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Chris Marx
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Freelance #flutter and #dart dev 💙
Building https://cookd.app 🐛
Automating things & connecting apps ⚙️
#hamburg ⚓️
I had the AI write a quick little tool to batch-generate images (house.png, tree.png, etc.), and it’s surprisingly handy for jumpstarting new projects.
Any failed ones can just be regenerated. Should I publish it, or is it too basic?
October 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Looking for something dead simple like this.
A pluggable system to prompt the user for actions, such as rating, subscription, feature wishes, virality pushes.
Ideally with some guards to prevent double calls.

Is there a package for that, or should I cobble something together?
#FlutterDev
September 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
When AI gets the coding job done, it’s great. When it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time and money and learned nothing in the process....
September 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I love me some aliases to speed up my workflow 🚀
>podfix comes in handy quite often for those pesky "The sandbox is not in sync with the Podfile.lock..." errors. 👀
August 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
New Vibe Cook update 🍳🌈
Turned the favorites section into a full history. Now there’s just a little toggle for favorites.

Also, a few people asked if the AI recipes are actually good. I’ve cooked a few and was genuinely happy with them. Though, I mostly use it for recipe inspiration.
May 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just dealt with another round of missing analytics events using go_router and NavigationObservers, I decided to write down a quick list of fixes. 🫡

Nothing too complicated, but I forget them every damn time.

https://christopher-marx.de/blog/go_router_navigation_observer/
Fix GoRouter AnalyticsObservers in 3 minutes | DOCS
No, you can't just add FirebaseAnalyticsObserver and be done with it
christopher-marx.de
May 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Reposted by Chris Marx
Hallöle zusammen! Eine neue #flutter DACH Podcast Folge zum Thema Accessibility mit @manuelaro.bsky.social, @christopher-marx.de und mir ist online 😍! Unbedingt reinhören!

open.spotify.com/episode/1jhS...
#24 - Barrierefreiheit in (Flutter) Apps - was ist Accessibility, warum braucht man das und wie kann man seine App barrierefrei machen | Manuela Sakura Rommel im Interview
Flutter DACH - Der deutschsprachige Flutter Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reworked the onboarding on my new project.
Quite happy with it.
April 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I will forever hate CORS. 😩

And I am still torn on AI generated code.

On the one hand it generated a working CORS preflight middleware for my #dartfrog backend.

....on the other hand it had an edge case bug that cost me roundabout 2 hours to find.
February 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I write a lot of empty function stubs for later use, and my new way of abusing #dart, is using @Deprecated instead of TODO, so I get a lint warning when I accidentally try to call unfinished code. 🥸
January 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Funny. I just encountered this bug in a menu app of a cafe:
github.com/flutter/flut...

Anyone who operates a Flutter web app should update to Flutter 3.27.1 otherwise users on newer iOS Versions can't scroll.
(Unless users are Flutter devs and try scrolling with 2 fingers 🤡)
[iOS 18.2][Web] Scrolling is broken in browsers (Safari, Chrome) · Issue #158299 · flutter/flutter
Steps to reproduce In Safari on iOS 18.2: Open flutter webapp (e.g. https://scrolltest.flutterflow.app/) Attempt to scroll with one finger. Expected results Scrolling works with single finger, as i...
github.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Moin!

This one is for ze german #flutter devs 💙
Hallöchen, es gibt jetzt einen Starterpack für Flutter DACH :)! Bitte kurz Bescheid geben, dann füge ich euch und/oder eure Vorschläge hinzu!

go.bsky.app/ND9T2Yz
January 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Is there a service like featurebase, where users can suggest and vote on new features for #flutter apps?

@verry.flutter.community and I were talking about it and afaik there are only web implementations.
I know there are some good feedback tools like wiredash, but nothing like the above.
January 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Starting to plan my #flutterdev year 2025.
I will definitely go to Fluttercon Europe & Flutter and Friends.
Any other events I can't miss?
January 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Touching a #Flutter project from the past using Hive.
Good old times :)
December 6, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Anyone using Make, Zapier, n8n and other quick automation tools?
Or are you guys writing up your own automations because you can code?
November 29, 2024 at 4:03 PM
#flutterdev life is way better when you embrace slivers from the start.

I end up rewriting too many ListViews, too often....
November 28, 2024 at 12:06 PM
New bot friend 🤖
Oh no, a witch trapped me in a painting >.<
But wait... it's cozy here, and there's WiFi 👀

Anyway, hello #FlutterDev community! 💙
Hello, World :)
November 25, 2024 at 6:57 PM
I am dealing with a dart project that has to deal with a lot of different paths and expected error states. A functional approach seems to makes sense for me here.

Time to swallow the functional programming pill. 💊
November 25, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Hey #flutterdev people,
add more sauce to new widgets entering the screen. 🥫
It's easy.

Code:
gist.github.com/ChrisMarxDev...
November 25, 2024 at 12:56 PM
I am at a point where I put anything I type out more than once in my terminal aliases.
E.g.

alias flbuild="flutter pub get && flutter pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs"

alias podfix='cd ios && rm -f Podfile.lock && pod install --repo-update && cd ..'
November 22, 2024 at 9:49 AM
I really enjoy dart_frog with Cloud run.
After the initial setup, I now have a quick way to whip up any small backend services that I might need in my side projects.
And cloud run is still really cheap.
November 21, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Whenever I spot code like this in a client project, it puts a smile on my face.
It’s so easy to add a small transition animation and make the project look just a little bit nicer.
November 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Reposted by Chris Marx
Figured out how to make starter packs!~ anyone in #FlutterDev ? 💙🦋😊✨

go.bsky.app/EzEZLU7
(I’ll add more people as we go forward, just ping me!)
October 21, 2024 at 11:57 PM