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! 🎉
Wails v2.0.0 has been released!
Well done Lea and all the many contributors to this excellent tool for building desktop applications with Go and web technologies!
Today is my last day working for both Delicious Brains and my own consultancy company, Byte Pixie.
Because on Monday I'm officially a full-time employee of WP Engine, continuing to work on WP Offload Media! 🎉
After a mini summer break, it's nice to be back in the saddle and recording Always Developing sessions for my YouTube channel again.
It's a big day! The WordPress plugin I work on, WP Offload Media, along with the other plugins developed by Delicious Brains, have been acquired by WP Engine!
The teams behind the Delicious Brains plugins are all moving across to work for WP Engine, keeping continuity of development and support.
After nearly 8 years working with Delicious Brains, I'm a little sad to be parting ways with Brad, who's been a great boss and friend, and I'll be forever grateful that he took a chance on hiring me so long ago.
However, I'm also rather excited to be able to continue working on WP Offload Media. We've got some awesome stuff already in development and planned for WP Offload Media, and I think WP Engine is going to be a great company to continue the plugin's journey forward with.
Even though I was pretty tired all day as I was rudely awoken by a peacock at 04:44 this morning, and eventually gave up trying to get back to sleep just after 06:00, I had a weirdly productive day today.
My Always Developing session went well, with me finishing off the search box for the new Snippet Pixie GUI app's list snippets screen. I think it's looking and working pretty good, even if I say so myself.
At work I did a tonne of writing, screenshotting, and video recording for an upcoming blog post, and worked out a nice way to proceed with my next big piece of development.
In the evening I updated, rebuilt, tested and pushed out changes to three open source projects, and tested a fix to a service I use.
Oh, and I wrote a long over due microblog post. 😉
Just checked this morning, wails 2.0.0-beta.33 is now available in the nixpkgs unstable channel. 🎉
Super stoked to get Wails v2 into nixpkgs!
It'll take a little while for wails to make its way through the build and test infrastructure and hit the unstable channel, and then eventually the next stable release, but it's on its way!
This evening Always Developing #139 was published:
Snippet Pixie: Next – Switch golang date format based on user's locale | Always Developing #139
This session wraps up placeholder expansion work for the Snippet Pixie rewrite.
It was an interesting challenge to get localized date formatting working in Go.
It was really great to see the Wails v2 beta for Linux released today.
Wails v2 Beta for Linux announcement
I'm planning to dive in and start using Wails as part of the Snippet Pixie rewrite fairly soon. I just need to have a fully working CLI version completed first.