The modern app

# The modern app Source: [https://dbushell.com/2026/07/02/the-modern-app/](https://dbushell.com/2026/07/02/the-modern-app/) Thursday 2Jul2026 Today I’m introducing the**next generation of code editor\.**A modern app to satiate the needs of the discerning coder\. We’re talkin’ blazing fast collaboration between*man and machine*\. Try out the demo below \(for best experience: desktop Chrome, obvs\)\. If you’re reading this in RSS I have no clue what you’re about to see…[maybe visit the demo](https://dbushell.com/2026/07/02/the-modern-app/)it’s a fun one\! **Error loading documentation\.**Please disable your adblocker and try again\. We and our 9172 partners value your personal data\. You must accept the terms and conditions\. Application error: a client\-side exception has occurred \(see the browser console for more information\)\. Last edit:DELETED USER– 1 January 1970 – is this working? Thinking… an icon bar full of indecipherable icons with no label Activate Windows Go to Settings to activate Windows\. Syntax errors:3453CI warnings:6462Merge conflicts:1130Tokens maxxed:9512Logged in as:ghp\_nD7FQLmQlmaoRis27Lq2C69HWTFwsU420CvL Would you like to play a game? - Running NPM post\-install scripts\. - Claude is not in the sudoers file\. This incident will be reported\. - Windows will restart in 5 minutes\. - Production database was dropped\. - GitHub connection timed out\. - Incoming phone call from your mother\. - CI/CD deployment failed again\. - Thinking… - Family photos were deleted to resolve low disk space error\. - iOS 26\.6\.9 is available, update now? - Amazon driver is lost in your neighbourhood\. - Alice’s personal access token expired, switching to Bob’s\. - Tailwind language server crashed\. - SAMSUNG SMART REFRIDGERATOR ® has detected low milk levels: five gallons ordered\. - 418 I’m a teapot\. ## **v0\.419 Release Notes** AI, AI, AI\! We’ve heard you\. There are now 26 new sparkle buttons\! Can you find them all? Release notes dialog now has an embedded WSL 1\.0 terminal emulator\. It’s broken \(issue: \#25293\)\. Reduced RAM usage when typing on the home row\. Keystrokes are now logged in the correct Slack channel \(fixes \#7 and \#933 through \#980\)\. root@localhostsystem32C:\\$\_ ## Ahhhhh\! Yeah so um… have you noticed that all modern software is teetering on the enshitty cliff? Everything in my dock is an[Electron\-ified](https://www.electronjs.org/)enshittybomb one update from disaster\. There used to be alternatives\. Now those suck too\. I don’t want to collaborate\. How about you leave me alone and I’ll email you the file when I’m finished? Here, take a hard copy and jog on\. You want to comment? I don’t remember asking for an opinion\. Oh fantastic, now the computer thinks it’s people\! I’ve got dialogs and popovers all up in my face yammering about agentic bollocks\. Mystery icons everywhere\. Wait… did they move my cheese? Ahhhhh\! It’s all your fault\! I sure as heck didn’t ask for it\. Remember when they made entire video games on a 32 KB floppy disk? Those were real developers\. > v1 Release Notes: done\. Can you stop adding new “features”, please? You had*one*good idea\. Finish it already? Now you’ve got ten thousand GitHub issues\. Well done\. I used to enjoy making things on a computer :\( --- Icons used:[Griddy Icons](https://griddyicons.com/)MIT License\. “Clippy” © Microsoft \(this is parody\)\.