It's even worse than it appears.
Thursday June 3, 2021; 10:52 AM EDT
Drummer docs tease#
  • Drummer has a built-in doc server. #
  • Frontier users will find this UI familiar, it's an improved version of the verb docs server we have in Frontier. #
  • Drummer's scripting philosophy, like Frontier's, is that apps not only have user interfaces, they also have scripting interfaces. Which means theoretically, anything you can do with a mouse and keyboard you could also do in a script. #
  • The first app I've created a scripting interface for is Twitter, because I use it so much, and so many other people do. I felt it could immediately benefit from being scriptable. I haven't covered anything like the whole functionality of Twitter, it wouldn't even be possible because their API doesn't cover it all, but -- a lot is possible with the verb set we have working right now. #
  • Screen shot of Drummer's docs UI.#
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