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 –...

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)...

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...