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Some alternatives to Electron

20thofDecember2019

on Programming in English

2 min read

I recently got an email from someone who had read my old rant about some of the downsides of Electron, who wondered if I could recommend any alternatives.

This post is a short summation of my response.

In short: For GUIs, I'd recommend wxWidgets / Qt –...

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A few thoughts about Electron

26thofSeptember2017

on Programming in English

7 min read

Some of the modern JavaScript-tools have democratized coding - for better and for worse. This, as much other democratization of technology and media, has enabled those that previously lacked resources (as in time, specialized knowledge and/or currency)...

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Getting the path to a Bash script

3rdofApril2017

on Programming in English

1 min read

If you ever need to perform operations relative to the path of a shell script, the following snippet should be useful:

DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"

This will give you the absolute path to the script in most cases (see this...

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