extensions VS vaultwarden

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.

To people who want to self-host this, look at Vaultwarden which is a fully compatible alternate server with even more features:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Been running it for a year with 0 issues.

For passwords and 2FA I use Bitwarden in combination with a self-hosted Vaultwarden service (for imcreased security and use of pro features for free).

Vaultwarden as Password-Safe

I have a lot of software that I host myself on my home server, partly to save money but also because I want to control my own data. For example, I host VaultWarden which is the open source server for BitWarden. This gives me all the premium features for free with the added bonus of keeping my passwords out of the cloud.

Self hosting is incredibly easy with vaultwarden (https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden)

I have now switched to using the BitWarden app with the self-hosted VaultWarden server. I have set it up, so my passwords are only accessible when connected to my home network either physically or with a VPN (I am using tailscale for this).