Felix Rieseberg

We're doubling down on extending Claude! If you have an MCP Server that you'd like to see in our directory, please send it to us!

Submission form: forms.gle/tyiAZvch1kDA...
DXT Details: github.com/anthropics/dxt

14.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I made a thing and brought back Clippy - combining my nostalgia for 1990s UI with the ability to run local LLMs.

Download it at felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/

06.05.2025 14:26 — 👍 71    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 5

A screenshot of windows95 showing IE 5.5 opened and on the project's website, explaining that it can now talk to the internet

A screenshot of windows95 showing IE 5.5 opened and on the project's "my-computer" page, allowing users to browse the host computer's file system.

There's a new release of windows95! Some highlights: You can now browse the Internet on IE 5.5, browse your host computer's files (and install more games and apps!), try out more preinstalled apps (like Office 95 or Space Pinball) and escape to '95.

Download it at github.com/felixriesebe...

21.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

4) Bundle size does not matter to users. One hour of 4k Netflix ~7 GB, a typical Call of Duty update regularly clocks in more than 300 GB. I have not seen end users care about binary size in the 100s of MB more than they do about virtually anything else your engineering team could spend time on.

21.01.2025 20:21 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 6    📌 0

Why Electron | Electron Electron is a framework enabling developers to build cross-platform desktop applications for macOS, Windows, and Linux by combining web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) with Node.js and native cod...

3) Electron doesn't bundle Chromium because it somehow missed that operating systems come with built-in WebViews. It bundles Chromium because it's today's best stack for rendering web apps in a reliable, performant, secure, and stable way.

21.01.2025 20:21 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

2) Web tech is *amazing* at displaying data and UI.

The Bloomberg Terminal, a system found at every financial institution, is written with JS/HTML and Chromium. It costs $25,000 per user, per year. The SpaceX’s Dragon 2 space capsule uses Chromium to display its interface.

21.01.2025 20:21 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

GitHub - felixrieseberg/electron-native-code-demos: Add native UI and code to your Electron apps Add native UI and code to your Electron apps. Contribute to felixrieseberg/electron-native-code-demos development by creating an account on GitHub.

1) Electron doesn't pit JavaScript against native code. Its superpower is that you can mix and match between native and web technologies.

To show code, I've built examples using SwiftUI, GTK, Win32 Common Controls in Swift, ObjC, ObjC++, and C++: github.com/felixriesebe...

21.01.2025 20:21 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Things people get wrong about Electron From $25,000 Bloomberg Terminals to SpaceX spaceship controls, web tech is powering systems you'd never expect. Many desktop apps are built with Electron. Why build with web tech — and why bundle part...

But: People are wrong about very specific things. Below are the four the bother me the most - and if you like that in a single post, check out felixrieseberg.com/things-peopl....

21.01.2025 20:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why Electron | Electron Electron is a framework enabling developers to build cross-platform desktop applications for macOS, Windows, and Linux by combining web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) with Node.js and native cod...

As an open source project, Electron never had to pitch. It's not like we'd make money off "another sale". I never took the time to write up the arguments for Electron. Why use web tech? Why bundle Chromium? Why Electron? The answer is now available at www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/....

21.01.2025 20:21 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

You might be wrong about @electronjs.org

Wherever I see a discussion about Electron, I also see people getting tons of things wrong. People on the Internet being wrong isn't new, but I've written a bunch of text and code to clear up misconceptions.

21.01.2025 20:21 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2