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What Do You Do While AI Codes?
AI coding agents leave you with 5-to-20-minute gaps all day. Five real ways I fill them — and the one "quick" habit that makes you the bottleneck.
Ashley Childress
The Model Scored 30%. The Harness Scored 100%. Which One Did You Benchmark?
Four harnesses took the same public ARC-AGI-3 set from 13% to 100% without touching a single weight. Then Microsoft put the harness inside the training loop.
Sergei Parfenov
Did the Model Upgrade Break Your AI Agent?
Nothing happened. That is the strange part. No deploy. No pull request. Nobody touched the prompt....
Sara Mo
The Third-Generation GUI Builder: One Workspace for Every Form
Codename One's third-generation GUI Builder keeps the guided layout work from the previous editor and rebuilds the workflow around Maven projects, live CSS, protected Java regions, and fast switching between forms.
Shai Almog
What I Get to Forget About Riverpod Now That I Have BlocSignal
The greatest upgrade in developer experience isn't what you have to learn—it's the mental gymnastics you get to unlearn. A respectful, deep-dive comparison into why shedding Riverpod's cognitive overhead brings joy back to Flutter architecture.
Randal L. Schwartz
You Don't Need a Ministry of Truth to Build a Memory Hole
What happens when a thousand independent sources turn out to have one parent? A while back I went...
Ken W Alger
Greatness Is Forged by Limitation
Can't believe I spent 2 weeks writing this. Last week, I gave a talk at a Cursor community event...
Adam - The Developer ✨
I’ve Been a Flutter GDE for 8 Years. Here’s the Ground Truth on “Flutter is Dying”
The insider story on Google's commitment to Flutter, the enterprise hiring paradox, and why Flutter is kicking tail on every measurable scale.
Randal L. Schwartz
COSP: The Prompting Trick Where Your LLM Grades Its Own Homework
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...
Athreya aka Maneshwar
One-Shot UI Side Effects in BlocSignal: Snackbars, Dialogs, and Navigation Without State Pollution
Why persistent domain state is the wrong place for transient dialogs and snackbars, how classic BLoC solved it with bloc_presentation, and how to handle one-shot side effects in BlocSignal with zero dependencies.
Randal L. Schwartz
The "AI" Badge Doesn't Measure What You Think It Does
Anthropic signed the EU AI Act's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, and...
Pascal CESCATO
Dogfooding BlocSignal on the Web: Building a 100K Ops/sec Reactive App with Jaspr and Dart 3.13
A behind-the-scenes look at how we dogfooded bloc_signals_jaspr on blocsignal.dev, achieving 100K ops/sec in browser JS with declarative consumer components and Dart 3.13.
Randal L. Schwartz
App Shield: Your Server Should Not Trust the App Calling It
Codename One App Shield turns Apple App Attest and Google Play Integrity into short-lived tokens your backend can verify. This release also adds OpenType fonts, advances the R2 repository migration, and prepares new Windows desktop builders.
Shai Almog
Dart 3.13 Primary Constructors + BlocSignal: Boilerplate-Free Reactive Architecture
Discover how Dart 3.13 primary constructors, 'this' constructor bodies, and constructor shorthands transform BlocSignal into the cleanest state management architecture in Flutter.
Randal L. Schwartz
Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU
A field report on serving Gemma 4 E2B under vLLM on AWS G5g — the only aarch64 + SM 7.5 hardware there is. No published build covers that combination, AWS quietly solves half of it, and the thing that actually blocks you is 64 KiB of shared memory.
xbill
Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU
A field report on serving Gemma 4 E2B under vLLM on AWS G5g — the only aarch64 + SM 7.5 hardware there is. No published build covers that combination, AWS quietly solves half of it, and the thing that actually blocks you is 64 KiB of shared memory.
xbill
Riverpod to BlocSignal: Incremental Migration and Zero-Codegen Signals for Flutter
Learn how to trial or incrementally migrate from Riverpod to BlocSignal with zero code generation, fine-grained signal graph reactivity, and bidirectional interop.
Randal L. Schwartz
The Next Evolution of Software Developers
The next evolution of software developers: from implementation to intent, orchestration, and...
Roberto B.
The End of Undetectable AI Text? Claude’s New Watermark Explained
For the past few hours, the whole world, or at least my LinkedIn feed, has been talking...
Sylwia Laskowska
How Dopamine Works: The Architecture of a Modern iOS Jailbreak
Most developers will never jailbreak a phone. That is fine. This article is not a how-to, and there...
ArshTechPro
Push V3: One Message From Your Server to Every Surface
Codename One Push V3 adds typed messages, managed credentials, segmentation, analytics, and Surface updates. Existing push apps should test the new cloud endpoint before next week's cutover.
Shai Almog
I Recreated Management With AI: 9 Things I Do Differently
I stopped treating permission prompts as the safety system, then spent four and a half months writing 134 standing rules to replace them. Nine things I do differently with AI, and the proof to back it up.
Ashley Childress
Who Is the Author? AI-Generated Code and PCI DSS Code Review
PCI DSS requires that code review be performed by someone other than the code's author. When an AI...
Yahya Titi
How would you decide, whether the content is good or bad?
I want to talk about what I have notice on the platform and want to address what we all have been...
FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ
Solving Riverpod’s Family Provider Cache Dilemma with Signals & mapSignal
When separate family providers store parameterized network queries as isolated state silos, updating an entity in one subset creates stale data across others. Here is how a normalized mapSignal store fixes it.
Randal L. Schwartz
Sub-Agent Metrics Are Not Comparable to Main-Thread Metrics
In my agent fleet, role moves the metrics more than the model does — and the role mix differs per model, so pooled comparisons measure the dispatcher.
John
Collaborative Filtering: How Computers Find Your Next Favourite Thing
🎯 Finding Your Taste Twin Imagine walking into a party where you don't know...
Alexandra
The Codename One JavaScript Port Is Now Free and Open Source
Codename One's JavaScript port is now open source, available on every plan, and buildable locally without an account. ParparVM is the default, while TeaVM remains available through a build hint.
Shai Almog
Skills vs MCP: How AI tools have evolved
Eighteen months ago, MCP was the thing. Every demo and chatbot connector was running on MCP under the...
Tilde A. Thurium
Beyond Flutter: Running BlocSignal State Machines in Pure Dart, Jaspr Web, and CLI Tools
Discover how BlocSignal's zero-Flutter core package enables unified state management across CLI tools, Jaspr web apps, and Dart Frog server backends with native DevTools telemetry.
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