Tiny Apps with TinyJS

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About a year ago, I was still running my live stream (Code Break) and my final three streams all covered one topic – building desktop applications with non-native code. I covered Tauri (HTML on the front, Rust on the back) and Flet (all Python). Recently I came across another option, tinyjs. TinyJS (technically the name is "tinyjs" but I can’t make myself use the lowercase in my writing like that 😉 is a lot like PhoneGap/Apache Cordova. Your application is the system web view shipped along with the ability to make system calls via a bridge to txiki.js. This bridge gives you full access to the file system and more, like any other native app. Unlike PhoneGap, this is just... more →
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Code Break Tomorrow – Desktop Apps with Python

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Greetings, programs. Tomorrow (June 10th) at 12PM CST (Cool Standard Time), I’ll be hosting my next Code Break, "Build Desktop Apps with Python and Flet". My last two sessions covered building desktop apps with Tauri, a TypeScript/Rust platform, so I’m looking forward to playing with a Python version of the same idea. You can RSP at the link above, or watch right here: Play Video Raymond Camden… more →
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A Tip for Properly Handling Loading States in Web Apps

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This isn’t something I was going to blog about, but after seeing the same issue a few times recently (although to be fair, last in a mobile game), I thought I’d share it with my audience. I apologize if the title isn’t the best as it was a hard issue to describe, so let me begin by demonstrating the problem, and then the (hopefully) obvious solution. Loading Data # Here’s a super simple example of a web page that loads some data from the API. In this case, it’s the Star Wars API which, unfortunately, has been pretty slow recently. On the flip side, that helps illustrate that issue. The HTML is just an h2 and an empty ul and the JavaScript is fairly simple: document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',... more →
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H&M and other Western brands gone from Apple Maps and other apps in China – The Verge

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H&M and other Western brands gone from Apple Maps and other apps in China  The Verge H&M Is Erased From Chinese E-Commerce Over Xinjiang Stance  The Wall Street Journal H&M gets wiped off major Chinese apps after an old statement about forced labor reappears  CNBC China erasing H&M from internet amid Xinjiang backlash  wpta21.com View Full Coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more →
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Thursday Road Conditions; Maps and Apps: MO-KS-OK-AR; Continually Updating Cancellations and Closings – KSNF/KODE – FourStatesHomepage.com

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Thursday Road Conditions; Maps and Apps: MO-KS-OK-AR; Continually Updating Cancellations and Closings  KSNF/KODE – FourStatesHomepage.com “map app” – Google News… more →
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