Note This article is a part of a series of tutorials "Creating an Electron application with Svelte 3 and TypeScript".

• Part 1 - Introduction and setup our dev environment
• Part 2 - Define our goals and implement an interactive search bar
• Part 3 - Display search results and call the API
• Part 4 - Coming soon... Stay tuned! 👀

Check out the rest if you haven't yet 😉.

Before starting to work on our project, let's define a plan and a set of goals.

We know that we want to interact with Wikipedia's API, so what do we need for this? A first version would be like this. I will keep our goals simple for now, we can always add more things later.

Abstractly we have 3 components:

• a simple search for in a menu bar available at the top of the application. The first version will only have an input text and a button to call the API.
• a listing of search results in a left pan
• a right pan to vi...

Note This article is a part of a series of tutorials "Creating an Electron application with Svelte 3 and TypeScript".

• Part 1 - Introduction and setup our dev environment
• Part 2 - Define our goals and implement an interactive search bar
• Part 3 - Display search results and call the API
• Part 4 - Coming soon... Stay tuned! 👀

Earlier this month the team behind the web UI framework Svelte announced they are now officially supporting TypeScript. I didn't follow the project before this announcement, but I see it as a good motivation to try it out. For this reason I decided I would create a simple Electron application interfacing with Wikipedia's public API, and will document the process through a serie of tutorials.

I read Svelte's documentation yesterday for the first time, so I'm really new to the framework, though from what I've seen so far it should be quite fast to pick up. As mentioned in the title, I'm going to use Svelte 3 and TypeScript. Let's start with the initi...

TL;DR

I have again an active Apple Developer Membership, thus Disk Info is back on the Mac App Store.

Sources: https://github.com/dgellow/DiskInfo

Back in 2015 I got a used MacBook Pro for a very good price and started to use it as my main machine. Moving back from ArchLinux on a ThinkPad x230 to a MacBook Pro was in general a very good experience, for example the upgrade to a high density display was the best thing ever, but it didn't take long to be frustrated by some simple things I got accustomated to as part of my Linux experience.

One small thing I really don't like in macOS is how annoying it is to know how much free space is available in my main drive. That's clearly not a huge deal, just:

1. Open Finder
2. Locate the drive
3. Right click
4. Select "Get Info"
5. Locate the available disk space

Slightly annoying, but nothing too bad, only for the reason that I found myself checking my available space multiple times a week! It quickly became a pain to repeat those ste...

An short explanation and a debugging session.

This website is made with Grav, a CMS based on markdown files for content and modern PHP for rendering and the rest. I'm not doing anything crazy here, it's just a personal blog, but so far I'm happy with it. I created my own theme, named microblog, that covers my needs.

Today I wanted to fix a few styling and usability issues I have with my theme, so I started my local environment (just a Dockerfile to run an Nginx + php fpm to replicate the real environment), and did my changes. Once done, I faced the question: how do I distribute it to my server?

You have the following solutions:

• copy through ssh, e.g: scp, or SFTP if configured (of course only possible if you have an ssh access). That's fast and simple, but be sure to use the correct user and/or set correct file permissions.
• use GPM, the plugin system used by Grav. If your project is open source (specifically MIT licensed) then you can add it to the public list of...

A weird Apple ID picture, and thoughts on consistency.

Those days my main operating system is Windows 10, I switched from macOS a bit less than 1 year ago out of frustration as I was looking for a new laptop. The shift of paradigm took a bit of time to adapt, but once I accepted that Windows really does and never cared about consistency, things started to go quite well, and I'm now a happy Windows user.

A bit less than a week ago I was working on a release of HabitCat to iOS and so had a need for XCode and the iOS simulator. I went back to my old MacBook and started applying all available macOS updates. I avoided them until now because of all the issues that always come with macOS upgrades, but that's an XCode requirement, so I put my grumpy face, grumbled my annoyance away and started the long upgrade process, then of course spent the next hour or so fixing all the issues caused by the removal of 32 bits support, new app permission restrictions, etc (the usual stuff when upgradi...