{"id":1106,"date":"2016-04-08T00:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T00:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2016-04-08T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T00:47:43","slug":"things-are-evolving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"Things Are Evolving"},"content":{"rendered":"

A burst of development energy in a number of directions recently.
\nAnd things are starting to self-organize towards the new ecosystem.
\nToday’s exciting news : OWL makes a very nice desktop app, thanks to Electron<\/a>.
\nHere’s the github repo<\/a>.
\nI’ll be doing more testing, compiling, packaging this shortly. So that even non-geeks can play with it. But it seems to work fine.
\nTo be honest, the few times I’ve installed OWL on non-geek friends’ machines, the “run a server and look at OWL in the browser” part has confused \/ put people off. Now things are VERY much simpler.
\nThis is also going to give me some momentum to add a couple of extra features \/ ideas I’ve been thinking about over the last couple of years.
\nIn the short term … this desktop repo is likely to be where I develop the next round of functionality. Though I’ll be porting these new features back to the Android and web-based versions.
\nMain issues in my mind at the moment : I’ve dropped the Python based server for this. We’re now purely Coffee \/ Javascript. That feels cleaner and more convenient. Will I now try do the same for the web version. It makes sense. But straight node? Express? Meteor?
\nWhat’s simplest and leads to least repetition of code?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A burst of development energy in a number of directions recently. And things are starting to self-organize towards the new ecosystem. Today’s exciting news : OWL makes a very nice desktop app, thanks to Electron. Here’s the github repo. I’ll be doing more testing, compiling, packaging this shortly. So that even non-geeks can play with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77,125,321,322,323,324,336,502],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","tag-coffeescript","tag-electron","tag-outliner","tag-outlines","tag-outlining","tag-owl","tag-personal-wiki","tag-wiki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}