There is now a blog on my website! Unlike my Digital Garden which contains evolving notes, the blog features more polished, complete articles that I've spent time refining.
First article: What Software I use and where it comes from. I’ve been wanting to put together an overview for some time now, and the current global circumstances have motivated me to finally make it happen.
Is it important to consider the origin of software, or does it not really matter?
@oliverbrux klingt eigentlich ganz vielversprechend. Vor allem weil mir figma mittlerweile fast zu viele Features hat die ich gar nicht brauche und es mir schwer fällt am Ball zu bleiben.
Werde mir mal die 30 Tage Probe laden und schauen wie es mir gefällt :)
@iamrobin nice post! A way to increase the european share would be to give my podcast app Queue a try :)
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/queue-simple-podcasts/id6639586996?l=en-GB
Queue is the simplest podcast app out there. New episodes from your subscriptions automatically appear in one simple list, your Queue. From here you can either play them, or archive them. When you open an episode, you see the title and show notes right away, and you can also play the episode from…
@iamrobin Awesome post, I love seeing what others use and work with. 😊
I was using Hyper for a long time as well, but since it’s unmaintained, I recently switched to Ghostty and I’m loving it. 👌
As for the eternal design tool question…Penpot is an open-source European alternative that is close to Figma, but not quite all the way there yet. It’s worth a look though, if you haven’t tried it yet. 😊
@amxmln Thanks for the kind words! Same for me, always curious what others are using 🤓
Oh I didn't know that Hyper is no longer being maintained. Thanks for the info, I'll have a look at Ghostty right away!
I've heard of Penpot, and I follow their videos on new features - looks like a very supportive software! Unfortunately, I'm quite limited to Figma for work. But I've been thinking about looking at Penpot for private projects, but also even at Sketch again.
@iamrobin The last commit to Hyper was a year ago by Dependabot and the last release in January 2023, that’s why I think it’s no longer maintained, but I don’t know for sure. Personally, I’ve found Ghostty a much better alternative though. 👌
Totally get the Figma dependency, it’s the same for me and Penpot still has a long way to go to reach that level of polish—but what I like opposed to Sketch and Affinity Designer is that Penpot is platform independent. 😊
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