Flutter, Google’s Dart based SDK for building native mobile applications, has been around for a while and I finally decided to take it for a spin. I’ve attempted at mobile app development before in Android but never got past Android Studio’s terrible slowness. Maybe it’s because my computer is kinda old. But that doesn’t change how bad the experience was. Also, I just couldn’t get Java through my head. It was more than a bit overwhelming to try and learn. Read more ...

DISCLAIMER: This is not a detailed explanation of the paper, but rather just my thoughts on it. So I’ve been trying to get started on reading CS papers with a mediocre amount of success. I started with the Byzantine Generals paper but that sort of melted my brain. It was a case of me going “Holy shit, I get it!” followed by “Goddamnit, I don’t get it” again and again before I threw it away. Read more ...

This was supposed to be my grand comeback to my millions thousands hundreds dozens maybe one reader where I would teach them the ways of Elm and functional programming in the browser from atop my glorious Mountain of Enlightenment in a blog post that would teach them how to make the Eye of Doom!!!!!! (which is just this SVG drawing that looks more like a sunny side up egg than an eye, that follows your mouse around). Read more ...