![]() ![]() P.S: you can follow me around on Twitter if you want to hear about new stuff. We had a really good run and lots of fun. I want to thank every person who has ever contributed to, starred, liked, tried out, crashed and bugsquashed eDEX-UI. The codebase has been in dire need of a fresh refactoring for some time now, and considering the limited usefulness of the software (I like to think of it as a functional art project), I think this is the best decision to go forward. This summer I dropped out to become a full-time software eng, and I feel it is time to re-assess the situation.ĮDEX-UI will now be archived as I will move on to other projects. ![]() ![]() Thanks to sponsorships and the generous donations of some of you I've been able to keep the project on life support. Last year I opened an issue to gather support (both moral and financial) to fund maintenance, as I was a student with little resources for a project of this size. Since then, 16 updates have been released with the help of 46 contributors, and they have been downloaded about 400 000 times (□!). So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish □ Hey there!It has been 3 years since eDEX's initial 1.0 release. Since I didn't want that message to show up in the recording and because I love doing updates to any software I use, I quickly jumped over to GitHub to download the latest version. Upon loading up eDEX-UI I was prompted that there was an update to the software. Latest show intro prior to exploring the idea of using edEX-UI My goal was to edit the intro video I made a few days ago and splice in some action shots from eDEX-UI and the GraphLinq platform. I was really excited because I didn't want to keep using stock footage for the show intros and I really wanted to highlight the code / no-code look so that viewers could quickly get the idea of the show. In fact, I thought it would be perfect to use a recording of it for the intros to the stream I've been working on. Project Logo Project End of LifeĮarlier today I was preparing for streaming a new episode of "c0de / no_c0de" and thought it would be cool to show eDEX-UI boot up and run a few commands. My thought has always been, "How could I expand the functional side of this art project?". I've always wanted to write plugins or add new features to the app because in theory this could be used as an every day terminal for the work I do. While I don't use eDEX-UI that often I do enjoying playing around with it every now and then or "booting it up" when I'm in the company of nosey people looking at my screen while I'm working. Here is a short video that the creator uploaded in June 2021 when he was nominated for "Fun Side-Project of the Year" by the JSNation Open Source Awards. While keeping a futuristic look and feel, it strives to maintain a certain level of functionality and to be usable in real-life scenarios, with the larger goal of bringing science-fiction UXs to the mainstream. Heavily inspired from the TRON Legacy movie effects (especially the Board Room sequence), the eDEX-UI project was originally meant to be " DEX-UI with less « art » and more « distributable software »". I'll let the project's creator, Gaby, describe it for you. This remained true until I discovered eDEX-UI.ĮDEX-UI is a program that pretty much has no real use-case but, let me tell you, the reaction I get when people see me using it is priceless. ![]() Short of just searching for a new wallpaper desktop background image, I'd argue that any changes, tweaks, or additions I make to my setup is done with good reason. Even if that goal is mostly aesthetic, it still is part of my workflow and something I have to deal with in order to use the technology I work with. Generally speaking there is an end goal in mind that I'm trying to accomplish. I couldn't even estimate the amount of hours I have spent over the years searching for new software, scripts, plugins or anything else to enhance my use of technology. 5 min read Photo by Drew Dizzy Graham / UnsplashĪs a developer / coder / software engineer or whatever you'd like to call me, at the heart of it all is just an enthusiastic nerd with a love for all things technology. ![]()
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