fassssst's comments

On: Backpressure is all you need

[fassssst]

The trick is to have 5 of those huge plans running in parallel.

On: Native all the way, until you need text

[fassssst]

Chromium has had an insane amount of investment from many large companies. Way more than native UI frameworks have had over the last decade or so.

On: Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

[fassssst]

fwiw you can ship through Microsoft Store for free and not have to pay for signing.

[hermitcrab → fassssst]

Last time I looked the MS Store was just a sad catalogue of shovelware. Has it improved?

[unleaded → hermitcrab]

Depends how long ago that was. When it first came out you could only upload UWP apps and hardly anyone used it, in recent years they've relaxed it a lot (you can just publish EXEs and MSIs now, fees reduced/abolished) and I see a lot more open-source projects using it now.

[hermitcrab → unleaded]

I just had a look, for the first time in quite a few years. It does look a lot less dreadful than it did. There seems to be very little software for sale that is >$20 though.

[Gareth321 → hermitcrab]

Yes but it's free and easy to link customers there. They don't have to interact with the store outside of your product's listing.

[fassssst → Gareth321]

You can also link directly to a web installer so customers don’t even have to ever see the Store app. The Store provides you a web link for a tiny exe installer, like this: https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/windows

[hermitcrab → Gareth321]

I would be interested to find out a bit more about your experience with the MS App store. Do you get much traffic? Does it convert? What price range is your product? Is it a game or utlity?

On: Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

[fassssst]

Object model

On: Claude Design

[fassssst]

It’s because they embrace their coding models to ship new things at light speed.

On: Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

[fassssst]

It’s web. Just use electron or Tauri.

On: Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]

[fassssst]

https://github.com/ahujasid/ableton-mcp

On: Swift 6.3

[fassssst]

None, you’re on your own. The Browser Company made bindings for WinRT so you can use WinUI imperatively but it’s non trivial to set up.

On: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

[fassssst]

We use a family paper calendar and I use my watch to check the weather and reminders. Still allows my phone to live in a box at home.

On: Why is Claude an Electron app?

[fassssst]

Because it doesn’t matter. The biggest AI apps of last year were command line interfaces for cripes sake. Functionality and rapid iteration is more important.

If only AI had more Liquid Glass, lol