{"id":1138,"date":"2026-06-23T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:04:53","slug":"may-june-dev-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/may-june-dev-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"May\/June Dev Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a quick sketch of what&#8217;s been happening since the first public release of Dragontail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mac\/Linux Progress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s taken a bit to figure out some workflows for doing crossplatform builds that isn&#8217;t going to be a real pain to maintain. The Mac in particular is complicated &#8211; there&#8217;s a somewhat complicated dance for code signing and notarization, etc. But it&#8217;s all working now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve had a number of unexpected detours getting things like custom font support working reliably across windows\/mac\/linux but we&#8217;re getting closer now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the other sets of tasks is updating the website to support the new version. For example, the Update Center needs to allow you to download any of the available platforms for a build, and the entire design needs freshening. The refreshed web design is live on the update center now and will roll out to the main site as well soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next Dragontail build is mostly focused on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Multiplatform support<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Design\/UI refresh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That last deserves its own blog post &#8211; next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick sketch of what&#8217;s been happening since the first public release of Dragontail. Mac\/Linux Progress It&#8217;s taken a bit to figure out some workflows for doing crossplatform builds that isn&#8217;t going to be a real pain to maintain. The Mac in particular is complicated &#8211; there&#8217;s a somewhat complicated dance for code signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"20","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"39759","discourse_permalink":"https:\/\/forum.world-machine.com\/t\/may-june-dev-notes\/8484","wpdc_publishing_response":"success","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayinthelife","category-dragontail-peak","category-world-machine-development-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}