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Announcing Genkit Dart (Preview) ✨ Build high-quality AI apps that run anywhere 📱💻 In this release: ✅ Support for Gemini, Claude, OpenAI ✅ Type-safe AI flows ✅ Dev UI for AI testing and traces ✅ Run code on client or server Read the blog → blog.dart.dev/announcing-gen…

Dart is excited to join Google Summer of Code 2026! 🌞 #GSoC2026 applications open March 16! Explore Dart project ideas today and submit drafts early to get mentor feedback! 🎯 Check out the blog post for everything you need to know: medium.com/dartlang/dart-…

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

Today, we're happy to share our roadmap for 2026! 🗺🩵 Read the blog for insights on our priorities and the themes driving our mission this year → goo.gle/4qYzoyZ

We're 2 people building a fintech app with 400+ paying users. Here's every tool we use and why. - Flutter - One codebase. Both platforms. Ship faster. - Shorebird - Ship without app/play store review. - Node.js + TS - Very familiar and easy to get started. - Firebase - out of the box support because of flutter and easily integrates with node js. - Cursor - Started using to help me write code but now just an IDE. - Claude Code - My coding buddy for $100/month. - Figma + claude code - Design, prototype, hand off. One tool. - Railway - Push code. It's live. No DevOps needed. - RevenueCat - Subscriptions without the hassle to handle payments. - @winwin_kit - Referrals without a hassle. - Mixpanel - Shows what users do, not what they say they do. (would have gone with posthog if I knew before) - Discord - Team chat, product tracking bots, All one place. There's no secret sauce. Just small improvements day in and day out.

Zero visual bugs. 20% faster delivery. Perfect design-dev alignment.✨🚀 These are the results @1KOMMA5GRAD achieves every day building their custom Flutter design system and apps with Widgetbook. Check out the thread below to learn how and access the case study⬇️

Patrol hides a lot of complexity behind a simple patrol test command and $. 👇 But what actually happens under the hood? 🧩A native bridge that lets you control real native features 🧩Test bundling to speed things up 🧩A custom test runner (not just integration_test) 🧩True E2E flows - not mocked, not faked And with Patrol 4.0, we’ve brought this architecture to the Web. If you want to understand the architecture diagram and how we brought Patrol to the Web, here’s the full breakdown: leancode.co/blog/patrol-we… #Patrol #PatrolArchitecture #FlutterTesting #E3ETesting #FlutterWeb

And here's how we built a realtime voice-powered coach built it 👇 And here is a technical deep dive on how we built a realtime voice-powered coach into our journaling app using the Gemini Live API, @Firebase and @FlutterDev reflection.app/blog/building-…