Writing about: app development, UI design, maps, history, and my cat.
Tools/technologies you may read about: Flutter/Dart, JavaScript/jQuery, Python, SVG.
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the Apprise Conf in Oslo, Norway. This mobile app developer conference brought together top-notch speakers to share their insights on iOS and Android development.
In this blog post, I will detail my … Continue reading “Attending the first-ever Apprise Conf in Oslo”
Our cat, Tsofli, was recently diagnosed with a case of hemolytic anemia.
One of the things that made us worry was her compulsively licking the balcony tiling, which is a strange behavior, that even our vet couldn’t reason about with … Continue reading “Our cat licking our balcony floor and hemolytic anemia”
It’s been almost a year since I moved from using a Windows laptop to an iMac for all my daily tasks, so time for a recap of my experience.
We will get to my introduction to macOS, but first a … Continue reading “Switching to MacOS after 20 years on Windows”
Recently, I was happily surprised to see that split-image, a Python package I published on PyPi, has 200+ downloads per month. It’s nice to know that such a simple program, with under 100 lines of code, is helping … Continue reading “Split an image into tiles with a simple Python package”
Adding a couple of useful extensions to the String type in Dart, to find if a string contains another string more than once.
I recently came upon this issue while working on Shortcut Keeper, my Flutter desktop app.
I … Continue reading “Finding the second (or nth) occurrence of a string in Dart”
Recently, my post on building Shortcut Keeper as a native-looking desktop app made the rounds on Hacker News. It even reached the top-20 for that day, which obviously brought a lot of traffic, as well as a wealth … Continue reading “Bringing the same features from macOS to Windows in 2 hours: benefits of using Flutter and a single codebase”
Building the Shortcut Keeper app for both platforms, taking advantage of Flutter’s desktop UI capabilities.
Edit 1: This post has made it to Hacker News, so you can check the discussion here as well.
Edit 2: I recently gave a … Continue reading “Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows”
How I built and published the Shortcut Keeper app on both Apple’s and Microsoft Store, using Flutter for desktop.
Shortcut Keeper is a simple, lightweight desktop app that you can use to save your favorite keyboard shortcuts. You can find … Continue reading “Building and shipping a Flutter desktop app in one month”
With Shortcut Keeper, you can easily save all the shortcuts you use daily in your apps.
For the past few months, I have been working on a new desktop app called Shortcut Keeper:
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