Home
Log in

Articles tagged #electron

Cracking Electron apps open

I use the draw.io desktop app to make diagrams for my website. I run it on an actual desktop, like Windows or macOS, but the asset pipeline that converts .drawio files, to .pdf, to .svg, and then to .svg again (but smaller) runs on Linux.

Truly headless draw.io exports

I love diagrams. I love them so much!

In fact, I have fairly poor visualization skills, so making a diagram is extremely helpful to me: I'll have some vague idea of how different things are connected, and then I'll make a diagram, and suddenly there's a tangible thing I can look at and talk about.

The many rewrites of the itch.io desktop app

I started working on the itch.io desktop app over 4 years ago.

It has arguably been my main project ever since, along with companion projects like butler, capsule and many smaller libraries.

Go back to the homepage.