Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet

You may have heard from Steve Yegge, the creator of Beads and Gas Town, that we’ve released Gas City 1.0!

What agentic engineering looks like when you really mean it.

A Cyberpunk Story in the Fifth Element Universe by Chris & Eli The street hits me like a wall.

A Cyberpunk Story in the Fifth Element Universe by Chris & Eli The express elevator drops 97 floors in eleven seconds.

A Cyberpunk Story in the Fifth Element Universe by Chris & Eli The alarm doesn’t wake me.

How a simple feature request led to a deep dive into AppKit, responders, and the creation of the mac_menu_bar plugin.

tl;dr: If you’re new to dartantic, it’s a multi-provider agentic toolkit for Dart and Flutter developers that runs wherever Dart runs, i.e.

“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”

Dartantic is an agentic framework designed to make building client and server-side apps in Dart with generative AI easier and more fun!

I was on an AI-focused podcast last week talking about how a new software engineer should work differently in this new era of AI.

In a recent tweet, Dinko makes an excellent point about much of our Dart ecosystem being comprised of “hobby project[s]” and having “limited support.”

A little while ago, I was inspired by Thorsten’s blog post on building an AI Agent using Rust to build an AI Agent using Dart.

The Python community has a library called pydantic that adds type checking at run-time to a dynamically typed language.

To say that there has been a lot of activity in the AI space for developers lately would be an understatement.

I often find myself maintaining open source projects.

Hello, again, and welcome to another installment of “Flutter + AI = Joy.”

It has been quite an exciting few years since I left Google in 2022.

Do you have some free time?

NOTE: This content has been subsumed by the package I wrote to support declarative routing via the Navigation 2.0 API: go_router.

If you’re a Dart programmer, the curl command doesn’t really help you.

30 years ago, I paused a 5-year love of D&D to attend college.

Back in the olden days, you could use whatever programming language you wanted to write your client-side code: ASM, C, C++, BASIC, Java, C#, etc.

A while ago, I started building a brand new client app.

Today, I was asked about the story behind my viking avatar: The avatar is years and years old.

Have you ever used a product of any kind — an app, a device, a plunger — and thought to yourself “Do these people even use their own product?”

Google’s Cloud Storage Browser perpetrates a fiction of files and folders that doesn’t exist.

I got an email the other day from an old friend that said he’d met a young developer named Ben and that he was impressed with his “acumen, initiative and hunger to learn,” which made me want to help him if I could.

Cloud Source Repositories (CSR) provides support for multiple Git repositories for each project.

I’ve done a bunch of stuff related to Solitaire on my blog for some reason.

You’re reading this on the 5th version of my blog.

On Sept. 10, 2015, Winston Kodogo writes: Hey Chris, if you’re feeling happy enough to blog, how about a post giving us your current thoughts on UI development.