Motivation Frequently, we deal with data types that are overly broad or encompass more values than required for our particular field. Sometimes, we may need to distinguish between two values that appear equivalent at the type level. An email address, for instance, is merely a String, yet it needs certain limitations…

As a software engineer, it’s important to write code that is functional and easy to read and maintain. This is especially true when working on a team, as the code you write will likely be reviewed and modified by other team members. Creating a culture of clean code in your…

Text by Kotra Volodymyr Sheiko in an interview for TRT World about cultural heritage sites now in Ukraine and what the whole world has to do to save them. https://youtu.be/xZ5Rga3qZcQ On behalf of cultural organisations and institutions in Ukraine, we are still asking for your solidarity and support. We call…

This is a quick implementation of a SoundCloud audio player for a Flutter. Enjoy! Features: - SoundCloud Audio Player - Value types powered by built_value and built_collection - State management by the bloc pub - Stream audio from a remote server - Load JSON data from local assets Requirements: Flutter: the latest version on the `flutter beta channel` Dart: 2.10.0+ Source Code: minikin/soundcloud_audio_player SoundCloud style audio player in Flutter SoundCloud Audio Player Value types powered by built_value and…github.com

A couple of months ago, I developed a cross-platform audio player for one of my Flutter projects. During these weird times and home isolation, I had some free time. So I decided to open-source this project. Maybe it can be helpful for someone. Don’t forget to clap and share if…

One week ago Google presented Flutter for web. This week I had a few hours to build a simple but not a nonsense web application, deploy to Github pages and even use Codemagic CI/CD. The code is on GitHub: minikin/flutter-web-demo 🌍 Experimental responsive web app powered by Flutter and Dart - minikin/flutter-web-demogithub.com The main features set of the web app: Photos are fetched…

🤼‍ Motivation A few weeks ago I had a discussion with an iOS programmer whom has many strong beliefs. One of them sounds like: “Use of Swift extensions is very bad practice due to compilation times dramatically increasing and decreases readability and code clarity”. I’m not going to judge about readability and…

When you have frameworks which you need to share between iOS developers inside a company without going public you can do it with a private CocoaPods repository. In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to do so step by step. You should have a CocoaPods installed otherwise…

I’ve just finished watching interesting presentation “To be! Or not? Optionals in practice” by Rob Napier And I’d like to share one of Rob’s good ideas how to handle custom fonts with UIFont extension + NSFont extension for macOS Here is a code snippet for UIFont: and NSFont version: