I don't think so. The web version is mostly incompatible with the Windows or Mac desktop versions.
Have you compared the UI of Word/Powerpoint/Excel with alternatives like Apple Pages/Keynote/Numbers or Google Docs/Sheets? For me, the MS products are a complete mess with arbitrary collections of unrelated buttons, abysmal font rendering and insane defaults.
Plus, fulfillment of wishes to users as opposed to IT architecture management. Users have been brainwashed to demand certain brands. When you combine this with an IT Management that lacks mid-term risk management or a vision, you get happy users and an IT landscape easily taken hostage by single vendors.
I love it and use it for personal projects and internal tools. I tend to combine it with https://pocketpages.dev/ which gives me file-based routing and nice templates.
Ah, and Pocketbase has automatic database migrations, so all schema modifications can go into version control.
I even hacked a Gemini protocol server into it, so that I can browse my personal knowledge graph using Lagrange.
For thirty years now, the world knows that the last company to trust calendars and mail is Microsoft and yet they are all over the place. I have lost all hope for humanity‘s future.
I ported John Earnest's Octo variant to an ESP32 cheap yellow display (CYD) board, loading many of the examples from the archive: https://github.com/codekulturbonn/espocto
As a product manager, I am frequently confronted by UX people who declare something as „standard“, a feature that is supposed to be an absolute „must-have“, or else our organisation would loose even the last of our users. Unfortunately, developers tend to accept these things as interesting challenges and (knowingly or not) underestimate the effort and complexity needed to implement it.
My very lonesome role in these cases is to insist that this shiny thing is no standard at all and that our users would be quite happy without it.
My heart jumped with joy when I saw this post. Fossil is such an ingenious system, and, if you are not aware, has been created by the very D. Richard Hipp who created Sqlite. Here is a technical overview: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/tip/www/tech_overview.wiki
Fossil may never become the VCS that rules the world. But, for note taking, it has some very attractive features:
- it is a single executable, written in C with very litte resource requirements
- the file format (an Sqlite database) is designed as an "enduring file format"
- it has an integrated scripting language
For a very long time now I have been considering to port my own note taking system, knowfox, to Fossil. Inspired by this post I might finally come around doing it.
I am a huge fan of Firefox, and have small startup scripts for different profiles. Sadly, together with Microsoft Teams on my work Mac, Firefox causes it to switch on the fan.
This does not happen with Safari (which also supports Profiles, even with a button in the UI). So, I see me using Safari more and more on my work Mac, although there is the occasional page that doesn't render properly in it.
I use Hypothesis a lot. It works on arbitrary sites by just invoking their javascript bookmarklet which I keep in my bookmarks. It is also very easy to integrate with static sites which is nice.
I don't think so. The web version is mostly incompatible with the Windows or Mac desktop versions.
Have you compared the UI of Word/Powerpoint/Excel with alternatives like Apple Pages/Keynote/Numbers or Google Docs/Sheets? For me, the MS products are a complete mess with arbitrary collections of unrelated buttons, abysmal font rendering and insane defaults.