Hasty Treat - Desktop Apps + New Tech We Love
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Building Desktop Apps with Lucy and MD Svex
This chapter explores tools for building desktop applications, focusing on state management with Lucy and markdown processing with MD Svex for Svelte. It includes discussions on the integration of Svelte components in markdown, typography features, and personal experiences with coding challenges.
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the hottest new tech they love!
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Show Notes03:30 - Lucy Language
- https://lucylang.org/
- A concise language for describing Finite State Machines
06:10 - MDSvex
- https://github.com/pngwn/MDsveX
- Mdx for Svelte
- Smartypants options transforms ASCII punctuation into fancy typographic punctuation HTML entities
- https://github.com/rehypejs/awesome-rehype
09:56 - RECut
12:26 - Fig
- https://fig.io/
- It’s an app you install on your computer, it adds autocomplete to your terminal
- Works with most popular terminals
- Autocompletes git commands
- NPM commands + tons more - npm install ___ works
- Adds descriptions of what each command does
- Mac only - again another reason why Mac is best!
- Themeable
- Why not use Fish/ZSH?
- This isn’t a replacement for anything, it’s just autocomplete on top
- These fish plugins are to vim, as Fig is to VS Code
- Better UI is KEY
15:56 - Warp
- https://www.warp.dev/
- Rust-based termnial
- Very fast
- Extensions and themes
- Share commands and sessions
- Great for remote server dev
- Share terminal state - with share links
19:33 - Raycast
- https://www.raycast.com/
- App launcher
- File Finder
- Workflow runner
- Everyone is asking why is it better than Alfred
- better UI
- Better outputs math
- Better defaults - currency conversion
- Fast as hell
- Better integrations
- More Flexible
21:26 - Table Plus
- https://tableplus.com/
- Fantastic little DB tool
23:59 - Obsidian Update
- Wes: I haven’t got into it - find myself still going back to VS Code
26:50 - Descript Update
- https://www.descript.com/
- All-in-one audio and video editing, like a doc
- https://chriscoyier.net/
- https://hyper.is/
- https://www.alfredapp.com/
- https://strapi.io/
- https://studio3t.com/
- https://www.mindnode.com/
- https://remarkable.com/
- https://www.notion.so/
- https://joplinapp.org/
- http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm
- https://shinywhitebox.com/
- Scott’s Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
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