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Josh Burton @josh.app · 05/09/2025

Flutter accessibility experts: How i can stop the AppBar back button being the first focused and announced widget on a page? Seems like bad UX for accessibility users.

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 12/02/2025

I'm going to miss being able to force multi-line formatting using a trailing comma, but otherwise this release looks great!

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 07/02/2025

Started using Cursor this week. Not liking VS Code but Cursor Composer can give some great results. Still need to dive into cursorrules and tweak my workflow. Really looking forward to @jetbrains.com Junie to get the same thing in Intellij!

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 23/01/2025

Anyone else had major issues using dart cli tools since dart 3.6? I have a CLI tool I develop and use daily, which is globally activated from a local source. Now I'm frequently getting the error: 'The current activation of `my_cli` cannot resolve to the same set of dependencies'.

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 16/01/2025

Spent the morning rewriting a polling function that used Timer/Completer/Future into a much nicer version using Stream.periodic. It turns out Stream.periodic is essentially impossible to test via Flutter Widget tests 😭 Darts async features really need a lot of work.

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 03/01/2025

My last day of holiday and I've finally started a new side project 🎉 Using Dart for the backend deployed via Cloud Run. Excited to see how it turns how with the whole stack in Dart.

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 24/12/2024

A bit of holiday baking today

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 21/12/2024

Next year I want to start a weekly 'journal' of work achievements, things I'm proud of etc. I'm thinking a private github repo, with a github app that opens a PR weekly.

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 21/12/2024

Anyone have app recommendations for teaching a 3 year old to read? Duolingo ABC is ok but looking for more options

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 19/12/2024

Last day of work for year - so of course I now have the sudden urge to start a side project 🤣

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 19/12/2024

Flutter devs - is there a nicer way to fill the bottom scroll offset of a CustomScrollView (which uses BouncingScrollPhysics)? I'm currently using a scrollController.offset to display a Container behind the scroll view sized to the height of the scroll. It works, but is there a better way?

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 11/12/2024

👀 Flutter 3.27.0 👀

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 03/12/2024

Are there any good AI UI design tools yet?

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 27/11/2024

Can any Flutter/Dart experts enlightem me as to why jsonEncode escapes strings (e.g. \n becomes \\n). This doesn't seem standard for json encoding. Can it be disabled?

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 23/11/2024

Struggling to get Flutter working as a Daydream service (screensaver) on Android TV. Anyone else tried and had success?

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 10/11/2024

Flutter with xcode 16 simulator is super flakey. Running the app doesn't work half the time. Anyone else having issues?

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 25/07/2023

Really like that your handle on bluesky can be a domain. Finally a use for josh.app 😄

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Josh Burton @josh.app · 25/07/2023

Hello Bluesky 👋 Where's all the flutter devs at?

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