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Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 26, 2026 at 7:29 PM

Finally! www.macrumors.com/2026/02/26/a...

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Larry Aasen Feb 26, 2026 at 1:22 AM

There are so many issues in GitHub for that package I couldn’t tell you.

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Larry Aasen Feb 25, 2026 at 11:55 PM

@adamlyttleapps.com Here I am. apps.apple.com/us/app/auto-...

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Larry Aasen Feb 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM

I am so tired of my SVG files from Figma not rendering in my Flutter app due to the flutter_svg package. Seems like Flutter should have a rock solid SVG display by now. #Flutter #FlutterDev

Last Week
Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 25, 2026 at 4:04 AM

I’m frustrated that I can’t keep my AI agents busy enough. Anyone else feel that way?

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Larry Aasen Feb 24, 2026 at 2:44 PM

26.3 RC has been out for a while, but something is holding up the release. I bet it’s legal related to AI.

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Larry Aasen Feb 24, 2026 at 12:24 PM

Not sure. I don’t use flutter pub add 😎because I like to order my packages and versions a specific way.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 23, 2026 at 7:25 PM

I use VS code with the Flutter extension, and after adding a new package name to a pubspec file, and saving it, it automatically runs futter pub get to resolve the dependencies.



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Larry Aasen Feb 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM

I just realized that the Bluesky web app does not show tooltips on hover for small icon buttons. Isn't that standard for web apps these days? Without tooltips it is difficult to know what some of these icon buttons actually do.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 23, 2026 at 2:07 PM

I think I should name my AI agents, and I feel obligated to use sci-fi like names like Argon and Trillage. #FlutterDev

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Larry Aasen Feb 23, 2026 at 3:42 AM

Not normal

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Larry Aasen Feb 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM

Good idea πŸ‘ "China Is Banning Retractable Car Door Handles" apple.news/AXLAgXrTeTHC...

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Larry Aasen Feb 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM

Teams Chat vs Slack! Which would you rather use?

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Larry Aasen Feb 19, 2026 at 1:09 PM

Coffee time β˜•οΈ

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Larry Aasen Feb 18, 2026 at 11:51 PM

And back in 2014 too. techcrunch.com/2014/07/11/t...

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Larry Aasen Feb 18, 2026 at 11:34 PM

Twitter had it back in 2016 and probably before that. See this article. sproutsocial.com/insights/twe...



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Larry Aasen Feb 18, 2026 at 4:45 PM

I know that other social networks provide multiple different clients which means this issue is not new and has been solved many times.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM

I realize this would be a difficult problem to solve, but at least it could be solved in the Bluesky app itself.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 18, 2026 at 4:24 PM

Does anyone know when Bluesky will start showing Post View Metrics to help determine how much a post was seen? #Bluesky #atproto

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 18, 2026 at 2:18 PM

At this point I am doing well with 2 simultaneous AI coding agents. Striving to get to 3. #Flutter #FlutterDev

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM

Whenever I see a Slack update message, I know we are getting some cool new AI features. 🫢

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM

I've updated to Android Studio Panda 1 | 2025.3.1 Patch 1 πŸ‘ πŸ˜‚ #Flutter #FlutterDev

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Larry Aasen Feb 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM

Android Developer: Why does Gemini for Android Studio sign me out every 4 hours? Bobby Finn: it's because - that's why! #Flutter #FlutterDev

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Larry Aasen Feb 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM

Android Developer: Why do I have to restart the emulator all the time? Bobby Finn: it's because - that's why! #Flutter #FlutterDev



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Larry Aasen Feb 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM

I see this debugging error in Android Studio Otter 3 about 50% of the time 🀦 (Unable to open debugger port) #Flutter #FlutterDev

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Larry Aasen Feb 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM

Android Studio Otter 3 stuck in 2020 🀦 (Live Edit not supported in debugging mode). #Flutter #FlutterDev

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM

Coffee time.

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Larry Aasen Feb 11, 2026 at 11:56 AM

I love the defer command in Swift. I wish Dart had that same command. #Flutter #FlutterDev

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Larry Aasen Feb 02, 2026 at 3:38 PM

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Larry Aasen Feb 02, 2026 at 3:36 PM

I am in San Francisco this morning and there was an earthquake, 4.2. I captured the sound at the end of this video. It sounds like a door opening.

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Larry Aasen Feb 01, 2026 at 7:46 PM

My son’s date is Feb 6th to get power restored and they have a show on Feb 4th and can’t rehearse. They’ve moved from a downtown hotel to an Airbnb and to another Airbnb. Hope you get power soon.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Feb 01, 2026 at 7:43 PM

Heading for San Francisco for a week of meetings and warm weather.



Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 29, 2026 at 12:42 PM

Coffee time.

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Larry Aasen Jan 22, 2026 at 10:39 PM

I love this quote that I made up: You may be meeting with someone important, but it may not be important. #larryism

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Larry Aasen Jan 22, 2026 at 3:18 AM

Mostly, but only with the latest models.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 20, 2026 at 11:42 PM

I’m mostly switching from one free tool to another.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 20, 2026 at 11:40 PM

One app, one focus, one income stream to manage, one set of analytics, one release strategy and pipeline, one marketing plan, and one app to think about while in the shower.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 20, 2026 at 11:35 PM

How do we know that Bluesky is getting any usage if it doesn’t have any view counts? Even LinkedIn shows view counts. #bluesky

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Larry Aasen Jan 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM

For unit test coverage where 49 out of 50 lines are covered, is that adequate for your unit test needs?

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 18, 2026 at 1:32 AM

You a bot? You keep replying to my posts with empathy.



Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM

Food is sustenance - not entertainment. #larryism

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 17, 2026 at 1:58 AM

Yesterday using Antigravity from Google I created a macOS app using the Gemini 3 Pro model. It was awesome. Today I created the same app using Antigravity for Flutter. Also awesome. We live in amazing times. This app uses Ollama to analyze log files. @ollama.cloud #swift #flutter

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 16, 2026 at 3:22 AM

I'm tired of seeing this Swift compiler issue while writing SwiftUI code in Xcode. It is so common for the compiler to just give up and stop reporting errors: The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions #swift

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 14, 2026 at 11:02 PM

The only great thing about this Verizon outage and no SMS is that I don’t get any more SMS spam.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 14, 2026 at 10:10 PM

It’s very annoying that a Swift app on iOS can’t perform a hot reload like Flutter.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 14, 2026 at 8:33 PM

This Verizon Wireless outage is no joke.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jan 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM

Working on Apple Wallet integration from our iOS app to add our credit card to the wallet. Luckily iOS handles most of this but as a mobile developer I am just orchestrating the passing of data back and forth between our backend and the wallet.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Dec 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM

Matthew and his band Soupless dropped a new song today. Check out β€œThe1” for #NewMusicFriday soupless.fanlink.tv/the1?utm_sou...



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Larry Aasen Dec 05, 2025 at 3:22 PM

Wow! celebrityaccess.com/2025/12/05/n...

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Larry Aasen Dec 02, 2025 at 2:18 PM

We’re proud to share that Car IQ Inc. will soon become part of Element Fleet Management, expanding our connected vehicle payments technology across a global fleet ecosystem. www.linkedin.com/posts/car-iq...

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Larry Aasen Nov 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM

Two very good headless CMS tools. 1. Contentful: www.contentful.com 2. Storyblok: www.storyblok.com

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Larry Aasen Nov 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM

#3

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Larry Aasen Nov 09, 2025 at 11:12 PM

When using SwiftUI in Xcode 26.1 I frequently run into this compiler issue. I can't even send this to Apple because I don't have a small repro case for it: The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions #SwiftUI

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Nov 04, 2025 at 1:38 PM

I voted.

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Larry Aasen Nov 02, 2025 at 2:15 AM

Game 7!

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Oct 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM

The US debt is now $38.02T. #NationalDebt #DebtNow



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Larry Aasen Oct 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM

I'm wondering if Apple is planning to rename the Apple TV box to Apple Home TV so it does not conflict with the Apple TV service. #apple #appletv

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Sep 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM

On Friday Matthew and his band @SouplessBand released their first album The Outside. It’s a great collection of 10 very beautiful songs. open.spotify.com/album/1SAsfsaR… #NewMusicFriday

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Aug 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM

great seats

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Larry Aasen Aug 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM

Matthew just dropped another song 'In The Mirror' with his band Soupless. From Matthew: this song grapples with a battle against the self in a world of reflection. #NewMusicFriday #Soupless #Indie soupless.fanlink.tv/inthemirror

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Aug 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM

There’s a massive hurricane off the East Coast right now.

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Larry Aasen Aug 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM

πŸ˜‚

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Larry Aasen Aug 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM

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Larry Aasen Aug 01, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Enjoying this chill music and would enjoy staying at this house. youtu.be/cPiihDdjIq0?...



Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Aug 01, 2025 at 8:33 PM

Why doesn’t Xcode have a terminal window built in like every other IDE on the planet?

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jul 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM

Such as? (I’m new to SwiftUI)

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Larry Aasen Jul 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Matthew’s new song 🎡 Hoping youtu.be/cH5UgTqa4_4?...

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Larry Aasen Jul 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM

This song came out over a year ago but still one of my favs. youtu.be/HT11KW2IqPM?...

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Larry Aasen Jul 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM

My favorite:

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Larry Aasen Jul 06, 2025 at 5:00 PM

My app Auto Care apps.apple.com/us/app/auto-...

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Larry Aasen Jul 02, 2025 at 2:15 AM

For my Flutter app versioning in pubspec.yaml, I prefer to use a semantic version like 1.2.3+32, using the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH+BUILD, which works well on both Android and iOS. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jun 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM

I’ve thought about using RevenueCat as well for the same reason. Would like to hear what others are saying.



Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jun 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM

Apple intelligence at its best.

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Larry Aasen Jun 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM

Welcome back

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jun 07, 2025 at 2:12 PM

In VS Code I like using launch.json with configurations for each of my app flavors. It makes it easy to launch various apps quickly and it provides concise documentation on which flavors are supported. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism

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Larry Aasen Jun 04, 2025 at 12:28 PM

That's a good idea. I've not used that rule but always observed it until recently.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jun 04, 2025 at 11:44 AM

Sorry, I meant class properties.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jun 04, 2025 at 11:40 AM

flutter_lints does not. Maybe there are add-ons for that.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jun 04, 2025 at 11:36 AM

Nothing I am using forces that. What is a Linzer rule?

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Larry Aasen Jun 04, 2025 at 2:47 AM

In my Flutter/Dart classes I normally define the class parameters after the class constructor. However, I realize this may not be the normal convention. I’ve recently tried the reverse and like it now. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism



Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jun 03, 2025 at 11:31 AM

www.fvr.fan/soupless/pre...

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Larry Aasen Jun 01, 2025 at 5:47 PM

I was working on a Flutter desktop versions of my mobile phone app. Was frustrated with making screens have a max width that I’ve paused development. Moving on to an iCloud feature.

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Jun 01, 2025 at 5:42 PM

All apps should have a good working offline mode. For some reason, the Bluesky iOS app does not. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism

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Larry Aasen May 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM

When my IDE or the installed extensions need to be updated, I update them ASAP. I don’t know why I do this, but maybe it’s the dopamine that is released in anticipation of the reward of seeing the alert go away. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen May 09, 2025 at 12:19 PM

Developing with Flutter and having hot reload is a game changer. It works well all the time and is super fast. So much better than what native iOS and Android development offer. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism

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Larry Aasen Apr 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM

Software engineering

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Larry Aasen Apr 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM

I hope that soon using the new AI tools we can finally auto configure ProGuard/R8 for Android apps and stop the release app crashes. It really drags down Android development, and is just another example of poor engineering management at Android. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Apr 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM

I prefer to send app trace and error data to New Relic for easy real time reporting and monitoring. You can’t match the real times features of New Relic with Google Analytics or Firebase Analytics. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism



Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Apr 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM

I am still using Flutter version 3.27.3 even though version 3.29.3 is currently the latest because I don’t like upgrading Flutter in the middle of feature development. I prefer to upgrade at the start of new development. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism

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Larry Aasen Apr 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM

I prefer to use VS Code as my IDE and text editor, and I still use light mode. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism

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Larry Aasen Apr 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM

I prefer to have all of my state objects extend Equatable for consistency and to ensure state updates don’t happen when the state is not changed. #Dart #FlutterDev #larryism

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Apr 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM

I enjoyed that game live from behind home plate.

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Larry Aasen Apr 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM

I thought my M4 Pro was a pretty decent machine until I tried building my app with Firebase…

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Larry Aasen Apr 09, 2025 at 8:20 PM

I see that the Dart mockito package was updated by the Dart team from version 5.4.4 to 5.4.5 with breaking changes: requires Dart ^3.6.0. That breaks the rules of semantic versioning. semver.org

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Mar 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM

The Bad Bunny residency in Puerto Rico is ground breaking. news.pollstar.com/2025/03/21/a...

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Larry Aasen Mar 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Great idea



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Larry Aasen Mar 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM

Today Matthew and his band Soupless released another single. This song Sycamore Silence is their best production yet. Check it out! #NewMusicFriday open.spotify.com/album/4vxbmC... soupless.fanlink.tv/sycamoresile...

Larry Aasen
Larry Aasen Mar 07, 2025 at 9:06 PM

upgrader

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Larry Aasen Mar 01, 2025 at 2:34 PM

App Store Connect is down again. appstoreconnect.apple.com

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Larry Aasen Mar 01, 2025 at 12:21 AM