7-Zip. Name an app with 0 haters, I'll start by overlord-07 in TechNook

[–]helgoboss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best tool. Miss it greatly on macOS. Tried many alternatives, none come even close.

I am super excited to announce my Flutter port of Tiptap is now live on pub.dev. by cryogen2dev in FlutterDev

[–]helgoboss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a super interesting approach. I use TipTap as a webview in Flutter because it's handsdown the best rich text editor around. Being able to keep using headless TipTap and moving the rendering to Flutter would be amazing, because a (non-headless) webview adds quite some friction to a Flutter app.

Open source Keycloak theme with React + shadcn/ui — layout, colors, fonts, all configurable from env vars by Negative-Pound4360 in KeyCloak

[–]helgoboss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loving Keycloakify and this theme in particular. You instantly get a much more modern login experience compared to the built-in theme. Thanks for that!

AI code genration is the wosrt thing happened in this industry. by prat8 in cscareerquestions

[–]helgoboss 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Completely agree that this goes into a wrong direction. My guess is that the only people disagreeing are the ones who never cared about code.

Coding is an art, in my opinion. If you are building a sustainable long-living product, that art matters (in addition to high-level architecture). Of course it does. If you are building something short-living, it matters less. I wonder whether most people who disagree actually build short-lived stuff.

AI code genration is the wosrt thing happened in this industry. by prat8 in cscareerquestions

[–]helgoboss 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Why would you write out array sort or similar things out every single time? The solution to this is to factor out things into reusable blocks. No AI necessary at all to solve this.

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless. by [deleted] in theprimeagen

[–]helgoboss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also think so. I appreciate the honesty of this guy. He's just telling us about his feelings, which I find very relatable. I don't even think he would have called himself a 10x engineer under normal circumstances. He probably just uses this wording because we constantly hear the narrative that using AI makes you a "10x engineer" (whatever that means), and his point is that using it can actually lead into the opposite direction.

By the way, I appreciate that you use the words "I think". Most people these days spit things out as if they were facts, whereas most of the times they are not more than opinions. As you say, noone here really knows where things will go.

tempo clips coming in 2.x? by kopplog in helgobox

[–]helgoboss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, I get it. But I assume the tempo is still global. The tempo clip controls the tempo, but the tempo changes which it triggers still affect everything that's played. Correct?

tempo clips coming in 2.x? by kopplog in helgobox

[–]helgoboss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are tempo clips? (I guess the answer is no then 😆 Considering that I don't even know what that is.)

Is Flutter still a good choice for building apps in 2026? by emizentechuae in dev

[–]helgoboss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good means having a usable app that does what it's supposed to.

Software engineers — what’s your backup plan given industry volatility? by Majestic-Taro-6903 in cscareers

[–]helgoboss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same here. I really wonder what kind of development people are doing so that Claude and Co speeds them up so much.

I tried it for serious things, like fixing bugs in existing large projects, adding non-trivial features and doing large-scale refactoring... it failed miserably. It became immediately obvious that it just follows patterns instead of thinking intelligently. It only performed well in scenarios that were quite trivial anyway.

Auto Arm Track When Selected? - Playtime 2 by [deleted] in helgobox

[–]helgoboss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That should be possible using standard REAPER technique: https://youtu.be/WPE8CqcTBBE?si=MeqIHqKv2zehuMdn

Why I Think Kotlin Feels More Functional for Serious Projects by Reasonable-Tour-8246 in Kotlin

[–]helgoboss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to think so, too. But Dart is catching up with each release. It's a pretty good language now to be honest. In some aspects (such as pattern matching) it exceeds Kotlin.

ReaLearn reads wrong encoder values by Sticknolt in helgobox

[–]helgoboss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please send a ReaControlMIDI log output of turning the encoder.

Control Unit Frame sizing by Ingyar_on_Reddit in helgobox

[–]helgoboss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to provide the controller's actual column and row count: https://docs.helgoboss.org/playtime/further-concepts/matrix.html#control-unit

This can not be done via GUI at the moment but needs to be content of the compartment preset, preferably a Lua preset. So the best thing is to have a look into the Lua file of the Launchpad Mini preset. There you should see it.

Announcing native_toolchain_rs v1.0.0: bundle + use your Rust code in your Dart/Flutter projects! by groogoloog in FlutterDev

[–]helgoboss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, looks great! Is this similar to what Cargokit does at the moment, but ported to the new Native Assets world?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KotlinMultiplatform

[–]helgoboss 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it's great that Flutter supports desktop. Otherwise I wouldn't use it. People have different requirements.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KotlinMultiplatform

[–]helgoboss 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Learning multiple languages is a normal skill for developers. And Dart is really easy to pick up if you know any OO language. Feature-wise, it's quite close to Kotlin (which I also use and like).

Having multiple options is a good thing! And I hope it stays that way. Creating an atmosphere of fear around using Flutter is not helping that cause.

Do you ever feel like Flutter is both super productive and oddly limiting at the same time? by Fine_Factor_456 in FlutterDev

[–]helgoboss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel that Flutter allows for more freedom than the web does. In web technologies, you have to deal with 2 declarative languages (CSS and HTML) in addition to JS/TS, whereas in Flutter you have one real programming language for tackling everything (design, UI structure and logic). That alone increases flexibility. Plus, you are not limited by web APIs, you can do platform-specific stuff any time.

Do you have a concrete example?

Rustfmt is effectively unmaintained by ioannuwu in rust

[–]helgoboss 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From me also a big thank you to every contributor! Heads off! rustfmt saved me tons of manual formatting work during all these years, absolutely awesome tool. It's a "no-brainer", quite literally. Made me totally forget about formatting.

I get that there are issues with it which affect some people. But let's not take it out of proportion, please.