We Need to Rethink the Computer ‘Desktop’ as a Concept

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Perkeep

#Documentation #Cloud Storage #Bookmarks 16 social mentions

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Mountain Duck

Not that I disagree with your overall point, but there are multiple products in that space: https://mountainduck.io https://cloudmounter.net https://www.expandrive.com/desktop/.

#File Sharing #File Manager #File Storage 44 social mentions

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CloudMounter for Mac

Not that I disagree with your overall point, but there are multiple products in that space: https://mountainduck.io https://cloudmounter.net https://www.expandrive.com/desktop/.

#iPhone #Mac #Amazon 17 social mentions

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TailScale

> But on the self-hosting side, docker is making big strides there. Docker is only part of the puzzle. Even being proficient with Docker (and running services in a traditional way), there was always a big barrier to self-hosting for me in networking. If you lose all of your cloud-equivalent functionality once you leave your home network, it isn't a realistic alternative. I'm not a network whiz and the builtin VPN functionality of my NAS is sadly not up to par either. In comes Tailscale[0], which made it dirt easy to self-host my stuff and have it available anywhere (given there is a Tailscale client for it which has been the case for all my devices). Since I started using it, I've completely migrated my contacts, calendar, zettelkasten (Trilium) to self-hosting and started some home automation projects. For someone who tried and was stuck at the networking part in the past, it truly is a game changer (and I'd like to think I'm not the only one that is held back by that). [0] https://tailscale.com/.

#Security & Privacy #VPN #Cloud VPN 503 social mentions

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StackBlitz

Yes, I can get behind this argument, it's significantly different from the standard opinion that Electron apps are trash quality in terms of performance. VS Code is generally either seen as a counter to that argument, or as the exception that proves the rule; nevertheless I am frequently left unsatisfied with such arguments. My core point is: the norm seems to be lazily written native apps, to the point that well written Electron apps can compete, assuming that the app is non-trivial. Clearly having an Electron app for a task list is unlikely to be a good idea, but as a core productivity tool that is open for months at a time, it's fine. Coincidentally, I stumbled upon StackBlitz [1] a long time ago, and was generally very impressed with it. It is essentially a very slick, online version of VS Code optimized for rapid prototyping, or small team projects. I could easily see people working with it as a main IDE. The argument then would be whether your browser of choice provides a nice enough environment for it to rival your OS when it comes to pinning tabs, navigating between them, etc. I would agree that it's unlikely to be an awesome experience, but with some work, it could be good enough. I mean, I guess a large percentage of people use Gmail via the web interface, and what is email if not the quintessential productivity app. [1] https://stackblitz.com/.

#Text Editors #Programming #Programming Tools 98 social mentions

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Hacker News Search

The fact that a common operational mode is unfathomable to you does not make it useless to others. The topic comes up regularly in HN posts and comments. I've taken my own stab at it: tabs are a preferable, readily-utilised, if cumbersome, form of state management that's otherwise lacking from web browsers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17376317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9638702 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=open%20browser%20tabs%20context%20state&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/256lxu/tabbed_browsing_a_lousy_bandaid_over_poor_browser/.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1923 social mentions

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TMSU

Yeah, it still requires management and discipline from the user for it to be useful. FWIW I use Pinboard daily and finding something among thousands of bookmarks is a breeze. I can usually find what I'm looking for with a single tag or an intersection of just two tags. Finding anything on the filesystem is much more difficult, even with good directory structure discipline. I'm not actually interested in building such a system, it's been done before[1,2]. Though I haven't actually used any extensively, since it does require a shift in how file management is done, and I'm quite familiar with filesystems to bother to change, but it's on my list. :) [1]: https://tmsu.org/ [2]: https://www.tagsistant.net/.

#Note Taking #File Sharing #File Manager 19 social mentions