This week was a mix of debugging déjà vu, small victories, and quiet “aha” moments, the kind where you realize maybe, just maybe, you’re starting to understand how things actually work. I spent most of it cleaning up old code, fixing a few persistent bugs, and thinking about what I Read more
Another busy week — Week 13 was all about addressing long-standing bugs, improving stability, and preparing for yet another live event. This time, I tackled issues ranging from JWT key retrieval to stubborn gesture conflicts that made certain UI elements unresponsive after long-presses, all while going through yet another live Read more
Time really flies, and I’m already at Week 12. This round, I focused on refining the QR scanner fixes implemented during the event, improving test coverage across modules, and experimenting with how the Gemini API responds to different error scenarios. Polishing the QR Scanner Fix Last week’s live event fix Read more
This week was all about two things: expanding test coverage across different roles and finally figuring out what’s been going wrong with the QR scanner. Both turned out to be pretty eye-opening in their own ways. Expanding Test Coverage I kicked off the week by writing more tests, this time Read more
This week brought two major milestones: evolving our reactive UI system from basic polling to real-time change notifications, and tackling a tricky QR code authentication issue during a live event that taught me valuable lessons about debugging and secret key handling. Moving Beyond Polling When I first added reactive UI Read more
This week I turned our app from a “refresh-to-see-updates” experience into something that feels truly live. After a few days of research and experimenting, I finally shipped a feature that makes the biggest difference for users during live events, especially for the emcee and judges: automatic UI updates. Smart Polling Read more
This week I finally experienced what it’s like to turn testing philosophy into practice and then watch it collide with real code. After a long stretch of trial and error with the QR-scanner tests, I was able to step back and see the bigger picture. Mocking Strategy Mocking started out Read more
Last week, I learned about building the right mindset for testing, focusing less on “proving success” and more on “finding boundaries.” This week, I finally moved from that philosophy into hands-on practice. My focus was on integration testing in Flutter, especially around the QR scanner journey. Understanding the Testing Layers Read more
After weeks of wrestling with the QR scanner, I’ve managed to get it to a point where I can finally start focusing on testing, which feels like reaching a checkpoint in a marathon I didn’t know I signed up for. It wasn’t easy (many “why isn’t this working” moments), but Read more
If Week 4 was about understanding why clean code matters, Week 5 was about practicing the how. I noticed a pattern: the more I leaned on best practices, the less time I spent fighting my own code. This week wasn’t about big refactors, but about sharpening the small details that Read more