Mark Winters

Software dev @vgventures | Building the future with AI-first dev & Flutter | Code, innovate, repeat

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

Okay, I watched @mckaywrigley’s 4hr AI-first dev process video and my mind’s blown! Cursor/Windsurf is just the tip of the iceberg. Am I the only one who feels like most devs are sleeping on the full scope of what’s possible?

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

Here’s how to build your app idea using OpenAI o1-pro with my 6-prompt template system.

Even if you can’t code.

Watch for a 3hr 58min tutorial and learn how to build + code with AI.

Prompts & links below.

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

👀

[wolfenrain 💙🏳️‍🌈 @wolfenrain]

“What’s the point of 3D graphics without 3D physics?”

That’s the question me & @luanpotter27 kept asking ourselves.

So... we are building a whole new set of packages to bring 3D physics into the Flutter💙 & Flame🔥 ecosystem!

PS: keep an eye on the Flame Engine's GitHub 👀

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

Awesome! 👏

[alex @wannnacruise]

@SouthwestAir My 6 year old is obsessed with SW Airlines, is obsessed with wanting to fly on the retro gold plane. He made his Valentines box for school based on the gold plane and asked us to send it to you guys - so here you go! 😊

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

Another happy Florida Starlink customer here. Way better service than what we were getting with Spectrum

[Aaron Burnett @aaronburnett]

If your internet provider cannot do this, then you’re living in the past.

I use Starlink as my daily internet with no backup and it has only gotten better since joining (plus a free mini)

My team regularly comments on how smooth and consistent my zoom calls are.

A couple of Starlink myths worth debunking…

- it’s not just for rural, I’m in suburbia. It was cost parity for the highest package.

- weather is not a functional issue. I’ve had many many Florida thunderstorms and never had an issue.

Spectrum is the dominate cable internet provider in my area. They must be trained to spread the lie that Starlink stops working during thunderstorms. Because multiple of their associates both online and in-person tried to tell me during the cancellation process that I would have troubles with weather.

If you’re interested in dropping your terrible ISP, I’d suggest making the switch.

Little hint if you’re in an area with a dominant provider who’s hard to switch from, they will likely discount aggressively not to lose you, now that they now Starlink is a legit competitor.

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

After playing with Clawdbot over the weekend, I agree with this take

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

https://t.co/aQnh04pLk6

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

@RealestMercury @grok is this post accurate? Wouldn’t the satellite coverage over Iran per unit area be the same as any other location on earth at a similar latitude?

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

@KhalidWar Are you glad you returned for a visit?

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

@v_computer Looks interesting!

[DHH @dhh]

You can't let the slop and cringe deny you the wonder of AI. This is the most exciting thing we've made computers do since we connected them to the internet. If you spent 2025 being pessimistic or skeptical on AI, why not give the start of 2026 a try with optimism and curiosity?

[Lee Higgins @Depthperpixel]

Incoming! Pure Dart Doom source port. Complete with CRT effect shader. I asked myself Can DART run doom? The answer is YES! Watch this space for release which will include running in a web browser and a WAD explorer tool! If I can find some time / funds I will also do an in-browser map editor and instant play. #flutter #fluttergames @dart_lang Love DART for games

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

Wow, some really useful tips here!

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.

My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.

So, here goes.

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

@KhalidWar @YouTube I had similar issues in the Bahamas on a cruise when I tried to download videos for offline viewing with my premium account

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

🎯

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[Felix Angelov 💙 @felangelov]

New year, new bloc release 🥂

Just released MultiBlocObserver, a quality of life improvement in v9.2.0 of package:bloc 🎉

MultiBlocObserver allows you to register multiple, specialized BlocObserver instances seamlessly

https://t.co/3BwndHhc0h

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I keep being amused by devs who assume AI is worthless and useless and is not used to produce production software.

In the comments there are already so many examples. And if you need ones with ~90%+ AI generation that’s used by tens of millions, generating $1B+: Claude Code

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Feels kind of ironic that it took having this longer winter break from work for many of us devs to have time to “properly” play with AI agents on side to realize how damn good they have gotten sometime the last months

They are still much stronger for greenfield dev!

[Gueudré design ¬ Main Story @gueudredesign]

"Sotto, says Baxter, spent his final few days at Orange’s UCI Medical Center, but was given a room with a view of Disneyland’s fireworks, which he looked forward to watching each evening." 🥹

https://t.co/w5PBFnd6Or

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

@boss_angeles @DisneyStudios @DisneyPlus @imagineeringdis So sorry for your loss!

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

@KhalidWar Nice!!!

[Mark Winters @MarkWinters]

@vibecode_edu @RevenueCat @v_computer Yes please!

[Carlo Loguercio 💙 @Carlo_log]

In conclusion, our experience with Flutter so far is awesome.
The framework fits perfectly with our needs, and the team simply loves it. The DX was boosted. We're releasing more features in less time, with fewer bugs!