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Oryx is a (very) fast, keyboard-first Markdown editor and reader. It also edits code and opens EPUB ebooks and CBZ comics.

Instead of relying on webviews, Oryx uses a custom vector rendering pipeline: so now browser and no electron. It draws typography, code highlighting, and math directly to the screen. The workflow is modal and built for keyboard-driven navigation. It stays fast and lightweight on memory, even with heavy files. It doesn't rely on GPU acceleration and is optimized to run smoothly on virtually any (older) hardware.

Version 1.2.1 brings tighter rendering passes, stability fixes, and small UI polishes based on community feedback. On the roadmap for v1.3.0 focus mode, multi-pdf export and more stability on big files.

Please share your comments and if you find Oryx useful, please star it on GitHub so it can reach other. Thanks!

Code & Downloads: GitHub: https://github.com/wmahfoudh/oryx
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/wmahfoudh/oryxOryx

I just released v1.1.1 of Oryx. It's a FOSS blazing fast editor. It was first designed to be a beautiful reader and then evolved to a full editor. Blazing fast, Oryx can display any document or ebook in less than 100ms. It has been deeply optimized for speed.

It's an opinionated editor, no buttons and no menus, just keyboard and mouse, so if you're a vim person chances are you will like it. It has 30+ themes, theme editor, syntax highlighting, beautiful pdf export, and a ton of small productivity tricks, so you focus on the document not on the interface. Oryx package is 10MB, for reference, Windows notepad is 19 😉.

https://github.com/wmahfoudh/oryx

Readme and changelog are very detailed. Check out also syntax.md (open it in Oryx) for a walk-through of all supported markdown and html constructs and how Oryx renders them.

Please give it a try and do not hesitate to raise issues or share your feedback. And if you like the idea, starring the repo would help others see it.

Thank you!

Bonjour tout le monde.

La nouvelle release Oryx est sortie. Depuis mon dernier post, Oryx a bien évolué, plein d'améliorations visuelles et fonctionnelles: markdown étendu en plus du standard, plus de productivité, executables pour la plupart des distributions Linux, Windows store...

Si vous avez raté le premier post, Oryx est un éditeur desktop code mais principalement pour markdown, donc si vous travaillez beaucoup avec les llms il est idéal. Extrêmement rapide, beau rendu et zéro analytics. Il peut aussi lire les eBooks.

https://github.com/wmahfoudh/oryx

Merci de me faire part de vos commentaires, je ferai le possible pour les intégrer.

Et si le projet vous plaît, une étoile sur github compte beaucoup 😊.

La prochaine version aura un autosave, une meilleure documentation, numérotation des lignes et export pdf en batch.

It's been some time since last post about Oryx. Many improvements and fixes have been added. They were mainly focused on:

- expanded markdown syntax

- editor "tricks" and increased productivity

- improved search and replace

- slight visual enhancements

- binaries for most Linux distros

- windows store

CHANGELOG and README are well detailed.

Oryx remained `fast & beautiful`, free and open source and... opinionated 😉

Big Thanks to all those who shared ideas and reported bugs, and as usual, if you find it useful, please star the repo, that will help others to discover it.

https://github.com/wmahfoudh/oryx

In the pipeline for next release (hopefully):

- more visual enhancements

- autosave

- better docs

- better syntax highlighting of code

- line numbers

- btatch pdf export

Hey everyone,

I published the first official release of Oryx, a project on which I was working the last months. This is a desktop app that aims to be a universal reader for eBooks, markdown files and any text/code file in general.

The value proposition of Oryx is speed, privacy, and minimalistic beauty. It supports EPUB, FB2, MOBI and AZW3 and comics CBZ and CBR (with an option to reverse the display order for comics), RTL support (Arabic & Hebrew).

Oryx is opinionated and might not be right for everyone: it does not need a library or a vault, it just shows the files in your system. More importantly (and this is a deliberate choice), it strips the books from their original CSS to use its own themes (32 themes available and you can edit/create your own). No menus, no buttons, completely driven by keyboard/mouse and works well with touch screens. I think many will like its speed, beautiful rendering and the fact that nobody is watching what you're reading or writing (no browser, no telemetry and no analytics).

Free, open source, installation files available for Windows and most Linux distributions. For macOS it needs building from source (as I have no mac to do it). Available on GitHub and Codeberg and soon on MS Store.

Please give it a try, and if you find it useful, I would be thankful if you star the repo 😊

https://github.com/wmahfoudh/oryx

https://codeberg.org/wmahfoudh/oryx

Edit: Installation files are in the release section: https://github.com/wmahfoudh/oryx/releases#release-v1.0.0

I recently released v0.15.8 stable of Oryx. This is a personal project that evolved to become today a markdown and code editor, and an ebook reader. I started working on it a couple of moths ago and most of the time was spent on architecting a native desktop solution that have superior performance without relying on browsers or electron. The value proposition was speed and beauty.

Oryx today can display any themed file in less 100ms (typically 40ms) whatever is the size, export to pdf and display non DRM ebookS very nicely. It ships 32 themes and a theme editor, RTL support etc. It's one binary with themes, syntax highlighting, default fonts all embedded in around 20 MB (for reference Windows notepad package is 19 MB 😁). It works like Obsidian but without the need of a vault, plus a universal ebook and comics READER. It simply uses your file system to show supported files. All keyboard driven with basic plus Regex search/replace features.

Oryx is opinionated and might not be for everyone but I think many will like it's speed, simplicity and the way it beautifully renders markdown. The README file has full details.

FOSS GPL3, Linux, Windows in the release section, and macOS to be compiled. No telemetry, no analytics, no browser.

https://github.com/wmahfoudh/oryx

https://codeberg.org/wmahfoudh/oryx

Please do not hesitate to raise issues and if you find it useful, kindly star the repo.

Thank you!

The joke has two parts.

If something had to change after 10 years, nobody would have predicted it would be the second part.

Mushroom management (keep them in the dark, feed them bullshit) is common enough to have its own wikipedia page, but it barely gets the attention it actually deserves. I think this is an important topic, because purpose is what drive us to do things, so stripping purpose from work is a key for disengagement.

The usual excuse is that leadership is just too busy with delivery and sucks at comunicating. That is a cop-out. It goes back to Fredrick Taylor in 1911. He wrote the manual on scientific management: management thinks, workers execute. To him, context meant workers formed opinions, and opinions slowed down production.

After Vietnam, the US Army realized field decisions broke down because soldiers lacked the "why" behind there orders. They changed their entire doctrine to share intent at every level.

Keeping people uninformed is a highly effective liability shield. If you do not know the strategy, you cannot question it and you cannot be held responsible if it fails. This can be comfortable for some, but does it justify working without purpose?

source article

If the answer is yes then this book is for you. Bedtime Stories for the Boardroom: The Pocket Atlas of Corporate Scandals is a collection of the short stories about the most and the least knows corporate failures that happened in the last 90 years.

The link will get you to the landing page. Please go through it, and if you feel that's your kind of reading, do subscribe and a free copy of the eBook will be sent to you, today 4pm (Google Play link).

Thank you!

I small project I thought sharing.