Mikhail Novoseltsev

Software engineer. Flutter contributor 💙 | Infrastructure, automation and CI/CD 🛠️

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

That’s huge actually. OS vendors patched this very fast, but if you can’t rely on that on some platforms - I think it’s a good cause to rethink this pinning process.

[Flutter @FlutterDev]

Flutter 3.47.8 (stable) & 3.50.0-0.2.pre (beta) are now live.

This critical release addresses the eMudhra CA key compromise. If you target Android, Windows, or Linux, run flutter upgrade and rebuild your apps to protect users from potential TLS spoofing. https://t.co/vU35F0lP1H

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

Not very often one finds bugs in compilers these days https://t.co/lOyncuiTfn

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

Project itself is here https://t.co/0bBWUvbKgK README is still rubbish, but still.

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

Big milestone for me – completely cacheable Flutter (android) build 🎉

Some funny numbers:
– 72 commits (doesn't mean much, but still)
– 32 branches. More or less meaningful number since each branch is an increment / feature in some sense. I keep branches for history now.
– A bit more than 2 months since first commit. Longer than expected (as usual).
– 8 out of 10 random flutter apps from https://t.co/MjtM9ZpWLe are buildable and then runnable. Latter is important, because there're many caveats in packaging and many options for how your android-part in Flutter can be built. Assembled APK does not mean it will work on device. It was a surprise for me actually, and maybe worth a blogpost later.

Anyway, great journey, tons of useful insights, couple drafts of issues to Flutter. Still a lot to do in just android build, not to mention other platforms.

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

@Ben_M5rtin It’s right here https://t.co/6TDYkysNAS

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@Areai51 I have a good bump in efficiency in other harnesses with opus 5.5, so I really think it’s model’s improvement

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@AndrewHart Not just $150m, founder also invested his own $100m in the beginning

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@yagiznizipli Why? Is there bottlenecks which rust can overcome?

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@crazibeat1 @OrestesGaolin Just get rid of gradle and Xcode 😃

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

And too bad that many dependencies rely on that feature (looking at you, firebase).

Managed to mitigate this by providing a reasonable defaults, but still, without AGP your most reliable option is to provide needed values by hand. No way to overcome this completely .

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

Hot take: BuildConfig in AGP is a leaky abstraction.

The moment your production code depends on it, your source code knows about your build system.

Switch Gradle/AGP for Bazel, Buck, etc.? Now you either rewrite the code or emulate BuildConfig.

Build configuration just became an API. #AndroidDev #Gradle

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@radbackwards Backflips are still cringe though

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@radbackwards I think it’s just math: they see they loosing some slice of audience, speed has this exact slice. They know they won’t loose you by such move

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@_eseidel Models breaks out everyday, someday they will try to buy leftovers of ram for themselves, Amazon decided to prepare for it in advance😄

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@Arif_AbdulAwal

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@imthepk And especially if you have your own design system.

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

Hot take: BuildConfig in AGP is a leaky abstraction.

The moment your production code depends on it, your source code knows about your build system.

Switch Gradle/AGP for Bazel, Buck, etc.? Now you either rewrite the code or emulate BuildConfig.

Build configuration just became an API. #AndroidDev #Gradle

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@TimSweeneyEpic @SethMagaziner Curious how they could kneecap Chinese companies.

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@addyosmani With fable as orchestrator you’re probably good even with gpt’s Luna kind models. I wish anthropic updates haiku soon.

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

@precious_tagy People just solve problems familiar to them.

[Mikhail Novoseltsev @samerk_o]

Your goal here is to know everything your agent is going to write before he actually writes it.

[Vineer @vineerpasam]

Has anyone ever actually challenged a decision made by Claude Code or Codex while coding?

Like, the AI suggests a way to do something and you just go:

“No, I think there’s a better way.”

Curious how often people actually push back on their AI coding tools.