wolverineoflove

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Apr 5

Nursecall startup used nationally in US. "Solved" real time background in iOS (what a story). Code polyglot -- whatever works I write. I run a MUD @ rudmud.com:1701 -- ANSI C and a large custom codebase.

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Comment · 3 years ago

Given that the Django web app framework was invented for a newspaper (Lawrence Journal-World) I have high hopes this will potentially provide a way for employed journalists to federate, as well as contribute to the underlying open source project.

Comment · 3 years ago

Real talk, I've been shipping an Adobe AIR app (Flash on the desktop) to a major healthcare provider still (just did a build yesterday).

Samsung subsidiary Harmann took over the support contract from Adobe a couple years ago, and I think they have one or two souls running support for the AIR SDK, they're doing... okay.

After years of searching for an Electron alternative (2016-2019) I broke down and wrote an Electron + Vue application. I had really really wanted Wails to work, but it simply has too many sharp corners for an enterprise desktop application that needs to run 24/7.

The corporation customer basically stonewalled and refuses to let the AIR app die. We're pulling up the ladder with the Apple Silicon cutover, and hoping they bleed out on bugs. What a mess.

I'm commenting because I too "still use Flash" in a way. It's a secret shame :X

Comment · 6 years ago

While not a masterpiece, this book does a great job with the thought experiment of this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673576-the-postmortal

Comment · 6 years ago

We developed a really neat resigning of PKG installers on Linux, only to learn that the binaries to notarize macOS installers and apps (altool, see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...) ONLY run on macOS.

This looks to be the level we reached using a variety of tools, and could simplify the workflow, but doesn't answer the notarization step (arguably only because of Apple's limitations). We basically built a valid, signed installer, unxar'd it, did slug replacements for values for each instance, compiled some postInstall scripts, packed and resigned it using the Application ID certificate.

Anyone know of any projects that hope to bring the notarization step across platforms?