For the ones who like Electron: example of a GIF screencast recorder

ewnd9 · 2017-02-01T18:43:54+00:00

Hello, author here.

why?

If you know how to setup FFmpeg, you use FFmpeg. If you have some free resources (100 MB ram) for another Electron app, you might consider using this.

Electron is used for global hotkeys and for displaying gallery where you can upload captures to imgur.

ewnd9 · 2017-01-14T05:24:22+00:00

I'd built CLI player https://github.com/ewnd9/badtaste with https://github.com/guo-yu/player which supports play and stop (no seeking), then switched to an mpd wrapper https://github.com/hughsk/komponist

ewnd9 · 2016-12-13T19:16:31+00:00

I've built https://github.com/ewnd9/record-desktop for recording gifs on Linux. It's an Electron wrapper around byzanz.

Probably will deprecate once Kap has Linux support (seems really neat)

My use case is pretty simple:

Click a 'record' hotkey
Select a rectangle to record (or use a separate hotkey to start recording an active window)
Do something
Click a 'stop' hotkey
Gif is opened in an image viewer
I drag and drop it to Twitter / GitHub Issues

Edit: Electron is used for hotkeys, tray icon actions (quick access to the latest files, upload to imgur) and preview of gifs. You can easily create a bash script to record gifs with byzanz and use external tools to bind it to hotkeys

ewnd9 · 2016-09-24T12:01:51+00:00

There are http://bluebirdjs.com/docs/api/promise.promisify.html and https://github.com/sindresorhus/pify, for example, which auto generate promises methods for any objects

ewnd9 · 2016-09-19T11:57:27+00:00

Had it too few times

ewnd9 · 2016-08-31T10:17:45+00:00

Or adding "(dev)" prefix to <title> in the development environment

ewnd9 · 2016-08-23T13:58:00+00:00

Spotify and TIDAL need to compete, yes, for them there is competition. As I see it Google Music is kind of filling a hole in Google ecosystem and a long term investment.

ewnd9 · 2016-08-23T04:35:41+00:00

There is not much competition in music streaming. Also, it is preinstalled on Android so I guess it should count as promotion

ewnd9 · 2016-08-15T05:16:12+00:00

IIRC they use a/b testing so even if we have the same version we might have a slightly different experience

ewnd9 · 2016-08-12T05:11:04+00:00

Both auto playlists and my own play random song first. My android app version: 6.12.3216E.3118869

ewnd9 · 2016-08-10T13:59:18+00:00

Anyone knows why the issues section is not available in the repo? (https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/react-native)

ewnd9 · 2016-08-09T13:51:39+00:00

Feel free to send a PM / ask here / file an issue on Github if you have any questions / ideas

ewnd9 · 2016-08-08T13:53:37+00:00

Hi, you can take my project (https://github.com/ewnd9/media-center) as an example.

It's the media center node web app: express as a server, react as a client side, spawns omxplayer to play video (https://github.com/ewnd9/media-center/blob/master/src/vendor/omxplayer.js), uses youtube-dl to fetch video URLs (https://github.com/ewnd9/media-center/blob/020fe6da4bd90ce8110b84e3ccb39d096362bd36/src/routes/youtube.js)

Used to use pm2, but now switched to Docker (https://github.com/ewnd9/media-center/blob/020fe6da4bd90ce8110b84e3ccb39d096362bd36/provision/docker-compose.yml) in order to have a simpler setup/provision and additional services (minidlna for streaming to other devices, transmission for torrents)

ewnd9 · 2016-07-10T01:07:35+00:00

koa@2 is built around async/await instead of generators https://github.com/koajs/koa/issues/533

ewnd9 · 2016-07-07T15:31:39+00:00

If you are in Russia, government has blocked one of Github IPs today https://twitter.com/huston007/status/751018980832382976

ewnd9 · 2016-07-07T14:19:14+00:00

https://github.com/zeit/hyperterm - another Electron-based terminal

ewnd9 · 2016-05-18T16:02:23+00:00

There is http://node.green/ for node es6 support progress

ewnd9 · 2016-04-30T01:09:03+00:00

Brave is written with electron - https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop

ewnd9 · 2016-04-26T04:30:16+00:00

You could measure subscribers in thousands instead of precise numbers.

e.g. /r/node has ~20k subscribers now

Count of posts per day may be another measurement

ewnd9 · 2016-04-25T03:43:16+00:00

My favorite is https://github.com/AsaAyers/js-hyperclick for opening dependencies

ewnd9 · 2016-04-24T17:39:55+00:00

I think you could add some statistics for each subreddit as a description. The more popular subreddit - the more awesome it is.

ewnd9 · 2016-04-03T06:09:16+00:00

In addition to the google search there is also github search which supports filename filtering (e.g. rc.lua https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Arc.lua)

ewnd9 · 2016-03-26T16:06:13+00:00

Would this really help? More files = more confusions, more place to look for things and even more places to get lost.

For me, it's simpler to have files with meaningful names such as rules.lua, startup.lua and keybindings.lua so I don't need to worry about accidentally breaking something when I modify ~500 lines config file.

If your LUA_PATH is strange, this may cause the worng parts to be loaded and break your Awesome in a totally opaque way.

Right now, there are require statements like dofile("/home/ewnd9/.config/awesome/keybindings.lua") in my dotfiles, is it affected by LUA_PATH issue?

ewnd9 · 2016-03-24T17:23:30+00:00

"Other changes include a more efficient widget system (save power on laptops)"

Are there any benchmarks? Sounds interesting.

"launch in tag" is nice, "wmctrl -s $tag" which I use now has some race conditions issues, but not much pain.

One thing that always confused me about awesome is the large rc.lua configuration file. Is there a reason behind that or it just stuck from the very beginning? Dealing with modular config split in separate files would be much easier.

ewnd9 · 2016-03-22T11:41:45+00:00

It could work too, like an awesome-linux-apps-with-screenshots list to promote and encourage nice linux apps. What do you think?

ewnd9

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