Tropy is looking for a builder. 🛠️✨
If you like open-source, thoughtful UX, and tools that genuinely help researchers, check out the Junior Developer role: https://tropy.org/jobs - Application deadline: 15 January 2026
#hiring #opensource #electron #react #digitalhumanities #remotejobs
I'm making big progress on the #tauri version of #deltachat_desktop
So far it only takes 38 mb 📦 (78mb installed) in package size instead of the 150mb 📦(323mb installed) of the Delta Chat Desktop #electron version.
I'll keep you updated in this thread.
Thanks to #nlnet & #ngi0_entrust for funding this project: https://nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTauri/.
Tropy is looking for a builder. 🛠️✨
If you like open-source, thoughtful UX, and tools that genuinely help researchers, check out the Junior Developer role: https://tropy.org/jobs - Application deadline: 15 January 2026
#hiring #opensource #electron #react #digitalhumanities #remotejobs
💩 Meta just killed native WhatsApp on Windows 11, now it opens WebView, uses 1GB RAM all the time
｢ My understanding is that the recent layoffs at Mark Zuckerberg-headed Meta likely disbanded the entire team behind the native WhatsApp. I don’t see any other reason why Meta would abandon its native app for Windows. Meta will save costs by maintaining the web app codebase on Windows, but you’re going to hate the experience ｣
Spent about 2 days last week giving creating desktop apps for @silverbulletmd another try. One using @TauriApps but the amount of work I'd have to do in Rust is more than I need right now (really trying to keep the number of technologies down), and another with #Electron but distributing an entire Chrome based OS with an app like this is just... ugly. Let alone all the app signing shenanigans. Yuck. For now just parked this all on a branch again, maybe I'll get back to it again at some point.
This is why I dropped the desktop and mobile apps originally a few years ago and well all in on #PWA. It easy to forget how nice web developers have it not having to deal with all the desktop stuff.
Are there any third-party #Signal clients worth trying?
I'm disgusted that a chat client needs a gigabyte of RAM.
#Electron is such garbage, yo. :/
Just imagine if Sir Tim had been BDFL over the web and basically told all of these APIs from hell and crazy JS frameworks to go eat dirt.
Imagine if a fully-featured, modern web browser could run in 100MiB RAM, the way they did 15 years ago or so.
Are there any third-party #Signal clients worth trying?
I'm disgusted that a chat client needs a gigabyte of RAM.
#Electron is such garbage, yo. :/
Just imagine if Sir Tim had been BDFL over the web and basically told all of these APIs from hell and crazy JS frameworks to go eat dirt.
Imagine if a fully-featured, modern web browser could run in 100MiB RAM, the way they did 15 years ago or so.
![A screenshot of deltachat tauri.
Shows Chatlist and a chat with the following conversation (interface is set to German, so I translate it here):
[Info message: Today]
[Info message: From this point onwards messages are guaranteed to be E2E encrypted, tab here to learn more]
B: Hello 👋 [hearth emoji reaction]
A: Hello my friend, writing here from Delta Chat Tauri [rocket emoji reaction]
B:🤩
B: Image with deltachat and tauri logo connected by a line from which an arrow extends to the delta tauri project logo (which is the deltachat logo with the white border replaced by a gradient that was based on the tauri logo color)](https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/578/305/124/016/234/original/2fbeb75474ee9975.png)
