I'm already sick of Animal Crossing after a month

Almost a month ago, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released. The timing of its release couldn’t have been more perfect. People were forced to stay indoors due to COVID-19 and with all the panic and restlessness that’s happening, there was this cute little game that’s all about chilling out and feeling good. I’ve been playing the game every chance I got since it was released, but I’m pretty sad right now because that feeling is gone....

April 17, 2020 · 6 min · 1076 words

Simple but effective way of handling state and business logic in Flutter

When it comes to learning Flutter, my observation is that a lot of people get stuck when they attempt to do anything outside of the tutorials and guides. This is true for all things in software development, but I think Flutter has it worse because it happens regardless of how much experience the developer has under their belt. My guess is that it happens for the following reasons: Flutter is a framework that provides a lot of freedom to developers....

July 19, 2019 · 11 min · 2329 words

Consider using Flutter for your next mobile app

In this blog post, I am going to try and convince you to use Flutter instead of React Native for your next mobile app. Ever since Flutter hit version 1.0, I have been giving a lot of attention to Flutter. It has been a challenge, but it has been worth the effort so far since I was able to convince my company to make the switch from React Native. The development process has become a lot more sane since we’ve made the switch....

July 5, 2019 · 11 min · 2245 words

Premature optimization is, indeed, the root of all evil

This is a story of how I cycled through various technologies only to end up back where I started. I’m sure you’ve read a lot of stories about why people shouldn’t be always going for the latest and greatest technology when it comes to creating software. I did, but I realized recently that I didn’t actually learn from these stories. This whole thing started when I became part of a project that I had a stake in....

May 30, 2018 · 5 min · 992 words

The world building of John Wick is some of the best I’ve ever seen

I just watched John Wick: Chapter 2 a few days ago. I’ve never watched the first movie before then, but I figured it was alright to watch the second movie since most action movies don’t require a lot of knowledge of the story of either the prequels or the world to appreciate them. As expected, it didn’t really take a lot of context to watch the movie. I made a few assumptions of things that happened in the first movie to fill in the blanks....

February 12, 2017 · 4 min · 766 words