Let me explain the usecase

I’m working on a flutter app that talks to REST API. During the development, the server wil lbe on localhost but in production it would be real server.

Solution ? Use --dart-define

Way to do this is pass the value during the build time like flutter build apk --dart-define=BASE_URL=http://10.0.2.2:8000

10.0.2.2 is a special alias to your host machine from within the Android emulator. ¹ When running the app on an Android emulator, it allows access to your local development server.

This Linkedin post, reminds me of the following dialog from the movie “I, Robot”

“That was somebody’s baby. 11% is more than enough. A human being would’ve known that.”

No, I don’t mean to say losing uncommitted work is same as someone’s life.

But more “we” (society) trusts machines, such scenario are going to be more and more likely.

(If you haven’t seen the movie, narrator is in an accident, there is another girl in another car - both cars are drowning. Robot jumps and saves the narrator, cause he has 45% chance of survival, the girl only has 11%

I wanted to try this new (still under preview, but when has that stopped me 😄) type checker named ty ¹ from astral

Installing(?) was as easy as uvx run ty ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I wanted to try it on Django project I’m working on.

Today, I needed to setup ssh on a newly installed Ubuntu machine. Setting up ssh itself was straight forward

• install openssh-server
• start it via systemctl
• enable the port in the firewall

But when I tried connecting it from other machine, I got the following error:

Received disconnect from 192.168.1.110 port 22:2: Too many authentication failures ¹

When I tried to get help, GenAI focused on Too many authentication part of the error, and gave me suggestions to change server to allow more attempts.

The tile of the post comes from Cheat code #3 of this post.

I had a good streak writing here for a long time. Then in late April, I went on a week long trip. (Not vacation, it was a volunteering trip. I should have posted about it here. I did write about it in marathi, but shared it with closed group.)

Long story short, that broke my streak, and it occurs to that I wrote 1 post in May, none in June, and this is my 2nd post in July. I used to write 3-4 posts per month before that.

I recently started learning Flutter. My 10 year old MBP with 8GB RAM is apparently not “enough” based on this documentation

It “recommends” 32GB RAM.

Lowest number listed is 8GB, but it means I can’t use Android Emulator, which seems like most common way to test the app during the development phase.

But I do have a real android device, can I use that instead ?

But most documentation talks/assumes emulator.

This does have information about using physical device, but I think it glosses over the instructions at a very high level.

I wanted to use webmentions as comments (maybe that is incorrect term, but I wanted to show thes webmentions at the end of each post)

So setup everything correctly.

I have been posting links to my posts on mastodon, like this one

First I tested using Telegraph but I got an error The source document does not have a link to the target URL or domain

Little bit of searching informed me that it must be <a href=..> link. But for some reason the link appears as <meta content='..' (although it is clickable) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I read Addy Osmani’s announcement on LinkedIn, and wanted to give it a try myself.

Coming from Google, I had high hopes.

As per Google, it is improved version of, and will replace Project IDX.

While I have not used Project IDX in past, Firebase Studio looks like hosted VS Code.

I came across a LinkedIn post here where the author asked ChatGPT to create a fake Aadhar card, and a fake US Green Card.

For later, ChatGPT added “For Fictional Use only” in the image, and wouldn’t remove it when asked to.

So such “security concern” for the Aadhar Card.

Here is my take on it.