topframe
Local webpage screen overlay for customizing your computing experience (by progrium)
qmux
wire protocol for multiplexing connections or streams into a single connection, based on a subset of the SSH Connection Protocol (by progrium)
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| topframe | qmux | |
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| 3 | 4 | |
| 349 | 223 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 3 years ago | about 2 years ago | |
| JavaScript | Go | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
topframe
Posts with mentions or reviews of topframe.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-05.
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Towards the Personal Potential of Software
Along the way, I released a few demos for macdriver to make clear the possibilities and provide reference examples. One of them I spun off into a standalone project called topframe, which is also serving as a test bed for how we are doing cross-platform support. More on that in a moment.
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🧢 Stefan's Web Weekly #14
👉 Check out Topframe
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Customize your computer screen with HTML
Anybody that knows how to mess around with HTML can now mess around with their desktop computing experience. Topframe is an open source tool that lets you customize your desktop screen using HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
qmux
Posts with mentions or reviews of qmux.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-24.
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Making programs interact using qtalk
The connection multiplexing layer is based on qmux, a subset of SSH that I've written about previously. It was designed to optionally be swapped out with QUIC as needed. Either way, everything in qtalk happens over flow-controlled channels, which can be used like embedded TCP streams. Whatever you do with qtalk, you can also tunnel other connections and protocols on the same connection.
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Towards the Personal Potential of Software
Unrelated to macdriver, I released a protocol called qmux with a post explaining why this (but really any) muxing protocol, including and especially QUIC, is such a great primitive for network programming. The project came with two implementations, Go and TypeScript, with more on the way. The post about it was the first explainer article I'd done in a while and people liked it. This was important because the idea behind it was really more valuable than the protocol itself, but regardless we still need implementations of it to exist. To show the idea in action, I built a 130 line version of Ngrok, which turned into a great post walking through how it works.
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Building your own Ngrok in 130 lines
What qmux does is give us a subset of the SSH protocol to multiplex many connections over a single connection. It was the missing piece of my original Twisted prototype. You can read more about how there aren't a lot of these protocols (but perhaps with QUIC are also the future of the Internet) in my previous post.
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The History and Future of Socket-level Multiplexing
If nothing else, I hope people use this story as inspiration to think about using multiplexing to design better, simpler application protocols. Even if for some reason QUIC isn't the future, you now have qmux!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing topframe and qmux you can also consider the following projects:
servor - Dependency free file server for single page app development
localtunnel - Expose localhost servers to the Internet
macdriver - Native Mac APIs for Go. Soon to be renamed DarwinKit!
webtransport - WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transport
macschema - Toolchain for generating JSON definitions of Apple APIs
The-Lost-Ball - A 3D runner game inspired from Subway Surfers
go-vhost - HTTP/TLS hostname multiplexing library for Go
forgit - :zzz: A utility tool powered by fzf for using git interactively.
qtalk-go - versatile stream IO and RPC based IPC stack for Go
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jQuery - jQuery JavaScript Library