Software should be fun. It should make you feel something, positive hopefully. Utilitarian software is the worst. The human experience is why life is worth living (even for something as teeny tiny as a terminal).
I built a Photoshop-like image editor. It’s called Compositor.
https://t.co/5EMXCgaWI1
I originally built it for myself to get off my Adobe subscription, but decided to release it for free and make it open source. It has all the essential tools I need for compositing, with none of the BS.
I know this workflow is kind of archaic in 2026, but I’m still using it until AI can actually get pixel-perfect on some of the details.
The entire app is 12MB. Photoshop is 6,455MB on my machine.
There were a few different moments that started us on our journey to building Elyx. These moments shaped what we’d go onto build. A few folks have asked about our inspiration and how it came to be, so I thought I’d write some more about it. https://t.co/tgwm2zSnnM