Great to see some open sourced based efforts in this area. Imho FOSS is a promising approach for this kind of helper apps. Although I've tried a few of the closed source alternatives I'm not yet definitely sold to one. A community driven approach could provide a better result in the long run. The best of luck for the future...
Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
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Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
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Don't worry about drinchev, it is very common in Bulgaria to point out flaws whenever someone else is doing something, instead of congratulating how awesome the work is. It is not personal, just cultural.
Speechless here. Bravo!
I know that most people don't know it, no reason to be speechless. But I've been living there for a good part of my life and observed that behaviour time and again. Someone does something awesome, then comes the first feedback, finds a flaw and makes the whole feedback just about that flaw. That's why the country is miserable and everyone is leaving. People don't enxourage eacht other but crizisize each other all day long. Besides that: Wonderful country and people!
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sure native apps would be great, but this guy seems to be doing this in his free time. i doubt he has time to learn and make native apps on all three os's
Could not QT fill this space better than a whole electron stack ?
QT used to fill this space, but developers flock to electron because it's a much nicer development experience.
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sure native apps would be great, but this guy seems to be doing this in his free time. i doubt he has time to learn and make native apps on all three os's
Could not QT fill this space better than a whole electron stack ?
But QT isn't cool enough for the JS crowd
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#65So basically... an imitation of Spotlight? I prefer that they copy Alfred's UI. Simple and does all I need. Need Alfred on my Windows machine!
Check Hain [1] on Windows. It works very nicely. [1] https://github.com/appetizermonster/hain
Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, it's also an Electron app, which is something I would like to avoid. If footprint is also a concern to you check out http://keypirinha.com! It's really great, with the only concern being not very elegant aesthetically...
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#66“Cerebro.app” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. I'm really curious why developers release software without signing it. The Mac developer account and code signing certificate seem like a small cost if you're releasing software you actually expect people to use. Personally, I see that warning and assume the developers aren't serious and/or don't care about their users and delete the software.
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#67“Cerebro.app” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. I'm really curious why developers release software without signing it. The Mac developer account and code signing certificate seem like a small cost if you're releasing software you actually expect people to use. Personally, I see that warning and assume the developers aren't serious and/or don't care about their users and delete the software…
Personally, I support developers not signing apps out of principle.
Gatekeeper on Mac OS, while ostensibly a "security" restriction, is nothing more than a blatant money-grab by Apple.
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I think people should be slightly less critical of design decisions enforced by a limited amount of time to work on a side-project that's free. Comments such as "why didn't you make everything from scratch" probably aren't going to contribute much to the conversation.
Well, maybe we should choose our projects based on time we have for them, instead of using a hammer to drive in a screw?
Or maybe the app works great and nobody cares what technology you wish had been used.
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Completely agree. Electron is free, easy to use and doesn't take much effort. Although it isn't the most memory efficient thing in the world, it is great at making really small applications (like this one) which developers can easily make plugins for. Javascript is probably one of the most common languages, with Node.JS the most common server-side variant of it, allowing so very many people to contribute. Also, we li…
Choosing Electron kinda by definition means that you as a developer chose the easy way when developing the app and decided to compromise on user experience, performance and disk space to save a bit of time. It's an antithesis of "working hard".
This app took at least many months of work of the developer, who, by the way, is giving it for free. No need to be harsh or disqualify him. IF you dont like it, move on.
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Completely agree. Electron is free, easy to use and doesn't take much effort. Although it isn't the most memory efficient thing in the world, it is great at making really small applications (like this one) which developers can easily make plugins for. Javascript is probably one of the most common languages, with Node.JS the most common server-side variant of it, allowing so very many people to contribute. Also, we li…
Choosing Electron kinda by definition means that you as a developer chose the easy way when developing the app and decided to compromise on user experience, performance and disk space to save a bit of time. It's an antithesis of "working hard".
What if the developer was 16 and this was the first thing they had ever made and they were super proud of being able to get something out the door? Read HN and then never made anything again. That happened to me with music when I was young, so discouraging and missed out on an awesome hobby in my 20s and am thankful I had the courage to pick it back up. The tone some folks take in this community often make me want to leave and never come back. I always hedge towards empathy when I don't know the developer personally.