I saw this over on lobste.rs and came over here to see if there were any comments, because it looked like a cool project. Alas, it got even less traction here.

Tree style tabs works as well as it did before, except that it's more difficult to get rid of the top tabs.

Check out my userChrome changes if you're into vertical tabs and a minimal UI: https://github.com/bjesus/fireside

You can probably access CR for free through your local library!

Well, not for the customer...

I looked at a bunch of these 2 years ago and ended up using PhotoView for a private gallery. It had the right mix of simplicity and features, and I was actually able to get it running.

https://github.com/photoview/photoview

With Temporary Tontainers you can just install one of the cookie-ignoring plugins, since cookies don't do much if your containers are ephemeral.

It is my understanding that the name "cookie banner" is misleading, to the point of acting against your own interests.

If you click Agree you agree to be tracked regardless of the method. So yes, cookies won't do much, but now you've agreed to any kind of tracking, even those that defeat private mode and/or script blockers (assuming there's one).

I haven't really looked into the plugins but surely if they can find the "accept tracking" button, they could also find the "no thanks" button instead

Temporary Containers is fantastic. Its functionality should really be a core feature of any browser that claims to be concerned with privacy.

Also the bird is gigantic (relative to the laptop)!

I'm confused as to how this compares to tools in the workflow manager space such as Airflow/Perfect/Dragster. The words describing the software are almost the same but it seems to come from alternate universe of tools I'm not familiar with. Could someone fill me in?

It's similar to airflow/prefect/dragster in that it can run workflows, and those workflows can do ETL and ops and can run arbitrary code.

It's different in those fashions. Windmill can run python but also typescript, go and bash. Airflow/Prefect etc uses code annotation which mean the code is actually specific to the platform. We actually have the steps be directly scripts/code with a main function, and then have a low-code builder to compose them into powerful workflows. That low-code builder produces a yaml like that one: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill-sync-example/blob/... which you could theoretically write by hand.

The low-code builder is intuitive and similar to n8n except it has the feature-set of the above framework. It's easy to test the individual steps or to test the whole flow. The workflow engine is very efficient and running 50 steps will essentially have about 1s overhead total, and the steps are executed bare so it will take as much time as if you were running them without windmill on your node directly. They can be hardware accelerated easily in that fashion. We also support some features borrowed from temporal like the ability to suspend at no-cost flows until they are resumed by an external event such as an approval from slack.

this is targeting the "low-code" audience, like https://n8n.io

I like to think that we target hybrid teams made of low-code/semi-technical people AND engineers that expect to have the same characteristics seen in temporal/airflow. Abstraction without compromise, or zero-cost abstractions as the rust community like to say

This is good as far as it goes--I think better information can help consumers at the margins. But it's hard to imagine this will do much to actual induce competition in markets where there are only a few (or one) players and most consumers are sticky.