AI is one of the current hot topics, although CoPilot may be somewhat older news. As one of the early adopters, I thought it was about time I put my thoughts down. I started using CoPilot near the end of the beta phase, and back then I will admit I…

Background While I am no DevOps expert, I have been working with CI tools for quite some time, and throughout my career, I have always aimed for optimal performance and efficiency both in my workflows and the products/web applications I build. While this in no means is a perfect solution, and…

In a previous post we discussed using find.byPredicate for more accurate and bulletproof widget testing. Flutter: Up your testing game In this post we are going to quickly go through that same logic, but for data related unit testing. For the 95% of my data models, I would use freezed…

We’ve all certainly seen it in our UI before, “A RenderFlex overflowed by…”, and we all know this error means that our UI is painting beyond the bounds of our available real estate. When this is on the screen, it’s very easy to fix, but what about when you are…

Today we going to look at a great utility provided by Flutter’s testing framework which gives us a lot more power when it comes to accurately testing our widgets. Very often widgets can very simply be tested using find.byType, find.text and find.byKey. Each of these are quite simple to use…

A 3D Printer has been on my shopping/wishlist for some time, and this Black Friday a very nice one came up for a very good price, I had always assumed that the running costs of such a thing were relatively high, quite happy to say I was very wrong on…

Today we going to discuss the nicely simple way in which you can use GitHub’s actions to automate the unit testing for your Flutter project. This can be very handy to prevent broken code from going to production, or even just as a sanity check for the code reviews. Let’s get started Firstly…

Learning, by solving a “problem” As developers, a lot of our time is spent learning, most of the time it’s smaller things like new features in a language or framework we already work with and are quite familiar, sometimes it’s even the soft, real worlds skill that we need to learn, this post is not…

So, you are a developer looking for the next fun playground or evaluation viable technologies for your companies next big project? As someone who has been there already and inevitably decided on Flutter, let me see if I can help you with that one. What does Flutter do… Flutter is a cross-platform framework designed…