Most REST API advice is too shallow to help once an API has real traffic, multiple clients, and years of compatibility baggage. The hard part is not remembering what GET or POST means. The hard part is keeping the contract stable while product requirements keep changing.
Impeller is Flutter’s newer rendering backend: shaders are precompiled at build time so Skia runtime compilation does not hitch the first frames. Default on iOS since 3.10; Android needs Vulkan and started as a preview. Benchmark animations and scrolling on the target device before forcing it on.
Ever felt a slight stutter in Flutter animations, especially on older devices? Fear not, for a new champion has arrived - Flutter Impeller. This innovative rendering engine promises to revolutionize Flutter app performance, bringing silky smooth animations and buttery responsiveness to even the most complex applications.
September 2023. GPT-4 had been out for 6 months, Copilot had become my daily driver, Claude 2 just dropped. I’d been using AI coding assistants heavily for almost a year by then.
Prompt engineering has exploded in popularity. “Few-shot,” “chain-of-thought,” “role-playing” templates everywhere.
Some genuinely help. More often, technique-stacking makes outputs worse. These anti-patterns usually hurt more than they help.
No product hype. Different budgets run different models with Ollama, and more expensive isn’t always better.
With several repos kept alive at once, the usual bottleneck is not the language. It is “how does this one boot.” The default front door is GNU Make. Not to compile C — because make help outlives a museum of commands in the README.
