If you have a passion for programming, you probably experienced a phase of your career where every shiny, new toy was the new way to do things. If you weren’t using <insert JS framework here> you were old school — and you should get out of the way for the…

An unpopular story of a solo-backend developer. — Pitchforks down, please! I felt your anger as soon as you clicked on the article. I have nothing against Rust — I prefer it for various use cases. All programming languages are means to an end. In my case, Rust simply did not cut it, and I had to gut…

I used to hate docker. It was scary — I didn’t fully understand it, nor did I want to. I liked my processes: I liked writing code and running it on my machine, straight on the metal. I liked having to write long “READMEs” about how to install all the…

The guide for new Flutter testers, but Junior level coding experience. — There’s a misconception in the Medium world that unit testing isn’t for MVP’s. On the contrary, unit testing is a boon for MVP’s! Without unit testing, you have two options: Inevitably eventually ship out a bug to your users Manually test everything, every update The first one is not good…

This morning I got an email from Google Domains, telling me my domain is about to expire (I never set auto-renew on domains I’m not sure if I’ll keep or not, so thanks for the email, Google!). Time flies, and I tried a lot of new things on that project…

The easiest way to write values to local storage. — TL;DR: Here’s the pub.dev! Around a year ago, I wrote this article, about the different ways you can write values to local storage. Even a year later, it’s one of my most active articles. A disproportionate amount of my views are on that article. This means that Flutter devs are…

Honestly, I’m not sure how it happened: it wasn’t a formal arrangement. I didn’t ask to be a mentor, nor did I intend to be. I’m very thankful for the online tech community — I’ve learned most of what I know from the kindness of other developers, and most of…

Today marks another year of Flutter for me — I’ve been deep into the Flutter community for nearly 3 years (time flies!) now. If you’re interested in my recommendations for the previous year, feel free to read them here. I’ll go through each state management solution that I have used…

Don’t get me wrong: I love Medium as a platform. It’s by far the best way for a writer to get their writing noticed — publications provide a natural and helpful mechanism for content filtering, and a good way for readers to discover new writers. In short, It’s one of…