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Hello, developer here.

Quick tech rundown:

This is implemented as a Google Chrome extension, i.e. it's implemented using web frontend tech, using a custom injected agent program injected into note-possible websites (= every URL that's not a browser-internal "page"). The UI is implemented in a React.js + Redux combination. It's authenticated by the slimmest possible Python + Flask web backend using OAuth2 via Google I felt I could get away with.

Post tech questions here if you're curious and I'll try to answer them or tweet at me (I'm https://twitter.com/jacob414).


If you are starting to become more senior it's probably time to start considering programming problems from a higher/different perspective: the 0th problem in tackling a development assignment is often actually more economic than technical: learning to start asking yourself the question if the task at hand is actually worth to implement or maybe could be substituted with something else than a purely technical solution.



If you want something that's more about how live is as a developer, This Developers Life is very good, and with a solid knowledge about how to create good radio. http://thisdeveloperslife.com/


Actually, most of these applications are more than 10 years old. And back-end systems, develompent tools and heavy duty media creation apps can hardly be compared to something that's a candidate for a web app.


So as long as you exclude apps that are lousy as web applications then all new good apps are web applications? How pragmatic.


Had to look it up, and only three were older than 10 years old. VS (going back to the first version), VMWare, and Final Cut Pro).

Chrome (2008)

Firefox (2004)

OneNote (2003)

Sharepoint (2001)

iTunes (2001)

Windows Media Center (2002)

Camtasia (2002)

VMWare (1999)

Git (2005)

Garage Band (2004)

Final Cut Pro (1998)

Creative Suite (2003)

True Crypt (2004)

Visual Studio (1995)


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