I’m from a small town in Washington State that is well-known for top-tier guitars. It was home to Boogie Bodies, co-created by Lynn Ellsworth previously of Charvel fame. You might remember some of the guitars they worked on including a number of EVH’s iconic striped guitars. When the company split Jim Warmoth took his half … Continue reading Guitar Builderings
It’s no secret I have way more projects to manage than hours in the day. I hope to rectify this by sharing more knowledge on how my projects are built. The most important project, Builder, is quite a large code-base. It is undoubtedly daunting to dive in and figure out where to start. Here is … Continue reading Collaborating on Builder
Sometimes I build stuff other than software and this is a post about that. My wife and I had to postpone our honeymoon for a couple years due to COVID. Last spring we were able to take a trip to Thailand and really enjoyed it. So much so that when we got back we had … Continue reading Builder of Things
A long time ago we had Devhelp integrated in Builder. It got lost in the GTK 4 port because there was no GTK 4 version of Devhelp. Additionally, it didn’t handle the concept of SDKs at all. We went through great lengths in Builder to try to copy them around so libdevhelp could pick them … Continue reading Documentation in Builder
As I mentioned in my last post, Builder has switched to GJS as it’s dynamic language for plugins. We already support a number of compiled languages including C, C++, Rust, and Vala. Previously we had used PyGObject. Do to the lack of GTypeInstance support in PyGObject, that isn’t an option currently. I already ported all … Continue reading GJS plugins in GNOME Builder
After about 5 months of keeping myself very busy, GNOME Builder 43 is out! This is the truly the largest release of Builder yet, with nearly every aspect of the application improved. It’s pretty neat to see all this come together after having spent the past couple years doing a lot more things outside of … Continue reading GNOME Builder 43.0
It’s been an absolute mad dash this cycle porting Builder to GTK 4, but 43.alpha0 is out and available on GNOME Nightly. Builder is one of the larger applications within GNOME, especially if you include the libraries I had to write and maintain to make that possible. Porting an application to a new toolkit is … Continue reading Builder 43.alpha0
It’s been another couple weeks of porting, along with various distractions. The big work this time around has been deep surgery to Builder’s “Foundry”. This is the sub-system that is responsible for build-systems, pipelines, external-devices, SDKs, toolchains, deployments-strategies and more. The sub-system was starting to show it’s age as it was one of the first … Continue reading Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part VII
Short update this week given last Monday was Memorial Day in the US. I had a lovely time relaxing in the yard and running errands with my wife Tenzing. We’ve been building such a beautiful home together that it’s nice to just sit back and enjoy it from time to time. GTK Merged some work … Continue reading Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part VI
Previously Part IV, Part III, Part II, and Part I. Still working through medicine changes which have wreaked havoc on my sleep, but starting to settle in a bit more. Template-GLib Small changes here and there for template-glib to cover more cases for us in our keybindings effort. Improved type comparisons, fixed some embarrassing bugs, … Continue reading Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part V