iffycan
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Comment · 3 years ago
You can record a macro to go download transactions from your bank.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm not finding it on their website. Do they have a "release as open source" option?
Comment · 4 years ago
There's also more to it than just the webview windows:
- Cross-platform auto-updating
- Desktop tray features
- System notifications
- Menu stuff
These are some of the "extra" things that also made Electron nice.
You have a point about browser API compatibility, though. That's the big downside to using the system-provided webview widget.
Comment · 4 years ago
I used to work at a place whose webserver was in TCL (AOLServer). Once I figured out some of the gotchas, I learned to really like TCL.
Like you mention, it's used as glue in lots of places, for instance in my Electrical Engineering classes to glue together VHDL/Verilog and program FGPAs.
Comment · 4 years ago
They are beautiful, but they don't come one at a time. They make their thick webs _everywhere_ and in big groups. You can't escape them during spider season.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's Electron (for now)
Comment · 4 years ago
I work on a desktop budgeting application. I love that it's desktop-only (and so do the users)! It doesn't earn a living (yet), but it makes more than enough to cover expenses.
Comment · 4 years ago
I've had great success using SQLite as both a desktop application file format and web server database. I'll mention just one thing I like about it in the desktop application realm: undo/redo is implemented entirely within SQLite using in-memory tables and triggers following this as a starting point: https://www.sqlite.org/undoredo.html
It's not perfect, but it fills the niche nicely.
Comment · 4 years ago
> but not so small that there are no useful libraries written...
Says the person responsible for a ton of really useful, well-done Nim libraries, such as this amazing Cairo/Skia-like library: https://github.com/treeform/pixie#readme
Thank you for all the things you've made for Nim!
Comment · 4 years ago
Nim can walk: https://nim-lang.org/docs/os.html#walkDir.i%2Cstring
Comment · 5 years ago
Nim has been such a fun language to use. I make a money-earning desktop application (Electron for the GUI and Nim for the core logic) and companion web service (fully Nim). It has been a pleasure using Nim to make these and other things.
Congrats, Nim team!
Comment · 5 years ago
It has never caused a problem for me. I didn't even know it was a "feature" until I'd used Nim for a year. In theory it seems like a terrible idea. In practice, it has never caused any problems.
Comment · 6 years ago
When I first signed up with Stripe years ago, it was a breath of fresh air. Stripe did one thing exceedingly well, at an understandable price and took minutes to integrate with.
I could sell Stripe to my developer friends (and did, a lot!) in a single sentence: "You can add credit card charging to your site in about 15 minutes for 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction." I can't do that anymore. Stripe is no longer a single-sentence sell.
Stripe still does good work. But the air is getting murkier. I'll point to some objective changes, but mostly Stripe is just starting to feel different.
- Several years ago, when I saw announcements that Stripe started supporting ACH payments (and later international payments), I thought, "Great! This is Stripe! I'll just be able to flick a switch and turn those on." Not so. I understand that it's complicated from their end. It's just not the same "Stripe is so easy" experience. "Stripe is supposed to abstract away the complexity, not expose it to me."
- The pricing page is a big sign of the added complexity. There used to just be one or two numbers on that page [1]. Compare that with the current pricing page [2]
My suggestion to you, pc: Start a little company within Stripe to disrupt Stripe (i.e. re-simplify) in the same way Stripe disrupted the industry 10 years ago. Or keep getting bigger and become just as complex as the things Stripe replaced.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20111216054911/https://stripe.co...
Comment · 6 years ago
I've tracked my finances for as long as I can remember. It's become even more important since getting married.
We track every penny. About once a month we sit down and categorize every purchase we made the last month. We only keep receipts if the purchase was for a non-obvious category (e.g. buying both diapers and groceries at Target) so that we can split each transaction between categories.
For some banks, we manually download transaction data in whatever nice format they provide. For others, we use a syncing service that works with the app.
It's been so great throughout our marriage to know that we're both in charge of the money and make decisions together.
That said, I've talked with many people who don't like that level of detail. At first, it was baffling to me that people didn't know the details of their finances, but as I've grown, I've realized that there's plenty more than one good way to manage your money.
Full disclosure: I actively work on and sell budgeting software.