In Flutter, it is possible to create some exciting animations quite simply. It might seem slightly roundabout initially, but it is intuitive once you understand what is happening. For example, if you need a fade animation, you can use FadeTransition to create this. You need to have an AnimationController and a CurvedAnimation to build it inside a StatefulWidget with the SingleTickerProviderStateMixin for it to work, but once it is set up it is extendable.

Creating a selfhosted VPN is actually quite easy, at least with linode (not sponsored). I will try to summarize how I selfhosted a VPN, and the problems I faced. Server Setup I used a Linode Video to get started. I will go skim through the steps regardless. click on “Create a Linode” (or something, I forgot) From the marketplace select OpenVPN Fill in necessary fields Choose the OS and type of server you want, I chose a Nanode(the cheapest one).

Finalizing choice for hosting service I finally decided to use Digital Ocean’s “App Platform” to host this blog site. So this is currently available on both github pages and DO. This is just a small update to keep you in The Loop. Anyways, I feel like I got this out of my chest so now I can start writing some more meaningful blogs that might be more relevant to coding and stuff.

edit: this site is also available on Digital Ocean Setting up this blog using HUGO Creating this blog was relatively easy, because there are not many dependencies with hugo. The main problems I face these days is just node. I don’t like node. Anyways, there were not many steps involved in creating this blog. From my perspective the steps were: Install hugo. Go through the “Getting Started” guide. Check the tutorial for hosting hugo sites on Linode Object Store.

What is this? This is a blog I created for journaling things, happenings, knowledge, etc. Basically this will be repository of things. Who am I? I am Ashish Nambiar. I am a Mobile App Developer by profession. I specialize in Flutter, But also familiar with a little bit of backend in GO and JS. What next? I want to learn a couple of things like: game development App based games Love2D TUI games A universal game(A concept I thought of, which probably already exists but don’t know the name of) backend authentication hosting databases automation python build systems website devlopment some CSS canvas create custom theme for hugo(and replace this one) devops writing a small book using groff coding challenges advent of code data structures Flutter TDD working with RenderObjects and custom widgets CustomPaint => an interesting reference I know these are too many topics for a single person to learn in a life time, but I want to try each of these at least once and familiarize with the things that can help me with my development skills in future.