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alexrusticon Building greater transparency and accountability with the Violative View Rate

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Online advertisers take on Google with their own third-party cookie alternative

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alexrusticon Cesium for Unreal Now Available

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Epic Games teams up with Cesium to bring 3D geospatial data to Unreal

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alexrusticon Spotify Acquires Locker Room and Announces Plans for a New Live Audio Experience

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UK lawsuit asks Qualcomm to pay $680 million to Apple and Samsung phone owners

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alexrusticon India: Guidelines for social media firms and other intermediaries (2021)

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India announces sweeping guidelines for social media, on-demand streaming firms, and digital news outlets

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alexrusticon Opera: World’s first browser to give users cashback for online shopping

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Opera's new online shopping cashback service is built directly into its browser

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alexrusticon Kids Mode in Microsoft Edge

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Denmark will build a wind-generating artificial island in the North Sea

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alexrusticon Microsoft Supports Australian Government Proposal Addressing Digital Platforms

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Microsoft says it would never ‘threaten to leave’ Australia after Google said it could withdraw search engine

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alexrusticon Show HN: Hubstore – My contribution to how we distribute and manage FOSS apps

Thanks for this great feedback!

Indeed, Pyrustic is designed in the "all or nothing" fashion because I wanted to make things easier for new Python enthusiasts [1][2] and also it's fun to build things from scratch. Then, after my first Show HN, I started to embrace standards: Pyrustic was available exclusively through Github Releases, I then put it on PyPI. Then I moved further away from the standards to offer a packaging/distribution alternative [3] by taking advantage of Github Releases assets feature and also of the ZIP archive format.

I had planned to implement "requirements.txt" support in Hubstore. Thanks to your feedback I think I can do better. It was fun building solutions from scratch but I'm writing code for humans, I want adoption, so I'm going to do my best to embrace standards even more.

Thanks again for this feedback which I find relevant and useful, I'll be back soon with a version that integrates well with the Python ecosystem, and I'm already looking forward to reading the upcoming HN feedback.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113328

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19792827

[3] https://xkcd.com/927/

alexrusticon Show HN: Hubstore – My contribution to how we distribute and manage FOSS apps

Hi HN !

Months ago I showcased [1] Pyrustic [2], a framework and software suite to help develop, package, and publish Python desktop applications [3].

The framework adds megawidgets like Table and Scrollbox to Tkinter, implements views with lifecycle and more GUI related contributions. But it's not just a framework for the GUI, for example it comes with Gurl for resource fetching with a built-in responses caching system and support for conditional requests, multithreading made easier with even the possibility of retrieving from the main thread the values returned by the functions executed in other threads and also the exceptions raised by these functions, etc.

Pyrustic is not a framework highly specialized in a specific domain, but rather a framework which aims to help build full featured desktop applications (capable of resource fetching, database support, etc.)

Pyrustic is also a lightweight software suite: a command line program to help the developer manage his project, a graphical SQL editor, a graphical test runner, and also a tool to publish the packaged application on Github.

Once the developer has published packaged app on Github, the next challenge is: how to make the download-unpack-install-run-manage-apps process easier for the end user ?

So here I am back to showcase Hubstore [4].

I look forward to reading your comments [5], questions etc. Thanks for your feedback. Genuinely appreciated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930255

[2] https://github.com/pyrustic/pyrustic#readme

[3] https://pyrustic.github.io/ (Pyrustic Demo video)

[4] https://github.com/pyrustic/hubstore#readme

[5] http://sl4.org/crocker.html

alexrusticon Wikimedia Foundation: Universal Code of Conduct

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Wikipedia's new code of conduct targets harassment and misinformation

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alexrusticon Facebook's Oversight Board’s first case decisions