felixrieseberg

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Adventures in measuring the CPU cost of JavaScript(felixrieseberg.com)
1 points by felixrieseberg 3y ago|0 comments
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by felixrieseberg 4y ago
> Electron does not support encryption or protected file locations by default Jesus, this article is wrong on so many levels. Electron is fundamentally a way to build cross-platform apps with C, C++, and web technologies. It supports any
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by felixrieseberg 4y ago
It's a common test to ensure you're truly comfortable with your decisions and actions: If a major newspaper would describe your actions or quote you directly on their front page tomorrow, would you still stand behind those words a
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by felixrieseberg 5y ago
You seem to misunderstand the original request _and_ the proposal. We so far only have the CCC's request, no further details are known. If you go by the proposal, FOSS and Open Source is out of scope. In the case of Log4j, companies kn
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by felixrieseberg 5y ago
Before you pick up pitchforks, it's important to understand that this has been requested by the reputable Chaos Computer Club for years. It's targeted at commercial proprietary software with disclosed and unfixed vulnerabilities.
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Show HN: Create static HTML backups of your Slack workspaces(github.com)
8 points by felixrieseberg 5y ago|2 comments
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by felixrieseberg 5y ago
It's cute. Well done!
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by felixrieseberg 6y ago
James Friend is the one who got the C compiled with Emscripten, and as long as you're able to serve an entire disk image from a server (and don't crumble under the bandwidth), a browser is good enough. Electron is only here to ens
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by felixrieseberg 6y ago
It's worth a try ;-) https://www.macintoshrepository.org/195-microsoft-excel-1-03...
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by felixrieseberg 6y ago
Developer here! I'm so excited to see that people like this toy. I'm happy to answer any questions, if you have any. But first, some important credits: Emulator: Basilisk II, a 68k Macintosh emulator, by Christian Bauer et al, mod
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by felixrieseberg 6y ago
Author here. You're 100% right, I do consider Basilisk and the Emscripten compiler to be the "real" work here. I added that in a Credits file in the repo, the app, and even _in_ the virtual machine - because I think that&#x27
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by felixrieseberg 6y ago
Hi, author here! This is silly, but I'm allocating the entire size of the _virtual_ disk on your actual hard drive. There's probably a smarter way to do this, but that's how it is right now. PRs would be lovely!
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by felixrieseberg 6y ago
Fun fact: The Chromium dev tools are "just another web app": https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
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The (Electron and Chromium) App Sandbox(slack.engineering)
13 points by felixrieseberg 6y ago|0 comments
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by felixrieseberg 6y ago
Look, I get it, "less web apps" is an easy post to write these days, but all I ask is that we tone down the FUD. Let me just pick off the inaccuracies that will likely stick the most: > But building for the web(and electron) fo
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Happiness is a freshly organized codebase(slack.engineering)
184 points by felixrieseberg 6y ago|90 comments
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How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack(slack.engineering)
193 points by felixrieseberg 7y ago|142 comments
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On Running an Electron Contributor Training(felixrieseberg.com)
1 points by felixrieseberg 7y ago|0 comments
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Electron Joins the OpenJS Foundation(electronjs.org)
3 points by felixrieseberg 7y ago|0 comments
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Why Slack is no longer using a cross-platform C++ library(slack.engineering)
4 points by felixrieseberg 7y ago|2 comments
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by felixrieseberg 7y ago
If you're already running code on the victim's machine, presumably with sudo rights to change `/Applications`, you've already hit the jackpot. Yes, you can change apps, but if you're the victim, that's _probabl
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by felixrieseberg 7y ago
Electron co-maintainer here, so I'm a bit biased. 1) We should absolutely work towards allowing developers to sign their JavaScript. 2) Re-packaging apps and including some menacing component as a threat vector isn't really all th
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Rebuilding Slack on the Desktop(slack.engineering)
7 points by felixrieseberg 7y ago|0 comments
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Loadtesting at Slack(slack.engineering)
3 points by felixrieseberg 7y ago|0 comments
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by felixrieseberg 7y ago
> Are the full-time employees paid a wage above the poverty line? Yes, very much so. It's tech. We're all really, really lucky.
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by felixrieseberg 7y ago
Electron maintainer here. Most of the maintainers are being paid to maintain Electron full-time. I've worked in jobs before where you got to do "some open source during work hours", but in the case of Electron, most of our pe
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Chrome Tracing for Fun and Profit(slack.engineering)
2 points by felixrieseberg 7y ago|0 comments
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Debugging Native Crashes in Electron Apps on Windows(felixrieseberg.com)
2 points by felixrieseberg 7y ago|0 comments
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by felixrieseberg 7y ago
> so their code wasn't so easy to reverse engineer As a bit of history, most of our team is made up by old-school desktop engineers with a background in native desktop development (and we still have a pretty decent amount of C++ and
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Progressive Web Apps and Electron(felixrieseberg.com)
1 points by felixrieseberg 8y ago|0 comments

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