I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage, not their app that they've spent a lot of effort on. It probably feels very demoralizing when people instantly disregard your app due to Electron's resource usage.<p>Electron is a very easy way to develop applications, and it's definitely doing something right. I've written Gtk (my preference) and Qt for ages, and developing stuff in Electron was mind-blowingly fast, trivial to debug, and trivial to produce packaged binaries for multiple platforms. It's very difficult to achieve a similar development experience with native toolkits, and I think we'll continue seeing more Electron apps until native toolkits offer a comparable development experience.
"Pomodoro" as a time-management technique is a registered trademark:<p><a href="https://cirillocompany.de/pages/the-pomodoro-technique-trademark-guidelines" rel="nofollow">https://cirillocompany.de/pages/the-pomodoro-technique-trade...</a>
One of my favorite skills & challenges is do things as efficiency as possible, and using Electron for an app like this just strikes me as super-duper wasteful, especially for an app that'll be running all the time. That said, it's probably not going to make that huge of a dent in daily battery life.
I did Pomodoros all the time before I really started programming. Now I just like to lock into a flow and work until I can't or I get frustrated debugging and take a break
For those wondering what the pomodoro technique is: <a href="http://pomodorotechnique.org" rel="nofollow">http://pomodorotechnique.org</a>
Similar to <a href="http://gnomepomodoro.org/" rel="nofollow">http://gnomepomodoro.org/</a><p>Been using it on xfce alright.
About 7yrs ago I published a basic pomodoro app to app store . I received intellectual property infringement notice from 'FC Garage GmbH' to take my app down, which I did. The email on that notice was legal@pomodorotechnique.com, so I assume it has something to with the guy who created it.
I cannot get behind the idea that I need 173 mb in libraries and module for what is essentially a simplistic timer, but it looks nice and works on linux (at least on my machien and from the screenshot it looks like it works on windows aswell), so I have mixed feelings about this app.
For all those who want to try/see the working of the app can check out this Codepen that I've set up : <a href="https://codepen.io/amit_merchant/pen/NpvZJo" rel="nofollow">https://codepen.io/amit_merchant/pen/NpvZJo</a>