Chris Marx

I had the AI write a quick little tool to batch-generate images (house.png, tree.png, etc.), and it’s surprisingly handy for jumpstarting new projects. Any failed ones can just be regenerated. Should I publish it, or is it too basic?

I had the AI write a quick little tool to batch-generate images (house.png, tree.png, etc.), and it’s surprisingly handy for jumpstarting new projects.
Any failed ones can just be regenerated. Should I publish it, or is it too basic?

That’s my conclusion.
What’s weird to me is how many people are promoting it. It makes sense that the companies themselves push it, but the echo chamber of one-shot vibe coders is huge.

You are definitely right. When I write specs beforehand I generally get good results.
But for topics that are new to me, the whole one-shotting and vibe coding approach mostly just leaves me hanging.

Looking for something dead simple like this. A pluggable system to prompt the user for actions, such as rating, subscription, feature wishes, virality pushes. Ideally with some guards to prevent double calls. Is there a package for that, or should I cobble something together? #FlutterDev

Looking for something dead simple like this.
A pluggable system to prompt the user for actions, such as rating, subscription, feature wishes, virality pushes.
Ideally with some guards to prevent double calls.

Is there a package for that, or should I cobble something together?
#FlutterDev

When AI gets the coding job done, it’s great. When it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time and money and learned nothing in the process....

I love me some aliases to speed up my workflow 🚀 >podfix comes in handy quite often for those pesky "The sandbox is not in sync with the Podfile.lock..." errors. 👀

I love me some aliases to speed up my workflow 🚀
>podfix comes in handy quite often for those pesky "The sandbox is not in sync with the Podfile.lock..." errors. 👀

New Vibe Cook update 🍳🌈 Turned the favorites section into a full history. Now there’s just a little toggle for favorites. Also, a few people asked if the AI recipes are actually good. I’ve cooked a few and was genuinely happy with them. Though, I mostly use it for recipe inspiration.

New Vibe Cook update 🍳🌈
Turned the favorites section into a full history. Now there’s just a little toggle for favorites.

Also, a few people asked if the AI recipes are actually good. I’ve cooked a few and was genuinely happy with them. Though, I mostly use it for recipe inspiration.

Just dealt with another round of missing analytics events using go_router and NavigationObservers, I decided to write down a quick list of fixes. 🫡

Nothing too complicated, but I forget them every damn time.

https://christopher-marx.de/blog/go_router_navigation_observer/

#24 - Barrierefreiheit in (Flutter) Apps - was ist Accessibility, warum braucht man das und wie kann man seine App barrierefrei machen | Manuela Sakura Rommel im Interview Flutter DACH - Der deutschsprachige Flutter Podcast · Episode

Hallöle zusammen! Eine neue #flutter DACH Podcast Folge zum Thema Accessibility mit @manuelaro.bsky.social, @christopher-marx.de und mir ist online 😍! Unbedingt reinhören!

open.spotify.com/episode/1jhS...

Yes, I definitely have to fix the contrast!
Regarding the food selection, I was having a tough time. 😅
Basically I just wanted to distinguish between vegan, vegetarian, omnivorous, but then I wanted some setting for people that don’t eat pork or red meats.
I think I will add grains and nuts though

I copy the basic widgetbook setup from project to project for main widgets. 🚀
I didn't use it more extensively for this app yet, though.

Reworked the onboarding on my new project.
Quite happy with it.

I will forever hate CORS. 😩

And I am still torn on AI generated code.

On the one hand it generated a working CORS preflight middleware for my #dartfrog backend.

....on the other hand it had an edge case bug that cost me roundabout 2 hours to find.

I write a lot of empty function stubs for later use, and my new way of abusing #dart, is using @Deprecated instead of TODO, so I get a lint warning when I accidentally try to call unfinished code. 🥸

[iOS 18.2][Web] Scrolling is broken in browsers (Safari, Chrome) · Issue #158299 · flutter/flutter Steps to reproduce In Safari on iOS 18.2: Open flutter webapp (e.g. https://scrolltest.flutterflow.app/) Attempt to scroll with one finger. Expected results Scrolling works with single finger, as i...

Funny. I just encountered this bug in a menu app of a cafe:
github.com/flutter/flut...

Anyone who operates a Flutter web app should update to Flutter 3.27.1 otherwise users on newer iOS Versions can't scroll.
(Unless users are Flutter devs and try scrolling with 2 fingers 🤡)

Moin!

This one is for ze german #flutter devs 💙

Lol, reminds me of this story: web.mit.edu/jemorris/hum...
„We can’t send emails over 500 miles“

Oh I like the idea!

Nice! Count me in. ☝️

Fully agree.
I mostly keep track of habits to make sure that I do them often enough per one week.

Yep, I’m not missing any features with go_router. My only gripe is the bugs and those are actively being fixed now.

Is there a service like featurebase, where users can suggest and vote on new features for #flutter apps?

@verry.flutter.community and I were talking about it and afaik there are only web implementations.
I know there are some good feedback tools like wiredash, but nothing like the above.

So many events 🤩
I can't make it to Flutter Heroes, but Flutter Connections sounds very nice!

Starting to plan my #flutterdev year 2025.
I will definitely go to Fluttercon Europe & Flutter and Friends.
Any other events I can't miss?

We Swift now

I kinda get it.
The more I work in software and the more fuckups I see, the more I gravitate to 'tried and tested' things.

Makes sense, I like the approach.

Loon looks nice, but I'd prefer something like sembast, which has a more proven track record, in my eyes.

Why the filesystem? To me this feels like a key value store with extra steps.

I have, but after the original Hive was abandoned I always stuck to shared prefs or went full database.

Do you use it?