Devmil (Michael Lamers)
Braindumps of a developer
Background I switched from Android to iOS roughly a year ago. The main reasons for this were: Apple released “affordable” hardware for the masses The lowest end iPhones went into a range that “normal” people also can afford. Of course, they are a bit more expensive than the...
Continue readingThis is a quick follow-up to the last two posts. As I got asked quite often to show off the project the kids implemented I thought it might be quite interesting for the readers here as well. So I just built the Flutter app for web. I translated the German strings to English...
Continue readingAs promised I now want to share how well the teaching experiment went. How the day went Preparation I used our kitchen table and moved it closer to the TV to mirror the MacBook’s screen to it. I used AirPlay for that which turned out to be quite laggy (moving the mouse was...
Continue readingWhat I already tried I have 3 kids at the age of 12, 10 and 2. Without trying to be one of the parents that really insists on the kids having to do what the parents enjoy doing I still want to provide enough opportunities for them to get hooked by software development. The...
Continue readingFor the Flutter based Terminal application I wanted to deactivate the MacOS behaviour that shows an accent selection popup when a key gets pressed long (instead of repeating the pressed character). This is actually a feature in MacOS and can be disabled by tweaking some MacOS...
Continue readingNote! Time has moved on and in the meantime Dart has capabilities that make this post obsolete. You can read about the new features here Dart is a relatively simple programming language. In general this is a good thing as the number of possibilities and patterns you have to...
Continue readingWhy? I’m currently experimenting with Dart and Flutter to take another shot at the terminal emulation application. This time not using C# but something completely new. For this I decided to take a look at Flutter and Dart and try to implement the terminal application using...
Continue readingI know, I know. I planned to do this much more frequently as it then happened. I will do my best to keep you updated with anything of interest here. There has not been so much going on in terms of development or side projects mostly because the Terminal application project...
Continue readingRecap We remember that the current state of building the terminal application was creating the user interface. I tried to use HTML to do the formatting of the text which turned out to be way too slow. So I had to find a different approach as I wanted to stick with QML and...
Continue readingMinimalistic Text is almost 10 years old. The first commit to the repository happened on 7th of November 2010. How it began I did not expect to create something that will reach the number of people Minimalistic Text did. It was basically just a try to create something for my...
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