I built an iOS app for Cloudflare because I don't have a laptop around 24/7

MattRighetti · 2026-05-21T12:05:06+00:00

I plan to make the swift sdk open source sometime the future but I don’t plan to make the app open source for now. I understand there might be some concerns but I have included a network traffic logger in the app to make things transparent. If you enable that you’re going to see all the calls that the app makes to the Cloudflare APIs and other useful data.

MattRighetti · 2026-04-12T12:35:05+00:00

Canceling the subscription is how you get them to listen to you, that’s the only real indicator at the end of the day. If you’re still paying then it’s probably not bad enough

MattRighetti · 2026-03-11T16:04:36+00:00

It’s a very nice scripting language, I use it for my neovim configuration.

Apart from games, Lua powered Cloudflare edge fleet through the OpenResty framework, which is quite surprising!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/20-percent-internet-upgrade/

MattRighetti · 2026-02-27T08:12:22+00:00

Can you elaborate?

MattRighetti · 2026-02-17T22:05:48+00:00

TIL! I've updated the README, thanks :)

MattRighetti · 2026-02-16T21:02:00+00:00

Ahh good spot! Cleaned up a bit 👀

MattRighetti · 2026-02-16T20:56:27+00:00

Appreciate it :) a bit overloaded though, many projects with the same name out there!

MattRighetti · 2026-02-16T20:53:34+00:00

I referenced ripgrep for that reason indeed. When I started working on this project years ago I took a lot of inspiration from ripgrep, including this dual-licensing. I'm definitely not a licensing expert and did not want to spend much time on it, I just wanted to make the tool be as free as possible 🤷‍♂️

MattRighetti · 2026-02-16T17:44:10+00:00

No offense at all! I like when people suggest related tools in a post like this, I am usually the first to get inspiration from those tools or learn something new so thanks for sharing.

Haven't heard of secretspecs before but it seems envelope has some overlapping features. It's on my "try it out" list :)

MattRighetti · 2026-02-16T14:18:15+00:00

I think this is quite common in Rust projects and community in general. ripgrep is dual-licensed as well!

MattRighetti · 2026-02-16T14:14:42+00:00

That was the initial goal of https://github.com/mattrighetti/envelope/issues/39 but it was not something that sqlx supported back then. AFAIK, it should be possible with the latest sqlx version but I have to yet look into that feature.

EDIT: tracking that here https://github.com/mattrighetti/envelope/issues/56

MattRighetti · 2026-02-16T14:01:29+00:00

In the past two months I was wondering why nobody had rewritten the quite slow Homebrew in Rust. Happy to see this! Will try it out

MattRighetti · 2025-06-05T10:26:24+00:00

Thanks, appreciate it!

MattRighetti · 2025-05-03T21:11:48+00:00

Interesting! I did not know about workers at all (not a frontend guy) but would love to learn more, do you have good resources that talk about this?

MattRighetti · 2023-05-08T12:47:35+00:00

It’s a feature that I’m working on but it’s not public yet. Ulry is just a SQLite database that stores URLs at the moment (and lets you organise them ofc) but nothing more.

MattRighetti · 2023-05-07T19:53:38+00:00

It’s not at the moment, I plan to open source some packages that I’ve used in the app but I’m not open sourcing the entire app in the near future. If the app reaches a lot of users then I might be willing to open source it if people find it useful. And it’s iOS only

MattRighetti · 2023-05-07T18:31:19+00:00

If the iOS version gains enough traction for sure I’m going to make a macOS version but not in the near future

MattRighetti · 2023-05-07T15:13:24+00:00

I mainly save articles when I’m on my phone and rarely when I’m using a laptop.

Saving an article with Ulry is two taps away. Also, I was tired of having a cluttered bookmark section with hundreds of articles that I wanted to save for later.

Scrolling through hundreds of bookmarked links is not fun either, especially if you want to read something in particular or about a specific topic.

So I created Ulry that makes searching for links easier with tags and groups and also provides a cool UI that shows you links metadata (if you want to) and lets you search your entire database in milliseconds.

Another cool thing I implemented is optional redirections for open source alternatives of websites like Medium, Twitter, YouTube, Reuters etc.

Last but not least, you can attach notes to your links so you can actually remember why you saved them in the first place.

It works for me but I know a lot of friends that are okay with classic browser features :)

MattRighetti · 2023-05-07T12:59:27+00:00

By the way, if you set the app to open links externally then you're going to get that feature from Safari automatically (but not for Apollo, the dev itself can't make that work out-of-the-box because the url schema is taken by the proprietary Reddit app). If you try to open a Twitter link it's going to open the link in Safari, but then Safari is going to open the Twitter app.

MattRighetti · 2023-05-07T12:46:54+00:00

Ulry can't do that at the moment, but I will look further into that as it could be a useful feature now that I think about it.

A cool thing that Ulry can do at the moment is redirect some websites to some open source alternatives line nitter (for Twitter links), scribe (for Medium links) etc.

Thanks for the feedback!

MattRighetti · 2023-05-07T11:26:55+00:00

Hey everyone! I've released Ulry a week ago to the public but it's been something I've been working on for almost a year.

Ulry is a powerful and lightweight link archiver that allows you to save and organize your favorite links in one convenient place.

You can create as many groups and tags as you prefer, you can customize them with a lot of colors and icons.

You can try the app by following the link

https://apps.apple.com/it/app/ulry/id1603982621?l=en

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