TL;DR: I wish they'd just align with Blender on UX, TBH.
I wish they settled on a nicer UX with less visual clutter. I use Blender and it is a _massively_ more complex application in every regard, yet its right-aligned panel and progressive exposure of toolbars feels infinitely more polished than FreeCad's clunky panel (which is often rendered with huge, oversized fields and buttons) and their legendary five-stacked toolbars.
Feels like that satirical Gillette ad, and is much harder to use and navigate, especially since quite a few UX options need to be turned on in Preferences to be usable...
The day I found out there’s a dropdown menu that turns blender into a multi-track video editor on par with Vegas if not Final Cut… blender hides its complexity well.
I built https://github.com/rcarmo/umcp to be tiny _and_ fast, but this has some nice twists on the theme. Will investigate for sure (even if it seems like a much larger dependency).
I hope it’s not just the look. The ability to group tabs from various apps into a single window was the best UX feature it had, and I still miss it sometimes.
I’m struggling with how useful this is in an enterprise setting where a security team will be at least slightly annoyed at devs hooking into their personal machines via untrusted chat… but OK, I guess. Myself, I have pretty dropped WhatsApp support in https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw and have made sure its auditable through a proxy…
I beg to differ. I took one, defanged it (well, I let it keep the claw in the name), and turned it into a damn useful self-modifiable IDE: https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw
Yes, it has cron and will do searches for me and checks on things and does indeed have credentials to manage VMs in my Proxmox homelab, but it won't go off the rails in the way you surmise because it has no agency other than replying to me (and only me) and cron.
Letting it loose on random inputs, though... I'll leave that to folk who have more money (and tokens) than sense.
I has a bunch of additional extensions baked in, but the focus is on making Pi usable remotely on any device (starting with a phone). The README and docs have all the info you might want.
Very nice. I tried to solve this with https://github.com/rcarmo/webterm but without the fancy visuals (although mine works inside the Oculus Quest if you’re so inclined :))
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