@csells.bsky.social - Chris Sells

15 Jan 2026 04:23 +0000

The most excellent @dt_emmy has done it again, this time with new drag 'n' drop support into dartantic_chat, including drop target previews as you go! The dartantic_chat provides a full-featured agentic chat widget with support for all dartantic providers: https://pub.dev/packages/dartantic_chat

14 Jan 2026 22:45 +0000

Puppeteer-style agentic control of your Flutter apps: https://github.com/leancodepl/marionette_mcp This is huge! This provides a tight loop between the app and the agent to test features, test look and feel and fix it all while you're watching reruns of Green Acres (if you know, you know).

13 Jan 2026 17:07 +0000

If only agents are reading ads in the future, what happens when ads become prompt injection attacks?

12 Jan 2026 06:38 +0000

Apparently opus 4.5 is a go_router fan : )

12 Jan 2026 00:53 +0000

"Wisdom is looking at what everyone else is looking at and seeing what nobody else sees." -- Neil Degrasse Tyson

09 Jan 2026 02:47 +0000

ME: please check again for consistency, completeness and 100% safety of existing data even if the backup goes terribly terribly wrong during a godzilla tornado monsoon fire vulcano meteor shower storm blaze gone completely out of control. big foot. hangnail. CC: I appreciate the thoroughness!

07 Jan 2026 03:21 +0000

Don't let your old ways stop you from new solutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1CQfL8d_lY

06 Jan 2026 16:23 +0000

Today, a most excellent guest blog post by Emmanuel Tuksa on enabling image paste to the Flutter AI Toolkit (PR pending) and to the new dartantic_chat package, a fork of the AI Toolkit's chat widget simplified for dartantic. Enjoy! https://sellsbrothers.com/guest-post-enabling-image-paste-in-flutter

05 Jan 2026 20:07 +0000

Do you have a AI-related project to share? I've built a little community for folks that want to share their AI projects, find collaborators and see what other folks are doing. Post your projects today: aiprojectboard.

01 Jan 2026 15:59 +0000

I gotta say, group chats in ChatGPT provide a pretty good "let me AI that for you" experience : )

30 Dec 2025 18:57 +0000

Claude Chat has some amount of compression for longer conversations, but eventually just gives up with an error message. Rude! So I used the Claude Exporter Chrome extension to download the conversation in markdown format (< 600k), fed it into a new Claude conversation and kept right on going. Nice!

29 Dec 2025 21:25 +0000

I stumbled onto an interesting prompting technique today. I asked a question about task manager mcp servers and got a lot of projects that could be wrapped in mcp servers but didn't have one themselves. Frustrating. So I pushed back, clarified and got a great list back. Nothing special there.

27 Dec 2025 18:44 +0000

I’m fallen immediately in love with the LM Council: lmcouncil.ai. The UX is lovely and the results are fascinating. #recommended https://lmcouncil.ai

26 Dec 2025 16:38 +0000

I'm a pragmatist and apparently so is gpt-5.2: "Philosophy is only useful if it eventually produces a config file." Truth.

25 Dec 2025 02:22 +0000

My 2025 in review by ChatGPT. I wear this badge with pride: )

24 Dec 2025 00:16 +0000

Lovable built a 1978 Space Invaders implementation from a single prompt that I can't tell from the original. one-shot-space-invaders.lovable.app https://one-shot-space-invaders.lovable.app/

23 Dec 2025 04:13 +0000

Got myself a Dell UltraSharp U4025QW: 40″ 5K2K (5120×2160) IPS Black @ 120 Hz, ~450 nits, Thunderbolt 4 single-cable docking, 140 W power, text so sharp it judges you. They will be prying it out of my cold dead fingers.

22 Dec 2025 22:58 +0000

Looking for a hand-drawn design language for Flutter that also supports go_router or any other Navigation 2.0 based routing package? Then look no further than the latest version of Sketchy with another great update from @blaqshyd! https://pub.dev/packages/sketchy_design_lang

22 Dec 2025 22:45 +0000

OH: "watching your llm do tool calls is like watching the washing machine spin. you can let it just handle it." yes you can, but you have to check your clothes for damage when they come out or you're gonna look pretty terrible when you go out on a Saturday night. : )

22 Dec 2025 18:25 +0000

Excellent talk on the Amp coding agent and "leaning into the weird": https://youtu.be/gvIAkmZUEZY?si=fBFy_60-nFjJ7TC- Amp is the coding agent that taught me the value of turning the model quality dial to 11 in spite of the increased latency and cost. #recommended

22 Dec 2025 03:02 +0000

by popular demand, I've update dartantic_ai to support image editing across Google (Nano Banana!), OpenAI and Anthropic across both surfaces: API: https://docs.dartantic.ai/media-generation#image-editing-with-attachments CLI: https://docs.dartantic.ai/dartantic-cli#examples-2 e.g. "colorize @robot_bw.png"

19 Dec 2025 23:11 +0000

this is my first experience with gpt5.2-codex from within the Codex plugin for VSC. not a good start...

15 Dec 2025 12:44 +0000

Instructive description of the potential of vibe engineering: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/justhtml/

14 Dec 2025 23:19 +0000

If you think of "primitives" as data and operations to take that data between valid states, then apps are just human-oriented UIs over primitives that no longer slow down agents because they don't have to be blocked by the UIs; agents can go directly to the primitives. https://youtu.be/4Bg0Q1enwS4?si=AlD_v1okyI7xSlv_

14 Dec 2025 16:21 +0000

what is up with california? I'm in santa barbara at a coffee shop without wifi and with all of the doors wide open. it's 54 degrees outside! in portland, we have the sense to close the doors when it gets cold.

14 Dec 2025 16:06 +0000

I wanted to be able to play with all of the dartantic functionality interactively, so I built the dartantic CLI (aren't all the cool kids building agentic CLIs these days? : ).

13 Dec 2025 20:49 +0000

I find this to be an important debate presented well: https://youtu.be/ShsuZT_vuvU?si=SJiFAWKa4jCI2XjN

11 Dec 2025 02:02 +0000

On to ship #3 ⛴️: Dartantic 2.0, the Nano Banana edition! 🍌 - 12K+ LOC of changes - Unified thinking mode - Server-side tools - Media generation (images and more!) And yes: Nano Banana + Gemini 3 Pro Preview. Click here for the deets: https://sellsbrothers.com/dartantic-2-0-the-nana-banana-edition

10 Dec 2025 19:31 +0000

Ship #2 🛳️! This one is a big thank you to @blaqshyd for his sketchy PR that provides a circular progress indicator and a new Widget Request template: https://github.com/csells/sketchy_design_lang/issues/new?template=widget-request.md so don't be shy. He's already hard at working adding (ironically) go_router support. Sketchy v0.3: https://pub.dev/packages/sketchy_design_lang

10 Dec 2025 18:15 +0000

Hello and welcome to Ship Day! 🏴‍☠️ Ship #1: 🚢 We're going to start off with a PR that landed today adding macOS and web support to Lokesh's excellent rar package: pub.dev/packages/rar. I also added an example Flutter app so I could see it in action. Try it out!