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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 19/05/2026

New favorite word: sloppository

Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 12/05/2026

As early adopter of various Google hardware products let me tell you: Do not buy the Googlebook! If you do, you'll be beta testing an unfinished product which will be discontinued two years later

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 17/04/2026

Before LLMs, I used to first check the utils folder when reviewing projects. It gave a good impression of the general code quality

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 17/04/2026

But it's so much more fun working on the tooling instead! 😁 Actually, LLMs helped me so much with that. First, because tooling for me has become less and less relevant. Second because if there is need for a tool, a LLM can usually build that in no time.

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 11/02/2026

I just contributed to Wikipedia for the first time in my life 📜

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 22/01/2026

In Summer '24 I bought a small server for our office using consumer components. Rock solid, can't complain going AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16C), GIGABYTE B650M D3HP, 96 GB DDR5, 500W be quiet!, 2x1TB SSD, JetKVM

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 20/01/2026

I'm kinda opposed towards codegen. A: because it was slow in the past B: It requires an extra manual step C: LLMs can just generate the entire thing, without the codegen step Better write docs how to do it manually, utilizing helper functions (from a package) and the LLM will do the rest.

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 11/12/2025

Do you have examples which business logic can be shared between frontend and backend? I see a lot of things that can be shared, everything except for business logic 😅

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 28/11/2025

<$100/month Most have free tiers or crazy cheap yearly plans when they launch

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 27/11/2025

My vibe coding setup changes every week. Which tool have I missed this week?

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 13/11/2025

Can't wait for the lint rule to use `static final` instead of enums to prevent users from using dot shorthands :D

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 10/11/2025

Me too! I don't understand the negative reviews

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 03/11/2025

Which logging package do you use in your @flutter.dev app / @dart.dev backend/cli?

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 12/10/2025

Today I was 11x "absolutely right!"

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 08/10/2025

Software projects don't fail, they run out of budget

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 06/10/2025

Daily Standup "I worked on ticket 168264." Well, you could have just said nothing.... Just invest 5s of your time and tell what you actually worked on, so I don't have to look this ticket up, because I won't.

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 25/09/2025

Here are my slides of "Flipping the Testing Pyramid" from Fluttercon Berlin about Widget Tests | Robot Tests | Spot docs.google.com/presentation...

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Flipping the testing pyramid

Pascal Welsch Wiredash / PHNTM

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 20/09/2025

Hoped for a moment, you finished component-scoped styles 😬

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 18/09/2025

I was wondering why the QR code tile was "active" all the time until I realized it is actually just the Audible app shining through 😑 #ios26

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 12/09/2025

Take your time once, and write helpful rules and articles for the AI to help it achieve the desired outcome. You'll learn justifying your personal preferences and refine your practices. Then point to those resources in the future. Those rules become the value of hiring you vs. any other developer.

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 11/09/2025

I've rarely seen a bench in a sauna. A towel might help or only showing the oven

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 10/09/2025

Place to cool down when sweating. Like in a gym

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 03/09/2025

I find it odd that we have file extensions. Who thought it is a good idea to squash name and type into a single property?

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 26/08/2025

Collegue returns from vacation C: "Which AI tool should I use now? Is cursor still relevant?" P: "No, we all use claude code now." C: "But is it better?" P: "It works in @intellijidea.com" C: "Ok, I'm sold"

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 26/08/2025

Google should not be the only authority controlling who can register packages 😡

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 25/08/2025

Years ago, I created a riddle for my wife about her present. Unfortunately, it was to hard. Today, I gave the riddle to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. ChatGPT and Gemini got it right. Claude did not. My personal conclusion is that Claude, while very smart, doesn't know about local traditions

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 18/08/2025

I'm talking at fluttercon.dev about "Flipping the Testing Pyramid - Smarter Widget Testing with Spot & Robots"

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 15/08/2025

Yup, LLMs are great for reverse-engineering. It reads obfuscated code like humans read non-obfuscated code.

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 11/08/2025

It would be so cool if I could add MCPs to Gemini on my Nest Home devices. I would finally be able to add items to my getbring.com shopping list again, all these years after Google kicked them out of Google Assistant

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 06/08/2025

I wrote three MultiChildRenderObjectWidget in my Flutter career. Touching that layer is rare but it gives so much power. It's like building a Android CustomView back in the days. It helped us doing frame perfect animations/layouts without LayoutBuilder, which delays layouting by 1 frame

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 30/06/2025

I had Matt Damon in my head while reading #ProjectHailMary but Ryan Gosling is kinda refreshing www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08T...

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Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 27/06/2025

That's a fantastic ice breaker question for any party

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 27/06/2025

You can press D and W in Google Calendar to quickly switch between Day and Week view 😍

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 26/06/2025

I thought JSON is way older 🤯

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 23/06/2025

They implemented theming very well. I use the same concept for all my internal UI libraries

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 23/06/2025

taskmaster does an amazing job estimating issues mcpmarket.com/server/task-...

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 23/06/2025

Isn't Claude perfect for estimating story points? I honestly think humans can't do it better. In the end, story points are a tool for PM/POs. They now have a tool to get unbiased estimates without interrupting developers. Perfect 👌

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Pascal Welsch @pascalwelsch.com · 16/06/2025

Mein talk vom Flutter Day 2024 über Widget Testing mit Spot und Testing Robots ist online 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV21...

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„Eigentlich reichen Widget-Tests, oder?“ mit Pascal Welsch (Flutter Day 2024)

YouTube video by programmier bar

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