I've completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

I caved in and created a bsky account for Flutter and dev work: https://bsky.app/profile/beltran.work

I am still interested in participating in Mastodon for FOSS stuff, and of course my hobby stuff remains in https://warhammer.social/@miquel, but I may move this account to a more general instance (fosstodon? anyone has an invitation? 😉 )

Plus Plugins (e.g. package_info_plus) have crazy numbers, tho. 600k weekly downloads. Probably from packages that use it internally.

2 million projects using it.

Downloads count on pub.dev is very interesting.

I am not sure why my Flutter95 package got a spike of downloads last week

#Flutter

Imagine you observe the same behavior when writing Android code in Kotlin directly. Would you even report that as a bug? And even so, to whom?

Google, Samsung, Apple, etc. don't have easy to access issue trackers for "bugs" happening on their devices.

But jumping into a GitHub project to drop a bug report is very convenient when using a plugin.

Maybe I should start redirecting people to https://issuetracker.google.com

#FOSS #Flutter

One problem maintaining the plus_plugins project for Flutter is that more often than not, people report bugs that otherwise would not report if they were writing native code directly.

For example, a dev reported a bug in which the `id` property of device_info_plus did not match what they see in the device settings. But the plugin is basically returning what Android's `Build.ID` reports.

That is of course not a plugin bug, it's just what the OS framework returns. (cont.)

#FOSS #Flutter

@ludicity If you got access to screen/keyboard/mouse, used Lenovo's M900s and similar office desktop PCs are usually a very good deal (around 200 USD) and WAY powerful than NUCs and Raspis.

Haliey Welch (Hawk Tuah girl) dating app is made with #Flutter 😅😅😅

@litrik have you tried https://redact.dev/ ? I had good experience with this tool

@mhadaily I am there already ;) Bluesky, I will skip for now.

Day in the life of a true mobile dev geezer.

I absolutely have no idea what Android Studio is doing. I just opened an old project that needs updating.

Now that we finally have a proper discussion forum for Flutter (as opposed to a bunch of general purpose social media and instant messaging platforms), I'm hoping to move much of my conversation about Flutter & Dart there. I've had really pleasant experience with discussing other topics (like interactive fiction) in a Discourse forum as opposed to a general purpose social platform.

First post: https://forum.itsallwidgets.com/t/lesser-known-classes-and-functions-from-the-dart-core-libraries/236

#Flutter #flutterdev #Dart #dartlang

@filiph thanks for reminding me to join! :)

@nixCraft probably around ~2000 with Linux magazines

They have lots of challenges in front. Building a good team, organizing a good community around the project, etc. Also forking the Engine and its distribution process.

My position is still "wait and see".

I recommend watching the interview as that clarifies some questions and debates that come up in the last days: https://www.youtube.com/live/6Xu71_I8Jow?si=xWcNbAhQgh4lBinR

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Now that the dust has settled, I'll share my take.

People have given way too much importance to the fork announcement. It's always positive that there is movement in the ecosystem but it's way to early to evaluate its impact.

Having a toolset to manage Flutter framework forks is a great idea nevertheless.

I'm aware that they got a request to change the org and website name (Flutter Foundation) to something else.

#Flutter #FlutterDev

@LateNightLinux also some Flutter Windows Desktop development and testing

@LateNightLinux nowadays I only go into Windows for some .Net development work with Visual Studio (not Code but the og one). Rider from JetBrains is good but there is some stuff that Microsoft doesn't support well on Linux. Although most of the work I do for .Net works on Linux too.

@eenriquelopez "yo me lo guiso, yo me lo como" 😅

@eenriquelopez hey! there's a typo in the link ;)

But tbh people are giving this more relevance than it actually has. Cautious "wait and see" from me.

Now, having a good toolset to manage framework forks is a useful idea nevertheless.