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When Projects Stop

October 31, 2024 In 2011, I used Scry as a self-hosted photo publishing platform. Scry was made in PHP, was file based and adhered to the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) philosophy of software development.

This month I was unpleasantly surprised that both Syncthing and GNU password store, two projects I heavily depend on, are discontinuing their Android apps. Losing GNU pass would be a problem, because I don't like depending on third parties to store my passwords anymore than on open source projects, and if I were to go back to KeePassXC, I'd need Syncthing again to keep all my devices up-to-date with the latest changes of the database file. It comes with a companion app called Termux:API, that, coupled with the termux-api package, allows GNU pass, when installed and provided with the correct GPG key, to copy passwords to the Android clipboard.

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