in this time of covid-19, the DNA Lounge is here

With a no commercial music video webcast.

Remember when people used to complain that MTV didn’t play music videos any more? Well, now you can relive those dreams you used to have.

Also they have a donation page if you think this is worthwhile.

crime pays but botany doesn’t

A youtube channel worth looking into-

GJS Docs

I missed this announcement, and it’s been a long time coming- an official GJS docs site with up-to-date API documentation! https://gjs-docs.gnome.org

Shout out to everyone who finally made this happen.

Writing to a file in gjs

Not hard if you know what to do-

#!/usr/bin/env gjs                                                                                 
                                                                                                   
const Gio = imports.gi.Gio                                                                         
                                                                                                   
const file = Gio.File.new_for_path('/tmp/testfile')                                                
                                                                                                   
file.replace_contents("test text please ignore\n", null, false, 0, null)                           

Looking up executables in gjs

In case you want some safety before shelling out.

#!/usr/bin/env gjs

const GLib = imports.gi.GLib

const vim = GLib.find_program_in_path('vim')

print(vim)