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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The most excellent @dt_emmy has done it again, this time with new drag 'n' drop support into dartantic_chat, including drop target previews as you go! The dartantic_chat provides a full-featured agentic chat widget with support for all dartantic providers: pub.dev/packages/dar...

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

because I'm hoping this one works reliably

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

If only agents are reading ads in the future, what happens when ads become prompt injection attacks?

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Apparently opus 4.5 is a go_router fan : )

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"Wisdom is looking at what everyone else is looking at and seeing what nobody else sees." -- Neil Degrasse Tyson

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

ME: please check again for consistency, completeness and 100% safety of existing data even if the backup goes terribly terribly wrong during a godzilla tornado monsoon fire vulcano meteor shower storm blaze gone completely out of control. big foot. hangnail. CC: I appreciate the thoroughness!

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Don't let your old ways stop you from new solutions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1CQ...

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How Claude Code Changed My Life Path

YouTube video by TÂCHES TEACHES

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Today, a most excellent guest blog post by Emmanuel Tuksa on enabling image paste to the Flutter AI Toolkit (PR pending) and to the new dartantic_chat package, a fork of the AI Toolkit's chat widget simplified for dartantic. Enjoy! sellsbrothers.com/guest-post-e...

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Guest Post: Enabling Image Paste in Flutter - Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet

How a simple feature request led to a deep dive into AppKit, responders, and the creation of the mac_menu_bar plugin. By Emmanuel David Tuksa

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I was inspired by a suggestion from Nate of Nate's Substack, so I do some vibe coding and got carried away: just for fun, it has an MCP server endpoint so you can browse the data and profiles with your AI agents. And it's built with Lovable, it's AI all the way down. : )

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Do you have a AI-related project to share? I've built a little community for folks that want to share their AI projects, find collaborators and see what other folks are doing. Post your projects today: aiprojectboard.

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I just grabbed letmeaithatforu.com in case I need it later...

letmeaithatforu.com

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I gotta say, group chats in ChatGPT provide a pretty good "let me AI that for you" experience : )

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Claude Chat has some amount of compression for longer conversations, but eventually just gives up with an error message. Rude! So I used the Claude Exporter Chrome extension to download the conversation in markdown format (< 600k), fed it into a new Claude conversation and kept right on going. Nice!

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Then I said: "Now that's more like it! How could I have improved my initial prompt to get to this list with you the first time around?" And I got the best answer! The LLM told me all about why my initial prompt didn't yield what I wanted and how to do it better next time. 5/5. #recommended

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I stumbled onto an interesting prompting technique today. I asked a question about task manager mcp servers and got a lot of projects that could be wrapped in mcp servers but didn't have one themselves. Frustrating. So I pushed back, clarified and got a great list back. Nothing special there.

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

And this is how it concluded our conversation this morning: "Carry on, architect of reasonable systems in an unreasonable universe." An aspiration worth striving for if I ever heard one.

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I'm a pragmatist and apparently so is gpt-5.2: "Philosophy is only useful if it eventually produces a config file." Truth.

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My 2025 in review by ChatGPT. I wear this badge with pride: )

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Lovable built a 1978 Space Invaders implementation from a single prompt that I can't tell from the original. one-shot-space-invaders.lovable.app

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Lovable App

Lovable Generated Project

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

To be clear, at $75/day, I sadly had to move on, but those were a dopamine-filled three days. : )

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Got myself a Dell UltraSharp U4025QW: 40″ 5K2K (5120×2160) IPS Black @ 120 Hz, ~450 nits, Thunderbolt 4 single-cable docking, 140 W power, text so sharp it judges you. They will be prying it out of my cold dead fingers.

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Looking for a hand-drawn design language for Flutter that also supports go_router or any other Navigation 2.0 based routing package? Then look no further than the latest version of Sketchy with another great update from @blaqshyd! pub.dev/packages/ske...

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

OH: "watching your llm do tool calls is like watching the washing machine spin. you can let it just handle it." yes you can, but you have to check your clothes for damage when they come out or you're gonna look pretty terrible when you go out on a Saturday night. : )

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Excellent talk on the Amp coding agent and "leaning into the weird": youtu.be/gvIAkmZUEZY?... Amp is the coding agent that taught me the value of turning the model quality dial to 11 in spite of the increased latency and cost. #recommended

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Amp Code: Next Generation AI Coding – Beyang Liu

YouTube video by AI Engineer

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

by popular demand, I've update dartantic_ai to support image editing across Google (Nano Banana!), OpenAI and Anthropic across both surfaces: API: docs.dartantic.ai/media-genera... CLI: docs.dartantic.ai/dartantic-cl... e.g. "colorize @robot_bw.png"

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

this happened a few more times before I learned my lesson and switched back to Opus 4.5. GPT 4.5 Codex is actually dumber then it's predecessors. @anthropic.com

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

this is the LLM equivalent of "find x":

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

this is my first experience with gpt5.2-codex from within the Codex plugin for VSC. not a good start...

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

If you think of "primitives" as data and operations to take that data between valid states, then apps are just human-oriented UIs over primitives that no longer slow down agents because they don't have to be blocked by the UIs; agents can go directly to the primitives. youtu.be/4Bg0Q1enwS4?...

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Why AI-Native Companies Are Deleting Software You're Still Paying For (The $56K Lesson)

YouTube video by AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

opus decided to express it like this and I like it: "Think of it as curl for AI: scriptable, composable, and ready for shell pipelines"

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

what is up with california? I'm in santa barbara at a coffee shop without wifi and with all of the doors wide open. it's 54 degrees outside! in portland, we have the sense to close the doors when it gets cold.

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I wanted to be able to play with all of the dartantic functionality interactively, so I built the dartantic CLI (aren't all the cool kids building agentic CLIs these days? : ).

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

On to ship #3 ⛴️: Dartantic 2.0, the Nano Banana edition! 🍌 - 12K+ LOC of changes - Unified thinking mode - Server-side tools - Media generation (images and more!) And yes: Nano Banana + Gemini 3 Pro Preview. Click here for the deets: sellsbrothers.com/dartantic-2-...

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Dartantic 2.0: The Nana Banana Edition - Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet

Are you a Dart or Flutter developer deep into AI looking for a multi-provider agentic framework runs wherever Dart runs? Or perhaps you’re simply AI

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Ship #2 🛳️! This one is a big thank you to @blaqshyd for his sketchy PR that provides a circular progress indicator and a new Widget Request template: github.com/csells/sketc... so don't be shy. He's already hard at working adding (ironically) go_router support. Sketchy v0.3: pub.dev/packages/ske...

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hello and welcome to Ship Day! 🏴‍☠️ Ship #1: 🚢 We're going to start off with a PR that landed today adding macOS and web support to Lokesh's excellent rar package: pub.dev/packages/rar. I also added an example Flutter app so I could see it in action. Try it out!

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Pablo Picasso said: 'The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away,' I think he meant OSS.

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

hello and welcome to Sketchy v0.2! It's got at least one Linux user now (thanks for the bug fix, Daniel!), so things are getting hot in here! This time, I've implemented some more widgets suitable for implementing a chat app. Enjoy!

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Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I obviously have a lot to learn wrt video generation : )

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