• 0 Posts
  • 142 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 14th, 2023

help-circle



  • Hey, sorry for the late answer, but I think you might be interested in this:
    First of all, as a disclaimer: I’m not a professional front-end developer. I’m usually doing backend stuff and this is the first time I wanted to program a cross-platform desktop app. I spent a lot of time researching and settled on GTK / Libadwaita.
    And I actually spent the last months building and packaging the project for every platform. With every platform I mean macOS, Linux and Windows. I strongly recommend doing this with a CI pipeline as there are many specific steps you need to follow.
    I will provide a template on Github when I’m finished as well as a more in-depth blog post about all the steps and explanations. The main problem is that most is not documented at all and what’s documented is super outdated. So I had to figure out many things by myself. But the actual process, when you know how to do it, isn’t even really hard. I’ll post the links to the template here when I finished it all but it might still take some months as I currently also have other stuff to do.














  • A good Dev in the situation you mention will design the solution needed now not the one you hope for later.

    Maintainability is one of the most important if not the most important goal when programming. If a dev only designs a solution that fits for exactly the current situation but doesn’t allow any changes, it’s not a good dev.
    But yeah, if you start small, a solution that’s made for that is preferable. You can still refactor things when you get magnitudes larger and have the budget.



  • you can still talk to friends, but not about the vacation

    Hmm… interesting. I think I’d still yes, but as I really enjoy talking to friends about things I currently do, rather reluctantly (and not for a very long one).

    With your explanation, I can see how you get to that interpretation, although mine would probably different (mainly because I associate post with A: showing it to a larger group simultaniously and B: having a picture or video (but that’s just due to my personal media usage)).
    I think I might place the line between a small group of friends you tell it and a larger public Discord server(?) as that mostly feels like the difference between privately talking and posting it to a bigger audience, but it’s complicated.

    it’s more ‘would you go on a vacation and just enjoy it, or do you only want to go on vacation so people know you went?’ yeah, that makes sense. I see. I mean I would definitely go to a vacation to enjoy it (and not to show it off or something, in fact my last Instagram post is now over a year ago and I don’t really use Twitter or other personal social media like that). But not talking about it would still be hard as I basically talk to people every day about what I’m doing, where I’m going, what projects I’m working on, etc. So having to stop sharing that would be different to my usual way how I spend time with people. (But I’d just do it all afterwards, often in vacations I don’t have much time anyways to talk to people about it and just catch up later in a longer talk.)