Notes & experiments
The garden.
Things learned, ideas explored, and useful details kept along the way.
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- Flutter foundations: an earlier App Center and launch setup
A historical third chapter covering telemetry integration, CI, signing, launcher icons, and native splash resources.
Mobile & interfaces - Flutter foundations: installation and project conventions
The second beginner chapter connects toolchain checks, a first application, and consistent source organization.
Mobile & interfaces - Flutter foundations: practical application boundaries
The fifth beginner chapter covers localization, data, navigation, versioning, testing, and profiling.
Mobile & interfaces - Flutter foundations: state ownership and lifecycle
The fourth beginner chapter separates widget configuration, State lifetime, app lifecycle, and stream-based updates.
Mobile & interfaces - Flutter foundations: widgets, composition, and Dart
The first chapter of an earlier beginner series, rewritten around its core UI model.
Mobile & interfaces - Flutter receipt printing and an ESC/POS cash drawer
An older network-printer example, raw drawer commands, and a small printer-library extension.
Mobile & interfaces - Gzip files with Java streams
An older file-compression helper and the resource-handling limits of its happy-path cleanup.
Mobile & interfaces / Tools & experiments - Hiding a Flutter widget while the keyboard is visible
An older wrapper that separates invisible-but-laid-out content from a removed subtree.
Mobile & interfaces - Highlighting search matches in a Flutter list
An older RichText example that separates filtering records from marking matching spans.
Mobile & interfaces - How an older WordPress VPS was put together
A retrospective on Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, file ownership, backups, and certificate boundaries.
Cloud & systems - IBFT and IBFT 2.0: compare safety and liveness precisely
Correcting an earlier comparison that incorrectly described original IBFT as having no rounds or leader changes.
Blockchain - Inserting text at a Flutter cursor position
A small historical TextEditingController update and the selection cases it does not cover.
Mobile & interfaces