Simon Choi
@simcdev
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husband โข engineer โข author of isar, crimson, hive, auto_size_text, dartx, logger โข ๐
Munich, Germany
Joined October 2014
We built this entire app in Flutter. Fully native hotkeys, a floating window, deep OS integration, real time AI speech to text etc. Usually designs and marketing material looks a lot cooler than the final product. Not in this case. Flutter allows us to build pixel perfect across
Introducing Brain MAX: The first contextual AI app built to end AI sprawl ๐ง With Brain MAX, you can: ๐ค ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐น๐ and get access to top AI models like GPT-4.1, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro (and more!) in ONE place. ๐
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Many apps on Desktop use the microphone so youโd assume there are decent audio APIs. Youโd be very wrong. CoreAudio APIs are the absolute worst. If you ever try to do something more advanced with real time audio please remember this tweet. There is a phenomenal open source
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Audio playback and capture library written in C, in a single source file. - mackron/miniaudio
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Would be really cool if you could upvote our launch ๐ซถ https://t.co/Vfnhasx4xK
producthunt.com
Tasks, docs, goals, chat, and everything imaginable to make you more productive.
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Wohooo Brain MAX is live on Product Hunt. Q: "Hey Simon, is there any way we could use what we built for mobile and run it on desktop?" A: Of course, we use Flutter and it runs anywhere ๐ I got that message from Zeb right before Christmas. I was bored, so instead of a reply I
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I tried something new with the Hive v4 docs ๐ฏ. I'd love to get some feedback and hear what you think. https://t.co/NlOPviuZ2k
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An Isar user reported a really difficult bug and provided a project to reproduce it. I was able to find and fix the bug within minutes. Thanks so much to all the people who go the extra mile and provide a sample project. It makes all the difference ๐
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In this article, I'm excited to showcase a handful of tangible examples highlighting how Dart 3 has empowered me to craft code that's both more succinct and expressive! ๐ โก๏ธ
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In this short article, I'm gonna share with you a few concrete use cases where pattern matching and records (introduced with Dart version 3) allowed me to refactor some of my code in a much shorter...
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I'm so excited about 2D scrolling and new slivers in Flutter 3.13 ๐คฉ https://t.co/EuxJkM0w9O
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2D scrolling, faster graphics, Material 3 updates and more
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Happy Mitte-der-Woche๐! Pรผnktlich dazu die bereits angekรผndigte neue #podcast Folge in der @ChrisMarxDev und @verry_codes mit keinem Geringeren als @simcdev รผber Isar, Hive und Offline-First reden ๐ฉต! ๐ https://t.co/riR8fmOqRJ
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In dieser Podcast-Folge begrรผรen wir Simon Choi, den viele von euch sicher schon kennen, da er fรผr ettliche tolle Packages wie z.B. Hive, Isar und auto_size_text verantwortlich ist. Simon arbeitet...
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Just finished editing the new @FlutterDACH podcast episode with @simcdev. It will be released in the coming days and I can tell you, it is a great one! ๐
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If anyone needs a fast indexable skip list implementation for Dart, here you go: https://t.co/7beDDJcE42 This was part of Hive but will not be needed anymore and I don't want it to get lost it took me a long time to get the details right ๐
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Fast indexable skip list for Dart. All operations (except clear) are O(log n) - indexable_skip_list.dart
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A few more benefits: transaction support and no more code generation needed ๐
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Dear Hive Community, I'd like to apologize for my lack of support and updates for Hive over the past year. Despite this, your commitment to the community has ensured that the package is still in a remarkably good state, and for that, I'm incredibly grateful. As many of you
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I completely missed the fact that https://t.co/5HGti0l9qv now has topics. That's so cool!!! Package owners, please start using topics ๐ https://t.co/1J0qywnGhJ
pub.dev
Pub is the package manager for the Dart programming language, containing reusable libraries & packages for Flutter and general Dart programs.
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I updated the Isar benchmarks to test v4 performance. The result is surprising. The Isar SQLite engine is on par or faster than Realm and ObjectBox. (tested on iPhone 13) Please let me know if you find issues with the benchmark: https://t.co/xQl1Ju5RaC
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