me developing software (2022 edition)

a three-act comedy:

If you love programming language design, don't miss this new blog post by Bob Nystrom (@munificentbob)! He breaks down the journey of adding primary constructors to Dart 3.13, exploring syntactic sugar, and avoiding syntactic cliffs. 💙🎯 📖 dart.dev/blog/bringing-prima…

So, I just spent couple of hours debugging Flutter jank just to find that because the layout and rasterization is so fast, the idiotic iOS (26?) scheduler will always run both threads on e-cores, despite having proper QoS set. And e-cores being hammered by background junk as they usually are, the frame deadline gets easily missed, even though the workload is quick enough. Funny enough adding more work to both main and raster thread forces P-cores and the jank is completely gone. I guess Apple tuned the scheduler to SwiftUI slop and Flutter is now too fast for it 🤡🤡🤡

jeez, what would I even do with my weekend if not for a bunch of matrices filled with floating point numbers.

This is rendered by Flutter 3.47 Stable using Flutter GPU via the flutter_scene package. macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, Web, and custom embedders. Today. :) No forks, no platform views, no external renderers, no secondary graphics context. It's vanilla Flutter. Each pass is a custom material over geometry derived from the model at load time. No pre-baked effect meshes. Just simple Dart APIs AOT compiled to arm64 instructions.

The official Flutter and Dart websites now run on Jaspr! 🐶 At Flutter & Friends, Kilian Schulte and Parker Loughheed will share how they migrated sites used by millions, what they learned, and how the project shaped Jaspr itself 🌐 Join us 👉 flutterfriends.dev

Hmm, we were supposed to land in Frankfurt 🤔

A random Piet Hein quote appears on a wall in Sofia 🤯

I am having FOMO - great lineup! I had to skip this year - but dont repeat my mistake and grab your ticket!

Few unplanned free evenings in Sofia. Anybody I know who wants to meet for a beer?

Don't forget to take the Flutter Q2 user survey! → goo.gle/4fgpjLC 📝 The survey closes at the end of day on Friday, June 19th.

I'll take "solve garbage collection" for 200 Alex

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Among all the I/O news, I want to spotlight what I personally think will be a major moment in the evolution of Flutter: Our new project governance approach. Details in 🧵

LLMs whenever I try to use them for anything non-trivial

my spirit animal

We're hiring a manager for the Dart team in Aarhus, Denmark. Interested folks can apply here: google.com/about/careers/app…

you ain't fooling me mr. I-use-slop-generator-to-make-what-I-think-are-useful-and-thoughtful-comments

I really wish I was in living in the same parallel universe as AI slop wankers and could just spawn a freaking agent per item of my backlog... And not have to rm -rf the produced garbage later.

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