Ryan Edge
chimon.bsky.social
Ryan Edge
@chimon.bsky.social
Google Developer Expert
~ Flutter Engineer
~ GDG Charlotte Organizer

My GitHub: github.com/chimon2000

Not everyone can become a great engineer, but a great engineer can come from anywhere.
“Predator: Badlands” is an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script, and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best

www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pred...
Predator: Badlands movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
An exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year's best.
www.rogerebert.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Engineering is about maximizing value while minimizing waste. This economic thinking is what separates developers from software engineers.

Ignoring the business impact of your technical decisions isn't just bad engineering—it's bad for the business you're building.
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The greatest compliment I can give to #Flutter is that it "got it out the mud."

Flutter succeeded on merit, without a trendy pre-existing language or ecosystem, or a large zealous community. It achieved global success from a challenging start, with little to no external help.
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How many lines of code can a senior engineer maintain? AI can generate thousands of lines in a week. But optimistically, if a senior engineer can only maintain half of that, generation speed outpaces comprehension capacity. That's the new technical debt.
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'm cautious when adopting pub.dev packages maintained by individuals because losing support is a high risk. Solo maintainers can burn out or move on—partly because developer communities don't support them, even when tools drastically increase our productivity.
The official repository for Dart and Flutter packages.
Pub is the package manager for the Dart programming language, containing reusable libraries & packages for Flutter and general Dart programs.
pub.dev
October 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This month's adventures in AI assistants, the CLI edition...

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Augment (w/ Sonnet 4.5)
Cursor Agent (auto)

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Gemini
Claude Code (w/ Sonnet 4.5)

☹️☹️☹️
Warp (auto)
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Everything I ate in Austin

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Ramen Del Barrio
Ramen Tatsu-ya
Magnolia Cafe
Taqueria De Diez
Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que
Licha's Cantina

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Paperboy
Ike's Love & Sandwiches
Tacos Juanita
Korea House Restaurant
El Raval
JewBoy Sliders
Home Slice Pizza
September 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🎬 Just survived Fantastic Fest 2025 yesterday! 7 days of cinema madness.

Everything I saw this year:
September 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A study of experienced developers found AI tools made them 19% SLOWER, not faster. Additionally, developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had helped them work 20% faster.

metr.org/blog/2025-0...
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
metr.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I read a review disparaging The Long Walk while comparing it unfavorably to The Hunger Games. One is designed for youth with a theatrical flair meant to entertain, while the other is an unflinching, brutal examination of mortality, hope, and an authoritarian, dystopian reality.
September 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Once every five years, I rediscover the nightmare of implementing file uploads using multipart/form-data.
September 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm all in on Kumi Morrow after episode 5.
September 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I cope with my AI tool fatigue by learning a new JavaScript framework.
September 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Alien: Earth is only 3 episodes in, but I think it might be the best SciFi show since The Expanse and the best horror show since The Outsider.
August 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"The talent sets the floor, the character sets the ceiling." This is as true in software engineering as it is anywhere else.

We all know engineers who can solve problems and write beautiful code. Their talent sets the floor for their career.
August 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A critical take on Vibe Coding with some valid points. Where I disagree is that the internet has always been polluted by low-quality, poorly documented code and misunderstood/misutilized patterns. Like a child, AI's output reflect it's environment.

pdelboca.me/writings/202...
Patricio Del Boca - vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering
pdelboca.me
August 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
JavaScript framework churn ain't got nothing on AI tooling churn.
August 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Looks like the line to get access to Augment CLI is long

www.augment.new?ref=REF8NK6N...
Join the CLI waitlist | Augment Code
Sign up to be the first to try CLI.
www.augment.new
August 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Companies still struggle to launch Android and iOS apps simultaneously with feature parity. That's wild.
July 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Netflix is stretching out this last season of Stranger Things like they know I'm cancelling my subscription when it's over.
July 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Musk accidentally turning Grok into MechaHitler is hilariously on brand.

xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’ | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/12/x...
xAI and Grok apologize for ‘horrific behavior’ | TechCrunch
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.” The posts appear to be an official statement from xAI, the Elon Musk-led company behind Grok, as...
techcrunch.com
July 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Reposted by Ryan Edge
Do you use pkg:http? We have a beta out that supports canceling requests! We'd love folks to try it out before it goes stable. This was a gnarly change and we wanted to be super careful to not break anyone.

See pub.dev/packages/htt...

Tracking PR github.com/dart-lang/ht...
http 1.5.0-beta | Dart package
A composable, multi-platform, Future-based API for HTTP requests.
pub.dev
July 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
AI tools create more bugs than they fix. So be vigilant and treat their code as if it were that of an intern.

thenewstack.io/ai-coding-to...
AI Coding Tools Create More Bugs Than They Fix
New research reveals 40% of AI-generated apps expose sensitive user data, while coding assistants consistently introduce critical vulnerabilities.
thenewstack.io
July 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
3-way carry bags are the best
July 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM