Promising
I am keeping on watch a few projects and getting back from to time to time to see how those project evolved.
Projects
2023-09-29 electric maybe the first credible firebase alternative
2023-09-24 plane still watching this project with some hopes.
2023-03-31 typst
2022-04-07 AutoMerge offline first, non central, data-structures for collaboration. (woot!)
2022-03-27 Capacitor as a successor to Cordova and an alternative to using Expo with React
2022-01-24 Browsix. Run processes in the browser. Reproduced browser abstraction. Still wondering about its usefullness.
2022-01 Temporal has an elegance on orchestrating services and abstracing away the complexity.
2022-01 PlanetScale is providing a free basic MySQL datbase with the opportunity to scale with decent costs.
2020-09 NocoDB a replacement for AirTable that can be used to administrate backend database and used with webhooks.
2020-11 Budibase provided better experience on building a small application than Microsoft App Builder. Promising but its has been stalling a lot in december, and january 2022 following the launch.
2020-07 Hyperapp does not look so nice from a React or Vue perspective.
2020-03 Tauri could be a good alternative to Electron and enable to build a client for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. I am waiting for the plugins and the extended APIs.
New databases
Notebooks
With VelveRate Mac2Sell I realize that a lot of computation could be modelized with computational notebooks.
Hostings
I need to review hosting offers for simple serveur or virtual instances.
https://www.hostwinds.com/cloud/cloud-servers
https://www.kamatera.com/express/compute/
Concepts
No-Dev / NoCode
Tooling
Nixos a new concept of packaging with the Nix Shell.
Meilisearch for an Elasticsearch replacement and to avoid the memory cost. 2022-01 we have been using this for the last 6 month in production.
Node-RED and http://natto.dev/ visual programmoing
NSQ a realtime distributed messaging plateform.
playwright from Microsoft a replacement for selenium, for testing, video automation and even video recording.