@damolanelson

A KYC Flow With a Memory of Signup

2d ago · 7 min read · There are days when Flutter feels wonderfully composable, and there are days when it politely reminds you that reused UI is never just reused UI. Today was the second kind. I was working on an account

The Avatar Wasn't the Bug

2d ago · 7 min read · Today's bug looked almost disrespectfully small. A profile photo wasn't showing on the dashboard. That was it. Not a crash. Not a red screen. Not even a dramatic failure. Just a little circle in the a

A Small Backend Change Sent Me Through Three Different Flutter Problems

5d ago · 7 min read · Some engineering days are clean. You get a ticket, update a request body, run the app, and move on with your life. This was not one of those days. I started with what looked like a straightforward bac

The Tiny Red Dot That Wasn't Tiny

Apr 18 · 8 min read · Today’s task looked harmless from the outside: show unread notifications, let users mark them as seen, and put a red dot on the bell icon when there is something new. Classic mobile app stuff. Nothing

The Message That Was There, But Not There

Apr 16 · 8 min read · Today I worked on one of those bugs that sounds suspiciously simple when someone describes it. "When a new message comes in, the message screen updates. But when I open the chat, the message is not th