I'll be at Full Stack Flutter conference talking about Shorebird on May 28th. Online. Free. Lots of Flutter faces you'll recognize there. fullstackflutter.dev

Do not tie your identity as a professional to a particular language, technology or framework. You will outlast all those things many times over.

I'm building a new folder of slide decks about Flutter (having left my old one at Google). 🧑‍🎨

Do others have public decks on Flutter I should crib from? 🤔

This is Flutter on an Astro page.

So, as I worked on my blog I thought about making this 'step-by-step' code tutorial using a real flutter application embedded on the Astro page. It works like a charm ✨

Killed by Google Flutter is a force of nature. As a former competitor, I appreciate just how profoundly good the fundamentals are. We didn’t have the capital/engineering to do something like that.

The best we could do was Xamarin.Forms/Maui and they are an ocean apart.

Want to develop for Android? Use Flutter.
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Want to develop for Mac? Use Flutter.
Want to develop for Linux? Use Flutter.
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Just use Flutter.

1.0 is out! 🎉 (Flutter Code Push, for iOS and Android) Shorebird is now live on Product Hunt: producthunt.com/posts/shorebird

1.0 is here! 🥳🎉🪩🍾

Thank you to the thousands of developers who’ve tested Shorebird in the last year, we couldn’t have done it without you. 🙏

We're now hours away from Shorebird 1.0! 🪩 (With our fancy new Dart interpreter for fast, stable, App Store friendly iOS support.) 🚀

This release should be a big speed boost for patched apps on iOS. Please give it a try and let us know! discord.gg/shorebird

We just have one more (small) issue we plan to fix before we declare Shorebird 1.0. 🚀🚀🚀

Life is all about changes and today was my last day working at the amazing Very Good Ventures 🦄💙.

I am happy to share that starting monday I am joining Shorebird!

I can't wait for all the challenges that will come and super happy to help build amazing tools for the #FlutterDev world!

😮‍💨 We've been working on making Shorebird awesome for iOS for almost 9 months now. But we're finally there! We'll probably release one more beta this week and then 1.0 next week. 🤞 It turns out building a new compiler/linker toolchain for Dart is hard. 🤣

New position open, Invertase looking for a support engineer! If you have experience with Flutter & Open Source, or just starting, give it a try 👇 boards.eu.greenhouse.io/invertase/jobs…

I talk to large companies moving to Flutter almost every week. It's happening. But yes, the jobs are different. It's not 'write a Flutter app from scratch', it's 'help us move our giant codebase to Flutter w/o breaking all our users'.

We wrote *three* versions of Flutter in JavaScript before moving to Dart. 😭 AOT was the biggest reason to move. Before AOT we had *12 second* startup times on iOS. Doesn't at all surprise me that we will eventually see more Dart on the server taking advantage of the same. 🚀

Layers and explainability was a design-goal of Flutter. Flutter started around the time of github.com/extensibleweb/… and was bred from the same lunch-table conversations.

Adam and I talked some about this a few years back: youtube.com/watch?v=xqGAC5…

And docs.flutter.dev/resources/arch…

Wow, this is big!

According to this job listing, Headspace (65M users) plans to rewrite their app with Flutter! 👇

boards.greenhouse.io/hs/jobs/5566352

0.26.0 fixes our last known crasher on iOS. Please try Shorebird on iOS and let us know what you think! shorebird.dev

We’re very close to 1.0 now, we just need to land one last big change before iOS runs at full speed. 🚀🚀

👀 I like special announcements!

We squashed several crashers from Shorebird iOS beta users in this release. 💥 There is still at least one more that we have reports of, but no reproduction for. If you’re seeing any issues with Shorebird on iOS we would *love* to work with you to debug and fix! 🧐