Flutter Revisited
Last year I took a quick look at Flutter, and decided to keep an eye on it and see how it matures. Here are my current thoughts. Flutter Since my first lo...
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Android Development
Fun with setOnClickListener and by lazy
The Problem Developing an Android app, using Android’s Navigation Components, and after returning to the first fragment, the button to go to the second frag...
More GitHub Libraries
I’ve come across another potentially useful gradle plugin, and write about one I’ve been using for a while. buildSrcVersions buildSrcVersions “is a Gradle ...
Starred Github Libraries
Over time, I’ve starred a number of libraries on GitHub, and lost track of what they are, and why I’ve starred them. So I thought I’d try recording them her...
Android Navigation Component and the BackStack
Using Android’s Navigation Component, I wanted to keep certain fragments from appearing on the backstack. Here’s how to do it. Why? There’s a couple of si...
Loading and Caching Data with Store
What is Store? Store is a library for “Async Data Loading and Caching” developed by the New York Times Android team. I’ve converted an app to use it, and h...
Flutter?
Flutter? I’ve been seeing Flutter in my news feeds since Google announced it’s in beta. So I thought it was worth taking a cursory look; watching a few vid...
Today’s HeadDesk bought to you by…
Today I’m writing a bit of code and I need to combine a few RxJava streams into a single stream, using combineLatest(). And it’s not working, not even compi...
Activity Lifecycle: Viewing Android’s Activity Lifecycle
Activity Lifecycle is one of the earliest Android apps I wrote, to allow me to see the lifecycle callbacks, in the order they happen. Questions you could as...
Flutter
Flutter Widget Test Wrapper
When testing a widget, it needs to run in the correct environment, otherwise unrelated errors may occur. The Widget’s Test Environment Different widgets ha...
Flutter Holobooth - Going Deeper
As part of the lead up to Flutter Forward, Very Good Ventures and the Flutter team have released the Holobooth app, along with a blog post describing how it ...
Flutter Holobooth - First Look
As part of the lead up to Flutter Forward, Very Good Ventures and the Flutter team have released the Holobooth app, along with a blog post describing how it ...
ChatGPT
After reading A pragmatic guide to BuildContext in Flutter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to generate a blog post to see what it can come up with. Here’s what i...
Flutter BuildContext
I’ve just finished reading A pragmatic guide to BuildContext in Flutter, and these are my take aways. Also, read the article, it goes into more depth, and e...
Restricting Google Cloud Keys
A problem (and solution) encountered while trying to restrict Google Cloud API keys for a Flutter app. Restricting GCloud Keys Google Cloud allows you to r...
Google Sign-in and Flutter Web
Getting Google Sign-in working with Flutter Web I have a Flutter app that uses Firebase-Auth and Google Sign-in for authentication. It works on Android and ...
Flutter Revisited
Last year I took a quick look at Flutter, and decided to keep an eye on it and see how it matures. Here are my current thoughts. Flutter Since my first lo...
Flutter?
Flutter? I’ve been seeing Flutter in my news feeds since Google announced it’s in beta. So I thought it was worth taking a cursory look; watching a few vid...
Python
Implementing a Telegram Bot
Creating a bot to scan RSS feeds and YouTube playlists, and post updated to a Telegram channel. The Idea I want a place where I can view updates to a numbe...
Graphing ISP Quota Usage with Cacti
Graph your monthly internet quota with Cacti. Monthly Quota Usage Downloads Download or fork it here. Installation Python and th...
Graphing Australian Weather Observations with Cacti
This is a simple script that grabs weather observations from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and formats it for Cacti. You can find it here. It’s writ...
Sysadmin
Disks Are Treacherous And Not To Be Trusted
Murphy’s Law Murhpy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” This includes the disks in your computer. What’s on your computer? Your phone? The...
Graphing ISP Quota Usage with Cacti
Graph your monthly internet quota with Cacti. Monthly Quota Usage Downloads Download or fork it here. Installation Python and th...
A Simple LVM Summary
A simple script to summarize the LVM physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes on a linux server. Created in response to a question on Serverfault...
Android Apps
Hot and Cold Days: XKCD 1321 on Android
Why When XKCD 1321 was published I thought it would be good to have it in an interactive format, wrote it down in my “Big Bucket of Ideas”, and forgot about...
Development Notices: A Client for PlanningAlerts.org.au
This app loads a list of nearby development applications from Planning Alerts and displays them as markers on a map. Tapping a marker displays a small summa...
Activity Lifecycle: Viewing Android’s Activity Lifecycle
Activity Lifecycle is one of the earliest Android apps I wrote, to allow me to see the lifecycle callbacks, in the order they happen. Questions you could as...
Kotlin
Fun with setOnClickListener and by lazy
The Problem Developing an Android app, using Android’s Navigation Components, and after returning to the first fragment, the button to go to the second frag...
Today’s HeadDesk bought to you by…
Today I’m writing a bit of code and I need to combine a few RxJava streams into a single stream, using combineLatest(). And it’s not working, not even compi...
Moving Average Calculation in Kotlin
I’m working on an app that calculates and displays moving averages for a list of numbers. This post shows how I’m doing it in Kotlin, using list operations ...
GitHub Libraries
More GitHub Libraries
I’ve come across another potentially useful gradle plugin, and write about one I’ve been using for a while. buildSrcVersions buildSrcVersions “is a Gradle ...
Starred Github Libraries
Over time, I’ve starred a number of libraries on GitHub, and lost track of what they are, and why I’ve starred them. So I thought I’d try recording them her...
Loading and Caching Data with Store
What is Store? Store is a library for “Async Data Loading and Caching” developed by the New York Times Android team. I’ve converted an app to use it, and h...
Smart Watch
TicWatch E2 Four Years Later
Four years ago I bought a TicWatch E2. How has it held up? Battery Initially advertised with 2-day battery life, I had no problems, with the battery easil...
TicWatch E2 Six Months Later
Six months ago I blogged my initial impressions about the TicWatch E2. Here is my review after six months of use. Initial Expectations How has it lived up...
TicWatch E2 Initial Review
I recently purchased a TicWatch E2. It’s my first smartwatch, so I thought I’d collect my thoughts on it, Wear OS, and smart watches in general. This is my...
TicWatch E2
TicWatch E2 Four Years Later
Four years ago I bought a TicWatch E2. How has it held up? Battery Initially advertised with 2-day battery life, I had no problems, with the battery easil...
TicWatch E2 Six Months Later
Six months ago I blogged my initial impressions about the TicWatch E2. Here is my review after six months of use. Initial Expectations How has it lived up...
TicWatch E2 Initial Review
I recently purchased a TicWatch E2. It’s my first smartwatch, so I thought I’d collect my thoughts on it, Wear OS, and smart watches in general. This is my...
WearOS
TicWatch E2 Four Years Later
Four years ago I bought a TicWatch E2. How has it held up? Battery Initially advertised with 2-day battery life, I had no problems, with the battery easil...
TicWatch E2 Six Months Later
Six months ago I blogged my initial impressions about the TicWatch E2. Here is my review after six months of use. Initial Expectations How has it lived up...
TicWatch E2 Initial Review
I recently purchased a TicWatch E2. It’s my first smartwatch, so I thought I’d collect my thoughts on it, Wear OS, and smart watches in general. This is my...
Cacti
Graphing ISP Quota Usage with Cacti
Graph your monthly internet quota with Cacti. Monthly Quota Usage Downloads Download or fork it here. Installation Python and th...
Graphing Australian Weather Observations with Cacti
This is a simple script that grabs weather observations from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and formats it for Cacti. You can find it here. It’s writ...
Google Maps
Hot and Cold Days: XKCD 1321 on Android
Why When XKCD 1321 was published I thought it would be good to have it in an interactive format, wrote it down in my “Big Bucket of Ideas”, and forgot about...
Development Notices: A Client for PlanningAlerts.org.au
This app loads a list of nearby development applications from Planning Alerts and displays them as markers on a map. Tapping a marker displays a small summa...
Mobile Development
Flutter Revisited
Last year I took a quick look at Flutter, and decided to keep an eye on it and see how it matures. Here are my current thoughts. Flutter Since my first lo...
Flutter?
Flutter? I’ve been seeing Flutter in my news feeds since Google announced it’s in beta. So I thought it was worth taking a cursory look; watching a few vid...
Android Libraries
Starred Github Libraries
Over time, I’ve starred a number of libraries on GitHub, and lost track of what they are, and why I’ve starred them. So I thought I’d try recording them her...
Loading and Caching Data with Store
What is Store? Store is a library for “Async Data Loading and Caching” developed by the New York Times Android team. I’ve converted an app to use it, and h...
Rambling Opinions
On Google+ Shutting Down
My Reaction to Google Closing Google+
Microsoft + GitHub = ?
It’s now confirmed that Microsoft have Acquired GitHub. How will this affect me? Should I be worried? Do I need to do anything? I think, in general, this...
Gradle Plugins
More GitHub Libraries
I’ve come across another potentially useful gradle plugin, and write about one I’ve been using for a while. buildSrcVersions buildSrcVersions “is a Gradle ...
Starred Github Libraries
Over time, I’ve starred a number of libraries on GitHub, and lost track of what they are, and why I’ve starred them. So I thought I’d try recording them her...
Web Development
Google Sign-in and Flutter Web
Getting Google Sign-in working with Flutter Web I have a Flutter app that uses Firebase-Auth and Google Sign-in for authentication. It works on Android and ...
Flutter Revisited
Last year I took a quick look at Flutter, and decided to keep an eye on it and see how it matures. Here are my current thoughts. Flutter Since my first lo...
Dart
Publishing a Dart Package
pub publish and .gitignore pub publish is used to publish Dart packages to pub.dev, and the --dry-run option shows the files it will upload without doing it...
Moving Average
Moving Average Package Moving Average is a Dart library to calculate moving averages of numbers. Currently it works only on List<num>, but I’m consid...
Dart Package
Publishing a Dart Package
pub publish and .gitignore pub publish is used to publish Dart packages to pub.dev, and the --dry-run option shows the files it will upload without doing it...
Moving Average
Moving Average Package Moving Average is a Dart library to calculate moving averages of numbers. Currently it works only on List<num>, but I’m consid...
pub.dev
Publishing a Dart Package
pub publish and .gitignore pub publish is used to publish Dart packages to pub.dev, and the --dry-run option shows the files it will upload without doing it...
Moving Average
Moving Average Package Moving Average is a Dart library to calculate moving averages of numbers. Currently it works only on List<num>, but I’m consid...
Flutter BuildContext
ChatGPT
After reading A pragmatic guide to BuildContext in Flutter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to generate a blog post to see what it can come up with. Here’s what i...
Flutter BuildContext
I’ve just finished reading A pragmatic guide to BuildContext in Flutter, and these are my take aways. Also, read the article, it goes into more depth, and e...
Flutter Forward
Flutter Holobooth - Going Deeper
As part of the lead up to Flutter Forward, Very Good Ventures and the Flutter team have released the Holobooth app, along with a blog post describing how it ...
Flutter Holobooth - First Look
As part of the lead up to Flutter Forward, Very Good Ventures and the Flutter team have released the Holobooth app, along with a blog post describing how it ...
Holobooth
Flutter Holobooth - Going Deeper
As part of the lead up to Flutter Forward, Very Good Ventures and the Flutter team have released the Holobooth app, along with a blog post describing how it ...
Flutter Holobooth - First Look
As part of the lead up to Flutter Forward, Very Good Ventures and the Flutter team have released the Holobooth app, along with a blog post describing how it ...
Bash
A Simple LVM Summary
A simple script to summarize the LVM physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes on a linux server. Created in response to a question on Serverfault...
LVM
A Simple LVM Summary
A simple script to summarize the LVM physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes on a linux server. Created in response to a question on Serverfault...
Open Data
Development Notices: A Client for PlanningAlerts.org.au
This app loads a list of nearby development applications from Planning Alerts and displays them as markers on a map. Tapping a marker displays a small summa...
Backups
Disks Are Treacherous And Not To Be Trusted
Murphy’s Law Murhpy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” This includes the disks in your computer. What’s on your computer? Your phone? The...
RxJava
Today’s HeadDesk bought to you by…
Today I’m writing a bit of code and I need to combine a few RxJava streams into a single stream, using combineLatest(). And it’s not working, not even compi...
Microsoft
Microsoft + GitHub = ?
It’s now confirmed that Microsoft have Acquired GitHub. How will this affect me? Should I be worried? Do I need to do anything? I think, in general, this...
GitHub
Microsoft + GitHub = ?
It’s now confirmed that Microsoft have Acquired GitHub. How will this affect me? Should I be worried? Do I need to do anything? I think, in general, this...
Android Architecture Components
Android Navigation Component and the BackStack
Using Android’s Navigation Component, I wanted to keep certain fragments from appearing on the backstack. Here’s how to do it. Why? There’s a couple of si...
Kotlin Android Extensions
Fun with setOnClickListener and by lazy
The Problem Developing an Android app, using Android’s Navigation Components, and after returning to the first fragment, the button to go to the second frag...
On Google+ Shutting Down
My Reaction to Google Closing Google+
Google Plus
On Google+ Shutting Down
My Reaction to Google Closing Google+
App Removal
Crashlytics or Analytics and No Privacy Policy = App Removed
What happened? I woke this morning to find an email stating that one of my apps has been removed from the Google Play Store. The reason for removal was: ...
Google Play
Crashlytics or Analytics and No Privacy Policy = App Removed
What happened? I woke this morning to find an email stating that one of my apps has been removed from the Google Play Store. The reason for removal was: ...
Privacy Policy
Crashlytics or Analytics and No Privacy Policy = App Removed
What happened? I woke this morning to find an email stating that one of my apps has been removed from the Google Play Store. The reason for removal was: ...
iOS Development
Flutter Revisited
Last year I took a quick look at Flutter, and decided to keep an eye on it and see how it matures. Here are my current thoughts. Flutter Since my first lo...
Google Sign-in
Google Sign-in and Flutter Web
Getting Google Sign-in working with Flutter Web I have a Flutter app that uses Firebase-Auth and Google Sign-in for authentication. It works on Android and ...
Bluetooth
RTFM and Save Yourself Time
Bluetooth I have a learning project to learn how to use Bluetooth with Flutter. This involves me setting up a Bluetooth server on a Raspberry Pi 3 B to mak...
Linux
RTFM and Save Yourself Time
Bluetooth I have a learning project to learn how to use Bluetooth with Flutter. This involves me setting up a Bluetooth server on a Raspberry Pi 3 B to mak...
Raspberry Pi
RTFM and Save Yourself Time
Bluetooth I have a learning project to learn how to use Bluetooth with Flutter. This involves me setting up a Bluetooth server on a Raspberry Pi 3 B to mak...
dbus
RTFM and Save Yourself Time
Bluetooth I have a learning project to learn how to use Bluetooth with Flutter. This involves me setting up a Bluetooth server on a Raspberry Pi 3 B to mak...
Telegram
Implementing a Telegram Bot
Creating a bot to scan RSS feeds and YouTube playlists, and post updated to a Telegram channel. The Idea I want a place where I can view updates to a numbe...
Telegram Bot
Implementing a Telegram Bot
Creating a bot to scan RSS feeds and YouTube playlists, and post updated to a Telegram channel. The Idea I want a place where I can view updates to a numbe...
Bots
Implementing a Telegram Bot
Creating a bot to scan RSS feeds and YouTube playlists, and post updated to a Telegram channel. The Idea I want a place where I can view updates to a numbe...
RSS
Implementing a Telegram Bot
Creating a bot to scan RSS feeds and YouTube playlists, and post updated to a Telegram channel. The Idea I want a place where I can view updates to a numbe...
YouTube
Implementing a Telegram Bot
Creating a bot to scan RSS feeds and YouTube playlists, and post updated to a Telegram channel. The Idea I want a place where I can view updates to a numbe...
YouTube API
Implementing a Telegram Bot
Creating a bot to scan RSS feeds and YouTube playlists, and post updated to a Telegram channel. The Idea I want a place where I can view updates to a numbe...
Google Cloud
Restricting Google Cloud Keys
A problem (and solution) encountered while trying to restrict Google Cloud API keys for a Flutter app. Restricting GCloud Keys Google Cloud allows you to r...
Moonlander
Moonlander Keyboard
I recently purchased a Moonlander mechanical keyboard from ZSA. What follows are my thoughts and experiences. Why I’ve been using laptop keyboards for 5+ ...
Keyboard
Moonlander Keyboard
I recently purchased a Moonlander mechanical keyboard from ZSA. What follows are my thoughts and experiences. Why I’ve been using laptop keyboards for 5+ ...
QWERTY
Moonlander Keyboard
I recently purchased a Moonlander mechanical keyboard from ZSA. What follows are my thoughts and experiences. Why I’ve been using laptop keyboards for 5+ ...
Colemak
Moonlander Keyboard
I recently purchased a Moonlander mechanical keyboard from ZSA. What follows are my thoughts and experiences. Why I’ve been using laptop keyboards for 5+ ...
Colemak-DH
Moonlander Keyboard
I recently purchased a Moonlander mechanical keyboard from ZSA. What follows are my thoughts and experiences. Why I’ve been using laptop keyboards for 5+ ...
ChatGPT
ChatGPT
After reading A pragmatic guide to BuildContext in Flutter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to generate a blog post to see what it can come up with. Here’s what i...
AI
ChatGPT
After reading A pragmatic guide to BuildContext in Flutter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to generate a blog post to see what it can come up with. Here’s what i...
Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT
After reading A pragmatic guide to BuildContext in Flutter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to generate a blog post to see what it can come up with. Here’s what i...
Bloc
Flutter Holobooth - Going Deeper
As part of the lead up to Flutter Forward, Very Good Ventures and the Flutter team have released the Holobooth app, along with a blog post describing how it ...
Testing
Flutter Widget Test Wrapper
When testing a widget, it needs to run in the correct environment, otherwise unrelated errors may occur. The Widget’s Test Environment Different widgets ha...
Social Media
On Google+ Shutting Down
My Reaction to Google Closing Google+