Babul Singh

Well a simple animator and programmer

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

Vishram is on the Play Store if you want to feel it:
https://t.co/pAzGutTYv9

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

Vishram used to take ~3s to show its first screen. Now it's ~0.6s.

I didn't remove anything. I asked one question of every startup task: can the first screen exist without this?

If yes, it moved off the launch path.

#Flutter #buildinpublic

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

The 4 things that did it:

1. Critical path only. Only what the first frame renders blocks launch
2. Cache + skeletons. Show saved data instantly, sync after
3. Parallel + fire-and-forget. Independent tasks run together
4. Lazy loading. A section loads its data when you open it

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

Release: https://t.co/PoLsm63Pnl

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

My handle is in the Super Productivity v19.0.1 release notes.

The feature: double-click projects, tags, and folders in the sidebar to rename them. Small change, but everyone who renames anything touches it. 🧵

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

It's my 7th merged PR there. Others: i18n for hardcoded strings, a screen-reader label, an invisible placeholder, a misleading (0) on empty subtasks. Also named in August's Contributors of the Month.

Unsexy PRs compound. #opensource

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

Try it free on Play Store: https://t.co/pAzGutTYv9

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

Spent 3 days rebuilding one screen so my app stopped looking like a boring grid of buttons.

Movie suggestion app, home screen v2:

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

If you're in India and Vishram was stuck loading or showing "tap to retry" — that's what this thread was about. It's fixed now.

https://t.co/pAzGutTYv9

If it still misbehaves on your network, I want to know.

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

1/ 🧵
It worked perfectly on my phone.

That's the whole reason this bug took months.

Some users had movie screens hang for 2 minutes, then fail. Others never saw it once. Same build, same screens.

Four rounds of fixes later, the bug was never in my code.

[Babul Singh @ba6ul]

12/
The Worker sits on @Cloudflare's edge, reachable on the ISPs that block TMDB directly. Forwards every request unchanged.

Bonus: it injects the API key server-side, so the key doesn't ship in the app anymore.

After four rounds of fixes, the change was a base URL swap.

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11/
Which left the answer I'd been avoiding.

I didn't want a proxy. I'm a solo dev — one more thing to deploy, keep alive, monitor, and debug at 2am when it turns out to be the broken part.

But the domain was blocked. That's it.

App → Cloudflare Worker → TMDB