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Dumbware.io - Stupid Simple Software (www.dumbware.io)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I like the idea of simple apps, but does their website have to have that silly dvd bouncing thing obstructing text? Especially since it starts playing sound if you interact with it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

Something seriously ironic about pushing stupidly simple appels while having ridiculous bloated crap like that on the webpage. I immediately closed it out before getting a chance to read anything. On mobile that stupid bouncer takes up like a quarter of the width of my screen and why the hell is it the most foreground object???

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their site works fine without allowing javascript, that way it turns into quite a simple thing too!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Thank you, I was so confused as to what the other comments were talking about. I have js turned off by default.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really love the KISS concept.

[+] [email protected] -40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There's a difference between KISS and just plain useless. These apps are like beginner code for people in high school.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago

I don't even a little bit agree. You're welcome to your opinion, but being an asshole just for the sake of it is a bad look.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah let's instead install a massive bloated shit project that the original developers left years ago and the maintainers don't know heads from tails of the codebase because it's too massive to maintain, with enough dependencies to make even a small child think he's independent by comparison.

All so that we can, uh, synchronize a markdown text file across 3 computers.

These projects exist so that we don't all have to re-invent the wheel every single time we need something simple. They have a purpose, even if they're not pushing the envelope. I've developed a bunch of software to do extremely simple things for myself because all the existing options are massive and bloated and do a million more things than I need.

I'm sure your projects look impressive on your resumé, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah let’s instead install a massive bloated shit project that the original developers left years ago and the maintainers don’t know heads from tails of the code base because it’s too massive to maintain

So much this. I recently had OneDev recommended to me as a forgejo alternative. I was told that it was "very lightweight." Intrigued I tried it out. It fuckin' runs java and is resource heavy as fuck. Just sitting idle it consumes almost 13% of VPS RAM: http://i.xno.dev/u/SGXxO2.png

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know what you're running there mate, Forgejo is a golang app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sweet color scheme, what's the name?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Application is bashtop. Terminal theme is gruvbox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think it's Gruvbox but I could be wrong

[–] enumerator4829 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to be that guy, but 12% of 8G isn’t even close to ”heavy as fuck” for a CI/CD and collaboration suite that seems aimed at enterprise users.

You can also tweak how much memory you’d like the jvm to grab with ’-Xms100m’. Any defaults are most likely aimed at much larger deployments than yours.

But yes, Java is a disease.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to be that guy, but 12% of 8G isn’t even close to ”heavy as fuck” [...] CI/CD and collaboration suite that seems aimed at enterprise users.

It's not being used for CI/CD, so it's a webui for git. It absolutely is heavy as fuck for just sitting there.

[–] enumerator4829 0 points 1 day ago

Just going off the marketing here:

Git server with CI/CD, kanban, and packages.

From the looks of it, they also seem to bundle the vscode server and a bunch of other stuff. I’m actually kinda surprised they do it with only 1G of RAM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You still have 63% RAM available in that screenshot, there are zero problems with Java using 13% RAM. It's the same as the tired old trope of "ChRoMe Is EaTiNg My MeMoRy". Unused memory is wasted memory if it can be used for caching instead, so unless you're running out of available memory, there is no problem.

Also, the JVM has a lot of options for configuring its various caches as well as when it allocates or releases memory. Maybe take a look at that first.

Edit: Apparently people don't want to hear this but don't have any actual arguments to reply with. Sorry to ruin your "JaVa BaD" party.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sad that you're downvoted for being right.

Java apps can be memory hogs, but anything else can be too. The jvm is exceptionally performant for persistently running apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Why have RAM when you're not gonna use it? The JVM is pretty efficient

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don’t know if you’ve looked at the code but it is written in plain js with express.

That node_modules folder is running donuts around your argument at this point.

Were it written in rust or golang it would have been a different story

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

I only looked at dumpdrop and it seemed fine, to me. Compared to other similar projects which are 10 times as large and provide essentially the same functionality. The world of web-based file-uploading solutions is fucked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they were spit out of Claude.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'm not going to make all of these apps myself.

I'm working on big boy apps.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

This is hilarious, I love it. I know a lot of us take for granted that we can whip something like these up on the fly but there’s plenty of people who could use a nice little resource like this!

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the suckless project, but for web stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Except every app depends on Node.js

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I could really use some of these. There’s a video showing what they look like for anyone interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxcMQ4MKK4&pp=ygULRHVtYndhcmUuaW8%3D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I love the idea, the apps look useful and I am stoked to check them out. Can anyone contribute?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who watched the DVD icon for at least 2 turns?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's this DVD icon? Maybe my ad blocker is blocking it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems they changed the website, it doesn't exist anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It was there this morning, gone now. I guess they're reading these comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I really love these

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Love this, bookmarked

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Wow that is dumb.