Posts by damolanelson

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Damola Nelson

A Flutter developer passionate about building performant mobile apps and solving...
Joined April 2026
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Posts by damolanelson

damolanelson in Articles 7 min read
In a real app, an endpoint is rarely just an endpoint. It is a tiny agreement between the backend, the network client, the request model, the repository, the use case, the UI state, and sometimes one very tired developer trying to remember whether th...
damolanelson in Articles 5 min read
Today started with one of those tasks that looks almost too small to deserve a branch: prepare the Flutter app for dark mode by making sure colors are centralized. Simple enough, right? Find the hardcoded colors. Move them into AppColors class. Rep...
damolanelson in Articles 6 min read
Some days in Flutter are not about huge refactors or dramatic crashes. Some days are about a button that says one thing and does another. Today’s task looked harmless: clean up a few dialog buttons in an event-planning mobile app. The dialogs were a...
damolanelson in Articles 7 min read
I spent part of today staring at a selfie that looked completely normal in the app until it became a profile photo. That sentence sounds harmless. It was not harmless. The face verification flow looked fine while running. The camera preview was upr...
damolanelson in Articles 6 min read
Some tasks arrive wearing a tiny hat. Today’s was: “inspect the vendor search screen.” Simple enough. Search screen, endpoint response, pagination, a couple of screenshots. Nothing too wild. Then I looked closer and realized the UI was quietly mak...
damolanelson in Articles 5 min read
Some bugs arrive with a very clear message. This one showed up as a loading gif that simply refused to leave the screen. The funny part was that the backend call had already succeeded. The dashboard was doing a pull-to-refresh. The request went out...
damolanelson in Articles 6 min read
Today’s task looked harmless from the outside: show unread notifications, let users mark them as seen, and put a red dot on the bell icon when there is something new. Classic mobile app stuff. Nothing dramatic. Just a bell, a list, a few cards, and ...
damolanelson in Articles 6 min read
Today I worked on one of those bugs that sounds suspiciously simple when someone describes it. "When a new message comes in, the message screen updates. But when I open the chat, the message is not there. If I go back, refresh, and open it again, th...
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