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@s1hofmann.dev.bsky.social

I‘m the face behind https://nutjs.dev Bringing desktop automation to the world from my basement in Bavaria

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Let me know if you ever come to Munich!

31.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If I wouldn’t already sponsor you, I’d start now. Your window splitter is awesome and it’s really cool to see you’re putting in extra effort to make it available across frameworks 👍

12.05.2025 05:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Brevo | E-Mail Marketing Tool, Automation & CRM Brevo – mehr als nur eine E-Mail Marketing Software. Baue dein Unternehmen mit E-Mail, SMS, Chat und mehr aus.

I’m happy with www.brevo.com

10.05.2025 06:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have this weird thing that whenever I install nut.js without specifying @latest it installs v3.1.2, which is a bit behind v4.x.x

17.04.2025 05:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
No More Image-Based Automation! Native Element Queries with nut.js | element-inspection plugin
YouTube video by dry Software No More Image-Based Automation! Native Element Queries with nut.js | element-inspection plugin

🔍 Target elements by ID, class, focus state, value, and more — and automate desktop applications like you would the web.

📺 Check out our demo video to see how easy becomes to pixel-perfectly automate complex UIs:
youtu.be/LOySrifVclw

#e2etesting #desktopautomation #qa

14.04.2025 09:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Octologs v1.3.3 launches social media sharing – connect your underwater world with just a tap.

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Dive on! 🌊

#scubadiving #scuba

21.03.2025 06:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Markdown as your source of truth is probably the easiest way to manage data. And if it’s really required you can convert it into any other format

05.03.2025 09:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"GitHub-Stars zahlen keine Rechnungen."

Simon @s1hofmann.dev von nutjs.dev teilt in der aktuellen Folge meines "Happy Bootstrapping Podcasts" seine Erfahrung mit Open-Source-Monetarisierung, Umgang mit Community und Einführung eines Geschäftsmodells.

➡️ btstrp.de/folge-109

#bootstrapping #podcast

20.02.2025 10:21 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Can someone make a plead to app stores to remove such reviews since they are non-sensical and just wasting developer time and reputation?

13.02.2025 13:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I‘d be happy to give it a go, but I’m not sure if I can provide valuable feedback?

I’m a developer who founded a company, and I suck at marketing. Most of it happens by trusting my gut feeling, so some validation would be helpful :)

18.01.2025 13:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Damn it, every time I see these announcements I'm sad that I'm not living in NY!

10.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Think outside the box - nut.js remote plugins - Blog nut.js is designed to be extensible and this means it is no longer limited to local execution

I've been working on something that I planned out two years ago.
Software architecture is indeed a marathon, not a sprint!

bit.ly/remote-plugin

16.12.2024 22:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a friendly reminder that you should listen to Rage Against The Machine again. It’s still an amazing band!

14.12.2024 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s primarily built for systems administration, native application testing or monitoring.
But you can’t keep shady people from doing shady things 🤷‍♂️

12.12.2024 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s not the kind of work I endorse, but yes 😅

12.12.2024 06:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Let Claude Desktop Automate Your Desktop
YouTube video by dry Software Let Claude Desktop Automate Your Desktop

And now comes the cherry on top: You can use nut.js as a tool provider for e.g. Claude, to let it do the automation stuff for you. But not just locally on your machine, but on any machine you can connect to, without code changes!

youtu.be/sOUNLwnVLxM?...

11.12.2024 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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But with this new plugin you can connect to a remote machine:

blob:https://carbon.now.sh/684b35e3-e820-4ca7-b27a-40d96a66cd96

You will still use the exact same user-facing API calls, but instead of your local machine, you're now controlling the remote machine you're connected to.

11.12.2024 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Take this example, which captures a screenshot of your local desktop.

blob:https://carbon.now.sh/aff7e63f-d767-4aff-8f1a-a20b138db43c

11.12.2024 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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nutjs.dev Node.js Cross Platform Desktop Automation. Control your mouse, keyboard, and read the screen. Looking for an alternative to AutoIt, AutoHotkey, SikuliX, PyAutoGUI, Pywinauto, Robot Framework or robotj...

I'm working on remote support for nutjs.dev

Similar to its Playwright plugin (nutjs.dev/plugins/play...) this will allow users to dynamically connect to remote systems and instead of automating their local mouse/keyboard/screen, the same script will automate the remote machine.

11.12.2024 19:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The sad reality is that content creation has lead most healthy discussions into simple black and white, one vs. the other scheme dramas to generate clicks through it. There’s not much, if at all, value coming out of these

09.12.2024 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me too, but when I started my older brother guided me when I got stuck! Sweet memories 😊

09.12.2024 09:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Providing a living is never something to bully someone over!

09.12.2024 09:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Do it! I’m regularly playing it to this day, it’s one of the greatest point&click adventures ever made!

09.12.2024 09:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ok, ollama3.3 is 42GB. Time to come through with my fiber connection order.

09.12.2024 08:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What’s an open source tool you absolutely value but at the same time is absolutely underfunded?

08.12.2024 09:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'd sign up!

06.12.2024 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I‘d be interested. But nowadays I’m defaulting to Safari, which is probably not the most targeted browser for this. 🙈

06.12.2024 14:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Go for it! 👍

06.12.2024 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Well, me being 38

06.12.2024 13:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As I got older I simply didn’t like the clicky sound anymore, as it’s impossible to work with two people in the same small room 😂

06.12.2024 13:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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