End of December update

A few odds and ends since the last post:

- Windows version has an installer

- Fixed app name in menu items on Mac

- Now using a normal case-insensitive order when sorting the channel lists

I'm aware that this app suffers from pretty severe programmer-UI-itis, including but not limited to clutteredness, non-obviousness, and bad visual design.  I'm starting to think about ways in which the UI could be cleaned up / fixed, and have made a column for that stuff in this project's Trello. However if you're actually using this software please feel free to hit me back with any ideas you have about what it should do or how it should look and work.

Brief update

- Added a windows installer.
- Added a "Quit with Logout" menu item on Mac, since it's mystery how you clear the cookies of an app that uses a built-in WebView on Mac unless the app can do it

More Mac changes

I burned through my main to-do list item, which was to sort out why my automated tests were hanging on Mac.  I reorganised the tests to get rid of the problem they were running into, and tackled some other Mac to-do list items while I was at it.

Recent changes:

• Go version
• Improved Mac application bundle - Got rid of the separate assets directory; any assets we need will go inside the twitch-notifier-go.app
• Fixed automated test issues on Mac

Mac changes

I found some problems with the way the dialog for Twitch web login was being used while testing a new Mac build. So I spent a bunch of time working on the Mac support and got a few things accomplished.

Recent changes:

• Go version:
• Mac menus - Options to hide and show the GUI, reload channels, and and about option. It's now actually possible to show the GUI when you close it! Also various other menu items
• Mac Twitch login - updated Mac build has Twitch login support

Howdy folks!

delta__vee here. I'm spinning up a quick blog for my twitch notifiers since it's awkward to update the README for every update.

To recap, I have created a program to give desktop notifications when twitch.tv streams go online; actually two programs: the current one in the Go language (see also the original one in Python.)

These are not really release quality yet, however I created them for my own personal use on Windows and I'm fixing bugs that will affect me as I find them, so if you try them out and run into issues feel free to fire me a tweet or create a New Issue in the Github project.

The Go version is more likely to be actively maintained going forward, however the Python one is still around for the moment as the Go one is missing some features (e.g. idle timeout and lock screen detection) and is a little flakier at the moment.

Recent changes:

• Go version
• Copes better with network errors -- Previously the app just exited whenever it got an HTTP error.  Now, for the followed streams request (the 60 second updates), if it gets an HTTP error it retries, and if it gets an error again it processes the partial response (if any) and then waits for the next 60 second poll to retry.  This isn't fully tested yet, but is already getting past the odd 5xx error we get every few hours.
• Login support -- Added web-based login to Twitch within the app, and included the changes to scopes needed to avoid the 401 Unauthorized errors that the 60 second requests were sometimes getting
• Mac support -- The app now builds and run on macOS, after a fashion. The notification library I'm using is kind of an ugly hack, but it gets the job done. No correct Mac menus yet. I've set up the Travis CI job to also build and test on macOS. It hasn't run successfully yet, but considering how flaky the Travis Linux build/test is, that doesn't say much.  I need to figure out somewhere I can put up code-signed builds of this for people to try out
• Python version
• Made the scope changes required for followed streams request, as for the Go version
• Now, like the Go version, the app refreshes the layout when the streams go online/offline so that the online list doesn't have an unnecessary scroll bar