Articles
Notes on engineering, design systems, and shipping performant interfaces.
How I Use Google Maps in a Delivery App
google_maps_flutter in production, live rider tracking, route drawing, background location on hostile OEMs, and the billing traps that make the map the cheapest part.
The Dart Concepts That Separate Good Flutter Developers From Great Ones
The event loop, const canonicalisation, sealed classes, records and extension types, the language features that change how you architect a Flutter app, not just how you write it.
Git and GitHub for Beginner Developers
The mental model that makes Git make sense, the eight commands you actually need, and how to undo the four mistakes everybody makes in their first month.
Impeller vs Skia: How a Flutter Frame Actually Reaches the GPU
Shader compilation jank, why Impeller replaced Skia rather than tuning it, and the full path a frame takes from Widget to RenderObject to Layer to draw call.
How I build blogs with MDX
The full pipeline behind this blog, frontmatter, filesystem reads, server-side Shiki highlighting, component overrides, and a table of contents parsed from the raw source.
Rust for Beginners: Understanding Ownership
Why the borrow checker rejects your code, moves, borrows, lifetimes, and the one rule underneath all of it, explained without the mysticism.
How to Write SEO-Friendly Blog Posts
A repeatable process, pick a query you can win, match its intent, structure for scanning, and publish something that earns links rather than chasing them.
How Google Search Works
Crawling, indexing, and ranking, what happens between typing a query and seeing results, and which parts of it you can actually influence.
Technical SEO Explained
The layer that decides whether your content is ever seen, crawlability, indexing, rendering, canonicals, speed, and the failures that are completely silent.
Can Rust and Flutter Work Together?
Yes, through FFI, and increasingly through flutter_rust_bridge. What the boundary costs, where it genuinely pays off, and when it is an expensive way to avoid writing Dart.
On-Page SEO vs Off-Page SEO
One you control completely, the other you can only earn, what each covers, why the split matters, and where to spend your effort first.
What Is SEO? A Beginner's Guide
What search engines are actually doing, the three things they judge, and why most SEO advice you have read is either outdated or someone selling something.
Building Offline-First Flutter Applications
Treating the local database as the source of truth, write queues, sync strategies, conflict resolution, and the failure modes that only appear on a real train.
Flutter vs React Native vs SwiftUI vs Kotlin: Which Should You Pick?
Four ways to build a mobile app, compared on what actually decides it, rendering model, team, platform fidelity, and what each one costs you later.
Flutter Isolates Explained Through a Real Example
A 12 MB JSON import that jank the UI for two seconds, and what fixing it teaches about isolates, message passing, and when they are the wrong tool.
Flutter State Management: Bloc vs Riverpod
A working comparison of the two serious options, the mental models they impose, the same feature built in both, and how to choose without relitigating it every sprint.
Building a Design System for Flutter
Tokens, themes, and components that survive a rebrand, colours, typography, spacing, and the primitives every screen is built from.
Building Scalable Flutter Apps with Clean Architecture
Layering a Flutter codebase so it survives growth, entities, use cases, repositories, typed failures, and the dependency rule that holds them together.
How Flutter Rendering Actually Works
The three trees, why constraints go down and sizes go up, what a rebuild really costs, and how that knowledge turns performance guesswork into diagnosis.
How Hot Reload Actually Works
Sub-second reloads are a consequence of Dart's JIT, an incremental compiler, and the fact that widgets are disposable, plus the rules that decide when it fails.
Flutter Is Not Just a UI Framework
Its own rendering engine, its own layout model, a compiled language, and a plugin boundary, Flutter replaces more of the platform than most people realise.
How to Build Your First Flutter App
From an empty directory to a working app, setup, the counter template decoded, state, layout, navigation, and the first mistakes worth skipping.
Why Flutter Uses Widgets for Almost Everything
Padding, opacity, gestures, and theming are all widgets, and that uniformity is a deliberate trade, not an accident of API design.