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Flutter · UI Optimization May 26, 2026 8 min read

Anchoring Floating UI in Flutter with CompositedTransformTarget and CompositedTransformFollower

Dropdown menus, autocomplete suggestions, tooltips, popovers, context menus — almost every app eventually needs a piece of UI that floats above the rest of the layout and stays glued to some other widget. The hard part is never drawing the floating panel. The hard part is keeping it pinned to its anchor when the anchor scrolls, when the screen rotates, or when the layout shifts.

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Claude Code · AI May 25, 2026 8 min read

Stop Burning Tokens on Code Exploration: Optimizing Claude Code with CodeGraph

If you've spent any real time with Claude Code on a large codebase, you've watched it happen. You ask a deceptively simple question — "how does the extension host talk to the main process?" — and Claude dispatches an Explore agent that proceeds to grep, glob, ls, and Read its way through dozens of files. A minute and a half later you get a great answer, but you also burned 90k tokens and 50 tool calls getting there.

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Flutter · Firebase Test Lab · Automated Testing May 21, 2026 11 min read

Running Flutter Mobile Automation Tests on Firebase Test Lab

Firebase Test Lab is a cloud of real, physical devices (and Android virtual devices) sitting in Google's data centers, and it will happily run your Flutter integration tests on all of them.

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Flutter · Testing Ability May 15, 2026 7 min read

The Power of `@visibleForTesting`: How to Mock Dependencies in Flutter Packages

`@visibleForTesting` lets you have the best of both worlds: a clean, minimal public API with zero DI ceremony for consumers, and full test-time control over every collaborator inside.

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Flutter · Web · Share Links May 14, 2026 12 min read

Building Smart Share Links in Flutter

One URL. Rich previews on Instagram/iMessage. Opens the app on the right screen if installed, sends to the store if not.

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Flutter · State Management May 10, 2026 7 min read

Flutter Provider Is Not a State Management Solution — It's Dependency Injection

If you've spent any time in the Flutter community, you've probably heard Provider described as "the recommended state management solution." This framing has become so common that most developers accept it without question.

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