File managers suck, so I spent 3 years building one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck (almost) everyday until release.

Day 6: Layered sorts, multiple filters, and file grouping.

That is just a small part of what this is 😉

I use the standard UltraSharp4x for upscaling; ~1s on my 4070ti, but the rust onnxruntime doesnt utilize m-series well yet, so much slower on my M4.

Phials can run just about any onnx model you want though, so lighter weight ones are an option.

A ComfyUI companion node is on the horizon also.

Images: Annotate, crop, convert, resize, and local AI processing with ONNX model support.

Code: Build in code editor with syntax highlighting for most languages.

Markdown: Editor, Reader, and SBS views with relative file/image linking.

Spreadsheet: csv, xls, etc with a highly performant renderer.

Soon™. No exact date at the moment, but within a few weeks!

Website with waitlist signup will be available immenently. I'll ping you here when it is :)

File managers suck, so built one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck (almost) everyday until release.

Day 5: Edit 70+ file types without leaving Phials. Markdown, code, images, spreadsheets, and more.

File managers suck, so I spent 3 years building one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck everyday until release.

Day 4: An integrated terminal.

File managers suck, so built one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck everyday until release.

Day 3: Tree view? Column view on Windows?
Phials has 7 file views at launch (some are a surprise)

File managers suck, so I spent 3 years building one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck everyday until release. Day 2: Built in full application uninstaller for MacOS

File managers suck, so I built one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck everyday until release.

Day 1:
Rich folder previews with composition and git info.

Love Tauri, it feels much simpler than the likes of Capacitor, and the out of the box experience is hugely more flexible than Electron.

Biggest drawback is dealing with WebKit on MacOS, really.

File managers suck, that's why I've been building one in my free time for the past 3 years. Phials is cross-platform, powered by Rust & Svelte via Tauri, and incredibly extensible.

It's almost ready, and I'm real excited to start sharing what it can do.

AI is effectively a ploy by the bourgeoisie to steal and emulate the labor of the the proletariat so they don't have to pay the already exploitatively low wages anymore.

The only way AI companies can justify their valuations is if the displace millions of workers, there is no other vector.

Ah yes, blaming the victims of capitalism for the effects of capitalism. The fact that any single person can accrue that much wealth and wield it to hurt others is clearly the real problem, and unilaterally putting the blame on people (who likely support trans rights) is very counterproductive.

Anyone else feel completely unrepresented in public discourse?

Almost every take on every topic across the political spectrum seems born of a unrealistic idealism, moral grandstanding, lying for ones own self interest, circlejerking, or just plain ignorance.

Time to unplug for a bit.

The home page and search algorithms of YouTube have deteriorated dramatically over the past month or so, and at this point are borderline unusable.

Opened YouTube today and my home page was entirely either videos I've already watched or channels I'm not subscribed to.

I’m sure you’re aware, but a significant amount of people feel how you feel (myself included), most are just not very vocal about it.

Political violence, historically speaking, is the most important kind of violence, particularly under fascism.

I thought the AI induced psychosis issue was relatively rare, until OpenAI turned off the sycophantic faucet that was 4o.

Nope, media still automatically pauses.

Cloudflare / Google Cloud Platform outages.

www.cloudflarestatus.com
status.cloud.google.com

FWIW half the internet is down

Outside of scaffolding new simple projects, I definitely haven't found much productivity boost with agentic AI tools.

Did you try Cursor Tab much? It is lightyears ahead of any other AI autocomplete in my experience, and makes up for the frustrating vim experience.

I found ortholinear layouts and the split to be pretty easy to get used to.

The reduced key count takes a bit longer, but because of the flexibility and programmability of boards like this, it not only compensates for that, but becomes an overall improvement.

Gotta really like tinkering though 😅

I’ve likely tried over 100 keyboards at this point, and I always come back to the Sofle.

Finally moved over to a wireless board and got sunset switches, and I don’t think I’ll ever use another keyboard again.

I'd caution against formulating prejudice on nation of origin alone. No people (or in this case company) are inherently reflections of their governments, and acting as such a slippery slope.

Judge things on their merits, not on generalized bias'.

I feel like people who hate on CSS have never tried to build a UI in any other programming language.

People don't understand that when the amount of money indebted passes a certain threshold, especially when held by an institution like a national government, it becomes leverage for the borrower. The lender now has incentive for the borrower to succeed, or at least sustain.

Shocked this hasn't been made before a very glad it has. Super cool.