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Flutter | Generate App Flavors for All Platforms with a simple file...

Alish Giri — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:39:07 +0000

Hey guys,

If you use Flutter then you know how troublesome it is to setup app icons, splash screen and app flavors for each platform. So I created this package to help us with that.

Made with love. Remember this when you spin up your next Flutter project. Thank you.

Part 1: Flutter App Icons Generator Package | Generate Basic App Icons

Alish Giri — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:17:17 +0000

A simplified package to generate app icons, native splash screen with full support for app flavors.

Have you used your own app to solve your own problem on a day-to-day basis? 😄

Alish Giri — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:37:55 +0000

This is me protecting my eyes.

I built this browser extension and was using the development version on my Safari. And just recently I released it and this is making my life a breeze.

To protect my eyes, I always apply color filters on my MacBook which significantly reduces rich colors that MacBook are famous for. Alongside this, my extension help me stay more on my laptop with no to little eye strain on a daily basis.

If you turn off the color filters and use light mode when dark mode is not available on the websites, you cannot last more than 15 minutes without staining your eyes as we developers always end up working intensely.

SiteZap Browser Extension: Dark Mode and Zap Unwanted Elements

So yeah I solved one of my problems with my own skills. I probably should pay myself by going for a nice cup of coffee with a burnt blueberry cheesecake 🥹.

The moment I realized that I was Prompt Engineering 🤯

Alish Giri — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:05:49 +0000

I am implementing a complex billing section in one of my app and the complexity and legal requirements are too heavy.

So I decided to write a carefully crafted prompt with all the logical steps to handle billing efficiently and after few hours I had 625 lines of prompt 🤯.

I just realized I was prompt engineering!

This is not a mistake, every line of that prompt is engineered to carefully complete the feature.

I don't believe this, it took me an entire day to create this prompt for AI to finish it in few hours. If I had to do traditional way of coding, this would have taken me an entire month.

Hurray to Vibe coding!! 🥳

Next challenge in my open source journey 🛳️.

Alish Giri — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:30:07 +0000

How will I handle app flavors?

Like dev, test and prod environments in the Web, in mobile and desktop apps we have something called app flavors that is created by using separate identifiers that splits the app into separate unique apps from a single source code so that your device now shows up multiple apps with different environments from a single source code.

The concept of app flavors, supported only on iOS, Android and MacOS, is very helpful and practical, however, most people simply ignore this because the initial setup is quite complicated and lengthy. And if some native configuration is required or Xcode is updated then we end up getting a massive headache trying to fix (migrate) the issue.

So I am researching on a simple app flavor generation tool within the flutter_app_icons_generator package so that we can additionally configure app flavors without needing other tools. This will help us stay consistent with our previous implementation.

And yes, this is super complicated! but that's what engineers do, right?!

Join along with me to find out what is going to become of flutter_app_icons_generator package 😉.

Flutter App Icons & Splash Image Generator.

Alish Giri — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:55:46 +0000

Are you sick and tired of generating icons for your Flutter project?
Count me in!

I have had enough so I decided to build an Open Source package called flutter_app_icons_generator on the pub.dev and I'm bout to launch it very soon.

I am currently working on it and the first version is already ready. Few more polishing and then I will be officially publishing my first Flutter package for all Flutter lovers out there.

Drop a like or comment if you want a live early bird preview.

No dark mode support?! 😡

Alish Giri — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:12:45 +0000

Does this upset you?

Download SiteZap on Chrome, Safari or Firefox now to fix this permanently.

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If you struggle to learn then this is for you.

Alish Giri — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:28:12 +0000

I have kept up with technology for almost a decade and most remote developers I worked with ask me how am I doing this.

Let's assume that we have to learn something and that something is number 1 to 10.

Every number is an entire section so they are complicated.

Now ideally learning 1 and then 2 then 3 and so on is how we learn. This linear fashion of learning is not how I have been doing it for the last decade.

You don't have to master anything right away or understand anything at all at the very start. Just expose your brain to the new concepts and ideas. If you don't understand 1 move to 2, 3, 4 and so on. Come back to it with different approach later when you reach 8 or 9.

For example, recently I have been involved with hardware development using C++ and ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework) Software Development Kit (SDK). And rather than wasting my time learning wiring, electronics, PCBs, KiCad for Schematics individually I decided to fully immerse into production ready development of a fairly practical embedded system development (firmware + full-stack development + IoTs).

So I created a Flutter app with Golang backend and a new folder called firmware for the C++ and ESP-IDF SDK code for the hardware programming. I researched on the industry standard tools used and downloaded KiCad for Schematics & PCB design and Autodesk Fusion 360 for 3D designing.

As you can see things are already piling up.

I also bought the IoTs devices (hardwares to be controlled by the C++ firmware). And finally, I also did a small workspace set up for wiring.

Now mastering each would have taken me months but I chose the "my way approach". I did the full lifecycle in one go and in just one week I completed about 80% of the entire lifecycle of the hardware development fully connected to Flutter and Golang projects using WebSocket. The remaining 20% I can skip for now. Because I will use this valuable time to brush up on other areas like "The Reading" 😄.

Yes, I did not mention but you also have to read and research on the new concepts too. Everything except coding felt rough and unpolished but I continued anyway and now that I have reached 8 and 9, I have questions and concepts that are automatically maturing. I am bombarding questions to the AI and learning as I go.

Few more iterations of this for few different projects will make me a complete Embedded Systems Engineer. This will open up a whole new opportunities in my career.

So the next time you decide to learn what steps are you going to take?
The linear or more practical?! 😉

Software equivalent for these hardwares

Alish Giri — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:06:12 +0000

We don't understand anything unless our brain associate it with relatable contents. This is why learning new information is so hard because there is nothing to associate that new piece of information with.

This is exactly what happened to me when I understood that the IoT devices you see below are like packages/dev_dependencies you install in a piece of software you write.

You control these dev boards using mostly C++ and verify that your code controls the hardware as you want and then provide these information to the manufacturer to create a production board with your firmware/code. You also 3D design the case/housing for prototyping and provide the design files to the manufacturer and finally your production device is ready 🚀.

So turns out this is how hardware development work and some of the use cases for your reference are below:

Create an attendance receiver device (like I did in my past project)
Create a face scan to unlock door
Build a custom CCTV recorder with custom logic to identify product
Build a drone

Now you see the practical use case 🙂

The Energy Supply and Demand is fascinating!

Alish Giri — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:39:36 +0000

We consume electricity in real-time. And the demand and supply changes every second. The operators at the power station constantly adjust the generation of electricity based on grid's current requirement.

This is more complex than most people imagine.

Producing electricity means balancing the voltage, current and frequency. Any slight changes could be catastrophic and could cause blackouts or instrument failures.

I always thought that once the power station is built then electricity is produced and distributed but it turns out to be more complex and with renewable energy it is getting even more complex.

The constant need for adjustment surprised me. In addition, the power grid has to work on 50 Hertz (or 60 Hertz in US/Canada) capacity otherwise things will start to break. This frequency is naturally produced by the turbines. All electricity except Solar uses turbines. Frequency itself becomes a “health indicator” of the grid. And Even 49.5 Hz or 50.5 Hz can become dangerous.

Due to these the emergence of smart grid became a necessity. And that is what most power company try to improve. Producing electricity is simple but managing the supply and demand is the most challenging part.

How we power our laptops?

Alish Giri — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:54:19 +0000

Since AI does most of the coding for me — I have been trying to figure out electricity and just learned the following 😄.

Imagine a water pipe.

Voltage is how hard the water is being pushed.
Current is how much water is actually flowing. Electricity behaves similarly.

So this is why you can increase or decrease voltage.

What does this mean for the tech world?

Alish Giri — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:46:23 +0000

For tech enthusiast star lovers out there,

Uranus has just entered Gemini. What does this mean for the tech world?

Well Gemini rules how we process and share data. But what you will be more interested in is that, this transit is widely associated with the next phase of Artificial Intelligence—moving from AI as a tool to AI as a fundamental infrastructure. We may see breakthroughs in neural interfaces, language translation, and how we "speak" to machines.

On a personal level, this energy is electric and restless. It rewards those who can pivot quickly and stay curious, but it also risks significant mental burnout and "information fatigue" due to the sheer speed of change.

How we learn is up for reinvention. Self-taught paths, micro-learning, and immersive educational tech are likely to replace rigid, traditional academic structures.

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