Flutter 1.9 is out. As one may guess from this post’s title, my favorite changes are: SelectableText widget Structured error messages (enabled via VS Code or Android Studio settings) Structured error message support was proposed 8 months ago! I find Flutter’s current approach to displaying error/exception messages are pretty useful as they are. Adding more […]
Category: Coding & Tech
Software development quirks and technologies that interest me.
The joy of creating in Flutter
Posted on under Coding & Tech — 1 CommentI am now officially in love with Flutter. What started as a crush has turned into something palpable. For the past 2 weeks, I have been heavily invested in learning Flutter from App Brewery’s bootcamp-style course. If there’s one takeaway from the course, it is this: Flutter+Dart is a lethal combination. I have now come […]
Contributing to open source projects
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — Leave a commentIt’s high time for me to level up my developer mojo. Clearly, doing side projects isn’t the way to do so. They usually aren’t tough enough. Then what is? Why, of course, large enterprise projects. Based on this logic, I have decided to dedicate a couple of hours everyday to working on complex, large-scale open-source […]
Optimistic updates
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentIt’s a cool UX trick I learned recently makes applications exponentially responsive. Traditionally, when we make an async API call or something similar (to perform a time-taking operation) we show a spinner (or a loading message) to indicate to the user that something is going on in the background and that they should wait a […]
My customizations are now a WordPress child theme
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentThis website uses a theme called Storefront. It’s a minimalistic yet elegant theme from Automattic (the creators of WordPress). I literally browsed hundreds of modern and ‘top’ themes at various sources before falling for this one. It was a good fit in its vanilla form and required only little customizations to suit my needs. Yesterday […]