![]() ![]() And besides that, like I said earlier, knowing what the future is gonna be is pretty depressing, because it suggests that the future can’t be changed. ![]() We have this hindsight bias where we trumpet our successes, but if you take our overall hit rate, it’s pretty poor. You know, we made a lot of predictions and our success rate is very low. DiscussĬory Doctorow: Well, you know, I’m a science fiction writer, so I know exactly how badly qualified I am to predict the future, because science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. Then there’s Windows portable apps I don’t know if you guys remember those, but a Windows portable app is an app you can put on a USB stick that keeps all its settings in one folder. I had to package the DMG, set a background image on the DMG that tells him to drag it into the apps folder then on Linux there’s. You can do it today if you’re dedicated and you really like looking to it all, but I had to learn a lot of things. There’s a lot of apps that look really promising on GitHub, but you have to Git clone it and run it yourself, and I’m guessing that’s just because the developers of the repos haven’t figured out how to actually ship a real solid production version of the app, and build for all three platforms. I think that would make Electron adoption go a lot better. That’s something I’ve been thinking about. I was thinking of starting to work on what actually is a software as a service sort of Electron app builder thing, where you can give it your Electron GitHub repo and it will build your app for you, and take care of all this tricky stuff that people don’t wanna worry about. ![]() Things like this, that are actually pretty tricky to get right. Are you sure you wanna run it?” So getting that taken care of, getting the 32-bit vs 64-bit installer files figured out, getting the autoupdated endpoint set up so that if a user on a 64-bit machine accidentally downloads a 32-bit file you can autoupdate them to the 64-bit build later, after they’ve installed the app. Same thing on Windows - if you don’t do it, they get a big, red, scary warning that tells them “This is a not commonly downloaded file. So you have to sign your app, and that’s a little tricky to do. So if you have to do that, then you’re gonna basically lose all your non-developer users, because they’re not gonna wanna do that it’s just another step in the funnel where you’re gonna lose people. ![]()
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