In this demo I show off the rest of the Apptron CLI, which exposes most of the cross-platform APIs as commands. These commands make great shell scriptable utilities, and you can see how they’ve been designed to facilitate this. …

In this demo I use the Apptron build command to create an executable from a single HTML file. No setup, no configuration. If you want to change how the window looks, you can add a meta tag to your HTML file. It’s not only simple, it’s fast. …

In this demo, I use the Apptron API from Go to build a simple birthday card application defined by HTML and CSS. I also explore the architectural approach of Apptron compared to directly working with platform native APIs. To expand on the demo, in this post I’ll discuss some…

I’m happy to announce the first major building block of the Tractor System: Apptron. Apptron is a software primitive that lets you drive native platform APIs using the technologies you’re already familiar with, enabling cross-platform webview apps and more. Usable from any language, or even the command line, Apptron gives…

Creating software is too complicated. Our options are overwhelming, our tooling is too bloated, and things rarely ever “just work”. 8 years ago, the late Joe Armstrong, co-creator of Erlang, gave one of his last talks at the 2014 Strange Loop conference. It was titled “The Mess We’re…

Hello everybody! Since starting work under Progrium Technology Company, I’ve had a single objective: to build a system called Tractor. It’s what I’ve been slowly approaching in my dense 22 year career as an independent programmer. …

Running a local development server for your app is pretty common, but what if you wanted somebody else to access it? Maybe for a demo, or maybe to debug webhook integrations. If you’ve ever used Ngrok (or perhaps the original localtunnel), you know what I’m talking about. Today we’re going…

Towards a socket API with builtin stream muxing Multiplexing (sometimes called muxing) has a long history of innovation in telecommunications. In 1875, Edison figured out how to transmit four separate telegraph lines over a single wire. In 1910, multiplexing technology was brought to telephony. Within 30 years the Bell System…

Schemas are pretty dope. My appreciation for API schemas as a toolmaker comes from a desire to build tools that can integrate with many systems, and open new avenues for people to use APIs. For most, the use case that comes to mind for API schemas is generating documentation. Translating…