Always developing
Had a very nice email late last night from someone struggling with running a Wails app on NixOS they built, looking for any help I could offer because I'm the maintainer of the Nix package.
Did my best to offer some debugging tips, then went to bed.
In the morning I had a couple of lovely emails detailing how one of my tips solved the problem, and a link to a gist for the flake.nix they now use. That'll help me should anyone else contact me with similar issues.
Lovely start to my day! 🎉
Just a quick video to show the process I go through to update the Wails nix package when a new release is published.
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Live coding an app with Go and SvelteJS.
Working on a rewrite of Snippet Pixie:- https://www.snippetpixie.com
The repository for the released version is on GitHub:- https://github.com/bytepixie/snippetpixie
This in-progress, unfinished, unusable version from these videos is on SourceHut: https://git.sr.ht/~ianmjones/snippetpixie
Always Developing Playlist:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWtdmaxq1few8CjnK4MC3LLBMVpi_aCS
Before starting every work day, I do half an hour or so of noodling on side projects, making sure to keep them moving forward, albeit slowly.
Working on these side projects is how I learn new programming languages, frameworks and technologies.
Chances are I’ll fail miserably each and every day, so at the very least you can take comfort in seeing a so-called senior developer fumbling through some development with little success.
Blog:- https://ianmjones.com
Gemini:- gemini://ianmjones.com
Twitter:- https://twitter.com/ianmjones
Tech Used:
Go:- https://golang.org
Svelte:- https://svelte.dev
Wails:- https://wails.io
NixOS/Nixpkgs:- https://nixos.org