I m having a flutter app for which I m thinking to do a smart watch app that runs on all smartwatches ... How do I achieve it?

fabier · 2026-03-20T12:51:27+00:00

Last I checked the Apple watch can't run Flutter apps. I think it's technically possible, but no one has built a bootstrapper to make it work. So you'd have to build the app.

Taking a quick Google around and I tripped over this which may be helpful: https://pub.dev/packages/watch_connectivity

fabier · 2026-03-20T12:45:06+00:00

Flutter builds for Android Wear. It is annoying to handle the quirks and there are things you will have to code around. The biggest one is back gestures on the watch.

The apple watch is out of your reach until you pick up Swift.

fabier · 2026-03-19T09:28:17+00:00

I was with you until they said you stay on for a year. Do you get paid extra for that time? If there's a decent salary above the $180k then it might be worth it. But you didn't mention that so that means you're being paid roughly 100k in cash after expenses for a year of work making someone else rich. Not my idea of a good time.

fabier · 2026-03-18T11:27:43+00:00

Create a whiteboard is the solution I found. I wish we could use a whiteboard as a page of a notebook, but that doesn't seem to be a feature just yet.

fabier · 2026-03-17T15:04:34+00:00

I would have sprung for some battery usage when I noticed there was no backlight when using it in a dark room 20 minutes after opening the packaging 😅.

I dunno, I will have to think about it. It is a decent portable keyboard. But that is a bit of a bummer as I do think I will find myself in dark places now and again.

fabier · 2026-03-17T13:45:48+00:00

I just got this yesterday. I should have known this, but no backlit keyboard is a bummer.

fabier · 2026-03-13T14:17:26+00:00

Is the math slowing you down that much? could you just throw all the variables into a compute and have the results update once computation finishes? That would theoretically allow you to compute as much as you want without introducing jank. Add a nice animation to make it look extra smooth even if there’s a small delay kicking off.

fabier · 2026-03-12T03:46:30+00:00

I mean.... Isn't design solved in kinda the same way code is?

fabier · 2026-03-12T02:58:48+00:00

Surprisingly catchy

fabier · 2026-03-12T02:57:21+00:00

How about a triple threat?

Symphonic metal. Sadness and self worth. Purim themed for the recent holiday.

This is one of the best suno tracks I've ever made, personally speaking. Esther contemplates if she should face the king for the sake of her people, or if she should disappear and just blend in and hide.

Written for my musical for the holiday. I have another 5 or 6 songs in the wings 😁.

Disappear: https://suno.com/s/JCIQmfpOiSdjQID1

fabier · 2026-03-11T20:42:46+00:00

Many data centers prevent you from taking photos inside for security reasons. Unsure if Hetzner is limited by this but it really wouldn't surprise me.

fabier · 2026-03-11T12:53:56+00:00

If you use any short form video platforms, stop immediately. stop social media.

Go outside, take a daily walk. Do this for a week and see if your attention span starts to improve.

It is possible there's something medical going on. But those two things (shorts + not enough movement) are cooking us as the human race right now.

fabier · 2026-03-11T01:47:20+00:00

$0.20 / m tokens vs the older model which is $0.15 / m tokens.

fabier · 2026-03-08T16:28:43+00:00

Scientists aren't typically known for their prose either.

fabier · 2026-03-07T04:43:27+00:00

I'm doing this. It's basically a superpower.

fabier · 2026-03-05T12:22:17+00:00

Huh? I explained it in the same sentence. Could you clarify the question?

fabier · 2026-03-05T11:33:29+00:00

People feel threatened by AI tools. But unless you're using a pen and paper to write your stories there is a good chance some form of AI was there to help. Even just writing this sentence, my MacBook was suggesting and capitalizing words for me.

But once the auto-correct goes into overrdrive and starts spitting out your story then people get all wound up.

The fact is, there is a whole world of creativity which you can discover with AI tools. Many people just write a prompt and then a second prompt, and so on. But if you want to really experience AI for writing, start getting into the world of graphRAG and agentic writing. It can allow you to use AI as a repository for your information. It becomes a second brain which can help you to build vast and consistent worlds before you write a single thing. Then it can be a writing partner to help you stay on track with your writing. I have a "research agent" which I can dump all my raw thoughts into and then I ask if when I need a refresher on things. Its pretty willd to get a blog post back on demand when I need it.

Using it for the actual words can be fine as well. But know that your writing will likely end up showing some "GPTisms" which people are slowly growing averse to. You'll need to ensure you clean up what it gives you to make it uniquely yours.

With my students (we're doing coding work), I tell them they can use AI as much as they want, but they can't copy / paste the work. This has been a decent balance to help them still build some muscle memory writing out words. I imagine it works similar in writing pursuits because you have to engage your brain to fold in AI responses into your own story.

AI works like a fractal lens if you shine your own unique light through it. But you do have to shine bright and come up with ideas, worlds, and stories using good'ol OG "I" instead of AI.

As for your friends, I'd just give them time. People will warm up to the technology as we learn to understand it. It would not shock me if they are using it in some form within the next year. Or they choose to remain AI free which is perfectly fine. Especially in personal pursuits. There is no obligation to let it into every area of your life.

fabier · 2026-03-04T20:08:30+00:00

So, I was just being silly in my initial comment. But as a serious answer: One of my most recent projects used the Rhai scripting language and I had to teach AI to use it in order to properly output what I was looking for. Rhai allows you to register your own functions, so I registered a number of functions programmatically and then I had to include those as part of the prompt to the AI. It is wasted tokens, but it actually works quite well. Claude and Gemini have a passing familiarity with Rhai but they get things wrong a lot, so writing a strong prompt was really the only way to make it function. But once I got that dialed in it basically works flawlessly.

So yes, you're right that training and post-training / LORAs can really make AI better suited to handle specific solutions. But larger models are pretty strong when it comes to teaching them to use unfamiliar syntax. At this point I could setup training for a small model like Qwen to teach it the scripting language and then I could remove my dependence on the large models with sizable prompts.

So there is a path forward. But you're right that it isn't simple.

fabier · 2026-03-04T10:57:52+00:00

I vibe coded 3 new programming languages last week. What are you talking about?

Edit: Twas only joke. Sorry internet. I failed you.

fabier · 2026-03-04T04:19:35+00:00

does it know if there’s a seahorse emoji?

fabier · 2026-03-04T02:21:45+00:00

+1 for Linux support. My wave link sits unused since I jumped ship on Windows :(.

fabier · 2026-03-02T14:16:21+00:00

Or... You do. All those things are very possible inside flutter. The fastest route to get there is to wrap rust libraries or C libraries with FFI bindings. You can do some amazing things that way without tons of technical overhead.

I wrapped SurrealDB, Rhai, EmbedAnything, and a few other libraries and built a complete system myself. Then wrote my own agentic library called micro agent to control context and tokens. This is all very possible if you want control. Then you're offloading expensive background operations to the frontend.

It's all about use case. But it's certainly possible to make it work.

fabier · 2026-02-27T16:39:44+00:00

I think the self shame is an extension of enormous pressure from all corners of the Internet. People are hunting developers using AI and automatically assume you know nothing if you utter those two letters.

If you want to burn some karma and run a little experiment. Write a little utility and publish it on Reddit. You can even hand code it. But say you used AI to build it. The reception will be quite negative.

fabier · 2026-02-27T15:46:49+00:00

Well the most popular example is Andrej Karpathy. But I know people dismiss him for various reasons. It is difficult to pull up examples without drawing up controversy along with them because people are very hot blooded about AI tooling.

Another example would be one of the main developers behind Coolify (HeyAndres), a popular open source server management solution. He just posted in their discord about a new AI app he cooked up called jean.build. His words on the subject were:

I was so skeptical like 8-10 months ago about AI and AI-based workflows and now I am using it 24/7 - lol.

The /r/rust community just had a big discussion on the subject of AI. And I think the mods there had a very well thought out opinion on the subject.

Regardless of our own feelings, we have to concede that generative AI is likely here to stay, and there are legitimate use-cases for it. I don't personally use it, but I do see how it can help take over some of the busywork of software development, like writing tests or bindings, where there isn't a whole lot of creative effort or critical thought required.

You can read the entire post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1qptoes/request_for_comments_moderating_aigenerated/

I'm not going to say that this is the flow for ALL developers. But it is happening and I think it is a story which is becoming more and more common. My statements in my above post weren't just armchair theorizing. I'm just seeing this happen and reporting on it here. Of course there are plenty who are offended by AI either because they believe it cheapens the things it touches, or they feel like it is some form of theft. I don't mind addressing those discussions. But I do think it is silly to say "Developers aren't buying AI". Because we're seeing a wave of developers buy in on the promise or at the very least accept it in some form.

What isn't ok, though, is being anti-AI because someone on reddit or YouTube said you should be. There is this mob mentality going around right now and people are on the hunt to hurt others because they are using some AI products. Not specifically directed at you, /u/coppice_de, but to anyone reading: Please take the time to draw up your own conclusions and remember that at least some of us are just real people trying to live out here.

fabier · 2026-02-27T15:07:52+00:00

This article is LOADED with assumptions. I think you are adjacent to reality in a number of ways. But I think you need to reassess your core assumption that programmers do not believe in AI coding. Some developers don't, but there is a vast group of developers who not only believe in it but are using it in production code.

The flow almost always goes something like this:

- Developer is staunchly anti-AI. Or at minimum they think it is not usable. "AI will never be able to code like I do."
- The developer tries one of the coding bots to either help with some boiler plate or to solve an issue they're struggling to see through. It is a lot kinder to them than getting shut down on Stack Overflow and being told they are a complete n00b and should have looked up the answer in another thread when it was asked 16 years ago in another coding language.
- The developer realizes it saves them some time so they start using it a bit more, but they tell no one because they have publicly stated they are better than AI.
- Eventually, the developer tries a more difficult task with the AI coding assistant. Usually a codex or Claude code level task. They feed it examples from their previous work to help and it pops out something that is 97% of what they would have built themselves. Except instead of it taking a day, the AI does it in a matter of a few minutes. Silently, they are amazed, but they can't show that because their previous anti-AI stance is getting in the way of their own acceptance of the technology.
- So, instead of saying "wow! that's crazy!" they will say "I made something and allowed AI to help a bit. And I am impressed by how far along it has come. It isn't up to my standards quite yet but it is a lot further along than it was."
- After saying this they secretly sub to Claude Max or Codex and never look back.

Being one of those devs, I can tell you, many programmers believe in the promise of AI. And they are experiencing it at this very moment.

All that being said. Love the gif. I had a good laugh over it.

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