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Hello Everyone,

I am a beginner developer, I have experience in Python but am having trouble even starting to develop for my newly delivered Tidbyt. I tried to follow the steps via the Github but I am having trouble even getting to the point where I can input code. I have a mac and have install brew and pixelet. but I can seem how to find the code editor to even start coding. There are no videos on youtube, which is my normal go to. Please help. Thank you!

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here are some instructions on how to run the bitcoin.star on your machine

  1. create a new directory for your apps to live

mkdir ~/tidbyt-apps

  1. create a new file for the bitcoin code to live

touch ~/tidbyt-apps/bitcoin.star

  1. open this file in your code editor (example with VS Code)

code ~/tidbyt-apps/bitcoin.star

  1. Copy the code from the repo and add it to this file.
  2. run the serve command

pixlet serve ~/tidbyt-apps/bitcoin.star

  1. open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8080

hope this helps!

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When I type, number 5 in your instructions, I get command not found: pixlet. Does my tidbyt-apps file have to be in same directory at the pixlet files?

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that steps assumes you have pixlet installed. did you successfully install pixlet using homebrew? and no, assuming the installation was successful, you should be able run pixlet from any directory

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This is the error I get when I try to run - " brew install tidbyt/tidbyt/pixlet
"

Running brew update --preinstall…

fatal: Could not resolve HEAD to a revision

Warning: No available formula with the name “webp” (dependency of tidbyt/tidbyt/pixlet).

==> Searching for similarly named formulae…

Error: No similarly named formulae found.

==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)…

Error: No previously deleted formula found.

==> Searching taps on GitHub…

Error: No formulae found in taps.

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I’m on a macbook pro m1 and didn’t have any problems with the installation. but i’d try these steps

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Sounds like you’re missing the webp dependency:

brew install webp

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Exactly what I needed to pass the first steps