Brings you a bit closer to your fellow developers by delivering the devRant feed directly on your computer’s desktop and, as an added bonus, it also unclutters your web browser’s tab bar.
- devRant UNOFFICIAL
- Version :1.0.3
- License :GPL
- OS :Windows All
- Publisher :Meadowcottage
devRant UNOFFICIAL Description
Life as a programmer is not always as glamorous as most people might be led to believe. Let’s take jokes, for example, as developers usually cannot express their real successes or possible frustrations through humor to other people outside their line of work.
devRant is a fun online platform and social media website built primarily for developers, a place where almost everything code, tech, and development related is allowed without being frowned upon.
When coding or busy, you know, being a developer, probably the last thing you want is something distracting as a web browser window, with an instance of devRant running in one of the multiple pinned tabs, opened on one of your workstation’s screens.
To get rid of this annoyance once and for all, you can now use devRant UNOFFICIAL.
Electron-based wrapper for devRant
In a few words, the aforementioned app is an Electron-based piece of software that acts as a wrapper for the devRant web service, by bringing the uber-funny feed directly on your computer’s desktop.
Getting started with this app is hardly challenging. Simply download it, unzip the package and run it via its designated executable file. Upon launching it, you are met by a compact main window that only displays, as previously stated, the devRant feed and not much else.
Evidently, in order to be able to comment or quickly share posts via devRant, you will be required to log in using your official credentials.
Useful but could use one or two extra features
It should not take a very extended period to see that this is a very good example of what a stripped-down application is. Of course, its usefulness should be by no means underrated, after all, we all like it when there’s one less tab pinned in our web-browser’s tab bar.
Nevertheless, it would have been even nicer if the app would provide you with even the most basic of features like taskbar integration and the possibility for automatic launch at system start-up, just to name a few.
Frees a tab in your web browser that can be now filled with something code or tech-related
All in all, devRant UNOFFICIAL is a simple yet useful utility that even though it’s hardly impressive in any tangible way, it does manage to bring you a step closer to your fellow developers by bringing the devRant feed on your desktop, always within your reach.