I'm finally at the making pretty pictures part of my Dart/Flutter implementation of the Ray Tracer Challenge. I even have live rendering updates albeit janky as hell. On to world building chapter... #DartLang #Flutter #RayTracerChallenge
https://gitlab.com/HankG/raytracerchallenge
Watching through the 2.5 hour long 3dfx oral history panel in small slices as I resume work on my Dart implemetation of The Ray Tracer Challenge :) #3dfx #ComputerHistory #RetroGaming #DartLang #Flutter #RayTracerChallenge
3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell
I've been in a bit of a developer rut. It's not lack of projects I want to do and can work on. It's more like analysis paralysis on some, death by a thousand cuts aversion on others. So I piss away time on social media. I decided to try to get some dev momentum by picking up something I first tried back in 2020 the last time I got dev writers block: The Ray Tracing Challenge. Back then it was Kotlin and I only got as far as basic ray projection before wrestling with the Cucumber test system and "real work" derailed me. This time I'm going to be trying it in Dart and Flutter. My progress, or lack thereof, will be in this repository with a corresponding plain text developer log. #programming #DartLang #flutter
I spent a lot of my career working with java and the JVM. In recent years it hasn't worked for me, especially as other cross platform systems met or exceeded its promises but without legacy encumbrances (hello Dart and .NET Core). While JVM is probably never going to be my go-to for new projects, Project Valhalla is still an impressive look at how the team wants to upgrade the JVM. The stuff about primitive/value types is fascinating. One thing I never heard of before is 32-bit tearing. Basically 64-bit type operations, including reads, are not guaranteed to be atomic so can never truly be thread safe. As someone who usually writes software that uses 64-bit values that seems like a non-starter for me but they are "going back to 1995" with this limitation on primitive types for performance reasons. Anyway, interesting read and hats off to the team trying to pull this refactor of the JVM off. #java #dotnet #DartLang #ProjectValhalla https://www.infoworld.com/article/3687670/project-valhalla-a-look-inside-javas-epic-refactor.html
I present the first named release of the Friendica mobile/desktop client: Relatica. It is still very much a work in progress but I'm going to start opening it up for beta usage (early beta). For iOS that will mean me letting up to 100 people into the inside testing team (Apple's limit). For the other platforms I'll be posting binaries/packages/install instructions for Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows in the coming days as well. I also setup a Relatica Matrix room for interactive discussions with me and other users. The README on the GitLab repo will have all those sorts of details. Enjoy! #friendica #FriendicaDev #relatica #flutter #DartLang #fediverse https://gitlab.com/mysocialportal/relatica
After a week of mostly successful low bandwidth network usage (some timeout issues need to be handled more gracefully and better indication something is being worked on in general) I’ve pivoted to adding an embedded video player for the mobile platform. Flutter has an easy control for that for iOS, Android, and web. Desktop is more uneven so instead that will launch in the browser or media player of the desktop OS. This is just the first cut and will need more refinement but still stoked. #friendica #FriendicaDev #flutter #DartLang
I'm porting some code from C# to Dart and I have to say that the dynamic is *really* coming in handy. I know that construct exists in C# too but I never used it until I started doing some Dart stuff where it is idiomatic *in certain cases*. A revelation. #programming #dartlang
Is Dart fast enough for production use compared to Java, JavaScript, or C? Unequivocally. Though differences in performance & memory use between AOT & JIT compilation may add some complexity in deployment choice.#programming #dartlang #flutter #flutterdev nequalsonelifestyle.com/2021/12/12/dar…
Doing some Dart minimum benchmarking showing memory size & run time for smallest apps. Overall 👍on perf/size but confused about a frequent 1-3 second shutdown delay when running under virtualization. Thoughts? #dartlang @dart_lang #flutter #flutterdev nequalsonelifestyle.com/2021/12/13/dar…
My recent Dart/Flutter experience proved to me that it has very good performance. I'm still quantifying that and hope to document it in my blog. This is an intro post on the subject explaining my mindset. #dartlang #flutter #flutterdev #programming nequalsonelifestyle.com/2021/12/12/dar…
I’ve released my first Dart/Flutter library. It implements the Result Monad (like in Rust) for doing result/error propagation/handling without relying on exceptions or returning null or specific values for errors. #dart #dartlang #flutter #flutterdev nequalsonelifestyle.com/2021/11/29/res…
Alternating between watching vids on how to transition programs from Windows 1.0 to 11 (yes literally), history and programming ENIAC #retrocomputing stuff *and* what will hopefully be my first Dart package lol. #dartlang #programming
While writing a Facebook archive viewer (Kryanite) I ran across the problem of Facebook not properly encoding Unicode. Another dev figured it out and developed a Python snippet to fix it. I've done the same now for Dart #dartlang #flutter #flutterdev nequalsonelifestyle.com/2021/11/23/fix…
While I've spent a bunch of the last few years working with #dotnet (most favorite @AvaloniaUI and LiteDB) and #kotlin in recent weeks my dabbling with #dartlang and #flutter really converged to it being my primary platform. More to come later this month. nequalsonelifestyle.com/2021/11/04/dar…
I needed to write a quick and dirty CLI tool to do some image processing automation. The language I chose and quiet easily completed that task with was Dart. I guess my conversation from Kotlin as my go to language to Dart is now complete. LOL #dartlang #programming
