← Back to portfolio

Blog

Thoughts on Flutter, full-stack development, and the things I learn while building.

New here? Start hereThe complete learning roadmap13 series on Dart, Flutter & Riverpod, in the order that makes them click. Pick your starting point and follow the path.See the roadmap →
January 1, 2027
RoadmapDartFlutterRiverpod

Start Here: A Roadmap to Every Series on This Blog

New here and not sure where to begin? This is the map. Pick a starting point, follow the path, and learn Dart, Flutter, and Riverpod in the right order.

Read post →
Series12 parts

Offline-First Flutter

  1. 1Offline-First Flutter, Part 1: Foundations & the FieldNotes Project
  2. 2Offline-First Flutter, Part 2: Data Modeling for Sync (Drift Schema)
  3. 3Offline-First Flutter, Part 3: Schema Migrations & Versioning
  4. 4Offline-First Flutter, Part 4: The Repository & Reactive UI
  5. 5Offline-First Flutter, Part 5: Detecting Connectivity (the Right Way)
  6. 6Offline-First Flutter, Part 6: The Sync Engine I — The Outbox (Push)
  7. 7Offline-First Flutter, Part 7: The Sync Engine II — Delta Pull & Merge
  8. 8Offline-First Flutter, Part 8: Conflict Resolution
  9. 9Offline-First Flutter, Part 9: Optimistic UI & Sync Status
  10. 10Offline-First Flutter, Part 10: Background Sync
  11. 11Offline-First Flutter, Part 11: Testing the Sync Engine
  12. 12100 Questions to Master Offline-First Flutter
Start the series →
Series7 parts

Flutter Internals

  1. 1The Three Trees, In Depth: Widgets, Elements & the Reconciliation Engine
  2. 2Keys in Flutter: ValueKey, GlobalKey & When You Actually Need Them
  3. 3BuildContext Explained: What It Is and Why It Causes So Many Bugs
  4. 4The Widget Lifecycle: initState, didChangeDependencies, dispose & Friends
  5. 5Slivers & CustomScrollView: Flutter's Scrolling Engine
  6. 6RenderObject: Going One Level Below Widgets
  7. 7100 Questions to Master Flutter Internals
Start the series →
Series7 parts

Flutter State Management

  1. 1setState: What It Really Does, and Why It Stops Scaling
  2. 2InheritedWidget: The Foundation Everything Else Is Built On
  3. 3Provider: InheritedWidget With the Boilerplate Done For You
  4. 4Riverpod: Why It Exists and How It Fixes Provider
  5. 5Bloc & Cubit: Event-Driven State Management, Explained Simply
  6. 6Which State Management? setState vs Provider vs Riverpod vs Bloc
  7. 7100 Questions to Master Flutter State Management
Start the series →
Series8 parts

Dart Internals & Performance

  1. 1Inside the Dart Toolchain: The VM, Snapshots & the Compilation Pipeline
  2. 2JIT vs AOT: How Dart Compiles and Why It Shapes Flutter
  3. 3Garbage Collection & Memory Management in Dart
  4. 4const Constructors & Compile-Time Constants: Flutter's Free Optimization
  5. 5Dart FFI: Calling Native C Code from Dart
  6. 6Writing Efficient Dart: Profiling and Avoiding Anti-Patterns
  7. 7Metaprogramming in Dart: build_runner, Code Generation & the Macros Story
  8. 8100 Questions to Master Dart Internals & Performance
Start the series →
Series6 parts

Mastering Riverpod: Theming

  1. 1Managing Theme State with Riverpod — a NotifierProvider for ThemeMode
  2. 2Persisting Theme Preference with SharedPreferences + Riverpod
  3. 3Dynamic Theme Switching at Runtime — No App Restart Needed
  4. 4System Theme Detection with Riverpod — Respecting Brightness from the OS
  5. 5Per-Feature Theme Overrides with ProviderScope
  6. 6100 Questions to Master Riverpod Theming
Start the series →
Series6 parts

Flutter Theming Foundations

  1. 1Why Hardcoding Colors Is Technical Debt — The Case for a Theme System
  2. 2ThemeData Deep Dive — Every Property You Actually Need to Know
  3. 3ColorScheme & Material You — Seed Colors and Color Roles Explained
  4. 4TextTheme Deep Dive — Typography That Scales Across Your App
  5. 5Light and Dark Mode — The Right Way to Implement Both
  6. 6100 Questions to Master Flutter Theming Foundations
Start the series →
Series8 parts

Mastering Riverpod: Core Concepts

  1. 1AsyncValue — data, loading, error and Pattern Matching with when/switch
  2. 2The family Modifier — Parameterized Providers Done Right
  3. 3The autoDispose Modifier — Memory Management in Riverpod
  4. 4keepAlive — When You Don't Want Your Provider to Die
  5. 5ref.invalidate vs ref.refresh — Forcing Provider Recomputation
  6. 6Provider Dependencies — How Providers Watch Other Providers
  7. 7ref.onDispose — Cleanup Logic in Providers
  8. 8100 Questions to Master Riverpod Core Concepts
Start the series →
Series8 parts

Mastering Riverpod: Provider Types

  1. 1Provider — Read-Only Values and Dependency Injection in Riverpod
  2. 2FutureProvider — Handling Async Data the Clean Way in Riverpod
  3. 3StreamProvider — Real-Time Data with Riverpod
  4. 4NotifierProvider — The Modern Replacement for StateNotifier
  5. 5AsyncNotifierProvider — Async State with Full Control in Riverpod
  6. 6StreamNotifierProvider — Combining Streams with Mutations
  7. 7Legacy Providers (StateProvider, StateNotifierProvider) — Recognize, Migrate, Move On
  8. 8100 Questions to Master Riverpod Provider Types
Start the series →
Series6 parts

Mastering Riverpod: Foundation

  1. 1What Is Riverpod? Why Not Provider, BLoC, or GetX
  2. 2Setting Up Riverpod 3.0 in a Flutter Project (The Right Way)
  3. 3Understanding ProviderScope — The Root of Everything in Riverpod
  4. 4Your First Provider: Provider and ConsumerWidget Explained
  5. 5ref.watch vs ref.read vs ref.listen — When to Use What
  6. 6100 Questions to Master Riverpod Foundations
Start the series →
Series9 parts

Flutter Fundamentals

  1. 1What Is Flutter? How It Actually Differs From Other Cross-Platform Frameworks
  2. 2The Three Trees: Widget, Element & Render Tree in Flutter
  3. 3Stateless vs Stateful Widgets in Flutter: When to Use Which
  4. 4The build Method in Flutter: What It Does and When It Gets Called
  5. 5Flutter Layouts I: Row, Column, Expanded & Flexible
  6. 6Flutter Layouts II: Stack, Positioned & the Constraints Model
  7. 7Hot Reload vs Hot Restart in Flutter: What Actually Happens Under the Hood
  8. 8Navigation in Flutter: Navigator 1.0, push, pop & Named Routes
  9. 9100 Questions to Master Flutter Fundamentals
Start the series →
Series10 parts

Async & Concurrency in Dart

  1. 1How Dart Runs Your Code: The Event Loop, Microtasks & the Single Thread
  2. 2Futures in Dart: The Object Behind async/await
  3. 3async & await in Dart: Common Mistakes and Best Practices
  4. 4Streams in Dart: Single-Subscription vs Broadcast, and How to Listen
  5. 5StreamController in Dart: Producing and Controlling Your Own Streams
  6. 6Generators in Dart: sync*, async*, yield and yield* Explained
  7. 7Error Handling in Async Dart: try/catch with Futures and Streams
  8. 8Isolates in Dart: True Parallelism, Isolate.run, compute() & Message Passing
  9. 9Zones in Dart: Error Boundaries and How Flutter Uses Them
  10. 10100 Questions to Master Async & Concurrency in Dart
Start the series →
Series10 parts

Dart Fundamentals

  1. 1Getting Started with Dart: Setup and Your First Program
  2. 2Getting Started with Dart: My Learning Notes
  3. 3Dart's Built-in Types: Numbers, Strings, Booleans & Friends
  4. 4Dart's Type System: Inference, Object, dynamic & Type Checks
  5. 5Null Safety in Dart: ?, !, late, and Why It Matters
  6. 6Collections in Dart: List, Set & Map (and How They Differ)
  7. 7Functions in Dart: Named, Optional & Positional Params, Arrow Syntax
  8. 8String Manipulation in Dart: Searching, Splitting, Replacing & RegExp
  9. 9Control Flow in Dart: if, switch, Loops & Pattern Matching
  10. 10100 Questions to Master Dart Fundamentals (with Hints & Solutions)
Start the series →
Series11 parts

Object-Oriented Dart

  1. 1Thinking in Objects: Your First Dart Class
  2. 2Constructors in Dart: Every Way to Build an Object
  3. 3Encapsulation in Dart: Privacy, Getters, Setters & Statics
  4. 4Methods, Operators & Cascades in Dart
  5. 5Inheritance & Polymorphism in Dart
  6. 6Abstract Classes & Interfaces in Dart
  7. 7Mixins in Dart: Reusing Behavior Across Classes
  8. 8Enhanced Enums in Dart: Enums That Behave Like Classes
  9. 9Extension Methods & Extension Types in Dart
  10. 10Class Modifiers & Sealed Classes in Dart
  11. 11100 Questions to Master OOP in Dart
Start the series →
June 10, 2026
Next.jsReactTypeScript

What I Learned Building My Portfolio with Next.js

Lessons from building a single-page portfolio with Next.js 13, Framer Motion, and SCSS modules — what worked, what I'd do differently, and why I skipped Tailwind.

Read post →
May 10, 2026
FlutterDartArchitecture

Building Scalable Flutter Apps with Clean Architecture

How I structure production Flutter apps using Clean Architecture — separating data, domain, and presentation layers to keep code maintainable as apps grow.

Read post →
April 15, 2026
FlutterDartNode.js

Reading Bank SMS in Real Time with Flutter

How I built an expense tracker that auto-logs transactions by parsing incoming bank SMS messages — no manual entry, no open banking API required.

Read post →