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• Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

  My codebase has about 1500 files and is highly domain specific: it's a tool for shipping desktop apps[1] that handles all the building, packaging, signing, uploading etc for every platform on every OS simultaneously. The source tree also containers servers, command line tools and a custom scripting language built on Kotlin Scripting. So it's quite complex and there's lots of unusual code for munging undocumented... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

  Well .... that's all true, until you want to deploy. Historically deploying desktop apps has been a pain in the ass. That's why devs put up with the web's problems. Ad: unless you use Conveyor, my company's product, which makes it as easy as shipping a web app (nearly): https://hydraulic.dev/ You are expected to bring your own runtime. It can ship anything but has integrated support for Electron and JVM apps,... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps

  Squirrel is abandoned for years and still used anyway, often by people who don't realize it's abandoned. It's the default if you use the Electron toolchain, so that's why. It has serious design problems too, like it breaks backups of Windows networks by making people's home directories enormous thanks to containing dozens of independent copies of Chrome. There's a better way, which I am shamelessly... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• SystemD ParticleOS

  That's interesting. I've been looking for an angle on embedded Linux software updates for my deployment tool (currently limited to updating desktop and server apps only). When you say push, do you literally mean push or do you mean the devices would still pull updates on their own schedule where you get to control rollout percentages, channels, etc centrally? Mostly devices have to be assumed to be behind NAT,... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Are there any CLI only tools that are monetised

  Sure. My company sells Conveyor, a CLI build tool for deploying desktop apps. https://hydraulic.dev/ (yes the domain name is silly, rebranding is on the todo list but customers come first). It has plenty of customers paying a $45/month subscription, some of which are big name companies that unfortunately don't like to have their logo put on the web page. But it's a CLI tool, and it's monetized. What do you want to... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• JavaFX In Action #14 with Mike Hearn about Conveyor to build self-updating desktop app packages in minutes

  Check the website and documentation for more info. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Jreleaser

  I faced similar problems some years ago, and frankly even if you use Electron the tools aren't that great. So I made a new tool (Conveyor) along with a company (Hydraulic): https://hydraulic.dev/ Conveyor is free to use for open source projects and works how you'd hope it works: it's a signup/account-free downloadable CLI tool. You run a single command from your dev laptop (or a cheap Linux CI worker) and it... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• New Java to WASM GC Transpiler: Run Java in the Browser, No Plugin Requried

  You could also check out https://jpro.one which is a commercial solution but very impressive - and because rendering is server side, very fast as long as you're in the same continent as the server. The website is itself served by JPro. Of course you could also just distribute such apps as desktop apps... I will happily sell you a product that makes doing that easy :) https://hydraulic.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Tour of new custom M1 macOS runners racks with Christina Warren [video]

  So much effort, just to run Xcode remotely. For those of you who want to ship code to macOS from CI (e.g. Electron apps), you should check out my companies product at https://hydraulic.dev/ ... It lets you package, sign, notarize and upload self-updating Mac apps from any OS including Linux. Amongst other things it bundles Sparkle on the fly also, so you don't have to deal with Squirrel, and it can do the same... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What improvements would you like to see for Electron app deployment?

  I work on a tool that simplifies deploying desktop apps, and we're looking at what improvements the Electron community might benefit from the most. It'd be great to get feedback on where your biggest pain points are and what you'd find most valuable in such a tool. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live?

  You could try experimenting with Hydraulic Conveyor [1]. I built it originally due to the frustrations involved in distributing P2P software during my old Bitcoin days so you won't get any hate from me about that ;) Conveyor can package Electron apps and also do all the Mac specific stuff from any platform including Linux. So it can sign, notarize and staple the app itself, also bundling Sparkle updates as it... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes

  What do you think is a fair price for a solo dev trialling a small app? I'm asking because my firm makes a competitor to ToDesktop (sort of) [1], and this is a question we often get. It's free for open source apps and cheaper than ToDesktop, but the "I just want to trial an idea and not spend any money on it" use case isn't well supported by this pricing model. One possibility is a trial period, but then how long... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Flatpak Is Not the Future

  Apple bundles compared to Flatpaks: • Both use reverse DNS to globally identify themselves, neither actually verifies DNS ownership. • Almost everything is a bundle, except for CLI apps. FlatPaks on the other hand are being auto-converted from previous packaging systems. • Bundles don't have dependencies. In theory they can, but in practice they never do. You depend on macOS/iOS as a unitary platform and bundles... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• PackagingCon – a conference only for software package management

  > Java didn’t have any shared library concerns It definitely does have such concerns, but the community has just accepted that the JDK will never help with this and so every JAR that uses a native library hacks around the lack of proper support in its own unique and special way. Usually some project-specific ad-hoc code that extracts native libraries into some directory in the user's home directory. Is the "cache"... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Briefcase: Convert a Python project into a standalone native application

  Follow the GitHub issue or enter your email address in "Subscribe to the blog" on https://hydraulic.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago