amos loves to tinker

I've been working on the itch.io desktop app for about a year now, so I thought I'd make a quick recap:

At the time of this writing, the app has been downloaded about 460K times...

When I get a little bit too emotional about my current baby, the itch.io app, there's always a timely support ticket reminding me that it is currently, still a glorified game...

A little while ago, I wrote an article on things that can go wrong when downloading, it listed a series of reasons, from network problems to invalid content to imperfect hardware...

Back in August of 2017, I started writing an article about my work on the itch.io app. I quickly realized one article would not cut it.

So I wrote a second. And a third. And a...

It's a bit daunting to write a postmortem for the v25 release of the itch.io desktop app.

In part because, it being mostly a reliability/performance update, it's not...

One of my goals with the v25 release was to make it much easier to develop, test, and distribute the app.

Base tools

I typically develop the itch app under Windows 10 or a...

We've just taken a look at the development for v25 of the itch app, so it's time to take a look at some testing infrastructure.

Unit tests

When I started working on the app, I was...

I started working on the itch.io desktop app over 4 years ago.

It has arguably been my main project ever since, along with companion projects like butler, capsule and many smaller...