I audited draw.io Desktop 32.4.1. No exploitable vulnerability — and that is the interesting part.
I spent a full analysis pass on draw.io Desktop 32.4.1, a 116 MB Electron app, using static analysis only: JavaScript/AST parsing plus an Electron-s…
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I audited the Electron apps on my Mac: Claude 6/6, Cursor 0/6, Postman 1/6
Updated October 21, 2026: re-tested on the latest releases, Cursor 3.26.13 and Postman 12.33.2 (first tested on Cursor 3.1.15 and Postman 11.93.0).…
Four ways our code avoids importing Electron, and the one file that imports it at the top and takes ten others with it
Notifio is an Electron app with no test framework in it. The whole testing arrangement is three scripts run by tsx : "test" : "pnpm test:baseline &a…
Four full reads of a 4 MB text file to decide one listing, on the thread that serves our UI
Notifio watches rental searches and tells you when a listing appears. With the auto-reply upgrade it can also fill in that site's contact form for y…
I got tired of opening four apps to read one project folder, so I built EasyView_Md
My project folders are a mix of Markdown notes, Word specs, Excel sheets, slides and PDFs. Reading one folder meant jumping between a Markdown edito…
Two things must happen before our server module loads, and a require is all that enforces the order
Notifio is an Electron app whose main process is also its HTTP server. There is no child process: app.whenReady() fires, and then one line pulls an…
Ankita v2.6.0: chat through your own ChatGPT tab — no API key, no per-token billing
Every time I've wired an AI companion up to a model, the same bill shows up somewhere: a per-token API key, a cloud sandbox rental, or a second app…
Electron vs Tauri: how to choose for your next desktop app
A practical comparison from building with both, covering app size, memory, the backend language, OS access, security, and the trade-offs that only s…
Ankita v2.5.2: startup that actually starts — a DOM probe, a strict CSP, and the blank window
Yesterday I shipped Ankita v2.5.1 and, about forty-six minutes later, v2.5.2 — a hotfix for a bug I couldn't leave standing: the desktop app launche…
Our activation screen asks the local server where the website is, then hardcodes the price anyway
Unactivated, Notifio is one screen: an email field, a token field, a button. It is 130 lines of React in the Electron renderer, and it is the only t…
Two files hold the same listings, and only one of them survives you editing a search
Notifio watches rental search pages from your own machine and tells you when a listing appears that was not there last time. For a long while a find…
I Got Tired of Android Mac File Transfers, So I Built an Open-Source File Manager
The problem Moving files from my Android phone to my MacBook should be simple. For me it never was. USB connections dropped. Network transfers faile…
Encrypted at rest unless it cannot be, and the file itself says which
Notifio's auto-reply feature works by watching you reply to one listing by hand, and then replaying that on future listings. The recording it keeps…
I'm building a companion island for my desktop AI assistant: approvals, a mascot, and a 14px wake strip
I'm building a desktop AI assistant, and it has a permission problem that no amount of prompt engineering fixes. Ankita asks for approval before it…
Ankita is looking for contributors — here's what you'd actually build
I'm Krish, a developer from India. For the past 8 months I've been building Ankita — a free, open-source desktop AI assistant. Terminal + Electron a…
Asking a vision model what and where in the same call makes it worse at both
Handrail takes a screenshot of whatever you are stuck in, answers your question about it, and then draws an arrow on the real control you need to to…
fs.cpSync copied the framework and left every symlink pointing at the cache
Notifio is a desktop app that watches rental search pages and tells you the moment something new appears. It drives a Playwright-managed Chromium in…
One banner per search, not one per listing
Notifio watches rental search pages and tells you when a new listing appears. For most of its life it had exactly one way of telling you: an email,…
I stopped rewriting the same Electron boilerplate — so I packaged it
Every Electron side project starts with the same three weeks. You wire up window controls, and they look wrong next to the OS chrome. You build a th…
Your daily reminder needs three states, not a boolean
I built a checklist that opens itself at 8 am. The hard part wasn't opening it. It was working out when to stop. The version that fails The obvious…
From tomorrow, you’ll never forget to update your to-do checklist again.
I kept forgetting to open my to-do app. I'd write my tasks the night before, feel organised, and then start the next morning without looking at them…
Describe Review Approve Inspect: A Coding Agent Loop Built for Control
Most local coding agents force a false choice: YOLO the desktop , or approve every tool call until you give up . Cue is built for a third path. It i…
Why I Built Another yt-dlp GUI (And Why I Think It Was Worth It)
I'm new to the world of open source development, at least as an author. This is mostly because it has always felt like whatever tool I need, someone…
I built a drone Ground Control Station in Electron, using LiDAR for autonomous navigation
A build log on the ground station for an autonomous warehouse inventory drone, ROS2 on the aircraft, Electron on the laptop, and nothing in between…
Akhtar OS — Sistem Operasi Web (Open Source!)
Halo! Gue Akhtar. 14 tahun. Dan gue bikin sistem operasi web dari 0. Kenapa? Karena gue pengen sistem operasi yang: Bisa dipake buat kerja, belajar,…
How we run five coding agents side by side in one window
I build NestMux, a desktop app that runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot and OpenCode in a grid of real terminals, each with its own account…
Your Computer Is Busy When You're Not: Building a Desktop Observability Tool with Electron
You close your laptop. The screen goes dark. You assume everything stopped. But what if it didn't? Maybe Docker is still transferring data. Maybe Ch…
Windows silently stops delivering WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook events when a Chromium window has focus (and the diagnostic hook hides it)
I ship a push-to-talk dictation app for Windows ( VocalCode ). Hold a key, talk, release, text appears at the cursor. The "hold a key" part is a low…
I auto-sorted my 3D printing files without an LLM
My model folder got out of hand. If you print much you know the shape of it: STL, 3MF, STEP, OBJ, PLY and ZIP files piling up faster than you can na…
I made my desktop agent speak SKILL.md — now it can eat the whole skills ecosystem
Last week I wrote about AMA-teras , a desktop AI agent that writes its own tools behind verification gates. This week it learned to speak SKILL.md —…