rubymamis

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Ruby Mamistvalove

Daino Notes: get-notes.com

Vox: get-vox.com

Personal site: https://rubymamistvalove.com

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mamistvalove

GitHub: https://github.com/nuttyartist

Email: ruby.mamistvalove (AT) gmail (DOT) com

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Comment · 24 days ago

Thanks a lot for the feedback! I'm taking all under consideration.

Comment · 26 days ago

I'll take the criticism but can you please be specific and constructive? What exactly look and feel like Qt apps? What's not pretty?

Comment · 26 days ago

Qt is ugly only when you don't have aesthetical taste. Here are my Qt apps:

https://www.get-vox.com/

https://www.get-notes.com/

Comment · 1 month ago

True, I wrote my own chat app in Qt, and it is substantially faster and more efficient (lower battery usage) than anything made with web technologies.[1]

[1] https://www.get-vox.com/

Comment · 1 month ago

Did anyone else notice the huge gap between scores on private vs public for ALL Jev-like models compared to LLMs (such as GPT Luna)? Doesn't it mean those models aren't generalizing so not very useful on data they haven't seen?

Comment · 1 month ago

I’m sick of AI prose and miss the good days when good repos had concise, well-written README.

Comment · 2 months ago

Like this, but the problem with such immediate mode GUI apps is that they constantly burn 1-2% of CPU when the app is idle. A waste of compute and power.

Comment · 2 months ago

I'm waiting for Phase 2[1]: especially "Algebraic data types & pattern matching". Current tagged union[2] use is pretty awkward/verbose and lacks exhaustiveness checking and typed error handling.

[1] https://mojolang.org/docs/roadmap/#phase-2

[2] https://mojolang.org/docs/std/utils/variant/Variant/

Comment · 2 months ago

Indeed! I wrote my note-taking app with a block editor (like Notion) in Qt with QML for the UI and C++ for the logic and it's been an incredible experience![1]

[1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor

Comment · 2 months ago

The QR code that shows on hovering the "Download" button is very cool! Kudos to the person who came up with that.

Comment · 3 months ago

I know people would dismiss this, but I'm going to try to make the case for Qt - I'm currently converting my note-taking app to mobile and it's going very well.

Comment · 4 months ago

Fable was the only model that was able to detect a data corruption bug in my Qt C++ note-taking app[1] that all other tested models (gpt-5.5 xhigh, GLM-5.1, Kimi 2.7, DeepSeek V4 Pro) didn't find. I'll test on GLM-5.2 and Mimo v2.5 Pro soon.

[1] https://www.get-notes.com

Comment · 5 months ago

These days you write the logic in C++ and UI in QML which is a very pleasent experience.

Comment · 5 months ago

It's SwiftUI that is at fault here[1][2], not native apps in general. I wrote my native app in Qt C++ and QML and showed that it is *significantly* faster and uses significantly less RAM than similar web apps[3]. So, no, web apps, in general, are slower and uses more resources than well-engineered native apps.

[1] https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/SwiftUI%20is%20convenient,%20...

[2] https://x.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/1734495508746702936

[3] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor#8-performance

Comment · 5 months ago

Yep, this is a difficult problem. I wrote extensively how I managed to solve this by creating my block editor from scratch using Qt C++ and QML[1]. I faced similar issues - selection between discrete blocks, showing the underlying Markdown under the cursor, varying delegate sizes, etc.

I'm using what I learned to create a native LLM client with a streaming Markdown parser[2].

[1] https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor

[2] https://www.get-vox.com