James Williams

Pigeon FFI helped me trade 26K lines of generated boilerplate for a clean, type-safe Pigeon setup on Android. Read how I refactored my IO 2025 native interop health demo to streamline cross-platform architecture: jwill.dev/blog/2026/10... #FlutterDev #AndroidDev #Dart #MobileDev #NativeInterop

This is awesome. If your vote didn’t matter Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you.

Found a use of agentic coding that I don't totally hate. Using skills to drive the keyboard while giving a talk helped me show a more complicated demo without having to leave out bits. Also made it easy to debug when it slightly messed up things. jwill.dev/blog/2026/10... #DevRel #FlutterDev

I created a Pigeon plugin exploring its advanced JNI/FFI backend option to cut down serialization overhead. It's also agent-friendly, I ran it through Antigravity to make sure an agent could recreate the project just from the instructions in the post. jwill.dev/blog/2026/09... #FlutterDev

Just wrote a 3-part deep dive on Flutter Native Interop. If you wanted to know when to use jni/ffigen vs. pigeon, I break it all down with real plugin examples. Check out the series starting here: jwill.dev/blog/2026/09... Enjoy my decidedly low tech diagram. :) #androiddev #dart #FlutterDev

While riding out a typhoon in China last month, I created an package allowing emacs to render Flutter UI code(inspired by ob-swiftui). Video shows using DartPad to make a UI, c/p the code to emacs, and emacs render using WidgetTester. Blog post: jwill.dev/blog/2026/08... #FlutterDev

Love the fire truck vibes.

We’ll be closing out the Cloud stage today talking Flutter, Dart & Gemini - see you there! #GoogleIOConnect #BuildwithGemini

Was minding my business in the train station Relay and saw a magazine(Analyse-Opinion-Critque) dedicated to a discussion about the rise of fascism. Front and center of the news section, no pulled punches. Decided to pick up some light reading on economic crises.

i’d be curious to know whether any of the journalists who have taken to bluesky had prior experience in an earlier internet age with forums. for me at least, my acculturation into the social internet was by way of forums and so the lack of an algorithm seems natural to me.

So true 🫠 #CSSDay

Wondering how to handle image color extraction in Flutter now that palette_generator is deprecated? 🤔 My new blog post walks you through using `material_color_utilities` for a more robust and modern approach. Read more: jwill.dev/blog/2025/06... #FlutterDev #UI

CEOs using AI avatars for earnings calls reminds me of the plot of the 1993 movie Dave where a doppelganger filled in for the president while he in a coma. www.theverge.com/news/673194/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=taDr...

I know it might be welcomed by some folks, but if I book travel from you online, don't call me unannounced under guise of wanting to be helpful. How about you send the email FIRST and if I want to engage, I can. Unless there's gonna be a major change to my plans, cancelation, etc...don't call me.

as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.

Test-drive Gemini from Dart code, directly from DartPad 🎯♊

This post puts into words a lot of my gut feelings about folks advocating for letting AI take the wheel when coding vs purposeful collaboration and how overusage can hallow out one's skills. cekrem.github.io/posts/coding...

What a career for Logan Couture 👏

The hard truth is that there are some products you just can't make in America. These must be imported from elsewhere. Like chocolates, for example. American workers will always become overwhelmed by the speed of the conveyor belt. They'll end up shoving the sweets into their mouths and blouses

someone please tell Steam that it's okay to take up horizontal space on their store. this was taken on my 1080p monitor, too! screenshots, video, and the banner image are all scrunched down to the point where they're hard to see.

One thing I'll say to Democratic Party insiders... Please stop listening to people who make all of their money selling TV ads. Just...every Monday for the next year, spend time imagining what you'd do if you couldn't spend money on TV and had to do other things with that money.

Happened to turn on Sen Booker 20 secs before he broke the Filibuster record.

Random rainbow.

Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15. bsky.app/profile/fbih...

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

This is important!

I got to use my meager Japanese for the first time outside Japan. I was in the elevator and there were two Japanese ladies there chatting. When we got to the lobby, one of them hesitated (because I had luggage and she didn't). I gestured open handed and said "どうぞ" (douzo).

"Step to the stage...too late I blew it up."

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

If you are looking for versions of "Home" to compare Cynthia Erivo's to, skip the Diana Ross version ... Stephanie Mills was the originating Dorothy in The Wiz. This is the blueprint, from when she performed it at the Apollo. #Wicked #Oscars #TheWiz #TheWizardOfOz youtu.be/KPvIwq03NIY?...

The Monterey weather service office has also been impacted from a staffing standpoint. Thursday's terminations means the office now employs 12 meteorologists, two shy of its typical number.

A friend of mine who works in privacy and security would always quip that if he's doing his job right, few would know how bad things could get because most crises would be averted vs fixed after the fact. Makes it harder to get the impact of an arm that is meant to have things run smoother.

"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

I often listen to cop cams videos while I'm working as background noise. My faves are the check passing scams. Even with divided attention, I can easily notice the holes in the store. But they keep on digging. One time a lady's accomplices/ride saw the police roll in and they left her.

Dems got tricked into banning TikTok and letting Republicans/Trump swoop in like heroes to save it while potentially delivering the influential app right into the hands of nefarious actors. This is the same thing. They are being tricked into destroying the open Internet. They're a party of rubes.

This title is wild. I expect athletes to shake hands and the end and leave beefs on the court. And it was expected of me when I played sports. It wasn't inspiring, it was the bare minimum 🤷🏾‍♂️ www.inc.com/bill-murphy-...

Did not expect the #4nations hoodie I wanted to sell out. Opted to buy on-site items that weren't offered online thinking there would be more online stock/time. I was wrong. 🥲 I'm hoping for a restock before the Boston games but I'm not holding my breath.

I didn't go to this game for two reasons, it was spendy as hell and I knew the booing would be the eorst. FWIW John Q. Canadian kept it kosher and it felt clear that it was targeted towards the policies and not the people. I would have preferred if anthems stayed off limits but it is what it is.

This is the board in the USGS that has power over naming and uniformity of place names in the US Federal Gov't and its work product (eg Geographic Names Information System info, census, etc). It's why the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics is now Olympic Valley. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

When you have the mascot of the team with the worst record in the NHL coming for you.... 😂😂😂

This is awesome for the dude, definitely will open doors as a Grammy winner for Best Rap Album. In the past decade the Recording Academy expanded who is considered a Grammy winner to include more producers, feature artists and engineers for some catégories. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

@sjsharkie.bsky.social came to our section at the Sharks game last night. Caught Sharkie on the concourse as well, when I was leaving.

Just calling it like I see it.

If someone tries to discredit my accomplishment by saying it's just a "lifetime achievement award," I'm going to thank them. For what, you ask? For finally recognizing that my career has had consistent high quality, a long tenure, and is meritorious of recognition. And I'd tell them as much. 😆

I never imagined Lin-Manuel would take a 1970s film (Warriors) that is known for the cheesy memes derived from it and turn one of its call to action speeches into a song about revolution sung/rapped by Ms. Lauryn Hill. Fits so well with the vibe of Miseducation. youtu.be/3FJuEh0-1J0?...