Simon Choi
@simcdev
husband • engineer • author of isar, crimson, hive, auto_size_text, dartx, logger • 🌈
We built this entire app in Flutter. Fully native hotkeys, a floating window, deep OS integration, real time AI speech to text etc. Usually designs and marketing material looks a lot cooler than the final product. Not in this case. Flutter allows us to build pixel perfect across…
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Many apps on Desktop use the microphone so you’d assume there are decent audio APIs. You’d be very wrong. CoreAudio APIs are the absolute worst. If you ever try to do something more advanced with real time audio please remember this tweet. There is a phenomenal open source…
How do you like the new Hive v4 logo? pub.dev/packages/hive/…
I tried something new with the Hive v4 docs 🍯. I'd love to get some feedback and hear what you think. github.com/hivedb/hive/tr…
An Isar user reported a really difficult bug and provided a project to reproduce it. I was able to find and fix the bug within minutes. Thanks so much to all the people who go the extra mile and provide a sample project. It makes all the difference 💜
In this article, I'm excited to showcase a handful of tangible examples highlighting how Dart 3 has empowered me to craft code that's both more succinct and expressive! 🚀 ➡️ aloisdeniel.com/blog/dart-patt…
I'm so excited about 2D scrolling and new slivers in Flutter 3.13 🤩 medium.com/flutter/whats-…
Happy Mitte-der-Woche🙃! Pünktlich dazu die bereits angekündigte neue #podcast Folge in der @ChrisMarxDev und @verry_codes mit keinem Geringeren als @simcdev über Isar, Hive und Offline-First reden 🩵! 👇 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/flutt…
Just finished editing the new @FlutterDACH podcast episode with @simcdev. It will be released in the coming days and I can tell you, it is a great one! 💙
If anyone needs a fast indexable skip list implementation for Dart, here you go: gist.github.com/simc/0d3c651d7… This was part of Hive but will not be needed anymore and I don't want it to get lost it took me a long time to get the details right 😅
I completely missed the fact that pub.dev now has topics. That's so cool!!! Package owners, please start using topics 💜 pub.dev/topics
I updated the Isar benchmarks to test v4 performance. The result is surprising. The Isar SQLite engine is on par or faster than Realm and ObjectBox. (tested on iPhone 13) Please let me know if you find issues with the benchmark: github.com/isar/isar_benc… #isardb
