Fileside 2 beta is go!
05.03.2026 18:35
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Fileside 2 beta is go!
Directory listing showing beta builds of Fileside 2.
Today I'm testing the release candidates for the first beta of Fileside 2...
Turns out Gemini Flash 3 is almost as capable a coding agent as Opus 4.6, at a 10th of the cost! It's my default model in Cursor now.
New header is taking shape...
Fileside 2 timeline arrow.
Not long until first Fileside 2 beta now...
It's amazing how much easier it is to add new features after the full refactoring of the app architecture.
After a fresh round of UI library research, I think I will start relying more on ark-ui.com than on www.radix-ui.com for future needs. PandaCSS from the same team looks good too!
Fileside 2 in thumbnail grid mode.
Finally Fileside has a thumbnail grid.
This looks like a cool project! How would you say it differentiates itself from something like open-props.style? They seem like brethren.
Cool initiative, Attila! Looking forward to seeing this take shape. I had somewhat similar motivations for starting to build my own file manager a while ago, although it's not specific to music. I am one of those weirdos who still insist on maintaining a manual folder hierarchy for my collection...
Diff showing enabling sandboxed renderer.
One small commit for man, one giant leap for Fileside.
After months of disentangling, we've finally arrived at a clean cut between native and renderer worlds.
Timeline graphic with completed tasks
And now the final piece of the migration puzzle is also in place.
Progress timeline graphic
One checkbox closer to Fileside 2.0. Search has now also been migrated to the new worker process architecture.
Fileside 2 progress update: All file operations have now been converted to (optionally) run in separate worker processes, freeing up the UI during long transfers.
Fileside's Black Friday sale has started.
66% off on a lifetime license up until Cyber Monday 1 Dec.
Get it while it's hot!
www.fileside.app
Beautiful
After last week's announcement, 80 people have signed up as beta testers for Fileside 2. This should be a fun release cycle!
Just published an update on the plan for Fileside 2.0 and how the work is progressing.
www.fileside.app/blog/2025-10...
She's my new hero. This is soo good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoz...
A method in a class gets created once, then reused.
A function in a React function component gets recreated once per instance (or even every render if you forget useCallback).
Now add this up for a data-dense view like a directory listing with 100s of individual cells.
Just vibecoded the remainder of my Trello notes away into my custom Markdown-file-based Kanban setup in less time than it took to listen through Carl Craig's Songs about Food and Revolutionary Art.
Image credit: @bram.us
It's 2025 and we can finally generate dynamic colours using just CSS in production.
The syntax takes some getting used to, but it's so handy for all those little brighten/darken/saturate/desaturate tweaks you need in every UI.
This is so true.
ffmpeg is a beast, it can do absolutely anything with audio/video if you just utter the right incantation. I doubt more than a handful of people in the universe truly understand its internals.
Today I discovered that saturation can go backwards in CSS.
Who'd have thought.
When you say pwsh core is not supported, do you just mean that a menu entry for launching it is missing?
That's great to hear! There's no official place for that yet, volume has been low enough that I've just handled it via email so far.
A Terminal pane is a neat idea, even if maybe somewhat outside of the core scope of a GUI file manager.
The sycophancy level has been ramped up so much in current coding agents.
Hard not to get the impression they're just telling me what I want to hear when every single prompt is "absolutely right", "raising a very valid and important point", "a nuanced and insightful remark" and so on.
Thanks to this lovely review, Fileside got a whole host of new users over the weekend.
www.xda-developers.com/windows-file...
Decided to bring in Tanstack Table as a view model for the file listings, and though well-engineered, I'm not entirely sure that it doesn't actually increase complexity rather than reduce it.
Since I can't exactly claim that my productivity has skyrocketed after fully leaning into an agent-based workflow with Cursor, I'm inclined to conclude that most of the mental labour involved stems from these sorts of software design considerations, rather than getting the actual code written.