Native for desktop apps

sirjaz··on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

Great job, love seeing new desktop apps!!

sirjaz··on MiceWine – run Windows applications and games on Android smartphones

Now someone needs to make it work the other way. Android apps on Windows!

sirjaz··on Bench accounting services shutting down

This is the problem with SaaS. If it shuts down you loose access to your data and app. This is why we should have local native apps!

sirjaz··on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

I wish there was a native app for Windows and MacOS for this.

sirjaz··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?

Microsoft comes to their senses and starts selling Windows Server standard at a flat 500 bucks an instance a year without the need for cals.

sirjaz··on Microsoft Now allowing Windows 11 on unsupported Hardware

Now they are saying that you can upgrade, but know that we did warn you

sirjaz··on Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

Any plans to use tauri? That way you can use the native os web view, plus cut the overhead of electron

sirjaz··on The deterioration of Google

It would make it impressive that they could make it local without depending on chrome. In addition that it would allow the collaborative aspects natively. Just like on Android or iOS.

sirjaz··on WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker

This is awesome! I hope this doesn't get abandoned.

sirjaz··on The deterioration of Google

Docs and Sheets would only be impressive if they actually released a native desktop app for MacOS and Windows

sirjaz··on SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases

This is the way IDEs should be. We should be able to run things locally without the overhead of a webbrowser

sirjaz··on Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About

We have that in powershell also show-progress

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