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Here's how we made a no-fuss RSS vulture app using trendy Electron

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Flash for the Desktop

I'm surprised nobody's linked this yet. Browser apps should run in THE browser. Embedding a modern browser in each app is a recipe for epic bloat.

https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/

NPM's a clusterf*ck too:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/23/npm_undoes_patch/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

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