John McDole

Cat: Laundry Day

Barf. You can have fancy sidewalks and a decent roadway. My 'hood has power poles that cut off the usable sidewalk and it's aggravating as hell, but at least we have something to walk on.

Sorry, *anti-sidewalk*?!

This year's unavoidable DLC - an ear that feels like it has water in it and ringing. Fun!

I'll try to land this first and then experiment with jaspr

Don't thank me yet - I need to land this internally and that might take a smidge of work.

YouTube video by John McDole flutter + dart shelf + gcp buildpacks + docker

#Flutter Web hosted app in a #Dart Shelf server using gcp buildpacks!

youtu.be/ZUnCg_trdAw

@mdh2.bsky.social / @kevmoo.com

You want the grpc protos for your service to automatically build some REST routes on say "shelf"?

protofu is fast because it doesn't use anything else and self-compiles the first time its run. I know there is some rough edges around maybe updating the version number(?) but I've not investigated.

IF (and I'm talking speculatively) you were to have this; what would you expect the folder structure to be?

I'm thinking everything goes in pubspec.yaml, use workspaces, and maybe have an extra line for build: some script (in case you want to use your friendly neighborhood protofu lib)

buildpacks/builders/firebase/apphosting at main · GoogleCloudPlatform/buildpacks Builders and buildpacks designed to run on Google Cloud's container platforms - GoogleCloudPlatform/buildpacks

Yeah, engineers are not known to naming things well. Doing buildpacks with gcp first is far easier at the moment. If you look here, you'll see its a different beast:

github.com/GoogleCloudP...

This is my GCP cooking. Having to learn buildpacks, go, bazelisk, getting it to run on a M3 mac, _and_ keep my dayjob.

IAMAPM. To be clear, there is no official plans, designs, or anything else.

I'm cooking in the buildpacks for GCP because I'm stubborn and have been known to run Flutter and Dart in interesting places (google fiber set top boxes, TVs with teeny-tiny micro browsers).

Two-Student Team Stuns the Competition at U.S. Constitution Contest Matthew Meyers and Colin Williams of Oregon won first place at the national U.S. Constitution Team competition. Then came the recount that threatened to unravel their achievement.

I didn't know there was a Constitution competition.

Feels like a movie script having a two-kid team win it!

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

Look, if you spelled it the same way in all the places, the compiler says your good :)

Finished The Final Architecture series, in need of a palate cleanser - so Dungeon Crawler Carl it is...

#books

Common JST Connector Types – Matt's Tech Pages “JST Connector” is either shorthand for a connector manufacturer called Japan Solderless Terminal, or a vernacular term for a range of different type of wire to board connectors, which either are, or resemble designs from Japan Solderless Terminal.

Interesting find while repairing some battery connectors on a headset. There's a ton of connectors out there, and finding images of each (along with some calipers for validation) was hard, till I came across this blog.

www.mattmillman.com/info/crimpco...

Which flame issue was this?

Gemini in DartPad integration landed! Great work from @jryanio.bsky.social, @csells.bsky.social, and others!

WATCH LIVE: NPR, PBS heads answer lawmakers' allegations of bias The CEOs of the largest U.S. public broadcasting networks are appearing before a House subcommittee chaired by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Free speech isn't only speech you agree with. Looks like it's back to the good old days of McCarthyism.

> The hearing, entitled "Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable," was called by Greene

www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

Which ones are these? I've got some viture pros and I love them

Congratulations! Now register to vote :)

Your Outie comes to a complete stop at the stop sign before proceeding.

Using Flutter on the web? Wish you had hot reload? You can try it out (in beta) today! Details here: www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev...

Vive la caféine

Version 0.0.3 appears to work :)

```
lcov_format --lcov coverage/lcov.info --out coverage -f html
```

pub.dev/packages/lco...

Just use the `find` from the script uri; seems to work local, remote, and snapshotted.

And it's borked / null once it compiles to a snapshot. Nice.

Answer: yes... when globally activated, its non-null:

Package: file:///home/john/.pub-cache/global_packages/lcov_format/.dart_tool/package_config.json

and there's a package to use it: pub.dev/packages/pac...

Looks like a `package_config.json` might exist... maybe from Platform.packageConfig (the docs don't look right)