extensions VS Xtra

I agree for 99% of extensions their model is amazing. And I wouldn't expect me to come up with a better one any time soon.

The problem is that I want to do more in my launcher. Two examples:

- I wasn't happy with the official bitwarden extension, because going through the clipboard and copy/pasting individual items felt cumbersome. They also only supported one vault even though I asked about this years ago [0]! In raycast I wrote my own bitwarden extension that hooked into Hammerspoon and used the AX spoon to autofill credentials. That felt very hacky though so in my own launcher I am using the accessibility API directly through swift-rs.

- I wanted to build my own keyboard centric matrix chat client into raycast. I got pretty far, but in the end I was just too limited by the available components. Also I discovered that once your extensions heap reaches 100 MiB, it just gets killed. That basically made it impossible to just load the matrix-sdk including crypto.

In the end I just didn't want to keep investing time in some proprietary software that doesn't allow me to do what I want to do :)

[0] https://github.com/raycast/extensions/issues/1544

Raycast creates an open a pull request in their repository, on your behalf!

Check the PR: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/pull/6648

This is the repo: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/abdbd1f0a926fbe7cea5e96f0f2c62f502efa0f3/extensions/mozilla-firefox/

Raycast can do this via an extension: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/blob/c0832985249dcb02164ea6322ca0134ca093e711/extensions/openai-gpt3/

Audit their extensions? This is an Amphethamin extension. Please take a look at the list of dependencies from npm. How much time will it take to audit? https://github.com/raycast/extensions/blob/34c65c7f190ad172e46c75384600aa938f932e98/extensions/amphetamine/package-lock.json

This is how fancier automations like the Raycast extension (source) are built.

for all my android homies here is a really good app for mobile twitch and emotes. https://github.com/AndreyAsadchy/Xtra

there is also Xtra

Xtra for twitch, with adblock, BTTV emotes and gifs :) https://github.com/AndreyAsadchy/Xtra

Here's xtra https://github.com/AndreyAsadchy/Xtra

If you're on Android, you can use this: https://github.com/AndreyAsadchy/Xtra

I use Twire but also hear Xtra is pretty good and pretty much the same thing.

:5336: https://github.com/AndreyAsadchy/Xtra/releases/tag/1.6.1