"#Mozilla can press on with independent subprojects such as #Thunderbird owners #MZLA #Technologies #Corporation. The popular #Electron #framework is based on #Chromium. It's too late to change that, even if maybe #Servo may one day offer an #alternative. But if #Thunderbird sucked in #Libpurple, it wouldn't matter if #Slack and #Teams and so on used #Electron, as Thunderbird could talk to the servers directly."
"But pointing at what we'd like to see is attempting to #treat the #symptoms and not the #disease. Is there a way to #encourage Mozilla to be an #organized, #focused, #professional #business, with #eyes keenly set on a clearly defined #goal? Perhaps that's the wrong #question. Perhaps that shouldn't be the goal at all. For all that the #Linux business is #huge, no #company #develops the #kernel. They all #cooperate on it. The #Linux #Foundation #funds it, but doesn't really #guide it."
"One #observer has been #spectating and #commentating on Mozilla since before it was a foundation – one of its original co-#developers, #JamieZawinksi. He has been accurately #cataloging Mozilla's #failings for #years."
#electron
So cool watching E-66. Another successful launch of Electron in New Zealand.
Real Star Wars vibe with the updates in Boba Fett’s voice… 
Kiwix PWA v3.6.6 is out! Access Wikipedia & other content offline on any modern OS as a lightweight PWA or desktop app for Linux/Windows.
Updates:
* ActionParse desktop-style Wikimedia ZIM support
* Leaner navigation bar
* minorVersion 3 ZIM support
* Cached page loading fixes
Get it:
* PWA: https://pwa.kiwix.org
* Packages: https://kiwix.github.io/kiwix-js-pwa/app
Kong is hiring Senior Software Engineer, (Insomnia)
#electron #api #seniorengineer
Remote; Canada
Full-time
Kong
Job details https://jobsfordevelopers.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-insomnia-at-konghq-com-may-5-2025-bb88df?utm_source=mastodon.world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=posting
#jobalert #jobsearch #hiring
#deltachat Desktop can now run on #Firefox and Safari, entirely avoiding #Electron and Chromium! It's an intended side-effect of the "porting Desktop to #Tauri" effort led by @treefit which aims to provide a non-Electron packaged version of the Desktop. Here is a video and deep dive into what's working on regular browsers now, and what's missing for a full Web version: https://delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-browser-edition
Started using #Slack daily again for work. Fortunately it's still exceptionally accessible, I'd say the best #Electron-powered app in matter of #Accessibility, along with #VSCode.
Tulip is hiring Full-stack Software Engineer
#golang #electron #react #redux #docker #mongodb #postgresql Budapest, Hungary Full-time Tulip
Job details https://jobsfordevelopers.com/jobs/full-stack-software-engineer-at-tulip-co-sep-3-2024-ff610f?utm_source=mastodon.world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=posting
#jobalert #jobsearch #hiring
To me, the best things about it are the keyboard and the screen.
I also like the fact that it's currently my slowest computer, not counting a Raspi zero W (not zero 2) sitting on a shelf somewhere, or assorted microcontroller boards here and there.
If it doesn't run well on the PBP, then to me, it's just not good software.
Signal (and I guess any #Electron apps) are particularly absymal.
What's new:
* Dark/light theme toggle button
* Customizable toolbar
* Fixed article links bug when switching ZIMs
* Security updates & bugfixes
Available on:
* Web: https://pwa.kiwix.org
* Desktop: https://kiwix.github.io/kiwix-js-pwa/app
* Microsoft Store (Win10/11): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P8SLZ4J979J
For more, see https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-pwa/issues/706
Audius is hiring Software Engineer - Backend
#javascript #python #rust #solidity #typescript #electron #react #reactnative #redux #api #blockchain #docker #elasticsearch #postgresql #redis Remote Full-time Audius
Job details https://jobsfordevelopers.com/jobs/software-engineer-backend-at-audius-co-may-31-2022-52aa63?utm_source=mastodon.world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=posting
#jobalert #jobsearch #hiring
The One-Electron Universe Theory is an idea proposed by physicist John Archibald Wheeler
in a phone call to Richard Feynman in 1940. It suggests that every electron in the universe is actually the same single electron, traveling back and forth through time.
Twisting Magnetism to Control Electron Flow - If you ever wished electrons would just behave, this one’s for you. A team from To... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/22/twisting-magnetism-to-control-electron-flow/ #rectification #mischacks #chirality #electron #europium #magnetic #science #circuit #chiral #diode #news
This goes to all application developers whose app shows a loading screen with "Fetching account info..." or "Getting things ready..." or similar:
What exactly is your app doing? Serious question.
@janvlug @ph00lt0 @nicorikken @bert_hubert
The main issue is the lack of a standardized Webview on #Linux. #KDE has #QtWebengine, #GNOME has #WebkitGTK and they are not "just #Chromium".
#Electron ships a stripped down and rarely updated version of Chromium, which is pretty horrendous, for RAM etc.
At least for #FOSS apps it should be possible to convert them to webview apps somehow, but for that we first need one.
On Android... Apps are tiny
I like Theo's take on #Electron in:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WdmfFmwsGDo
Pretty much all his views and opinions are sound, and I agree. Sure there are many really crap uses of it, but that is not Electron's fault.
I also agree about that the risk is #Chromium gets stronger as the defacto web-standard, controlled largely by one company. But that isn't Electron's fault either.
The lack of alternative browser engines are, and currently #Mozilla is screwing up the only real alternative there is today.
If you've wondered what's going on with the recent #mozillafirefox #firefox kerfuffle @gardiner_bryant has posted a video that is a good catch-up and throws a little water https://youtu.be/m_TdA7AdTww Though my job as a software developer means I use a lot of browsers and platforms for testing my non-testing use is currently : #Safari in #MacOS, FireFox on #windows and #LibreFox on #Linux. So I'm chrom(e/ium) free... except all those pesky #Electron apps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@sbb @ljrk @david_chisnall @ulfi @chiraag @tortie @waeiski @Mer__edith
TTBOMK, it's an #Electron app, just like Deltachats or Matrix Element desktop apps. PCMIIW.
Yes, it is a complex ecosystem. So far, nobody managed to package Electron for #Debian. See
https://bugs.debian.org/842420
Help welcome!
There is no native storyboard solution on Linux. The best solution for Linux is #Krita Storyboard Docker. https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/dockers/storyboard_docker.html
The most popular solution is a #Electron app that uses web technologies.
https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/ and according to #GitHub page, the last update was 3 years ago. https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder
And every other solution usually recommends using an online service that tends to charge a monthly fee.