With the battle of AI versus human agency raging I have a prediction that local-first desktop apps are going to make a comeback. It's nice to see something like this make it easier.

I agree and would love to see a shift back to what we had circa ~2009-2010: high quality, desktop and platform-specific apps that you could just pay for once (the best variant for everyone being an app that works indefinitely, but only receives updates if you renew your license every year).

The whole shift to SaaS has decimated software quality and has made most tasks a nightmare to complete (or at best, an obstacle course of multiple tools and "upgrades" and other bs).

In preparation for the upcoming [Android lockdown](https://keepandroidopen.org/) I've started vibe-coding some PWAs for apps that I like so I can have a webby version of them with no ads and no Google/iOS lock-in. I like this, it feels like a good direction.

I know that I personally have a handful of personal local only apps under development, that in the past I would have reached for a web solution.

It's depressing that everyone decided Electron was the final form of all applications and that native apps were dead until AI came along, and if native apps come back it will only be as vibe-coded slop. It's like we've just moved from once circle of hell into another.

Also Show HN is supposed to be for posting code that the community can discuss and play with. Plain advertisements and landing pages aren't allowed.

Very cool!

I can't help wonder what this would look like for humans. Imagine, set one of these up at a party and it has the means to identify anyone on the invite list. When it hears the person it displays a photo, brief bio, and relationship status.

Nicely done! I'm a fan

There's Quake merchandise available on Nine Inch Nails (nin.com) store right now. I'm not affiliated with either. Just a fan of the band and the game.

It's been scalped on announcement, sadly. Sold out everywhere.

I feel exactly the same. The CF services I do use are DNS and R2. I'd be curious if there's a guide somewhere that lists their services through the lens of lock-in. For example, R2 is somewhat S3 compatible so it's less risky to use because I can swap providers.

Did you mean 5 months? :)

Best line: "Engineering has no time to stop and rethink their approach, because stopping isn’t in the backlog."

Not really news until it's widely available.

Anyone know the latest around Fable being re-released after gov smackdown?

JetBrains’ AI offering peaked last year when Junie was briefly better than Codex. Now it’s a wash.

Honestly all of this drives me back towards nvim or notepad sometimes.

I have had a jetbrains subscription since pycharm came out, and the killer feature was always the visual debugger. Seems nearly quaint now.

What specific things do you like about zed?