DEV Community: CrabNebulaDev

Interview with Prabhu Kiran Konda, Creator of Snail AI!

CrabNebula — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:10:27 +0000

Welcome to the last episode of our series “Building with Tauri”. Today, we’re discussing with Prabhu Kiran Konda about snail-ai, a ChatGPT-like app for Windows and macOS using Tauri, Svelte Kit and Shadcn-svelte. It supports Ollama, OpenAI, and Groq models. It lets you manage them in-app, and stores all your chat data locally in SQLite.

Features:

Local SQLite database to store the chats
Supports Ollama, OpenAI & Groq
Supports Vision Models (Ollama and OpenAI)

In this episode, you’ll find:

How Prabhu started
What is Snail AI?
The tech stack of Snail AI
Challenges and CrabNebula Cloud and DevTools
Upcoming plans and goals

Find Out More 🔗

Connect with Prabhu on X
Check out snail-ai
We also discussed CrabNebula Cloud and DevTools

Author: @eleftheriabatsou, Community Manager

Interview with Klauss Andrei, Creator of FocusPocus.io!

CrabNebula — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:32:41 +0000

Welcome to the seventh episode of our series “Building with Tauri”. Today, we’re discussing with Klauss Andrei about FocusPocus.io, a floating sticky notes and todos app built with Tauri.

Klauss is a software developer with a solid background in start-ups, consulting, software testing, product management, and development. He recently launched FocusPocus.io, here are some of the best features of this todo app:

Pin on top and move anywhere
Quick add and keep history
Share easily
Snooze for later
Keyboard shortcuts
Offline first

In this episode, you’ll find:

How Klauss started
What is FocusPocus.io?
The tech stack of FocusPocus.io
Challenges and CrabNebula Cloud
Upcoming plans and goals

Find Out More 🔗

Connect with Klauss on Linkedin
Check out FocusPocus.io
We also discussed CrabNebula Cloud

Author: @eleftheriabatsou, community manager

Interview with Eson (Seven), Creator of DocKit!

CrabNebula — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:32:08 +0000

Welcome to the sixth episode of our series “Building with Tauri”. Today, we’re discussing with Eson (Seven) about DocKit, an open-source desktop GUI client for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch across Mac, Windows and Linux

Eson is a software developer passionate about open source (check out his GitHub profile, you’ll be impressed). In this episode, you’ll find:

How Eson started
What is DocKit
The tech stack of DocKit
Challenges and CrabNebula DevTools
Upcoming plans and goals

Find Out More 🔗

Check Eson’s GitHub and X
Check out DocKit
We also discussed CrabNebula DevTools

Author: @eleftheriabatsou, Community Manager

Interview with Hussein Hareb, Creator of Ηw-monitor!

CrabNebula — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:41:21 +0000

Welcome to the fifth episode of our series “Building with Tauri”. Today, we’re discussing with Hussein Hareb about hw-monitor, a Linux desktop application designed to monitor various aspects of a computer’s hardware.

Hussein is a software engineer and open-source developer (check out his GitHub profile, you’ll be impressed). In this episode, you’ll find:

How Hussein started
What is hw-monitor
The tech stack of Ηw-monitor
Challenges and CrabNebula DevTools
Upcoming plans and goals

Find Out More 🔗

Check Hussein’s GitHub and find all his projects
We also discussed CrabNebula DevTools

Author: @eleftheriabatsou, Community Manager

Interview with Victor Aremu, Creator of Menote, Usezap and more!

CrabNebula — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:04:00 +0000

Welcome to the fourth episode of our series “Building with Tauri”. Today, we’re discussing with Victor Aremu about Menote, a tiny notepad that lives in your Mac’s menu bar and the benefits of using CrabNebula DevTools and Cloud.

Victor is a software engineer and open-source developer (check out his GitHub profile, you’ll be impressed). He’s also a working group member at Tauri and enjoys building his own projects. In our interview, we focused on Menote, its main features include:

Always within your reach ━ Conveniently access your notes from your menubar.
A nice editor to fiddle with ━ Write your notes in markdown with a WYSISYG editor.
Your notes are yours ━ Menotes are stored on your device, so you can access them quickly.

More particularly, in this episode, you’ll find:

How Victor started
What is Menote
The tech stack of Menote
Challenges and CrabNebula DevTools
Upcoming plans and goals

Find Out More 🔗

Check Victor’s GitHub and find all his projects
Connect with Victor on X
We also discussed CrabNebula DevTools and Cloud

Have you built something cool with Tauri? Ping Eleftheria (username: eleftheria_b) on Discord to schedule your interview! This is your chance to demonstrate your product to a community of thousands of developers. 😏

Author: @eleftheriabatsou, community manager

Interview with Krzysztof Andrelczyk, Tauri Developer and Creator of Twili Recipes

CrabNebula — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:23:10 +0000

Welcome to the third episode of our series “Building with Tauri”. Today, we’re discussing with Krzysztof Andrelczyk about Twili Recipes, Tauri V2, leptos, thaw-ui, and the benefits of using CrabNebula DevTools.

Krzysztof is a Software Engineer with experience in Java back-end, JavaScript front-end and game development. He’s an open-source enthusiast and currently works as a Business Analyst. In his free time, he’s developing ‘twili recipes’, a cooking assistant app focusing mainly on ease of use. Its main features include:

Use LLM to automatically parse recipes - simply copy and paste recipes from any website (or write them yourself)
NextCloud integration to easily share recipes between devices
Multiplatform support (desktop and mobile)
Unique recipe presentation to save you a lot of scrolling

More particularly, in this episode, you’ll find:

How Krzysztof started
What is Twili Recipes
Why Krzysztof choose Tauri V2, leptos, and thaw-ui
Challenges and CrabNebula DevTools
Upcoming plans and goals

Find Out More 🔗

Check Krzysztof’s GitHub and find all his projects
Connect with Krzysztof on LinkedIn
We also discussed CrabNebula DevTools

Interview with Johans Justs Eris, Tauri Developer for Blenderbase at PhysicalAddons

CrabNebula — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:00:04 +0000

Welcome to the second episode of our series “Building with Tauri”. Today, we’re discussing with Johans Justs Eris about Blenderbase, the company he works for, PhysicalAddons, and the benefits of using CrabNebula Cloud.

Johans Justs is a 4th-year student at the University of Latvia, Computer science faculty, and was employed at PhysicalAddons as a Junior Tauri developer. In a year he developed and released Blenderbase - Blender 3D version, addon, and .blend file manager.

Our interview delves into BlenderBase, PhysicalAddons, as well as CrabNebula Cloud and its potential to ease distribution challenges.

In this episode, you’ll find:

How Johans Justs started
What is PhysicalAddons and Blenderbase
Blenderbase release on GitHub
Challenges and CrabNebula Cloud
Upcoming plans and goals

Find Out More 🔗

Check Johans Justs’s GitHub and find all his projects.
Check out PhysicalAddons.
We also discussed CrabNebula Cloud.

Interview with Siddharth, creator of Micro, Tauri plugin decorum, and more!

CrabNebula — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:17:21 +0000

After successfully conducting the first season of our series “Building with Tauri”, where we chatted with Tauri developers, we are excited to welcome you to season 2. This time, we’re not only going to discuss with Tauri developers, but we will also explore CrabNebula Cloud and DevTools with them.

In the first episode, Eleftheria talks with Siddharth (Sid), a design engineer at Headout and the creator of several Tauri projects such as Micro, Tauri plugin decorum, and Helmer. Our interview delves into the first two projects mentioned, as well as CrabNebula Cloud and its potential to ease distribution challenges.

In this episode, you’ll find:

How Sid started
What is Micro and Tauri plugin decorum
Why Sid built them and his tech stack
Challenges and CrabNebula Cloud
Upcoming plans and goals

Find Out More 🔗

Check Sid’s GitHub and find all his projects.
Find Sid on X.
We also discussed CrabNebula Cloud.

Author: @eleftheriabatsou, community manager at @crabnebuladev.

Interview with Simon Hyll, a Tauri Maintainer

CrabNebula — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:17:39 +0000

Welcome to the second episode of our new series “Tauri Maintainers”, where we chat with Tauri maintainers.

In this episode, Eleftheria discusses with Simon Hyll:

How he started
Time management between a full-time job and contributing to Tauri
Decision-making process in Tauri
How to start contributing to any open-source
And more!

Check out the video:

Find Out More 🔗

Find Simon on LinkedIn and X
Join Tauri’s and CrabNebula’s discord servers

Author: @eleftheriabatsou, community manager at @crabnebuladev

Interview with Vitor Ayres, a Tauri Maintainer

CrabNebula — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:06:26 +0000

Welcome to the first episode of our new series “Tauri Maintainers”, where we chat with Tauri maintainers.

In this episode, Eleftheria discusses with Vitor Ayres:

How he started
What motivated him to contribute to Tauri
Best practices and tips for building Tauri apps
Decision-making and the “documentation process” inside the Tauri Working Group
Advice for developers interested in contributing to open-source projects
And more!

Check out the video:

Find Out More 🔗

Find Vitor on LinkedIn and on X
Join Tauri’s and CrabNebula’s discord servers

Have you built something cool with Tauri? Ping Eleftheria (username: eleftheria_b) on Discord to schedule your interview! This is your chance to demonstrate your product to a community of thousands of developers. 😏

Author: @eleftheriabatsou, Community Manager at @crabnebuladev.

Announcing DevTools Premium

CrabNebula — Thu, 30 May 2024 11:44:44 +0000

Building good applications is like precision machining: You need high-quality, reliable tools to get the job done right.

We’re delighted by the excitement and community support that has built around DevTools for Tauri since its release last year. Today, we’re taking things even further with DevTools Premium, our newest, most capable debugging tool.

Companion Video: Launching DevTools Premium: Profile, Debug, Inspect Your Tauri Apps. Watch Atila go over all the new features and how to use them.

With DevTools Premium you can examine your Tauri applications with remarkable precision and unlock never seen before performance. Featuring the Embedded Mode and its optimized integration with Tauri as well as a standalone desktop application DevTools Premium fits right into your workflow.

Take a look:

Embedded Mode brings the capabilities of DevTools Premium right into your apps, integrated as a special tab you can access all of DevTools just like the browser-builtin one. The integration can of course be removed in release builds.

The standalone desktop application will serve as the powerful foundation for future, even more advanced capabilities.

Try It Out Today

You can sign up for a CrabNebula Cloud account today, to access our new, most powerful debugging tool for Tauri to-date. For more information, check out the docs.

We’d love for you to give feedback and help us make Devtools for Tauri work for you.We will be hosting Q&A sessions, providing regular progress updates, and live-streaming as we develop. Most activities will be happening on our discord server, so please join us there!

Q&A

What about the existing version?

The existing Open Source version is going nowhere, it will continue to receive updates and fixes but more advanced features will only be available for DevTools Premium.

Author: Jonas Kruckenberg, Research & Development at CrabNebula

Interview with Kareem Ebrahim, creator of TableX

CrabNebula — Thu, 09 May 2024 14:16:13 +0000

Welcome to the 8th and final episode of Season 1 of our series “Building with Tauri”, where we chat with developers who build amazing projects and products using Tauri.

In this episode, Eleftheria discusses with Kareem Ebrahim, TableX’s creator:

How he started
What is TableX and how does it differ from other tools?
Working solo and tech stack
Challenges and the DevTools
Upcoming features and goals

In the following video, Kareem shows us in detail TableX:

Table viewer for modern developers. Database browsing experience like never before - TableX

Find Out More 🔗

Learn more about TableX here.
Find Kareem on LinkedIn.
We also discussed DevTools. Gain insight into your Tauri apps for free!

Author: @eleftheriabatsou, community manager at @crabnebuladev