Working with Stripe means dealing with Unix timestamps: the ones represented as seconds from Jan 1st 1970. I’ve been relying on various websites to convert them into something I can understand, which involved a lot of clicking around the browser, not to mention dealing with ads. I also wanted …
I spent the better half of last week trying to build a MacOS .app bundle for one of my Go projects. I want to eventually put this online for others to download, so it was time to work out how to go from a simple binary to a .app bundle. I want something that is repeatable, automated, and could be …
Another random hack today, but this one sort of developed over the week. It all started last Monday. I was doing an exploratory task around single-sign on. I read Scripting News that morning, and I was thinking about the style of writing Dave Winer has adopted for his blog: short notes made across …
Oh great, now I need to upgrade my Gradle plugin just because I want to debug my app instead of just run it. How do people make forward progress in Flutter apps if they spend all their time upgrading things in their toolchain or replacing working code because they need to use a different package?
I’m looking at getting deep links working in a Flutter app. I haven’t got anything working at the moment. In theory I do have the server-side stuff in place, and I’m now looking at how I can get the Flutter app to handle the deep link. There’s a recipes for doing this on …
I wanted an excuse to try out this Lisp-like embedded language Go library that was featured in Golang Weekly. Found one today when I was using Evans to test a gRPC endpoint and I wanted a way to automate it. Hacked up something in 30 minutes which takes a method name and a Lisp structure, converts …
I’ve been working on Micropub Checkins over the last week. It’s been a bit of a rush trying to get it into a usable state for an upcoming trip. And by “usable”, I mean a form that I can tolerate, and when it comes to projects like this, I can tolerate quite a lot. It can have …
Back working on Micropub Checkin. Re-engineered the home page to now include a list of what would eventually be check-ins — both historical and soon to be published — complete with the check-in type emoji as the icon: Main screen for Micropub Checkin The same list of emoji icons now adorn the …
At the risk of talking about something that I’ve only just started, I’d thought today I write about what I’m working on right now. I’ve been going through my digital archives this weekend, trying to get it into something more permenant than the portable USB drives it’s …
In the off-chance that anyone other than me is reading this, it’s likely that there will be no update next week due to the Easter weekend. It may not be the only weekend without an update either. If I find that I didn’t get much done for a particular week, I probably won’t say …
I didn’t get to a lot of side-project work this week, but I did have to make a large change to a project we use to track scores for our “bocce club”. So I’d though I’d say a few words about that today. We had our bocce “grand final” a few weeks ago, and one …
I started this week fearing that I’d have very little to write today. I actually organised some time off over the weekend where I wouldn’t be spending a lot of time on side projects. But the week started with a public holiday, which I guess acted like a bit of a time offset, so some …
You’ve got a bunch of Typescript files with both .ts and.tsx. You need to format them using prettier. Your code is managed with source control so you can back out of the changes whenever you need to. Here’s a quick command line invocation to do it: npx prettier -w '**/*.ts' '**/*.tsx'
Preamble When I moved Working Set over to Micro.blog, I’d thought I’d be constantly writing micro-posts about what I’m working on, as a form of working in public. I found that didn’t really work for me, for a few reasons. I’ve got a strange relationship with this blog. …
Completed the release of Dynamo-Browse 0.2.0. Most of the work in the last week was updating the manual, especially the scripting API. Some more updates need to be made for the query expressions as well, but I’ll publish what I have now and update that over time.
The errors.New() function in emperror.dev/errors package includes context information, like stack traces. This means that if you were to use this for sentinel error types, i.e. error types like EOL, you’ll be including unnecessary stack information. This is especially useless when these are …
Here’s a bit of a blast from the past. I managed to get ccedit working again. This was the original level editor for workingset.net/2022/12/2… my Chips Challenge “fan game” I’ve been working on. I’ve been designing a few levels for it recently, but since moving …
Spent some time closing off the Dynamo-Browse shortlist. I think I’ve got most of the big ticket items addressed. Here’s a brief update on each one: Fix the activity indicator that is sometimes not clearing when a long running task is finished. How long running tasks are dealt with has …
I don’t know what I need to do to get Swift Packages working. It never seems to work for me. The option to add dependencies are in the menu, but when I try to use them, they error out or cannot resolve the dependencies for some reason. This is in addition to not being able to see or edit …
I’ve recently started playing Mahjong with my family. We’ve learnt how to play a couple of years ago and grown to like it a great deal. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with how the game is scored, and while it’s not complicated, there’s a lot of looking things up …
This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I cannot stand the MacOS development experience. I wanted to start a new project, a MacOS SwiftUI project, and once I went through the New Project flow, the first thing that happens is the preview craps out because the login to AppStore Connect cannot …
Looking at the “backlog” of things to work on for Dynamo-Browse before I set it aside. I’ll fix a few bugs and add a few small features that I’ve found myself really wanting. The short list is as follows: Fix the activity indicator that is sometimes not clearing when a long …
I think I’ll take a little break from Dynamo-Browse. There’s a list of small features that are on my TODO list. I might do one or two of them over the next week, then cut and document a release, and leave it for a while. I’m still using Dynamo-Browse pretty much every day at work, …
Finally bit the bullet and got scripting working in Dynamo-Browse. It’s officially in the tool, at least in the latest development version. It’s finally good to see this feature implemented. I’ve been waffling on this for a while, as the last several posts can attest, and …
I guess I’m in a bit of a reflective mood these pass few days because I spent the morning digging up an old project that was lying dormant for several years. It’s effectively a clone of Chips Challenge, the old strategy game that came with the Microsoft Entertainment Pack. I was a fan of …